Hyundai Steel will push to apply steel structures (a method of designing and building a building's main frame with steel materials) to advanced industrial facilities such as data centers in partnership with the construction project management corporations HanmiGlobal.
Hyundai Steel said on the 19th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with HanmiGlobal for "strengthening technological competitiveness in the construction sector" at the Hyundai Steel Pangyo Office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province.
Under the agreement, Hyundai Steel and HanmiGlobal plan to apply construction steel such as fire-resistant steel and high-strength H-beams from the design stage when building advanced industrial facilities like data centers and semiconductor production plants.
Hyundai Steel and HanmiGlobal agreed to increase the likelihood of applying steel structures in new data center construction. Data centers have mostly been designed and built with concrete structures such as precast concrete (a method of manufacturing concrete members in advance and assembling them on-site like blocks) or post-tension (a method of inserting and tensioning high-strength steel tendons inside concrete members to reinforce support), but recently there has been strong interest in steel structures to shorten construction periods and secure cost-effectiveness.
Hyundai Steel said, "Through this collaboration with HanmiGlobal, we will secure leading technological competitiveness for steel products used in advanced industrial facilities such as data centers and promote our 'total package' capabilities that span all steel grades."
Hyundai Steel in March established the "task force team (TFT) for expanding sales of next-generation power infrastructure." The TFT is preparing to target the market for data center steel in response to the increase in large-scale data center construction.