Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute's Reinforced Concrete Explorer presents literally hundreds of potential opportunities for reducing costs and improving value. If even one of these ideas inspires a higher efficiency, or provides a solution, this brief exercise will have been worthwhile.

Focused on a building’s structural framing system, this interactive, online tool is a valuable new resource for use by the entire development team. Members of the design and construction leadership group can use this review individually and collaboratively to discover substantial savings in time and cost in construction as well as over the entire useful life of the structure.

Information, cases and questions will challenge assumptions about reinforced concrete structures. Exploration will reveal that what holds true in the vast majority of cases may be a critical exception or special opportunity in another.

The program consists of a website (or printed workbook) and is to be combined with a no-cost, on-site presentation. Visit www.crsi.org for more information or to use the tool.