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AD 284: BS 449 and Approved Document A – Structure (2004 Edition)
Approved Document A – Structure – of the England and Wales Building Regulations has been revised. The “2004” Edition came into effect on the …
AD 283: The Use of Discontinuous Columns in Simple Construction
This AD provides advice on the design of discontinuous (storey-high) columns in simple construction. This is the second in a series of ADs dealing with …
New and Revised Codes and Standards: January 2005
BRITISH STANDARDS REVIEWED AND CONFIRMED The following are British Standard implementations of the English language versions of European Standards (ENs). BSI …
Steel Framed Car Parks
The multi-storey car park is a unique style of building, one in which all elements of the structure are normally exposed to the public. This publication gives …
40 Years Ago: Two interesting bridges
1. New Bridge over the River Calder in Huddersfield The £3 million scheme for the extension and modernisation of the Corporation of Huddersfield’s sewage …
Steel Construction Yearbook 2005
There is no other yearbook in the steel construction sector that can rival the Steel Construction Yearbook published by The Steel Construction Institute. It is …
Better predictions for cellular beams
Designers using the old Yellow Book guidelines may have been led to be more conservative than needed. SCI’s Manager for Fire Engineering, Gerald Newman, …
Experimental behaviour of a steel structure under natural fire
A full scale European collaborative test has shown that the fire performance of a steel building was better than that predicted by calculations or design …
Centrale takes upwards spiral
The most challenging aspect of the car park at the new Croydon Centrale shopping centre was the problem of giving cars access on a constricted site. The design …
Car parks move to front of house
Developers are making statements with their new car parks, and the statement is increasingly ‘do it in steel’. Car park design specialist Hill Cannon …
