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Fire protection of beams with web openings
Dr Ian Simms, Manager of Fire Engineering at SCI, reports on recent developments affecting the design of fire protection for cellular beams. Introduction Beams …
Completing the hillside challenge
Built on a steep Bristol hillside, the Redland Green School is a striking, innovative and environmentally sensitive educational establishment. When Bristol …
Building bridges for east London
A total of ten new steel bridges have been erected as part of the northern extension to the East London Railway. Martin Cooper walks the line from Shoreditch …
Steel plays a starring role in the latest Pinewood classic
Speed was paramount for the design and construction of a new film studio. Martin Cooper goes behind the scenes to find out how a design and build job was …
Steel regeneration for old mine
Redeveloping brownfield sites is now an important sector as many former industrial areas are opened up for new business. In South Yorkshire a new distribution …
Deep piles take the weight for new Corus facility
The new Automated Distribution Centre now under construction for Corus at its Scunthorpe works required an extremely rigid structure to guarantee its …
Portal frames expand software boundaries
Designing one of the UK’s largest ever distribution centres required some close cooperation between Atlas Ward and its software provider. Two adjacent portal …
New look for Hull city centre
The new multipurpose St Stephen’s development has benefited from a number of important steel elements including more than one mile of shop front steel. The …
Advancing ahead
It’s four months since Corus launched the Advance branding for its beams, columns, channels, angles, and bearing piles manufactured in the UK, and many …
Competitive gap crushes concrete
Steel frames remain the fastest and most cost effective framing solution for both commercial offices and residential apartments according to the latest Cost …
