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Bowled over by steel
A fully glazed bowl shaped lecture theatre is the centrepiece of a new faculty building for Leeds Metropolitan University. Martin Cooper reports. Leeds is a …
Hospital car park increases capacity and security
A £8.6M steel framed three level car park has been completed for the Basildon & Thurrock University Hos- pital NHS Foundation Trust, increas- ing both …
Steel success story at London seat of learning
The London School of Economics’ (LSE) new £34M Academic Building opened for the Autumn term after an extensive remodelling which required 450t of structural …
Flat pack modular construction
An IKEA furniture store and car park in Dublin contains long spans with heavy floor planks requiring the structure to be erected in box-like modules to allow …
Giant sports complex for Scotland
One of the UK’s largest public sports centres is under construction in East Kilbride. Sporting facilities on offer at the Playsport Scotland project will …
News in Brief: January 2009
Billington Structures has won the prize for business growth at the Barnsley Business Awards 2008. The award, sponsored by the Barnsley Chronicle recog- nised …
Witney retail development gets a car park
Conder Structures, working on behalf of Simons Developments, has completed erecting 850t of steelwork for a retail development’s car park in Witney, …
New hospitals are super in steel
Speed, efficiency and cost effectiveness are just some of the reasons why a massive Birmingham hospital project is relying entirely on steel as its framing …
Cladding the factory of the future
The Advanced Manufactur- ing Research Centre (AMRC) dubbed ‘the Factory of the Fu- ture’ has recently been com- pleted by Bowmer & Kirkland for the …
New viaduct for A34 crossing
Steelwork erection for the first section of the new Wolvercote Viaduct on the A34 at Oxford has recently been completed. The existing concrete viaduct, built …