Building Magazine publishes latest Steel Insight

The latest in the Steel Insight series of supplements, sponsored by Steel for Life, has been published in the latest (20 May) Building Magazine and is also available for free on: www.steelconstruction.info

The six-page steel supplement features the latest construction cost comparison update from Gardiner & Theobald, an article on Building Information Modelling (BIM) and two case studies of steel-framed commercial buildings in London.

In the cost comparison, two building types are compared using various framing options. For building 1, a three-storey office, the framing options considered are: steel composite, steel and precast concrete slab, reinforced concrete flat slab and post-tensioned concrete flat slab.

Building 2 is an L-shaped eight-storey city centre office building and cost models were developed for a steel cellular composite frame and a post-tensioned concrete band beam and slab. For both buildings the steel composite option is the cheapest framing solution.

BCSA Director of Engineering Dr David Moore explains how the structural steel sector has had a head start on using BIM compared to most of the construction industry.

Two City of London steel-framed commercial projects are highlighted in Steel Insight, 8 Finsbury Circus and the Monument Building.

Number 8 Finsbury Circus is a complex steel-framed nine-storey office building that has been erected in a conservation area and consequently had to respect and complement its existing neighbours.

Structural steel has allowed Skanksa to squeeze a nine-storey office building onto a site previously occupied by a seven-storey concrete-framed building, adjacent to the City of London’s historic Monument tower.