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Offsite manufacturing in the frame
In this article, NSC focuses on lightweight cold formed steel products, a vital component for many steel construction projects. Designers and specifiers have …
Fire seminars go live
Presentations from this year’s Fire Safety Engineering seminars, hosted by Tata Steel and the British Constructional Steelwork Association, are now available …
The case for steel – Facts
The case for using steel as a construction material in the UK is overwhelmingly strong. Steel dominates the market as a building framing solution and for …
Fire safe design: A new approach to multi-storey steel-framed buildings (Second Edition)
‘Fire performance of composite steel framed buildings is much better than is indicated by fire resistance tests on isolated elements’. The first edition of …
Questions raised over WTC report
The official conference organised to launch the report into the collapse of the World Trade Center towers took place in September. John Dowling of Corus …
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 …
May 2009 – Case proven for steel
We round up our Case for Steel series in this issue, with a four page section highlighting how and why steel construction so dominates the key markets in the …