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News in Brief: June 2012
CSC has released a trial version of its Tedds structural calculation software and engineers downloading it get a free sample of automated calculations. “We …
50 Years Ago: Overseas Buildings in Steel
From Building with Steel, August 1961
40 Year Ago: America’s largest cable suspension roof (Madison Square Gardens, New York City)
Taken from Building with Steel 1968 This huge circular structure is of outstanding interest because of the number of ‘largest ever’ features to be found in …
Work begins on Freedom Tower
Work has started on the foundations for the world’s tallest building, the Freedom Tower, which will occupy the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade …
Corus banks New York supply deal
Corus will supply more than 3,000t of steel beams and plates to developer and main contractor Douglas Durst, for the construction of the new Bank of America …
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 …
United States can learn from worldwide fire engineering expertise
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology makes 30 recommendations to improve the safety of tall buildings in its report on the collapse of the …
Definitive World Trade Center report published
Four years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 led to the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, the US National Institute of Standards and …
Trade Centre tower rises in steel
The last building to collapse as a result of the September 11 attacks is the first to rise from the ashes of New York’s World Trade Centre. The main steel …
