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Steel solution for Welsh viaduct
Forming part of the wider Heads of the Valley scheme, steel construction is playing an integral role in the widening and strengthening of the Taf Fechan …
Protected portal frames on fire boundary
Where single storey buildings have external walls close to a site boundary, the walls are required to have fire resistance. Such external walls have commonly …
Steel lights up former tobacco site
Power Park will deliver more than 39,000m2 of industrial and logistics space in six steel-framed buildings on the former Imperial Tobacco site near Nottingham. …
Rafter stiffeners – needed or not?
Zealous application of the rules in EN 1993-1-8 has resulted in stiffeners being provided in rafters at the “sharp end” of portal frame haunches – where …
New Steel Construction Technical Digest now available online
New Steel Construction’s (NSC) seventh Technical Digest, which brings together a year’s worth of technical guidance, is now available for download at: …
Steel is just the ticket
A steel-framed solution, featuring exposed CHS columns, is ensuring a new bus station will arrive on time in
News in Brief July/August 2022
Severfield has reported a resilient performance for the 12-month period ending 26 March 2022, with an 11% revenue increase and profit before tax also up by the …
Trusses create vital column-free capacity
Providing end-user KLM UK Engineering with additional aircraft maintenance and repair capacity, a new £7M steel-framed hangar has landed at Norwich
Portal Frames with flexible joints
In the second of two technical articles considering the effect of allowing for joint flexibility in the analysis and design of portal frames, Richard Henderson …
AD 480: Correction to P399 Appendix F Worked Example
It has been brought to our attention that in the worked example presented in SCI publication P399 Design of steel portal frame buildings to Eurocode 3, the …
