In this issue
NSC 3
May 18
Cover Image
Thruxton Motorsports Centre, Hampshire
Main client: British Automobile Racing Club
Architect: Chapman Partnership
Main contractor: Mata Construction
Steelwork contractor: REIDsteel
Steel tonnage: 60t
May 2018
Vol 26 No 5
These and other steelwork articles can be downloaded from the
New Steel Construction Website at www.newsteelconstruction.com
5 Editor’s comment Editor Nick Barrett welcomes new cost guidance from the steel
sector, part of a new series of regularly updated advisory studies designed to ensure
accurate cost estimates for building frames.
6 News London has more than 500 towers in the pipeline and Birmingham’s latest
commercial scheme nears topping out.
10 SSDA 50th Anniversary To celebrate the SSDA’s half century, NSC looks back at the
awards in the 1980s.
12 Headline sponsor Jamestown has increased its output and broadened its range of
services to the structural steel sector.
14 Sector Focus: Computer software This month’s focus examines how computer
software supports the full steelwork design and manufacturing process.
16 Sport Steelwork has helped a project team refine their design for a racetrack
hospitality suite at Thruxton in Hampshire.
18 Distribution Two more steel-framed distribution centres have been added to the
large Magna Park development in Milton Keynes.
22 Leisure The West Sussex seaside town of Littlehampton is getting a sporting boost
with a new leisure centre.
24 Religion A steel frame’s flexibility to be enlarged in the future is all-important for a
new church in Ballymena.
26 Education Much of the steelwork for the London School of Economics’ new teaching
block will be left exposed as an architectural feature.
28 Technical David Brown of the SCI discusses the behaviour of fin plate connections with
both S275 and S355 fin plates.
30 Advisory Desk AD 418 – Web-post buckling in composite beams with rectangular and
elongated web openings.
31 Codes & Standards
32 BCSA Members
34 Register of Qualified Steelwork Contractors for Bridgeworks
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