In this issue
Cover Image
One Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London
Main client: Canary Wharf Group
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox
Main contractor: Canary Wharf Contractors
Structural Engineer: Arup
Steelwork contractor: William Hare
Steel tonnage: 9,500t
2 NSC
June 18
June 2018
Vol 26 No 6
These and other steelwork articles can be downloaded from the
New Steel Construction Website at www.newsteelconstruction.com
3 Editor’s comment Editor NIck Barrett says the steel construction sector is relatively
immune from the worst of the potential post Brexit related labour problems thanks to
its largely locally recruited skilled workforce.
4 News British Steel and Severfield sites are longlisted as potential offsite construction
centres for Heathrow Airport’s new runway.
8 SSDA 50th Anniversary To celebrate the SSDA’s half century, NSC looks back at the
awards in the 1990s.
10 Industrial A rundown 19th Century Highlands farmstead is being converted into a
distillery.
12 Distribution A large steel-framed depot near Peterborough will become the UK’s
largest single site temperature controlled facility.
14 Leisure A 14-screen cinema is the main element of Rushden Lakes retail and leisure
development’s second phase.
16 Commercial The 27-storey One Bank Street in Canary Wharf features a sloping façade
and a flexible steel design using cellular beams.
20 Retail Dublin’s Frascati Shopping Centre is being extended and refurbished with the
aid of steel construction.
22 Sector Focus: Manufacturing equipment NSC reports on the role manufacturing
equipment plays in the steel construction sector.
23 Technical U-frames in bridges are discussed by David Brown of the SCI.
26 Advisory Desk AD 419 – Composite beams with different positions of web openings.
26 50 Years Ago Our look back through the pages of Building with Steel features a harbour
bridge in Baltimore
27 Codes and Standards
28 BCSA Members
30 Register of Qualified Steelwork Contractors for Bridgeworks
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