NSC 7
June 18
New home for York’s sports teams under way
York’s professional football and rugby league
teams (York City and York Knights) will both
have a new home to share from next summer
as an 8,000-seat stadium, including leisure
and cinematic facilities, is currently under
construction at Huntington on the city’s
outskirts.
Main contractor Buckingham Group has
value engineered the original designs for the
scheme alongside Caunton Engineering, who
are the design and build steelwork contractor
for the job. This exercise has included a
complete design review of the project’s steel
frames.
A decision was made to replace precast
planks with metal decking in the cinema
seating areas, as it offers a more efficient
build solution for the follow-on trades.
The stadium’s cantilevering roofs have
also been redesigned.
“Solid UB rafters were originally going to
be used, but by changing to Westok beams
we have lighter and less expensive members,
and ones that are tapered at no extra cost to
give a more aesthetic appearance,” explains
Caunton Engineering Senior Structural
Engineer Richard Beesley.
Overall, structural steelwork is being used
to form the entire stadium project which
consists of four elements; the cinema block
that adjoins the stadium’s south stand, the
east stand which also includes a two-storey
building housing an NHS drop-in surgery, a
library and the stadium’s corporate facilities
on the upper level, a leisure block that
adjoins the scheme’s north east corner and
includes three pools, a gym and a sports hall,
and the north and west stands.
New town in London Docklands announced
British Land has entered into a Master
Development Agreement with Southwark
Council and submitted an outline
planning application for the Canada
Water Masterplan, one of London’s most
significant development projects which
will create a new urban centre for the
capital.
Alongside the overall Masterplan
the planning submission also includes
a detailed planning application for the
project’s first three buildings, which
include workspace, homes (of which
35% will be affordable) and a new leisure
centre.
These three buildings are part of a
major first phase of the development
covering a total of 168,000m2 of mixed-use
space with construction due to begin in
spring 2019.
Cllr Peter John, Leader of Southwark
Council, said: “It is fantastic to see this
project moving forward. British Land has
done great work to consult and engage
with local people and the resulting
Masterplan will deliver what local people
Tuesday 26 June 2018
How can drone technology complement
your business?
An introductory 1 hour webinar on drone
technology and how it is changing and
enhancing traditional working techniques
want to see, including a guaranteed
35% affordable housing split 70% social
rent and 30% shared ownership in the
first phase, new retail spaces and job
opportunities, education and health
facilities and a brand new leisure centre.
On completion, the Masterplan will
be home to approximately 20,000 jobs
with thousands of people working on site
during construction, including apprentices
and trainees. A decision on the planning
application is expected by the end of the
year.
Thursday 28 June 2018
Steel Hybrid Onshore Wind Towers
Installed with Minimal Effort
This event will present an economical
solution for tall onshore wind towers based
on a hybrid design
Tuesday 3 July 2018
Straight to the Point in Eurocode Design -
Half Day Course
This four hour course contains minimum
theory and maximum hands-on member
design
Working on behalf of main contractor MP
Construction, steelwork contractor Fox
Bros. Engineering has successfully
installed two 11t transfer beams as part of
the refurbishment works at the Grafton
Capital Hotel in Dublin.
The 11m-long Kloeckner Westok plate
beams cantilever over a substation, which
could not be moved, and support sixstoreys
of new bedrooms.
“It is a very confined site with limited
access and no margin for error. We had to
install the beams on a Sunday morning as
a road closure had to take place in order to
get a crane in to do the lifting,” said James
O’Hara of Fox Bros.
Kloeckner Westok’s Design Team
Manager John Callanan added: “These
monstrous 800kg/m plate beams with
chunky 80mm flanges were ideally suited
to our automated plate girder line.”
Overall Fox Bros. will fabricate, supply
and erect 250t of structural steelwork for
the hotel project.
The steel package is due to be
completed by November this year.
News
Big beams installed on confined Dublin site
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