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Frame erection begins
on £500M south coast
power station
July/Aug 19
Somerset contractor
expands production facility
Tuesday 10 September 2019
Joints between hollow sections
This webinar will be based on a typical truss,
demonstrate the calculation of joint resistance
in accordance with BS EN 1993-1-8 and show
how alternative choices may be made so that
expensive reinforcement is avoided.
Webinar
Wednesday 18 September 2019
Steel Frame stability
Frame stability concerns the significance of
second-order effects and is highlighted as an
essential check for all frames in BS 5950 and
EC3.
Bristol
Thursday 7 November 2019
UK Steel Construction Day 2019: Innovative
Steel Solutions
At this event we will look at a range of different
solutions that address the multiple needs to
build with improved speed, quality, safety,
predictability, and using less materials. Some
of these solutions are already being applied,
others are for the future. London
The steel frame for phase one of
Wolverhampton’s new railway station
building has been completed.
Working on behalf of Galliford Try,
Adstone Construction fabricated, supplied
and erected the steelwork.
This first phase of the new station
building is expected to become operational
to customers later this year, when phase
2 of the programme – bringing down the
remainder of the current station building
and completing the new build – will also
start.
The new state-of-the-art railway station
building will be fully open in summer
2020.
Councillor John Reynolds, Cabinet
Member for City Economy, said: “The steel
framework of the new railway station
building is already sitting proudly on
the city’s skyline and these are exciting
times for regeneration in the City of
Wolverhampton.
“There is more than £3.7 billion of
investment on site or in the pipeline
across the city, and the railway station
development is a big part of how we are reimagining
and re-inventing our city centre.
Working on behalf of Morgan Sindall,
Elland Steel Structures has begun the
erection of 1,250t of structural steelwork
for the IFA (Interconnexion France
Angleterre) number 2, at Lee-on-the-
Solent in Hampshire.
Including five steel-framed buildings,
the IFA2 will help the National Grid obtain
a second link across the English Channel to
France in order to share energy supplies.
The link is formed by subsea cables that
run for more than 100 miles between the
two countries and connect to a converter
station (IFA) at either end.
Once operational, the IFA2 will be
capable of exchanging 1,000MW of power
between the UK and France, enough to run
approximately 1,000 homes.
Steel complete for Wolverhampton station phase one
Taunton Fabrications said in order to meet
an increasing demand for its products and
services, it is building an additional 700m2
steel-framed factory space at the firm’s
Galmington premises in Somerset.
The new building will primarily house
the company's finishing and offsite prebuild
activities, but will also be used
as an overflow facility for welding and
fabrication.
Requiring around 30t of structural
steelwork, the entire project, including
design, civils, manufacture, erection
and fit-out is being managed
completely in-house.
The building will include two
5t-capacity overhead cranes, a new paint
spraying system, roof-mounted solar
panels and electric charging points.
Taunton Fabrications Managing
Director Jason Rigby said: “The new
facility will greatly increase our
efficiencies, and our plan is to have our
new pre-build assembly and despatch area
operational by September - ready to begin
painting and assembling balconies and
staircases for two large contracts we have
in Bristol and Cardiff.”
Diary
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