In this issue
NSC 3
February 19
Cover Image
St Giles Circus development, London
Main client: Consolidated Developments
Architect: ORMS
Main contractor: Skanska
Structural engineer: Engenuiti
Steelwork contractor: Severfield
Steel tonnage: 2,400t
February 2019
Vol 27 No 2
These and other steelwork articles can be downloaded from the
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5 Editor’s comment Editor Nick Barrett writes that the latest market share survey
confirms the long-standing market preference for steel as a framing material.
6 News NSC’s Technical Digest is now available and steelwork arrives for a new wharf at
the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera base.
10 Industrial A leading pharmaceutical packaging company is building a steel-framed
facility near the Irish town of Dundalk.
12 Commercial Using a steel frame solution has helped form the flexible floorplates
required for a Manchester city centre office development.
14 Retail A Trafford project demonstrates why structural steelwork continues to be the
chosen framing solution for car showrooms.
16 Mixed-use The St Giles Circus scheme includes an hotel, urban gallery and a basement
auditorium all being constructed around a number of site constraints including an
escalator shaft and a Crossrail tunnel.
20 Education On a steep sloping site overlooking Jedburgh, an architecturallyimpressive
school campus is being constructed.
22 Technical David Brown of the SCI discusses the specification of steel with improved
through thickness properties.
26 Codes and Standards
26 Advisory Desk AD 427 – Typographical error in P419.
27 50 Years Ago Our look back through the pages of Building with Steel features a church, a
sports centre and a tunnelling shield manufactured for a Heathrow Airport project.
28 BCSA Members
30 Register of Qualified Steelwork Contractors for Bridgeworks
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