ArcelorMittal launches steel
construction industry concept
Manchester’s Ordsall Chord
receives Major Project Award
A new 7,721-capacity south stand at
Headingley rugby league ground, home of
Leeds Rhinos, is nearing completion.
The steel-framed structure will have
2,233 seats on its upper tier, with the
remainder of the capacity standing in the
lower paddock.
The stand forms part of the overall
redevelopment of the Headingley
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stadium, and work is also currently
ongoing for a new north stand that has
back-to-back tiers overlooking both
the rugby ground and adjacent cricket
arena.
Working on behalf of main contractor
Caddick Construction, Hambleton Steel is
fabricating, supplying and erecting 1,800t
of steel for both stands.
The Ordsall Chord, a new railway line
connecting Manchester’s Piccadilly,
Victoria and Oxford Road stations for
the first time, has received the Royal
Academy of Engineering’s Major
Project Award for 2018.
The award was in recognition of the
collaboration, skill and engineering
flair necessary to deliver such a
complex, multidisciplinary feat of
railway engineering.
An integral part of the Great
North Rail Project, the Ordsall Chord
incorporates the first asymmetric
network arch bridge in the world.
Completed in December 2017, the
Chord uses only 540m of entirely new
track to connect Manchester’s existing
railway lines via a brand-new viaduct
spanning the River Irwell.
By creating a link between
Manchester city centre’s main railway
stations, as well as enabling new, direct
services to Manchester Airport from
the North, the Chord allows more
trains to run on the network and
reduce journey times into and through
Manchester.
With collaboration at the heart
of the Chord’s engineering success,
the team members that received the
award represent the multidisciplinary
partnership undertaken between
Network Rail, Skanska BAM,
Siemens, Amey, steelwork contractor
Severfield, the designers, AECOM Mott
MacDonald, WSP and Balfour Beatty to
build the Chord.
News
ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel
company has unveiled Steligence™, a new
concept for the use of steel in construction
which it hopes will create a more
sustainable life cycle for buildings.
The concept revolves around the idea
of buildings as holistic entities where all
aspects are considered in an integrated
way, and proposes the need for better
dialogue between various specialist
architectural and engineering disciplines.
Steligence™ further suggests that the
use of the best available technology in
steelmaking, as well as modularisation
of steel components in buildings, has the
capacity to generate efficiency gains in the
design, construction and configuration of
buildings.
Because steel is infinitely recyclable,
Steligence™ sets the stage for architects
to consider the life cycle, recyclability
and reusability of a building and its
components at the earliest point in the
design process.
This new approach has been brought
about by real advances in technology
which now makes steel an even more
attractive material for construction. As
such, ArcelorMittal said the Steligence™
concept has the potential to drive
significant architectural and sustainability
benefits.
ArcelorMittal Global Head of Research
and Development Greg Ludkovsky said:
“As climate, energy and resource scarcity
intensifies, win-win solutions like
Steligence™ become imperative.
“Buildings play a huge part in all our
lives, so creating a construction concept
that improves their social, economic and
environmental impact while dramatically
enhancing their functionality and
aesthetics has been a huge challenge.
“We have landed on a radical new
approach to construction which is
underpinned by a clear philosophy to
build a sustainable business around a
sustainable construction industry that
delivers for future generations.”
By using the Steligence™ concept
ArcelorMittal claimed the construction
industry could take advantage of
numerous benefits, such as more building
storeys within a given height, less deep
and less costly foundations and far longer
clear spans, resulting in better flexibility of
interior floor layout.
ArcelorMittal Global Research
and Development, Construction and
Infrastructures, Olivier Vassart (pictured)
said: “Steel is the construction material for
the future and this is a concept for change.
We want to optimise the use of materials
and eliminate waste.”
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