NSC 9
Nov/Dec 19
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Essential Steelwork Design 2 day course
This course introduces the concepts and
principles of steel building design, before
explaining in detail the methods employed by
Eurocode 3 for designing members in
bending, compression and tension.
Manchester
Costume change for
RSC workshop
Steel construction is playing
a major role in the restoration
and redevelopment of the Royal
Shakespeare Company (RSC) costume
workshop in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Home to the theatre’s awardwinning
costume-makers since the
1950s, the workshop was in urgent
need of repair.
The construction work combines
the remodelling of the historic existing
buildings with a three-storey steelframed
new build element.
The new steel-framed structure
wraps around the historic buildings
linking them to the existing RSC
Headquarters and will create enhanced
facilities for what is the largest inhouse
costume-making department of
Tuesday 10 December 2019
Realising the steel design - Webinar
Designers design, fabricators fabricate and
erectors erect – but do these three components
in the construction process align? This
webinar will look at these in reverse order
from the erector's point of view and what he
needs to safely build the structure whilst
maintaining its stability.
Containing 380t of structural steelwork,
the frame for the Doncaster Cultural and
Learning Centre has been completed by
Hambleton Steel.
The new steel-framed building
surrounds the frontage of the former
Doncaster Grammar School for Girls. A
glazed elevation will allow the retained
structure to be visible from the street and
thereby make it one of the borough’s most
eye-catching buildings.
Three existing buildings (Doncaster
Central Library, Doncaster Museum and
Art Gallery and the Library Services for
Schools) will be consolidated into this
new central hub.
The building will have the space and
facilities to display exhibits that have
been locked away from public view
for years, including the town’s famous
Roman Danum Shield, which was
unearthed in 1971, and the Royal Borough
Charters.
The building’s lower ground floor will
also house a railway museum and exhibit
two locomotives built in Doncaster.
A council spokesperson said: “Keeping
this element of the former girls’ school
means we can preserve Doncaster's
heritage and create a building that could
possibly bring local and national awards.
The new building is set over four floors
and covers much of the footprint of the
former school. The steel braced frame
supports metal decking and a concrete
topping to form a composite flooring
solution throughout the structure.
The completed Doncaster Central
Library and Museum is due to open in
August 2020.
Steelwork erection is nearing completion
on the iconic Battersea Power Station,
which will house over 100 shops,
restaurants and cafes, a 2,000-person
capacity events venue, a unique chimney
lift experience offering 360 degree
panoramic views of London’s skyline
from a height of over 100m, new office
space, 46,500m2 of which will be home to
Apple’s new London Campus, and 253
new residential apartments.
Much of the building’s fabric has been
retained, including the majority of its
original steel frame and brickwork
facades.
The building is divided up into
different sections, consisting of a central
boiler house, with a turbine hall and
switch house on both sides – east and
west. Each section is being infilled with
new steelwork.
Working on behalf of Battersea Power
Station Development Company, William
Hare will eventually erect close to 24,000t
of steel at Battersea Power Station, which
will open to the public in 2021.
News
Construction work powers ahead at Battersea
Steelwork completes at
Doncaster cultural centre
Diary
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any British theatre.
The facility is one of the few theatres
to have an in-house armoury where
armour and weapons are made as
well as workshops where experts
craftspeople make everything from
hats, corsets and leatherwork to
jewellery and masks.
Designed by architects practice
Aedas, the redevelopment will also
create a new entrance to the RSC offices
and costume workshop using the 1887
former scene dock doors, which were
built for the original Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre.
Working on behalf of main
contractor Stepnell, Coventry
Construction is fabricating, supplying
and erecting the steelwork.
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