Monthly Archives
Return to Waterloo
A £41M project to give a new lease of life to Waterloo station’s steel roof was one of five winners in the Institution of Civil Engineers’ prestigious …
New professional challenges for SCI Chairman
Steel Construction Institute Chairman Peter Head is swapping a leading role at FaberMaunsell for one at Arup. The sustainable development and business …
Steel cuts hospital waiting time
Caunton Engineering is well advanced on steel erection for a 16,000m² extension to Stoke Mandeville hospital, near Aylesbury, Bucks. Three new buildings will …
Collapse rules progress to a higher level
Design to resist disproportionate collapse became more complex last month as a new Building Regulation came into effect. Regulation A3 and Approved Document A, …
Calderdale schools construction nears completion
Steelwork installation is virtually complete on five new schools under construction near Halifax in West Yorkshire in the first phase of the Calderdale PFI …
Room at the top
A 1960s south London block of flats is being extended by the unusual method of building six additional storeys in steel on top of …
Steel stays strong in market
Steel continues to be over-whelmingly the structural framing material of choice for multi storey non-residential buildings, according to the latest survey from …
Weathering steel gets out of the block
The UK’s biggest sculpture — Manchester’s B of the Bang — has been handed over to the client after a successful installation by principal steelwork …
New team takes over production
Production and advertising sales of New Steel Construction have been handed over to Barrett Byrd Associates, contract publishers with a long track record of …
Eurocode safety factor victory promises more economic steel buildings
Steel structures designed to the new Eurocode EN 1993 will be lighter and more efficient thanks to a successful battle by the Steel Construction Institute over …
