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Warm Wellcome for a quality building
Early involvement of the steelwork contractor helped deliver a quality solution for Wellcome Trust’s new corporate headquarters building. David Fowler …
Kingspan backs off-site boom
After several false starts, could the tide finally be turning for off-site construction? Kingspan thinks so, and is backing its hunch with substantial …
Letters: March 2005
NSC welcomes letters from readers on steel construction related issues. Please keep your letters brief — the Editor reserves the right to condense. Eurocode …
Twin towers for European bank HQ
The new headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt will be a dramatic steel structure consisting of twin 184m towers, a low-level …
Slim structure for Platinum Point
Use of square hollow section columns in a luxury residential development in Leith, Scotland, will allow the structure to be completely hidden — which was one …
Tube market on the up
The market for tubes is expected to strengthen in 2005, with the overcapacity of recent years eliminated, according to Corus Tubes. A dip in demand in the last …
Caunton helps Honda accelerate
Honda UK’s record production of 193,000 cars in 2004, up nearly 5% on previous years, was all the more remarkable for being achieved while the Swindon …
Across the great divide
Five huge transfer girders, the largest of which weighs 25t, are an unusual feature of University College London’s new Institute of Cancer Research Facility. …
Lessons to learn from overseas
BCSA Director General Derek Tordoff has just returned from an international fact-finding trip to learn how other steelwork industries are faring. Implementing …