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Bishop’s Bridge deck launch completed
The second and final deck launch of Westminster City Council’s new Bishop’s Bridge has been carried out by Hochtief Construction. The 74m launch was …
Artistic super bowl set to grace Durham skyline
Durham County Council has revealed proposals for Sky Bowl, a 15m diameter steel structure and visitor attraction designed by Swedish artist Pal Svensson that …
Steel-framed hospital floors ‘comfortably meet vibration limits’
New tests on floors in recently-built steel framed hospitals have demonstrated that they comfortably meet the NHS requirements on vibration response. The tests …
AD 293: Web panel Zones in Vierendeel Girders (Part 1)
In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this advisory desk, this article is available as a pdf download only. Click here to download …
40 Years Ago: Developments at Gatwick Airport
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 Although Gatwick had been granted an æro-drome licence in 1930 the Airport only began operating in 1936 after completion …
SCI’s new Software SATEL Delivers Simplicity in Explosion Analysis
Viken Chinien introduces SATEL, a new package that incorporates the latest theoretical developments and extends the applicability of traditional design methods …
Joint approach lifts health and leisure
Burnley’s health and leisure facilities will be greatly improved by the completion of a flagship centre, believed the first in the UK to bring both uses …
Questions raised over WTC report
The official conference organised to launch the report into the collapse of the World Trade Center towers took place in September. John Dowling of Corus …
New tests demonstrate superior performance of steel-framed floors
Recent vibration tests on composite floors in steel-framed hospital buildings have confirmed that the real performance of composite floors is superior to that …
November/December 2005 – Steel gives hospitals ‘wow’ appeal
Steel has been making good inroads in the healthcare market over the past few years, a trend which can only be reinforced by the results from floor vibration …