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Heathrow T5 ancillary buildings completed
A Taylor Woodrow-led consortium, which included steel work contractor Rowecord Engineering, has completed three important ancillary buildings for BA Operations …
Creating a retail destination
Steelwork’s flexibility has come to the fore on a new retail development in Livingston town centre. Martin Cooper reports. The growth in large retail …
Sustainability message loud and clear at London exhibition
Recycling and sustainability were the central themes at last month’s Ecobuild/Futurebuild exhibition at London’s Earls Court. One of the most visible …
Codes and Standards: From BSI updates February 2008
BS EN PUBLICATIONS The following are British Standard implementations of the English language versions of European Standards (ENs). BSI has an obligation to …
Museum of Liverpool gets iconic structure
X-shaped in plan, the new Museum of Liverpool will on completion be a striking addition to the fast changing Mersey riverfront. Designed by Danish architects …
Steel looks confidently ahead…
The steel construction sector was looking confidently to the future with healthy forward order books, to as far ahead as 2009 in some cases, BCSA President …
Steel provides boost for new hospital
Structural steel is fulfilling a key role in the progress of the Birmingham New Hospitals Project which is currently under construction by a joint venture …
School for the future
The decision to use steel for a new school in Leicester allowed the construction team to meet very tight deadlines, as well as lending an important degree of …
AD 319: Update on the fire protection of beams with web openings.
In the last five years there have been many developments in the fire protection of beams with web open- ings. For most cellular beams, that is beams with …
Steel remains the competitive choice
Steel is confirmed as the structural framing solution of choice of the overwhelming bulk of the multi storey buildings market in the 2007 Market Shares Survey. …
