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Plans in for Barnet leisure and housing scheme
Following the purchase of the site, Regal has submitted a planning application for the redevelopment of Great North Leisure Park in the London Borough of …
Carbon reduction
A sustainable design, using steelwork sourced from facilities powered by renewable energy, is delivering a desirable City of London commercial scheme. FACT …
Hub spurs regeneration
Big changes are afoot in Radcliffe, as a town centre redevelopment is underway with a steel-framed Civic Hub that includes a swimming pool and library taking …
Looking to the future
Teesside University’s ambitious masterplan is continuing with the construction of the £40M steel-framed Digital Life building at its Middlesbrough campus. …
Back to school
Structural steelwork is proving to be the ideal framing solution for a school rebuilding programme near Newtownards in Northern Ireland. FACT FILEStrangford …
Steel gives lesson in efficient design
In the first of two articles highlighting the educational sector in Northern Ireland, NSC reports on a steel-framed scheme bringing together two schools from …
What is fire resistance?
Graham Couchman of the Steel Construction Institute charts the history of fire resistance in structural engineering, and concludes that designs, in the most …
AD 537: Web resistance
The Blue Book contains values of web resistance, for various stiff bearing lengths, ss. During the work to prepare for the “Generation 2” changes, it has …
New and revised codes and standards from BSI Updates January 2025
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN 17632-2:2024Building information modelling (BIM). Semantic modelling and linking (SML). Domain-specific modelling patterns. NEW WORK …
Rio-Niteroi Bridge
From Building With Steel, September 1974 An important aspect of Brazil’s rapid redevelopment in the 1970s was the provision of a road network. Part of this …
