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Approval given for multi-storey logistics scheme in Thurrock
British Land has received planning consent for a 59,800m2 multi-storey logistics scheme in Thurrock, Essex. The project will provide occupiers with …
Hitachi Zosen Inova bags new Walsall waste-to-energy centre
Waste management provider Encyclis has appointed Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) as its principal contractor to design, build and commission a new waste-to-energy …
Passport to a circular economy
Featuring a number of sustainable credentials, the 12-storey Edenica office development is the first City of London scheme to use Materials Passports, digital …
Vital Greenwich link installed
Crossing the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road, a new steel footbridge forms a vital, as well as the only, means of pedestrian access between the two halves of …
Mixed-use scheme lights up Piccadilly
Sat behind London’s most famous billboard, a new steel-framed seven-storey development has reimagined a previously under-used site. FACT FILELucent at 1 …
Reaching for the asymptote – what is an optimal design?
Greatly simplifying the complex subject of structural design, one would imagine that an optimally designed element, or structure, would achieve unity factors …
AD 519: Equivalent horizontal forces and combinations of actions
Recent questions to SCI’s Advisory Desk have shown that some designers are unclear whether equivalent horizontal forces (EHFs) should be applied to a …
New and revised codes and standards – from BSI Updates November and December 2023New and revised codes and standards –
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN 1990:2023Eurocode. Basis of structural and geotechnical designsupersedes BS EN 1990:2002+A1:2005 and BS EN 1997-1:2004+A1:2013, which …











