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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 …
Transport hub expansion in the frame
A fully galvanized steel frame has created the desired architectural and durable design for a multi-storey car park serving a transport hub in Cheltenham. FACT …
Steel opens up factory project
Rising up on the site of a former steelworks, a state-of-the-art steel-framed factory will secure the Scottish future of a company crucial to the whisky …
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 …
Footbridges
From Building with Steel, August 1973 In the days when early Renaissance artists were required mainly to paint altar pieces they carried out many of their …
British Steel unveils electric arc furnace plans
British Steel has unveiled a £1.25bn proposal to become a clean, green and sustainable business by adopting electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking. The plans, …
