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COMMENDATION: One Crown Place, London
Forming the centrepiece of a central London mixed-use development, two residential towers are supported by 15 steel trusses. FACT FILEArchitect:KPFStructural …
MERIT: Pace Gallery, Hanover Square, London
A cleverly reconfigured space, with a central steel staircase, is the new home for a leading international art gallery FACT FILEArchitect: Jamie Fobert …
MERIT: LCT 7074 Canopy, The D-Day Story, Portsmouth
A slender steel canopy protects and highlights the sole surviving Landing Craft Tank (LCT) from the D-Day landings. FACT FILEArchitect: Pritchard …
MERIT: Hydro Ness, Inverness
Taking the inspiration for its shape from salmon swimming upstream, a unique riverside scheme will generate approximately 550,000 kWh of renewable electricity …
MERIT: Houlton School, Rugby
Steel construction has allowed an historically significant radio station building to be retained and converted into a large secondary and sixth form school. …
SSDA 2022 National Finalists
22 Bishopsgate, London FACT FILEArchitect: PLP ArchitectureStructural engineer: WSPSteelwork contractor: SeverfieldMain contractor: MultiplexClient: Lipton …
More from the history of steel design code development
David Brown of the SCI looks at the work of Professor J. F. Baker, author of The Steel Skeleton, finding many issues of direct relevance to today’s designers …
AD 493: Steel grade based on tested samples
The SCI has recently received a number of questions relating to the sampling of existing steelwork to determine the steel grade. In each case, no records of …
New and revised codes and standards – from BSI Updates September 2022
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 17636-1:2022Non-destructive testing of welds. Radiographic testing. X- and gamma-ray techniques with film supersedes BS EN ISO …
The Structural Steel Design Awards 1972
From Building with Steel, November 2022 The British Steel Corporation in conjunction with the British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd has now …
