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Castings provide the answer
Structural steel castings allow designers to create highly complex three-dimensional geometries that are difficult to produce using conventional fabrication …
Reducing material costs, lead time and carbon
Founding Steel for Life sponsor Cleveland Steel & Tubes says one of the best options for reducing embodied carbon in steel construction is the supply of …
Removal of temporary lifting attachments on bridges
Certain topics can trip up an engineer more often than others, and without doubt, fatigue is one. In this article, the SCI’s Max Cooper discusses temporary …
AD 540A: Vertical shear resistance of composite slabs and anchorage
Revision Note The guidance on reinforcement anchorage has been updated to align with our understanding of how the second generation of Eurocodes should be …
British Coal build with steel
Birtley Engineering Limited of Chesterfield were the main contractors to British Coal for the design, construction and commissioning of the coal preparation …
The reconstructed Town Bridge over the River Wey, Guildford
The bridge was originally constructed in 1908 to replace an earlier structure carrying the main Portsmouth Road into the Town Centre and served until 4 years …
River Bridges go steel
Two recently awarded highway contracts show the sustained improvements in economy of steel bridges against concrete. Tenders showed that steel is cheaper even …
BCSA urges UK Steel Strategy reassessment at 47th National Dinner
British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) President, Chris Durand, said the government needs to step back from the precipice and reassess the UK …
Hucknall-based steel contractor hosts local MP
Michelle Welsh, MP for the Sherwood Forest constituency in Nottinghamshire (which includes the town of Hucknall), visited local steelwork contractor Briton …
Steelwork contractor completes 10-year global digitisation drive
William Hare has moved all of its quality, safety and operations from paper-based processes to a single connected digital system, after a 10-year digitisation …
