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Retail exposed with steel
An architecturally-driven fully exposed structural steel frame forms a standout retail building adjacent to an historic east London
Steel supports gardens for Eden
The 12-storey Eden office block, the latest steel-framed development at Salford’s New Bailey, will be adorned with full-height living walls and is said to be …
Painting a bright future
Overcoming challenging times, Jamestown continues to invest in its future and has recently commissioned a new blast tunnel and adjoining paint
Proposed Annex B
The proposed amendments to EN 1993-1-1 include Annex B which deals with semi-compact sections (the contents of the current Annex B have been promoted to the …
AD 471: Second order moments for splice design
AD notes 243 and 244 were produced when BS 5950:1990 was current. The present AD note provides an update for designers using BS EN 1993-1-1. The same …
AD 486: NSSS Annex J amendment
The Sustainability Specification for structural steelwork, which is the new Annex J to the National Structural Steelwork Specification for Building …
New and revised codes and standards, From BSI Updates May 2022
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 9712:2022Non-destructive testing. Qualification and certification of NDT personnelsupersedes BS EN ISO 9712:2012 BS EN …
The County Hotel, Bedford
From Building with Steel, June 1969 by Gwylon Isaac, Bsc, DIC, CEng, MICE In December 1964 the contractors appointed to carry out the construction of the hotel …
Funding received for steel reuse project
Government funding has been awarded to the DISRUPT project (Delivering Innovative Steel ReUse ProjecT), which seeks to explore the reuse of structural …
Repurposed steel provides centrepiece for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
A spectacular 21m-tall steel sculpture, known as the ‘Tree of Trees’ featuring 350 British native trees was unveiled outside Buckingham Palace as a …
