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Lighting up the Games
The twin hosts of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter and Paralympic Games each had their own intricately engineered and expanding cauldrons to accommodate the …
Healthcare trusts in steel
Having changed its design to a traditional steel-framed solution, a healthcare facility in Peterborough is making quick and efficient progress. FACT …
Buses go electric
Five 70m-long steel gantries, supporting the all-important electric power distribution, are the centrepiece for a major sustainability-driven revamp at a …
Steel frames for logistics expansion
Strategically located within the UK’s logistics heartland, the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal is continuing to expand with new steel-framed …
Steel provides enterprising solution
The regeneration of Ravenscraig is continuing at pace with the construction of much-needed commercial and industrial space. FACT FILERavenscraig Enterprise …
Fire boundary conditions and the distribution of unprotected areas
The so-called “fire boundary condition” is an important consideration for designers of single-storey buildings. Max Cooper of the SCI offers some thoughts …
AD 557: Robustness and fire
SCI’s Advisory Desk has become aware of some requests to apply the “robustness” rules found in BS 5950 and BS EN 1991 in the fire limit state. This AD …
Cavern Walks – Liverpool
Cavern Walks occupies the site of the original Cavern Club where many of the Liverpool pop groups of the Sixties began their careers, the most famous being the …
Module fabrication building
for Highlands Fabricators Ltd, Nigg W. H. Mackay & Sons Ltd of Fearn have completed the European offshore industry’s largest fabrication facility in …
HS2 confirms contractor for Birmingham control centre
HS2 has appointed Taylor Woodrow Infrastructure and Aureos Rail to build the high-speed railway’s steel-framed control centre and rolling stock depot at …
