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Circuit revs up hospitality
The racing day experience at Hampshire’s Thruxton Circuit has been enhanced by a new £1.5M steel-framed hospitality suite. Forming the cornerstone of a …
Distribution park expands with steel
Magna Park is forging ahead with its expansion plans as the latest steel-framed distribution centre, offering 72,000m² of floor space, nears completion. …
Seaside leisure
Sporting pursuits are set for a substantial boost in the West Sussex seaside town of Littlehampton as a new £17M leisure centre is under way. A buoyant sector …
Spanning a congregation
Including a large flexible auditorium and a sports hall, the Green Pastures Church in Ballymena is benefitting from using a steel framing solution. Martin …
Academic design exposed
A famous London seat of learning has chosen to use an aesthetically-pleasing exposed steel frame for its latest redevelopment project. Martin Cooper reports. …
SSDA celebrates 50 years
Having started in 1969, the Structural Steel Design Awards are this year celebrating their 50th anniversary. In the second of a series of articles, NSC looks …
Continued success at Jamestown
Architects and engineers are having greater input through the constructional steelwork fabrication process on ‘higher-end’ projects says structural …
Design and manufacturing with computer software
In this article NSC examines how computer software supports the full steelwork design and manufacturing process, the benefits it delivers to the steel …
New and revised codes & standards, from BSI updates April 2018
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 9017:2018 Destructive tests on welds in metallic materials. Fracture test Supersedes BS EN ISO 9017:2013 BS EN ISO 13918:2018 …
AD 418: Web-post buckling in composite beams with rectangular and elongated web openings
The design of composite beams with large web openings is presented in SCI P355, which has been adopted in the development of software for the design of both …
