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Steelwork begins for Orkney hospital
Steel has started to be erected for the NHS Orkney’s new £65M hospital and healthcare facility in Kirkwall. Steelwork contractor BHC is working on behalf of …
Prestigious accolade for steel-framed City tower
The Monument Building has won the best large commercial building of the year 2016 category in the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) London regional …
BCSA steelwork contractors add value
President’s Column September 2017 I often ask myself at what point in the process do main contractors realise that BCSA members are specialists and that …
News in Brief: September 2017
Lindapter’s Type AAF clamps have been specified for attaching multiple support brackets to steel beams at the Allerton Waste Recovery Park in North …
Guide to brittle fracture now available
Commissioned and funded by the British Constructional Steelwork Association and Steel for Life, a new Steel Construction Institute (SCI) guide (P419) Brittle …
First stores open at Bracknell Lexicon shopping centre
Marks & Spencer’s [M&S] new steel-framed 7,400m² department store is the first shop to open at Bracknell’s £250M shopping complex. Known as The …
Steel starts on Sports Direct’s first new build outlet in Scotland
Main contractor ISG and steelwork contractor Walter Watson have started work on a circa £5M contract with Sports Direct to deliver its first new build outlet …
Community academy opens to students
Waid Academy Headteacher Iain Hughes has been officially handed the keys to the new £21.5M Waid Community Campus in Anstruther, Fife. Waid is one of six …
Hospital approved for Ascot green belt site
Frimley Health NHS trust has been given approval to build a £90M hospital on green belt land in Ascot. At a recent meeting, local councillors gave permission …
Steel supply chain sets a lead to follow
Construction seems to have been on the edge of one of its periodic crises of confidence this summer, perhaps not entirely without good reason. Pundits point to …