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Spacious airport offices take off
Steel offers the solution for the latest office block at the World Business Centre near Heathrow Airport. Overlooking one of Heathrow Airport’s runways, the …
Retail conversion
Installing new steel-framed floorplates into a refurbished 1960s shopping centre is helping to create a contemporary retail and dining quarter. Surrey’s …
An introduction to light gauge steel
Whether it is purlins, side rails, walling, composite panels or built up cladding solutions, light gauge steel products are utilised across multiple building …
Building Consequence Classes and the link to Execution Classes
Richard Henderson of the SCI discusses the evolution of Building Consequence Classes and the link between them and Execution Classes of structures. The …
AD 407: Section Classification
SCI have been advised that some checking authorities have questioned the approach to calculating α and ψ, which are found in Table 5.2 of BS EN 1993-1-1:2005 …
New and revised codes & standards – From BSI Updates April 2017
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 8502-2:2017 Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products. Tests for the assessment of surface …
Twelve columns support roof over 250,000 sq ft area
Because their premises near Lambeth Bridge, London, were inadequate for their needs, W. H. Smith & Sons Ltd, the well-known booksellers and stationers, …
Comprehensive steel cost guidance now available
The first of a new series of structural steelwork cost guidance articles from AECOM, the British Constructional Steelwork Association and Steel for Life has …
FICEP launches new steel plate processing machine
Italian steel processing equipment manufacturer FICEP has launched the Tipo G31 CNC machining centre. It is said to be ideal for drilling, milling, marking, …
Steel-framed hospital for former BBC Pebble Mill site
Lincoln-based Simons Group has won a £21.85M contract to deliver a new private hospital in Birmingham for Circle Health. The steel-framed facility will …
