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Work starts on Sunderland’s former brewery site
The former Vaux brewery site in Sunderland, which has lain dormant for more 16 years, is being redeveloped with a steel-framed office block representing the …
King’s Cross retail scheme due to start
Designed by architect Thomas Heatherwick, the Coal Drops Yard retail scheme in London’s King’s Cross is due to begin its two-year construction programme in …
Steel parks in Leeds
Working on behalf of Sir Robert McAlpine, James Killelea has fabricated, supplied and erected 1,350t of steelwork for a 10-storey car park at the Victoria Gate …
News in Brief: June 2016
Specialist structural steel manufacturer, voestalpine Metsec, is supporting the upgrade of Ashton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City Football Club and Bristol …
Steelwork enclosures reduce transformer noise
One of the problems associated with modern power transformers is the noise they produce. The shortage of available land for power station and substation sites …
Design of fillet welds and partial penetration butt welds
Richard Henderson of the SCI discusses the directional method for the design of fillet welds and partial penetration butt welds and shows how the combined …
AD 398: Net area for staggered holes in accordance with Eurocode 3
Determining the net area of a cross section with staggered holes is dealt with in EN 1993-1-1:2005 (+A1:2014) clause 6.2.2.1(4). For those new to this …
New and revised codes & standards – From BSI updates May 2016
CORRIGENDA TO BRITISH STANDARDS BS EN 16623:2015 Paints and varnishes. Reactive coatings for fire protection of metallic substrates. Definitions, requirements, …
Steel-framed Monument Building completes ahead of schedule
Skanska has completed, two weeks ahead of schedule, the construction of The Monument Building, its steel-framed 8,733m², nine-storey office-led development in …
Barometer says outlook is fine for steel
Official government statistics on construction workloads have been less than encouraging recently, but industry reports contradict this and suggest that demand …