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Prime offices for City circus site
Overlooking the City of London’s largest open public space, a new prestigious nine-storey office building is rapidly taking shape with the aid of steel …
Commercial development spearheads Birkenhead regeneration
The £11M steel-framed Tower Wharf office development, that forms one of the initial phases of the Wirral Waters Enterprise Zone in Birkenhead, will be …
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St James’s Gateway, London The St James’s Gateway redevelopment is a central London mixed-use scheme including 5,300m² of office space, 2,600m² of retail …
News in Brief – July 2015
A new off-the-shelf Adjustable Lifting Point (ALP) from Lindapter is said to be suitable for rigging and lifting up to three metric tonnes at an angle +/- …
Bridge over the River Tagus
The £50 million suspension bridge at present being built across the Tagus River at Lisbon is reputed to be one of the most outstanding engineering and …
Codes & Standards – July 2015
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 6892-3:2015 Metallic materials. Tensile testing. Method of test at low temperature No current standard is superseded BS EN …
AD 389: Acceptable design codes for CE Marking of fabricated steelwork
CE Marking for all construction products (e.g steel sections, bolts etc), covered by a harmonised European standard (see definition below) or conforming to a …
Design of steel portal frame buildings to Eurocode 3
Dr Richard Henderson examines SCI’s publication P399 on portal frame design. In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this technical …
Construction News special highlights steel awards
The latest Steel Spotlight report, available in this week’s Construction News, focuses entirely on the Structural Steel Design Awards (SSDA). Published in …
Steel pushing the boundaries at the SSDA
With this special issue celebrating the best of UK steelwork construction as revealed in the Structural Steel Design Awards, New Steel Construction will be …