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Steel construction ready for BIM
Structural steelwork is well placed to rise to the challenges of the government’s drive towards using Business Information Modelling on all its construction …
50 Years Ago: Building a new factory over an existing one
From Building With Steel, February 1962 A new factory storehouse, intended to replace a smaller building, was partially erected over the existing building …
20 Years Ago: British steel, first in Kuwait
Taken from Steel Construction, February 1992 On the 16th December 1991, under the lavish splendour of five steel framed structures, designed in the bedouin …
Steelwork creates a new town centre for Gateshead
More than 10,000t of structural steelwork will eventually be erected for the Trinity Square development in Gateshead, creating a regenerated town centre on the …
Sustainable pavilion for Olympic site
Construction work is due to start soon on the BMW Group’s Olympic Park Pavilion, a two-storey steel structure designed to reflect the company’s heritage in …
Around the Press: March 2012
Construction News 23 February 2012 A focus on quality I’d like to see BCSA members widely acknowledged as the best steelwork contractors in the world,’ …
Big Bim is where the magic is
Business Information Modelling has become an often misunderstood industry buzzword. Nick Barrett reports from BCSA’s National Meeting which heard that BIM is …
News in Brief: March 2012
The BCSA website www.steelconstruction.org now contains a new page on bolting competency. The page can be found under ‘Technical Resources’ and features …
Arts centre to reinvigorate waterfront
A new £7.8M arts centre is under construction on the banks of the River Clyde at Greenock. Part of a wider redevelopment of former industrial land along the …
A view of torsion, Part 2
In Part One, the two mechanisms by which a member can resist torsion were introduced. One of them, so-called ‘warping’, can be simply understood – not as …
