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Target Zero delivers final guidance
The complete series of Target Zero guidance reports covering five building types – schools, warehouses, supermarkets, offices and mixed-use developments are …
Call for quality backing
The BCSA has launched a campaign calling for the constructional steelwork supply chain on all government funded or endorsed and Private Finance Initiative …
Steel creates modern office spaces
Today, companies want offices that are large, open plan and flexible, and the best way of creating such spaces is with structural steelwork. One Howick Place …
CE Marking of fabricated steelwork extended
Following pressure from European steelwork contractor groups, the co-existence period for CE Marking of fabricated steelwork, EN 1090-1, has been extended by …
Schools galore
Flexibility, transportation and ease of construction played major roles in the decision to choose structural steelwork as the framing material for six school …
50 Years Ago: Bridges
From Building With Steel, February 1962. HAW BRIDGE The new steel Haw Bridge over the River Severn in Gloucestershire, was opened last autumn (1961), replacing …
A view of Torsion – Part One
SCI’s Alastair Hughes writes the first of three articles on torsion, concentrating on textbook material such as design guides. In order to retain the …
AD 365: Welding of shear studs to galvanized steel beams
This Advisory Desk note confirms the advice that shear studs should not be welded to hot-dipped galvanized beams. This advice at first appears to contradict …
New and revised codes and standards: December 2011 and January 2012
BRITISH STANDARDS BS 2853:2011 Specification for the testing of steel overhead runway beams for hoist blocks Supersedes BS 2853:1957 BRITISH STANDARDS REVIEWED …
Joints in Steel Construction: Simple Joints to Eurocode 3 (P358)
This publication is one of a series of “Green Books” that cover a range of steelwork connections. This publication provides guidance for nominally pinned …
