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Expansion at Scotland’s largest business park
The new £330M Maxim office development at the Eurocentral Business Park in Lanarkshire, will on completion offer 85,000m2 of office space in ten high quality …
Bridge lift completed in one morning
Shoreditch High Street in east London was closed for one Saturday morning last month to allow a new 38m long steel bowstring bridge to be lifted into position. …
CE Marking of fabricated steel imminent
The European Standard for CE Marking of fabricated steel and aluminium structures has recently been circulated to European member states for Formal Vote for a …
Purlins hit the slopes at new ski centre
Steel purlins from Metsec have been used to create the external shell of the Chill Factor, the UK’s longest and the world’s widest real snow indoor ski …
New option for steel erector NVQ assessments
The development of the Constructional Steelwork Site Operations NVQ Level 2, which covers steel erection, metal decking and stud welding, has been held back …
Gold standard addition to sustainability charter
Kingspan Structural Products has been successfully audited and has joined the Steel Construction Sustainability Charter as a Gold member. As part of the audit …
Extension of Concast Facility, Port Talbot
Rowecord Engineering has altered and extended Corus’s Concast facility at Port Talbot in South Wales. Following Rowecord Engineering’s successful …
Reconstruction of a 1920’s Steel-Framed Office Building
An example of the difficult problems that can be faced in this type of work: constricted location, adjacent listed buildings, elaborate temporary works, three …
AD 277: Load Combinations for the Design of Low-Rise Buildings
Since the release of BS 5950-1: 2000, our advisory service has received numerous queries in relation to the interpretation of the phrase realistic combination …
M42 ATM Gantry Installation
Nusteel supplies a large range of steel footbridge and gantry structures in the UK for a variety of different clients and applications. The company is …
