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Skanska to deliver steel framed central London offices
Main contractor Skanska has been appointed to deliver two new category A office buildings that form part of the wider mixed-use redevelopment of South Molton …
New £80M school for north Kent garden city
Eastern Quarry Limited (EQL), an entity owned and managed by Henley Camland, a joint venture between Henley Investment Management and Camland Developments, is …
Work starts on £9.5M Lichfield leisure centre scheme
Construction work to modernise leisure facilities in Lichfield, has begun following the appointment of main contractor Stepnell. The work will deliver a …
Dealing with multiple point loads on a composite slab
Whilst placing concentrated loads on composite slabs is not particularly recommended, we are seeing more and more situations where multiple, sometimes quite …
AD 535: Horizontal lateral loading on internal load-bearing walls in residential buildings
There are two sources of horizontal lateral loading on internal walls in residential buildings that should be considered in their design. These are loads …
New and revised codes and standards: from BSI Updates October 2024
BRITISH STANDARDS REVIEWED AND CONFIRMED BS EN ISO 15609-3:2004Specification and qualification of welding procedures for metallic materials. Welding procedure …
Where the nuts go to…
…and the bolts, and the structural steel and the cladding services and so on. This is the story of Coseley Engineering’s 41 unit contract to provide …
BCSA launches light-gauge steelwork specification to tackle housing crisis
Modern Methods of Construction are widely expected to prove invaluable in tackling the UK’s housing shortages over the coming years, and light-gauge steel …
Severfield opens new apprentice training school
Having just welcomed a record number of 40 new apprentices into the Group, Severfield has celebrated the opening of a brand-new Apprentice Training School at …
Steel extension for Liverpool children’s hospital
The steel frame for a new facility at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool is quickly taking shape. The state-of-the-art Surgical Neonatal Intensive …
