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Bone bags five items on Morrisons shopping trip
The Bone Group is currently erecting more than 2,500t of structural steelwork on five different contracts for Morrisons Supermarkets. Four of the projects in …
Visitor centre presents Snowdon summit challenge
A new replacement visitor centre for the top of Mount Snowdon has been been constructed off-site at the Corus Deeside facility. Main steelwork contractor EvadX …
Scholarship to boost steel sector recruitment
The BCSA, together with the Ironmongers’ Company, is launching a new Steel Construction University Scholarship Scheme to increase the number of school …
Steelwork’s future is bright
Steelwork contractors are enjoying healthy forward order books and have captured record shares in key markets, said BCSA President Donal McCormack in his …
AD 309: Ductility of Fully Rigid Bolted Moment Connections
AD 305 deals with the requirements of bolted end-plate moment connections that are assumed for design to be fully rigid up to the Ultimate Limit State. …
Britain’s first commercial monorail
Taken from Building with Steel, 1967 It is well recognised that one solution to easing transport problems in Britain’s densely populated towns and cities …
New and Revised Codes and Standards: January 2007
BS EN PUBLICATIONS The following are British Standard implementations of the English language versions of European Standards (ENs). BSI has an obligation to …
Design energy efficient buildings that meet the needs of your clients
Changes to the Building Regulations, together with rising energy prices, have pushed energy efficiency to the top of the building client’s agenda, with …
April 2007 – Worldwide admiration for UK steel
The UK’s constructional steelwork sector is the marvel of the world. Well you knew you were good, go on admit it, but to hear it at the BCSA National Dinner …