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Multi-million pound steel development
The £330M redevelopment of the Westfield Derby shopping centre is forging ahead and will eventually require more than 11,500t of structural steelwork. The …
Corus on the Advance
Corus was the first steelmaker in the world to gain approval to CE mark its structural sections and plates to meet the EU directive on Construction Products …
Advance with Corus
Corus has given a new identity to its structural sections range to make it easier to specify CE marked sections compliant with the EU Directive of Construction …
The flat pack thoughts of Chairman Manning
Arup director Martin Manning is set to take over as chairman of the Steel Construction Institute next month. Here he talks to Ty Byrd about life, engineering …
AD 304: Columns in Braced Bays and Nominal Moments
Following the publication of AD 275 concerning columns in simple construction further questions have been asked about the design of columns in braced bays of …
40 Years Ago: Chilbolton radio-telescope aerial
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 The 82ft diameter steerable aerial at Chilbolton, Hampshire, for the Radio Research Station of the Science Research …
New and Revised Codes and Standards: July and August 2006
BS EN PUBLICATIONS The following are British Standard implementations of the English language versions of European Standards (ENs). BSI has an obligation to …
Retirement leaves a hole in tubes
Eddie Hole of Corus Tubes who has been one of the best known faces on the tubular steelwork scene for many years has retired. He tells Nick Barrett how Tubes …
China shipping drops anchor at Felixstowe
An exciting new headquarters building is bringing a new style of architecture to one of the UK’s busiest ports, as Margo Cole reports. The Suffolk port of …
October 2006 – Advance spells sustainable quality assured product
A new name for structural steel sections entered the UK market in September, when Corus renamed its entire UK market range as Advance (see News). New section …