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Around the Press – November/December 2011
Building Magazine 21 October 2011 Interview The grass may look greener abroad, but Haughey (Tom Haughey, Chief Executive of Severfield-Rowen) stresses that the …
Stadium heralds football club’s homecoming
Work on Rotherham United’s new 12,000 seater community stadium is now under way in the South Yorkshire town’s centre. The club plans to start next season, …
Landmark reached as Mabey installs first turbine towers
The first completed wind turbine tower sections to leave Mabey Bridge’s £38M manufacturing facility in South Wales have been delivered and installed at Marr …
Open day success for Sustainable Building Envelope Centre
A trade and industry open day was held at Tata Steel’s Sustainable Building Envelope Centre (SBEC) at Shotton, Flintshire on 27 September in order to give …
Outstanding school framed in steel
The recently opened Hope Academy in Newton-le-Willows, near Warrington, has been submitted for a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating aided in part by its steel …
BCSA Council gather for October meeting
A new web-based steel construction information system based on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia is being developed for launch in 2012, the BCSA Council heard …
Building regulations for structures to be revised
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) is proposing to amend Approved Document A – Structure (AD –A) which lists codes, standards and …
New and revised codes & standards: October 2011
UPDATED BRITISH STANDARDS BS EN 1090-2:2008+A1:2011 Execution of steel structures and aluminium structures. Technical requirements for steel structures …
AD 363: Geotechnical actions on structures – choice of partial factors
BS EN 1990:2002, Eurocode – Basis of structural design, sets out rules for the determination of design values of the effects of actions on structures. The …
November/December 2011 – 35 years of highlights
The retirement of the BCSA’s Director General Derek Tordoff at the end of this year after 27 years in the job has already been announced. In this issue you …