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20 Years Ago: Embankment Place, London WC2
From STEEL CONSTRUCTION, December 1991 Embankment Place is a major office development built in the air rights above the platforms of Charing Cross railway …
50 Years Ago: Contributing to Britain’s Road Programme
From Building with Steel, November 1961 INTRODUCTION After what seemed to many as interminable delays a road programme designed to speed up the ever swelling …
Supporting the sector’s change to Eurocodes
The BCSA and SCI have added five new publications to their range of Eurocode design guides covering structural steelwork for buildings. The British …
New President signs road ahead clear
Ivor Roberts, Managing Director of bridge and gantry specialist Nusteel Structures, tells Nick Barrett about his hopes for his two year spell as BCSA …
Industry support for student architectural award
UK Students of architecture are now welcome to enter next year’s Tata Steel/BCSA Architectural Student Design Competition. Organised by SCI and sponsored by …
Major residential scheme framed in steel
Waterfront South, a major regeneration development of apartments on a prominent canalside location in the centre of Walsall is utilising more than 1,000t of …
SCI report opens up new applications for high strength steel
The SCI has completed a report which identifies research and development topics that may open up new applications for molybdenum-containing steels in the …
News in Brief – October 2011
Metsec’s in-house design team has gained international recognition for its work on a new accommodation building at the UK’s oldest specialist music …
SCI to re-evaluate the Eurocode 3 safety factors for stainless steel
SCI has been commissioned by Euro Inox to re-evaluate the safety factors applied to member and bolt resistance in EN 1993-1-4, the Eurocode covering design …
Guidance reports target sustainable construction
The fifth Target Zero guidance report, covering mixed use developments, was published this week, completing the series of five reports in this £1M BCSA and …
