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Steel-framed hospital floors ‘comfortably meet vibration limits’
New tests on floors in recently-built steel framed hospitals have demonstrated that they comfortably meet the NHS requirements on vibration response. The tests …
AD 293: Web panel Zones in Vierendeel Girders (Part 1)
In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this advisory desk, this article is available as a pdf download only. Click here to download …
40 Years Ago: Developments at Gatwick Airport
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 Although Gatwick had been granted an æro-drome licence in 1930 the Airport only began operating in 1936 after completion …
SCI’s new Software SATEL Delivers Simplicity in Explosion Analysis
Viken Chinien introduces SATEL, a new package that incorporates the latest theoretical developments and extends the applicability of traditional design methods …
Joint approach lifts health and leisure
Burnley’s health and leisure facilities will be greatly improved by the completion of a flagship centre, believed the first in the UK to bring both uses …
Questions raised over WTC report
The official conference organised to launch the report into the collapse of the World Trade Center towers took place in September. John Dowling of Corus …
New tests demonstrate superior performance of steel-framed floors
Recent vibration tests on composite floors in steel-framed hospital buildings have confirmed that the real performance of composite floors is superior to that …
Race against time in fast-moving medical drama
A new private sector-provided orthopaedic treatment centre for Cheshire and Merseyside was urgently needed. Fortunately, by using steel a demanding schedule …
Early delivery for Kettering logistics park
Sheds just keep getting bigger. This major new East Midlands warehouse will soon be joined by one twice as big. Demand for large distribution warehouses in the …
November/December 2005 – Steel gives hospitals ‘wow’ appeal
Steel has been making good inroads in the healthcare market over the past few years, a trend which can only be reinforced by the results from floor vibration …