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Flight of the Phoenix
Atlas Ward Structures is making good progress on the steelwork erection for this sophisticated distribution centre, named Project Phoenix, on behalf of main …
SSDA 2005 – Awards for the industry’s best…
The best of the construction industry was on display at the 2005 Structural Steel Design Awards presentation ceremony at London’s Savoy hotel, according to …
New role sought for pioneering tower block
English Heritage has rescued the world’s first metal framed building, but the challenge now is to find a new use for it. The historic forerunner of the …
A complex assembly operation
The brief for the roof of the Welsh Assembly building was simple: it should appear to float. Putting the vision into practice was more difficult. Dramatically …
Grand design becomes reality
When City financier Julian Simmonds was unable to find the perfect London apartment for himself and his family he decided to build his own. The smart money …
Fast track for New Forest hospital
Construction of a new private finance hospital for Hampshire, due to open next year, is comfortably ahead of schedule thanks to a steel frame structure. …
Ultra clean operations in Sunderland
Healthcare for residents of the Sunderland area is receiving a boost in the shape of an extension to the city’s Royal Hospital, where steel is reducing …
Dowling bows out on a high note
Outstanding engineer, academic, entrepreneur, humourist – Professor Patrick Dowling CBE, one of the steel sector’s most eminent protagonists, retires this …
July/August 2005 – The best of British…
Some awards have become debased currency in recent years, with every magazine seeming to have its own idea of what were the best construction projects of the …