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Centrale takes upwards spiral
The most challenging aspect of the car park at the new Croydon Centrale shopping centre was the problem of giving cars access on a constricted site. The design …
Car parks move to front of house
Developers are making statements with their new car parks, and the statement is increasingly ‘do it in steel’. Car park design specialist Hill Cannon …
Warm Wellcome for a quality building
Early involvement of the steelwork contractor helped deliver a quality solution for Wellcome Trust’s new corporate headquarters building. David Fowler …
Kingspan backs off-site boom
After several false starts, could the tide finally be turning for off-site construction? Kingspan thinks so, and is backing its hunch with substantial …
Letters: March 2005
NSC welcomes letters from readers on steel construction related issues. Please keep your letters brief — the Editor reserves the right to condense. Eurocode …
Twin towers for European bank HQ
The new headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt will be a dramatic steel structure consisting of twin 184m towers, a low-level …
Slim structure for Platinum Point
Use of square hollow section columns in a luxury residential development in Leith, Scotland, will allow the structure to be completely hidden — which was one …
Tube market on the up
The market for tubes is expected to strengthen in 2005, with the overcapacity of recent years eliminated, according to Corus Tubes. A dip in demand in the last …
Lessons to learn from overseas
BCSA Director General Derek Tordoff has just returned from an international fact-finding trip to learn how other steelwork industries are faring. Implementing …