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Collapse rules progress to a higher level
Design to resist disproportionate collapse became more complex last month as a new Building Regulation came into effect. Regulation A3 and Approved Document A, …
Calderdale schools construction nears completion
Steelwork installation is virtually complete on five new schools under construction near Halifax in West Yorkshire in the first phase of the Calderdale PFI …
Room at the top
A 1960s south London block of flats is being extended by the unusual method of building six additional storeys in steel on top of …
Steel stays strong in market
Steel continues to be over-whelmingly the structural framing material of choice for multi storey non-residential buildings, according to the latest survey from …
Weathering steel gets out of the block
The UK’s biggest sculpture — Manchester’s B of the Bang — has been handed over to the client after a successful installation by principal steelwork …
New team takes over production
Production and advertising sales of New Steel Construction have been handed over to Barrett Byrd Associates, contract publishers with a long track record of …
Eurocode safety factor victory promises more economic steel buildings
Steel structures designed to the new Eurocode EN 1993 will be lighter and more efficient thanks to a successful battle by the Steel Construction Institute over …
Trade Centre tower rises in steel
The last building to collapse as a result of the September 11 attacks is the first to rise from the ashes of New York’s World Trade Centre. The main steel …
Precast Concrete Decks for Composite Highway Bridges
The purpose of this Technical Report is to suggest ways to encourage the use of full-thickness, full-width, precast deck slabs in highway bridges, installed on …
January 2005 – Exciting times ahead
Welcome to the expanded New Steel Construction, which will now come out monthly to open a more frequent window into the steel construction industry. Our focus …