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Cleaner seas for Sussex
To help Sussex beaches meet European environmental standards a new wastewater treatment works is under construction in the midst of the South Downs. NSC …
History centre takes shape with steel
A prominent site in the Kent county town of Maidstone is being transformed into an innovative library and history centre with the aid of a steel frame. NSC …
Laboratory specifies steel
As well as consisting of a predominantly steel framed structure, the Medical Research Council’s new Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge has utilised …
New and revised codes & standards: January 2011
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 148-1:2010 Metallic materials. Charpy pendulum impact test. Test method Supersedes BS EN 10045-1:1990 NEW WORK STARTED EN …
Kingspan takes to the skies
A new £6M air traffic control centre at Jersey Airport has been clad with Benchmark’s metallic façades and insulated panel products. Benchmark is the …
SCI on the case for stainless steel
SCI, with sponsorship from Team Stainless, has produced a series of case studies showing a range of structural applications of stainless steel. The projects …
Spanning river and rail
Crossing numerous electrified railway lines and the River Clyde respectively, the last two steel bridges for Glasgow’s M74 project have now been …
News in Brief – February 2011
In order to share best practice the BCSA is developing a model purchase specification for steel sections and plate. This specification will include the CE …
Sustainability centre for London’s Docklands
Work is now underway on the £30M Siemens Pavilion in east London, a structure which will kick-start a planned Green Enterprise District centred around the …
AD 354: Resistance of bolted connections in tension, for design to BS EN 1993-1-8
This Advisory Desk Note provides a simple method of determining the design tension resistance of bolted connections in accordance with BS EN 1993-1-5:2005 that …
