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Steel blend for distillery
Steel construction is playing a leading role in the building of a new distillery in The Highlands. Set in the picturesque Averon Valley, some 30 miles north of …
Ice cold frame
A steel frame has proven to be the only viable solution for a cold storage facility near Peterborough. A £10M, 5,667m2 cold storage facility for national …
Lakeside scheme expands with steel
Phase 2 of the Rushden Lakes development is under way as steelwork erection nears completion on a 14-screen cinema block, and further restaurant and retail …
Banking on steel
The latest steel-framed office tower at Canary Wharf features a sloping western façade as well as a flexible design based around cellular beams. London’s …
SSDA celebrates 50 years
Having started in 1969, the Structural Steel Design Awards are this year celebrating their 50th anniversary. In the third of a series of articles, NSC looks …
Shopping for steel
A large retail extension and refurbishment programme, with added flexibility, is being carried out at the Frascati Shopping Centre in County Dublin. With two …
A guide to steel production equipment
Steel manufacturing equipment and its producers play an essential role within the structural steelwork sector. Steel manufacturing equipment is extensively …
AD 419: Composite beams with different positions of web openings
SCI publication P355 is widely used to design beams with large web openings. It is adopted in the development of software to design hot rolled and fabricated …
New and revised codes & standards, from BSI Updates May 2018
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 2081:2018 Metallic and other inorganic coatings. Electroplated coatings of zinc with supplementary treatments on iron or steel …
A forward looking concept in bridge design
The problem is not an unfamiliar one: an interharbour bridge is to be built as part of an interchange between interstate highways in the United States – in …
