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Acoustic Performance – Case Studies
“Steel residential buildings demonstrate excellent acoustic performance” The first in the series, these four case studies, provide actual acoustic test …
Ravenscraig regeneration gathers pace
The site of the former steelworks at Ravenscraig in North Lanarkshire will be the UK’s first new town in more than 50 years and home to more than 10,000 …
Differing bay heights at new distribution centre
Conder Structures has erected an out of the ordinary distribution centre, containing high and low bays, at Manchester’s Trafford Park, the UK’s oldest …
AD 317: Use of integral crossheads in skew highway bridges
Guidance Note 1.02 in the Steel Bridge Group publication Guidance Notes on best practice in steel bridge construction (P185) includes advice about the use of …
British Standards can be used beyond 2010
The BCSA has issued a memo to all members regarding a marketing circular being promoted by the British Standards Institute (BSI), that states four steel …
40 Year Ago: America’s largest cable suspension roof (Madison Square Gardens, New York City)
Taken from Building with Steel 1968 This huge circular structure is of outstanding interest because of the number of ‘largest ever’ features to be found in …
Setting standards within the offsite sector: The Buildoffsite Registration Scheme
Bassam Burgan, SCI Deputy Director, explains the advantages of the first offsite sector specific scheme that focuses on the safe and competent delivery of …
Steel still the cost effective choice
Structural steel framing solutions have again been confirmed as faster and cheaper to build than reinforced concrete alternatives in the latest update of a …
Distribution park opens up the South West
Steelwork has recently been completed on the latest warehouses at Cabot Park, the largest multi-modal distribution park in the West Country. Covering an area …
January 2008 – Steel winning new friends worldwide
Newspaper headlines worldwide were being dominated at the end of 2007 with alarming phrases like ‘credit crunch’ and ‘credit meltdown’, giving rise to …