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Corus lends support to sustainability exhibition
Corus will be an official supporter of the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) stand at the Ecobuild and Futurebuild 2009 exhibition which takes place at …
Olympic site reaches half way point
Work on the London 2012 Olympic Park is progressing on schedule and during January the project celebrated reaching the half way point between winning the bid …
Makeover for fire test centre
Leighs Paints has completed the first phase of a multi-million pound rede- velopment plan to its onsite FIRETEX fire test centre. The initial £500,000 …
Yorkshire gets new steel framed college
Steelwork has been completed on the new Keighley College project in West Yorkshire. More than 1,200t of structural steelwork has been erected on site by Elland …
Construction Products Regulations due this year
The European Commission is proposing to replace the Construction Products Directive with the Construction Products Regulations. The aim is to remove all …
Rail crossing on track
Allerton Bridges’ new Durham fac- tory has succesfully completed its first project, the Marske Mill Lane Overbridge in Saltburn. The 23m long x 8m wide …
Stockholder takes new processing online
A new state of the art Kaltenbach structural steel processing line has been installed at Rainham Steel’s main distribution facility in Scunthorpe. The line …
Codes and Standards: From BSI updates December 2008 and January 2009
BRITISH STANDARDS NA to BS EN 1993:- UK National Annex to Eurocode 3. Design of steel structures NA to BS EN 1993-1-2:2005 General rules. Structural fire …
CE Marking edition of NSSS updated
To help specifiers fully understand the forthcoming CE Marking standard for structural steelwork, the BCSA and SCI are updating the National Structural …
AD 330: Open top box girders for bridges
Recently there has been an increase in the use of ‘open-top’ boxes for the creation of composite box girder bridges. Typically, they are employed where the …
