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October 2009 – Pain-free tendering
Procurement professionals always need all the help they can get in first of all making sure the right processes are in place and observed for letting contracts …
September 2009 – Sustainably essential steel
The steel construction sector has invested a great deal of time and money over the years in providing everything that a designer could need to make it easy to …
June 2009 – Education ambition demands benefits of steel
The search for those elusive green shoots of recovery sometimes seems to be taking on near manic proportions, with City commentators falling over themselves to …
May 2009 – Case proven for steel
We round up our Case for Steel series in this issue, with a four page section highlighting how and why steel construction so dominates the key markets in the …
April 2009 – Sustainability looks like a survivor
Recent construction industry related gatherings have been slightly muted affairs, unsurprisingly since the background economic news has been almost …
March 2009 – Building towards zero carbon
Steel and sustainability go hand in hand. The case for selecting the most recycled material in the world for constructing buildings, bridges and other …
February 2009 – Steel still dominates growth sectors
Fewer construction projects will be undertaken this year as recession bites, but it is hard to see any reason to expect steel to be selected for a smaller …
January 2009 – Recession forges quality solutions
Are the first green shoots of recovery visible in the new construction orders figures released by the government before Christmas? The three month rolling …
November/December 2008 – Top marks from schools
A welcome item of good news recently has been the government’s announcement that it will bring forward public spending to boost construction. One source of …
November/December 2012 – Steel still the competitive choice
Hopefully, October’s report of an unexpected continued fall in UK economic output will be looked back on as the nadir of this great credit crunch related …