President’s Column and Comment
September 2007 – Sustainably safe steel
One of the greatest success stories in the constructional steelwork sector has been the consistently improving safety performance over the past ten years, …
July/August 2007 – Success follows excellence in design
Another outstandingly impressive set of entrants to the Structural Steel Design Awards has earned high praise from the independent judging panel, demonstrating …
June 2007 – Sustainability is good business
The drive towards increasing sustainability of buildings was boosted recently by news from property developer British Land that it aims to become carbon …
May 2007 – Think sustainable – think steel
Sustainability has emerged as one of the main business decision making drivers across all industries in a remarkably short space of time. The pace of …
April 2007 – Worldwide admiration for UK steel
The UK’s constructional steelwork sector is the marvel of the world. Well you knew you were good, go on admit it, but to hear it at the BCSA National Dinner …
March 2007 – Safety success
A main driver of the constructional steelwork sector’s aim to continuously improve its performance on all fronts has been the recognition of the importance …
February 2007 – A sustainable hance for steel to star
Hardly a day seems to go by now without some major company or organisation throwing its weight behind a drive towards a target variously described as carbon …
January 2007 – Ground well paved for further advance
The turn of the year is a good time to take stock of progress made and lessons learned for the future. The year just passed was a good one for the …
November/December 2006 – Steel frames’ cost bears no comparison
Away from the headlines about steel industry takeovers and mergers and worldwide rising prices for energy, the UK’s structural steelwork success story …
October 2007 – Steel more cost effective than concrete
Good news on the costs front comes from the latest update of the Cost Comparison study that Corus has produced since 1995. The updated study, incorporating …