President’s Column and Comment
Steel ready for new digital challenges
The Structural Steel Design Awards (SSDA) celebrated 50 years of outstanding steel construction achievements last year. Entering the second half of this first …
Steel supporting air quality drive
Imagine having the opportunity to make a simple design decision that would give a building carbon savings equivalent to a gas and electricity emission free …
Steel benefits from exposure
The attractions of exposing constructional steelwork seem to be growing, as we have been noticing in the increasing number of projects making a virtue of its …
Selecting steel defines success
Building on brownfield sites is being championed by a new campaign from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) as a way to ensure enough land can be …
Healthy appetite for growth – and steel
Mixed messages can be found from recent surveys and forecasts about what the future holds for construction. As can be read in the President’s Column in this …
Outlook bright beyond Brexit
The start of a new year is a traditional time for crystal ball gazing by journalists; it gives us a chance to change our focus from reporting on what has …
Steel construction quality stands out
The entire construction team on the steel-framed Bloomberg European headquarters building in the City will be delighted to have received further recognition of …
Awards still going strong at 50
The Structural Steel Design Awards reach a notable milestone this year, having showcased for 50 years the best of what the UK steel construction industry can …
Steel at the centre of communities
Hardly a major development these days doesn’t feature a centrepiece, sometimes iconic, structure that anchors the project in the public imagination and shows …