Projects and Features
New life for town centre
Part of a multi-million pound regeneration scheme and spread over two sites, the Wigan Life Centre is a multi-function facility set to invigorate the borough. …
College highlights education’s prominence
A steel frame has proven to be the answer for a multi-use building where natural ventilation and thermal mass needed to be incorporated in order to reduce …
Venue engineered for entertainment
One of the UK’s best known provincial concert venues is being rebuilt and will open its doors again next year. Martin Cooper reports from Guildford’s rock …
Quality assurance for bridges
Geoff Bowden, Principal Structures Advisor, Structures Policy Team Highways Agency explains the National Highway sector schemes that affect steelwork. This …
Starring role for steel at the opera
Located within the Thames Gateway, Europe’s largest regeneration area, an eye-catching steel-framed production workshop for the Royal Opera House will soon …
Starring role for Dublin theatre
Built in a shape that defies description and featuring complex and challenging steel elements, the Grand Canal Theatre is Dublin’s newest cultural and …
Waste not want not
Representing the largest single capital project ever commissioned by the Jersey Government, a new energy from waste facility, which will provide 7% of the …
Activating thermal mass
A steel frame has proven to be the answer for a multi-use building where natural ventilation and thermal mass needed to be incorporated in order to reduce …
A new tower of London
With a structural height of 202m Heron Tower, which recently topped out, is already dominating the City of London’s skyline. Martin Cooper reports from the …
Steel for joined up bridges
Why steel is usually the most suitable material for highway and railway bridges, footbridges and moveable bridges was highlighted at the Steel Bridges …
