Projects and Features
Landmark conference centre to boost business tourism
Visually outstanding and structurally challenging, Dublin’s National Conference Centre is set to put Ireland on the global conferencing map, writes Martin …
Town centre enhanced with steel
The Oxfordshire market town of Witney is being transformed as a new retail and leisure development takes shape on a three hectare site formerly occupied by a …
Lights, camera and action
On a former dockland site in Salford, Media City UK will accommodate the BBC as well as other major broadcasters, large media corporations and a myriad of …
Steel tops new London college
A highly visual and architecturally driven steel roof structure is the crowning glory of a multi-million pound college redevelopment in south London. South …
40 Years Ago: The world’s tallest residential-office building begins to climb
Taken from Building with Steel, 1968 The John Hancock Centre in Chicago has to climb to a height of 1,107ft above ground level before it is complete and …
Table top construction
A new world class arena in Dublin’s Docklands is being constructed from the shell of a former train shed. Martin Cooper reports on a project which has …
Fast cores aid on-site craneage
A faster construction programme and an extremely tight site meant a number of innovative solutions were called for on a prestigious central London project. The …
Education leads the way
A new steel framed college campus lies at the heart of a multi-million pound regeneration of Walsall, a scheme set to transform the West Midlands borough. The …
Keeping within a height restriction
The new steel framed Swan Leisure Centre will form an integral element of Eastleigh’s town centre regeneration programme. NSC reports from a project not only …
Services dictate the job
A number of potential headaches have been solved on a new commercial development in central London which has had to incorporate all service portals within an …
