Projects and Features
Flexible steel gets clean bill of health
Changing the structural design to steel, from timber and masonry, has resulted in a quicker construction time and more efficient buildings for a new healthcare …
Doing Manchester justice
In the first of a new series on completed steel framed buildings Nick Barrett looks at Manchester’s celebrated Civil Justice Centre, the biggest court …
Retail boost for coastal resort
A shopping centre extension, spanning bus lanes and a main arterial road, has required a phased steel erection programme in order to keep the highway …
Building for the future
The Europe wide ManuBuild project could revolutionise the continent’s housebuilding sector by delivering faster and more sustainable houses by using modular …
All change at St Pancras
The £800M redevelopment of St Pancras Station not only involved the construction of a new extension, but also the restoration of the famous Barlow shed’s …
A view from the top
An 18m-high walkway will give visitors to Kew Gardens a unique birds-eye view of the park and the tree canopy. Martin Cooper reports on how weathering steel is …
Distribution park opens up the South West
Steelwork has recently been completed on the latest warehouses at Cabot Park, the largest multi-modal distribution park in the West Country. Covering an area …
Island’s healthcare gets a boost from steel
Getting the steel supply to the island was a logistical challenge which had to be overcome before construction work could begin on an extension to Guernsey’s …
Transfer structures kick-start Cardiff retail project
The original design for the St David’s 2 project in Cardiff has been modified to incorporate greater use of steel. This has produced a scheme which is …
Futuristic offices will transform city centre
A design and build programme has played a vital role on a multi-storey project in Birmingham where a number of innovations have considerably reduced the …
