Projects and Features
SCI’s new Software SATEL Delivers Simplicity in Explosion Analysis
Viken Chinien introduces SATEL, a new package that incorporates the latest theoretical developments and extends the applicability of traditional design methods …
Joint approach lifts health and leisure
Burnley’s health and leisure facilities will be greatly improved by the completion of a flagship centre, believed the first in the UK to bring both uses …
Race against time in fast-moving medical drama
A new private sector-provided orthopaedic treatment centre for Cheshire and Merseyside was urgently needed. Fortunately, by using steel a demanding schedule …
Early delivery for Kettering logistics park
Sheds just keep getting bigger. This major new East Midlands warehouse will soon be joined by one twice as big. Demand for large distribution warehouses in the …
Children help create hospital with ‘wow’ factor
The new Evelina Children’s Hospital in London sets new standards for design and patient care, as Margo Cole reports. During the Victorian era hospitals, like …
Steelwork demand strong across Europe
The popularity of structural steel has held up strongly throughout Europe, according to annual production figures delivered to the European Convention for …
Steel still winning on cost comparisons
Steel frames have been re-confirmed as the fastest and most cost effective solution for both commercial and residential apartment buildings by the latest Cost …
Design without drudgery
In the second part of a software round-up, New Steel Construction looks at some of the latest releases for designing cellular beams and for 3D modelling. …
United States can learn from worldwide fire engineering expertise
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology makes 30 recommendations to improve the safety of tall buildings in its report on the collapse of the …
Safe working at height in the steelwork industry
New regulations for working at height outline principles for choosing a “reasonably practicable” solution and set out a hierarchy of fall prevention …
