Projects and Features
Extension of Concast Facility, Port Talbot
Rowecord Engineering has altered and extended Corus’s Concast facility at Port Talbot in South Wales. Following Rowecord Engineering’s successful …
Reconstruction of a 1920’s Steel-Framed Office Building
An example of the difficult problems that can be faced in this type of work: constricted location, adjacent listed buildings, elaborate temporary works, three …
M42 ATM Gantry Installation
Nusteel supplies a large range of steel footbridge and gantry structures in the UK for a variety of different clients and applications. The company is …
Cleveland Bridge Rides the Storm
As a result of heavy storms some of the steelwork for the Rion-Antirion Bridge in Greece fell into the sea from a ship during transport from the UK. The …
Centre of Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence
CEME is a purpose-built project using the best architecture to provide excellent educational facilities for motor engineering and business studies. The new …
The Swansea Sail Bridge
A curved cable-stayed footbridge, which has the deck supported along only one edge from a sloping mast, has become a landmark in central Swansea. This project …
Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower
The Spinnaker Tower will be the tallest publicly accessible building in the UK outside London. It is certainly one of the most exciting structures in Britain …
Grange City Hotel, London
This project demonstrates how steel can be used to overcome technical problems and to unlock the potential of existing buildings previously thought to be …
Flagship Development, Guernsey
An office and residential development has presented a number of difficulties due to its location on the island of Guernsey. Steel has been used to good effect …
AD 273: Portal Frame SLS checks and BS 6399-2
Since the issue of Amendment 1 to BS 6399-2, the SCI has received many questions about the serviceability limit state (SLS) checks for duopitch portal frames, …
