Projects and Features
Distribution park expands with steel
Magna Park is forging ahead with its expansion plans as the latest steel-framed distribution centre, offering 72,000m² of floor space, nears completion. …
Seaside leisure
Sporting pursuits are set for a substantial boost in the West Sussex seaside town of Littlehampton as a new £17M leisure centre is under way. A buoyant sector …
Spanning a congregation
Including a large flexible auditorium and a sports hall, the Green Pastures Church in Ballymena is benefitting from using a steel framing solution. Martin …
Academic design exposed
A famous London seat of learning has chosen to use an aesthetically-pleasing exposed steel frame for its latest redevelopment project. Martin Cooper reports. …
SSDA celebrates 50 years
Having started in 1969, the Structural Steel Design Awards are this year celebrating their 50th anniversary. In the second of a series of articles, NSC looks …
Continued success at Jamestown
Architects and engineers are having greater input through the constructional steelwork fabrication process on ‘higher-end’ projects says structural …
Design and manufacturing with computer software
In this article NSC examines how computer software supports the full steelwork design and manufacturing process, the benefits it delivers to the steel …
Spanning the centuries
English Heritage is undertaking a major conservation programme to repair and conserve the world’s first single span cast iron arch bridge. Spanning the River …
Steel leaves hospital design in good health
The flexibility of steelwork has come to the fore on a hospital project where an expandable and adaptable design has been successfully used. Rising up on the …
Pooling resources
Steel construction has come to the fore to create two large wedge-shaped halls, topped with wave-like roofs to house a waterpark and leisure space. Martin …
