This month’s featured stories
Forging ahead
A large steel-framed building, designed to accommodate nine overhead cranes, is providing the space for a new machine shop, part of a £1.3 billion …
West End offices in the frame
Transforming a large swathe of London’s prestigious Mayfair district, the South Molton project is maximising the available floor space with a steel-framed …
Gateway to learning
The University of Southampton’s latest education building has utilised a hybrid framing solution, including two steel-framed blocks, satisfying its need for …
Shopping for steel
Highlighting Avonmouth’s strategic location, a new distribution centre being built on the site of a former pharmaceutical works, will form part of a major …
Down on the farm
Providing proof that steel-framed structures are ideal for the agricultural sector; the material’s numerous design and construction attributes have come to …
Reduced carbon steel solution
Voestalpine Metsec has manufactured and supplied Steel Framing Systems (SFS) in its reduced carbon steel option, Metsec Decarb, for the construction of a new …
UK steel strategy
The constructional steelwork sector remains supportive of the UK Steel Strategy and a sustainable and financially viable steel production industry, but the …
Sourcing steelwork
The UK’s ability to supply its own steel has diminished over recent decades, increasing the reliance on imports. NSC reports on where the nation’s …
Longitudinal and transverse material properties for cold-formed structural elements
Andrew Way of the SCI and Stephen Hall of Hadley Group examine the complexities of material properties for thin-gauge steel. The potential difficulties in the …
Royal Borough gets leisure boost
Structural steelwork, combined with glulam beams, has provided the design solution for a leisure centre stacked with sport and fitness facilities. FACT …
