This month’s featured stories
Award: London Bridge Station
London Bridge Station has undergone a stunning transformation that has delivered a better connection between London’s home counties and an increase in …
Award: The Ordsall Chord Viaduct
The Ordsall Chord Viaduct includes the first network arch bridge to be built in the UK, and the first asymmetric (tapering) network arch anywhere in the world. …
Award: V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, London
The most significant work undertaken at the V&A museum for over 100 years, this development’s centrepiece provides a large column-free underground …
Three up in second city
The third of three steel-framed office blocks in Snowhill, Birmingham, is one of the UK’s largest speculative office developments to be constructed outside …
On the water
A steel-framed structure, that sits above an east London dock, has benefitted from using a weathering steel base as its all-important lowest level. Sat on …
Steel crosses the try line
One of the UK’s most iconic sporting venues, and the only one with a back-to-back grandstand, is being redeveloped with the aid of steel construction. Martin …
Drake leisure scheme sails into port
Offering 12 cinema screens and a host of retail and restaurant outlets, the Drake Circus leisure development is set to transform the site of a previously …
High-rise and column-free
Manchester’s latest commercial development is a 12-storey, column-free London-spec office block at 125 Deansgate. Martin Cooper reports. The twin cities of …
SSDA celebrates 50 years
Having started in 1969, the Structural Steel Design Awards are this year celebrating their 50th anniversary. In the fifth and final article, NSC looks back at …
Long established supplier
As a key partner to the constructional steelwork sector across the UK, Barrett Steel prides itself on possessing not only the size and scope but also the …
