This month’s featured stories
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 …
Bespoke structural components
NSC reports on fabricated structural components used in buildings and the capability and capacity required by producers of these items. Readers of NSC will be …
Introduction to fatigue design to BS EN 1993-1-9
The assessment of fatigue performance is routine in bridge design but is only relevant to specific elements in buildings which may suffer from fatigue damage. …
