This month’s featured stories
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 …
The use of S355 fin plates
Increasing interest in the use of S355 for fin plates prompted questions about the stiffness of such connections – are they still nominally pinned? David …
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 …
Bridge links city bypass
Forming an important part of the Lincoln A15 Eastern Bypass, a weathering steel bridge carrying two railway lines has been successfully installed. Covering a …
Cumbrian airport takes off
Carlisle Lake District Airport has received significant investment to build a new steel-framed terminal building, which will allow the facility to begin …
