This month’s featured stories
High speed rail college set to arrive
In anticipation of the construction of high-speed rail infrastructure, a national college to train specialist engineers is being built. Martin Cooper reports …
Steel checks in for town centre redevelopment
The steel-framed Porter Building is one of the most prominent schemes in the wide-ranging redevelopment of Slough town centre. Martin Cooper reports. With the …
It’s one small step into a BIM process
Just as the steel industry has developed massively over the last 20 years, so has Tekla software from Trimble. In fact, since 1966 Tekla has been providing …
Fasteners and Bolts
Structural bolts are one of the key elements of a steel frame and their manufacturers and suppliers form an important part of the steel construction supply …
Bespoke Steelwork
One of the many benefits of steel is its limitless possibilities for the manufacture of bespoke structural components. Construction design, coupled with ever …
Restraint to chords
BS 5950 indicates that purlins can be assumed to provide out-of-plane restraint to trusses. David Brown of the SCI discusses the intended scope of the advice …
Steel creates office landmark
Featuring three cantilevering façades, No.1 Spinningfields will be Manchester’s third tallest office building and the last structure to be built in the …
Design first for commercial scheme
Standout architectural features have driven the steel design for an anchor commercial block at Manchester’s First Street development. Martin Cooper reports. …
Lakeside centre shops for steel
Steel-framed buildings have taken centre stage at the Rushden Lakes retail and leisure complex. Shopping and nature may not necessarily go hand in hand, but a …
Boxed up
Topped with a steel-framed roof structure, an innovative eating and drinking venue has recently opened in Croydon as part of a large-scale redevelopment …
