This month’s featured stories
Excellent Monument
Aiming to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating, The Monument Building will provide high quality office space in the heart of the City. Martin Cooper reports …
Steel supports sporting life
Structural steelwork has proven to be the ideal framing material for a new sports centre in Oldham. Once the textile spinning capital of the world and a …
The Next big thing
A large 25m-high distribution centre for Next is rapidly taking shape on the outskirts of Doncaster. The UK’s distribution centre sector is on the up with a …
Circus feat
A new commercial development on Finsbury Circus in the City of London has thrown-up a number of unique challenges, reports Martin Cooper. Overlooking the City …
Steel spearheads docks regeneration
An £11M flagship steel-framed office development – one of the initial phases of Birkenhead’s Wirral Waters regeneration scheme – will be completed …
Eurocode revision
British Standards Institution (BSI) has published a revised Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures as well as a revised National Annex. BS EN 1090-2 Execution …
SSDA – Introduction
by David W. Lazenby CBE – Chairman of the Judges This year it is again evident that all shortlisted projects show merit. There is not one that does not …
Award – Moorgate Exchange, London
Large open plan floorplates and a sloping terraced façade are two elements adorning this City of London Grade A office development. Designed as a large …
Award – First World War Galleries, Imperial War Museum, London
To mark the start of the Centenary of the First World War – a transformed Imperial War Museum re-opened with stunning new steel-framed galleries and atrium. …
Award – Derby Arena
The Derby Arena is the first new-build velodrome constructed in England since the London Olympics and features a 250m Siberian timber cycling track. With a …
