This month’s featured stories
Updated steel encyclopaedia
www.steelconstruction.info has undertaken major upgrades to give it a new look and feel, following feedback from architects and engineers. Major upgrade The …
Organic waste solution framed in steel
The Greater Manchester Waste PFI scheme is the largest of its kind in Europe and steel framed buildings are crucial to the programme. Worth £3.8bn, the …
Engineered for fire safety
The UK construction industry leads the way in fire engineering as many of the nation’s tallest steel framed buildings demonstrate, writes John Dowling, BCSA …
Restoring a vital link
Three years after its calamitous collapse Workington’s Northside Bridge has reopened with steelwork playing a pivotal role in the re-spanning of the River …
Steel rises to the challenge
Featuring a unique and iconic shape, the construction of 20 Fenchurch Street has required the project team to come up with a number of innovative solutions. …
New information resource
The recently launched steel sector website – www.steelconstruction.info – contains six home page headings, one of which, Sectors, is explained here. …
Passing the speed examination
Steel’s ability to aid a quick construction programme was the reason it was chosen as the framing material for a student accommodation project in Manchester. …
Station to station
Mansfield’s new bus station, which links into the adjacent railway station, features an array of bespoke feature steel columns and connections. The former …
Steel allows access to all areas
Six weeks have been shaved off a vital construction programme by changing a podium design from concrete to steel. Martin Cooper reports. Pancras Square forms …
Trusses create new indoor space
The centrepiece of the refurbishment of Wiltshire County Hall in Trowbridge is a multi functional atrium formed by roofing over a previously open courtyard. …
