This month’s featured stories
Shaken and Stirred
During 2010 and 2011 a series of severe earthquakes shook New Zealand’s South Island causing severe damage to a wide range of buildings. Dr Charles Clifton, …
Wilkinson at steel’s cutting edge
One of the best known names in UK architecture, whose international repute is growing strongly with ambitious and high profile projects under way worldwide, is …
Students drive regeneration
A large mixed use development, incorporating student accommodation, is set to breathe new life into Gateshead town centre. Martin Cooper reports. Trinity …
Steel is just the ticket
A new steel framed bus station is being heralded as the precursor for the redevelopment of a large swathe of Stoke-on-Trent’s city centre. It’s all change …
Fast delivery for landmark offices
Steel framed construction has allowed a 17-storey Birmingham office block, complete with a feature glazed atrium roof and bow-string trusses, to be built in …
Debunking the myth
Utilising thermal mass can reduce a structure’s operational CO2 emissions while also contributing to overall cost savings, and can be achieved as easily with …
Cost comparison update
Steel remains the most cost competitive framing solution for modern office buildings according to the latest update in the series of cost comparison studies …
SSDA Award: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
At the heart of the £112M renovation of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre is a new auditorium containing a thrust stage which brings audiences closer to the …
SSDA Award: Peace Bridge, Derry-Londonderry
Linking historically divided communities on either side of the River Foyle, the Peace Bridge was conceived as a landmark structure and a focal point for when …
SSDA Award: M53 Bidston Moss Viaduct Strengthening
Fully restoring a vital road link and undertaking extensive welding inside confined spaces, with minimal disruption to traffic, were all safely achieved on …
