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Landmark reached as Mabey installs first turbine towers
The first completed wind turbine tower sections to leave Mabey Bridge’s £38M manufacturing facility in South Wales have been delivered and installed at Marr …
Open day success for Sustainable Building Envelope Centre
A trade and industry open day was held at Tata Steel’s Sustainable Building Envelope Centre (SBEC) at Shotton, Flintshire on 27 September in order to give …
Outstanding school framed in steel
The recently opened Hope Academy in Newton-le-Willows, near Warrington, has been submitted for a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating aided in part by its steel …
BCSA Council gather for October meeting
A new web-based steel construction information system based on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia is being developed for launch in 2012, the BCSA Council heard …
Building regulations for structures to be revised
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) is proposing to amend Approved Document A – Structure (AD –A) which lists codes, standards and …
Industry support for student architectural award
UK Students of architecture are now welcome to enter next year’s Tata Steel/BCSA Architectural Student Design Competition. Organised by SCI and sponsored by …
Major residential scheme framed in steel
Waterfront South, a major regeneration development of apartments on a prominent canalside location in the centre of Walsall is utilising more than 1,000t of …
SCI report opens up new applications for high strength steel
The SCI has completed a report which identifies research and development topics that may open up new applications for molybdenum-containing steels in the …
News in Brief – October 2011
Metsec’s in-house design team has gained international recognition for its work on a new accommodation building at the UK’s oldest specialist music …
SCI to re-evaluate the Eurocode 3 safety factors for stainless steel
SCI has been commissioned by Euro Inox to re-evaluate the safety factors applied to member and bolt resistance in EN 1993-1-4, the Eurocode covering design …
