50 & 20 Years Ago
20 Years Ago: Aviation House – Gatwick Airport
The new office Headquarters of the CAA’s Safety Regulation Group was designed to increase the efficiency of the group and to improve staff communications …
50 Years Ago: Steel bridges
SPEEDING THE FLOW The continued injection of new vehicles into the already sluggish flow along Britain’s main traffic arteries has long threatened the …
50 Years Ago: Structural Steel in the Nuclear Power Industry
Structural steel is marching with the times. Nuclear power stations – virtually unthought of a decade ago – are consuming large quantities of structural …
20 Years Ago in Steel Construction
The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) at Sellafield in Cumbria is one of the major civil engineering enterprises of the century. The Receipt and Storage …
Eminent post-war buildings in steel
Building with Steel, the BCSA’s ‘informative journal relating to the progress of and developments in the Constructional Steelwork Industry’ was first …
20 Years Ago: The Printing Works, London E14
Taken from Steel Construction, 1989 The site is at the former East India Dock, London Docklands. Two state-of-the-art printing presses, which were already on …
20 Years Ago: Perronet Thompson School, North Bransholme
In 1984, a Design Team within the Humberside County Council’s County Architect’s Department began the task of designing a school capable of meeting the …
50 Years Ago: Background to steel as a structural medium
Building with Steel, the BCSA’s ‘informative journal relating to the progress of and developments in the Constructional Steelwork Industry’ was first …
20 Years Ago: Broadgate Phases 1 to 4 – 1989 ECCS design award winner
Taken from Steel Construction 1989 Phases 1 to 4 form the first four phases of an office development on a site developed by Rosehaugh Stanhope plc in …
40 Years Ago: Erskine Bridge
From Building with Steel 1969 There has been a ferry across the River Clyde between Erskine and Old Kilpatrick for centuries but the density of traffic has …
