50 & 20 Years Ago
20 Years Ago: 1989 – European Year of Steel Construction
Taken from Steel Construction 1989 The ECCS has proclaimed 1989 as the “European Year of Steel Construction”. This year has been chosen to celebrate the …
40 Years Ago: First British Rail bridge in weathering steel
Taken from Build with Steel 1969 The first stage of the British Rail Freightliner network was virtually completed in mid-summer 1967 and plans were then …
40 Years Ago: British steel in Bahrain
Taken from Building with Steel 1969 by D. K. Doran, BSc(Eng), DIC, MICE, Manager, Structural Design Department, George Wimpey & Co. Ltd The foundation …
40 Years Ago: GEAI, Rouen
Taken from Building with Steel, 1969 France has sought to solve its desperate housing problems by making use of prefabricated structures. For this purpose, …
40 Years Ago: Separating the Mersey Tunnel
Taken from Building with Steel 1969 In 1935, when the Birkenhead to Liverpool Tunnel under the River Mersey (the Queensway Tunnel) was opened, the total number …
Designed for Colour Transmission: Yorkshire Television Studios
Yorkshire Television Ltd began a race against time in the middle of 1967, for on 12th June the company was allotted the new ITV broadcasting contract for the …
40 Years Ago: An architectural expression of structural steelwork with no conventional fireproofing
Taken from Building with Steel The bare and basic facts of this building are that it is triangular with 18 exposed supporting steel columns in weathering steel …
40 Years Ago: Building with steel
Unusual television studio The building illustrated is clad with 85 tons of sheet lead – chosen for its sound insulating qualities – colour a soft grey. …
40 Years Ago: Prize winning steel bridges
Taken from Building with Steel, 1968 The illustrations on this and the facing page show some of the steel bridges chosen for awards in 1967 by the American …
40 Years Ago: New plant houses have been built ‘inside out’
Taken from Building with Steel 1968 The new exhibition plant and orchid house at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, are structures of unusual shape and …
