Technical
Design of steel portal frame buildings to Eurocode 3
Dr Richard Henderson examines SCI’s publication P399 on portal frame design. In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this technical …
Best practice for light steel framing
Andrew Way of the Steel Construction Institute discusses some of the best practice issues to be considered for the design and construction of light steel frame …
AD 388: Partial factors for material properties for design in the UK
In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this advisory desk, this article is available as a pdf download only. Click here to download …
Codes and Standards: From BSI Updates May 2015
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 14373:2015 Resistance welding. Procedure for spot welding of uncoated and coated low carbon steels Supersedes BS EN ISO 14373:2007 …
Agricultural Buildings designed to BS 5502-22
David Brown of the Steel Construction Institute highlights some of the important changes in the 2013 Amendment to this Standard. Agricultural Buildings The …
AD 387: Elastic critical moment and correction factor g for bi-symmetric I sections
In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this advisory desk, this article is available as a pdf download only. Click here to download …
New and revised codes & standards from BSI Updates April 2015
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN 14399-1:2015 High-strength structural bolting assemblies for preloading. General requirements Supersedes BS EN 14399-1:2005 BS EN …
Design of cold-formed portal frames
David Brown of the SCI discusses some of the issues to be considered when designing portal frames constructed from cold-formed steel. In order to retain the …
Codes & Standards from BSI Updates March 2015
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN 10293:2015 Steel castings. Steel castings for general engineering uses Supersedes BS EN 10293:2005 BS IMPLEMENTATIONS BS ISO 4997:2015 …
Eurocode verification of a runway beam subject to wheel loads – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, Dorota Koschmidder-Hatch of the SCI described the checks covering the design of a runway beam in accordance with BS EN 1993-6. In …








