Technical
Best practice for the specification and installation of metal cladding and secondary steelwork
This publication will promote a greater understanding of the issues faced by the construction team and lead to better co-operation on site and in the design …
AD 306: Additional Moments in Braced Bays: 1
This is the first in a series of ADs that comment on the forces and moments to be designed for in beam-column-bracing connections in braced frames. AD 304 …
AD 305: Stiffness and Rotation of Moment Connections
The issue of connection stiffness and rotation for bolted end-plate moment connections arose recently at a connection workshop and concerned the stiffness of a …
New and Revised Codes and Standards: September 2006
BS EN PUBLICATIONS The following are British Standard implementations of the English language versions of European Standards (ENs). BSI has an obligation to …
Steel Construction and Thermal Bridging
Thermal bridging has become more of an issue following the introduction of the latest revision of Part L of the Building Regulations for England and Wales in …
Lateral torsional buckling and slenderness
The expression for slenderness used in the lateral torsional buckling checks given in BSEN1993-1-1:2005 is different to that given in BS5950-1:2000. Mary …
AD 304: Columns in Braced Bays and Nominal Moments
Following the publication of AD 275 concerning columns in simple construction further questions have been asked about the design of columns in braced bays of …
New and Revised Codes and Standards: July and August 2006
BS EN PUBLICATIONS The following are British Standard implementations of the English language versions of European Standards (ENs). BSI has an obligation to …
Definitive guidance for high-rise construction
The BCSA has published the latest in its series of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) endorsed guides for steel erection. The new book, Erection of Multi-Storey …
P076 Vibrations of floors
New publication on vibrations of floors dispels the misconception that steel framed floors have difficulty in achieving serviceability performance …
