Technical
High grade steel: the new standard for cost effectiveness
High grade steel is becoming much more popular. Richard Barrett, Chairman of BCSA’s Process and Technical Committee, explains why modern designers …
Steel design can be simple using EC3
Many steel designers still hanker for the simpler days of BS 499. But could a simple BS 449-like approach emerge from the apparent complexity of Eurocode 3, …
AD 284: BS 449 and Approved Document A – Structure (2004 Edition)
Approved Document A – Structure – of the England and Wales Building Regulations has been revised. The “2004” Edition came into effect on the …
AD 283: The Use of Discontinuous Columns in Simple Construction
This AD provides advice on the design of discontinuous (storey-high) columns in simple construction. This is the second in a series of ADs dealing with …
New and Revised Codes and Standards: January 2005
BRITISH STANDARDS REVIEWED AND CONFIRMED The following are British Standard implementations of the English language versions of European Standards (ENs). BSI …
Steel Framed Car Parks
The multi-storey car park is a unique style of building, one in which all elements of the structure are normally exposed to the public. This publication gives …
Steel Construction Yearbook 2005
There is no other yearbook in the steel construction sector that can rival the Steel Construction Yearbook published by The Steel Construction Institute. It is …
Better predictions for cellular beams
Designers using the old Yellow Book guidelines may have been led to be more conservative than needed. SCI’s Manager for Fire Engineering, Gerald Newman, …
Experimental behaviour of a steel structure under natural fire
A full scale European collaborative test has shown that the fire performance of a steel building was better than that predicted by calculations or design …
Quicon® design guide to BS 5950-1
Quicon® is a new type of simple connection for steel beams in buildings. It offers significant potential savings in the time taken to erect a steel framed …
