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Fire Protection 1975
From Building with Steel, February 2025 A building now nearing completion is the Berkeley Hambro Bank in Bishopsgate and Roy Thompson of Cascade Insulation …
Rio-Niteroi Bridge
From Building With Steel, September 1974 An important aspect of Brazil’s rapid redevelopment in the 1970s was the provision of a road network. Part of this …
Raising the Roof
Perhaps the most difficult way to increase the size of a building is to extend upwards yet sometimes this is the best way. One such case occurred recently and …
Where the nuts go to…
…and the bolts, and the structural steel and the cladding services and so on. This is the story of Coseley Engineering’s 41 unit contract to provide …
Structural Steel Design Awards 1974
1974 has proved to be a vintage year for the SSDA scheme. There was a record number of entries and their quality was very high indeed. So high in fact that the …
Horniman Primary School
This delightful school has now been in operation for three years and has been proven to be very successful. It has a number of unusual features brought about …
Undercover work on Maplin
Although the date for construction of Maplin has been postponed quite recently it still seems that the airport will be built. Not so long ago, however, there …
BR’s first space station
From Building with Steel August 1973 Among the new improvements taking place at King’s Cross station is the development of the passenger facilities. A …
Wagon Loading Station
In some ways these structures are not buildings, being essentially large plants with weatherproof covers. Nonetheless, they are very interesting and are …
Key Theatre
One of the latest additions to the growing number of theatres throughout the UK is the Key Theatre at Peterborough. Steel plays an important role in its …
