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Catalogued Car Centre
Previous articles and one issue of Building with Steel (No. 6, Feb 1971) have shown how proprietary systems of construction can be adapted to many types of …
Saved with Steel
Steel has played an essential part in the recent restoration at York Minster – providing proof of the adaptability of steelwork whilst maintaining minimum …
ERF Service Centre
Middlewich is in an area subject to severe settlement caused by the salt workings. This Sevice Building had to be designed to accept the settlement therefore …
Frontage made young
Introduction For its size there can be few cities in the country that are more richly endowed with old buildings than Exeter. It is a town of bustling shopping …
The Structural Steel Design Awards 1972
From Building with Steel, November 2022 The British Steel Corporation in conjunction with the British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd has now …
Target cost factory
Ofrex Engineering Ltd are moving to South Wales from overcrowded South London. These notes briefly describe the new factory built in a Target Cost Management …
Halifax Building Society Headquarters
The largest building society in the world is now building its new headquarters in Halifax and steel is playing an interesting part in its construction. The …
All-steel operating theatre
This theatre was constructed by the medical equipment division of Calmic Ltd in association with T. P. Bennett & Son at a cost of £68,000. It is designed …
The County Hotel, Bedford
From Building with Steel, June 1969 by Gwylon Isaac, Bsc, DIC, CEng, MICE In December 1964 the contractors appointed to carry out the construction of the hotel …
Steel meets new and old challenges in evolving ways
We live in fast moving times, with the pace of innovation never seeming to let up for long. From some perspectives however the old adage that the more things …