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News in Brief: January 2007
Following some concerns raised in the industry media as to the competence of steel erectors that have slinging and signalling endorsements on their CSCS cards …
Contractors sign up to sustainability charter
Sustainability is rapidly moving up the agenda as a procurement issue and increasingly construction clients are looking for companies which operate in a …
Sustainability matters
A new distribution warehouse near Heathrow Airport has fully demonstrated the sustainability of steel. Sustainability is increasingly important in all aspects …
Showcase for fully integrated design and fabrication
Barrett Steel Buildings has created a state of the art facility that fully integrates design and fabrication. Nick Barrett reports on what a modern fabrication …
‘Zero Defects’ delivers savings for clothing firm George
Barrett Steel Buildings’ ‘zero defects’ approach has delivered cost savings and a two week saving on programme on a project to design, supply and erect a …
Barrett chooses Ficep
Barrett Steel Buildings has placed an order with Ficep UK for machinery including two new 1101DZB CNC drilling and sawing lines and the latest plasma coping …
Logistics drive shed expansion
Healthy demand for industrial portal frames, and especially large distribution warehouses, looks set to keep steelwork contractors busy for some time to come. …
Taking Cobalt to Newcastle
Cobalt 16 is the latest speculative development on Highbridge Business Parks’ Cobalt Park development in Newcastle. The four-storey development provides …
TNT FastTrack, Magna Park, Lutterworth
TNT UK Ltd needed a large distribution facility for its subsidiary TNT Retail Services to service Primark, a fashion retailer trading from over 100 high street …