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UK steelwork contractors ready to meet future demand
UK constructional steelwork contractors will have sufficient capacity to meet a forecast upturn in demand without the need for capital investment. A report …
BCSA enters Primary Authority Agreement
The British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) has gained a direct partnership with Trading Standards Service via the primary authority route. Working …
Steel for Life gathers pace
The first sponsors have signed up to the constructional steelwork supply chain’s new market development programme, Steel for Life, which has been established …
Composite beam checking tool upgraded
The Composite Beam Checking Tool on www.steelconstruction.info has been upgraded to include the latest guidance in SCI-P405 Minimum degree of shear connection …
News in Brief: February 2016
Bernard Shuttleworth, BCSA President from 1986-88, died on 28 December. During his long career in the steelwork sector, Bernard was Managing Director of Robert …
Design guidance tradition strengthened
At the start of last year the steel construction sector was confidently reporting to clients that there was plenty of capacity in the sector to ensure that …
New steel bridge design guides available from SCI
The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) has published two new steel bridge design publications that are now available at: …
New steel sector education and marketing initiative
BCSA has launched Steel for Life – a new market development programme designed to ensure that steel maintains and develops its leading position as the …
No crisis in structural steelwork supply
The words ‘steel’ and ‘crisis’ have been inseparable in newspaper headlines for the past couple of weeks, with good reason as the steel making industry …
Some things just can’t be imported
These are trying times for UK steelmaking, and it’s no surprise that the industry’s problems have sparked off a revived national debate about the balance …