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Eurocode 3 development will make the code practical
Working groups have been set up to develop each of the 20 parts of Eurocode 3 in order to ensure it is developed to be useful and practical for desginers. …
Essential reading for your Steel Design to the Eurocodes
As part of your essential support of Steel Design to the Eurocodes, your library of information wouldn’t be complete without the following three …
BCSA launches CE Marked NSSS
A fully CE Marked version of the fifth edition of the National Structural Steelwork Specification (NSSS) for Building Construction was launched at BCSA’s …
BCSA addresses EU Parliament on CE Marking
BCSA Director of Engineering Dr David Moore has addressed a hearing of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) at the European …
Targeting retail savings
The third of the five Target Zero guides, covering retail buildings, will be published shortly and available for download in pdf format at www.targetzero.info …
Steel – the never ending story
Reclaiming and reusing structural steelwork provides an environmental option unavailable with other construction materials, writes John Dowling, BCSA …
The route to sustainable construction
The BCSA was the first representative organisation in the UK to launch a sustainability charter, the objective of which is to develop steel as a sustainable …
Guidance for metal decking available
An industry working party, led by Bovis Lend Lease and supported by the Health & Safety Executive, has produced new guidance to help those involved with …
Quality assurance for bridges
Geoff Bowden, Principal Structures Advisor, Structures Policy Team Highways Agency explains the National Highway sector schemes that affect steelwork. This …
October 2010 – Energy savings for sheds
Release of the first BCSA/Corus Target Zero report, on schools, earlier this year certainly made them sit up even at the back of the class with its myth …