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President’s Column: March 2021
Brexit and COVID-19 combined were always going to make life very difficult in a heavily saturated market. Although market conditions are still challenging, …
Steel ready to lead towards sustainable future
Construction, like much of industry, is still on the back foot after a year when the only surprise is that COVID-19 and Brexit didn’t do as much economic …
Offices of the future demand steel’s flexibility
Twelve months ago, the first Editor’s Comment of 2020 lamented that events had thrown all sectors of the economy into even more uncertainty than usual …
Judges overcome pandemic challenges
The UK’s steel construction industry can justifiably take pride in its long track record of being willing and able to be early adopters of the latest …
Pandemic raises collaboration hopes
Contractors can just about always say they live in interesting times, but with the world still mired in a pandemic and waiting for a feared second wave amid …
Nightingale Hospital deadline met with steel
Taunton Fabrications has supplied approximately 80t of structural steelwork for the new Nightingale Hospital being built on a former Homebase DIY store site in …
New Presidential appointments at the BCSA
At its recently held AGM, the British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) elected Mark Denham, Chairman and Managing Director of Elland Steel …
Adaptable steel for future buildings
The immediate future for commercial buildings looks challenging as the economy emerges from the pandemic-enforced lockdown. Nick Barrett says that the …
Jamestown’s safety and people strategy
Building on the foundations of a strong performance through 2019, Jamestown continues to invest in both plant and people as it pushes forward into 2020. …
Steel sheds support pandemic strategies
The Editor’s Comment in NSC a year ago struck an optimistic note in suggesting that there seemed to be some good news ahead in the COVID-19 battle. It was …