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Deep piles take the weight for new Corus facility
The new Automated Distribution Centre now under construction for Corus at its Scunthorpe works required an extremely rigid structure to guarantee its …
Portal frames expand software boundaries
Designing one of the UK’s largest ever distribution centres required some close cooperation between Atlas Ward and its software provider. Two adjacent portal …
Morrison relies on quick steel erection
Elland Steel Structures has erected more than 800t of hot and cold rolled steelwork for a new Wm Morrison Supermarkets freezer warehouse and distribution …
Sustainability matters
A new distribution warehouse near Heathrow Airport has fully demonstrated the sustainability of steel. Sustainability is increasingly important in all aspects …
Cloud nine for project Nimbus
A new mega-warehouse will form one of the centre pieces on a rapidly expanding business park in South Yorkshire. The Nimbus Park development is being …
Three steel sheds for Staffordshire park
Caunton Engineering has supplied and erected 2,300t of steelwork for the first three distribution sheds on a new ProLogis Park in Stafford. Known as Prime …
Creating shed-loads of value
There is no other industry sector of such importance to the national economy that happily bears as unassuming a name as sheds. Nick Barrett reports on new …
Slough shed rockets ahead
Keen to cut construction times on sheds even further, Slough Estates has developed a prefabricated galvanised hollow section steel ground beam to replace the …
Portals frame UK’s biggest sheds
One of the largest sheds built in the UK has just been completed, fittingly enough a short distance away from the Corus steelworks at Scunthorpe. Jon Masters …
Early delivery for Kettering logistics park
Sheds just keep getting bigger. This major new East Midlands warehouse will soon be joined by one twice as big. Demand for large distribution warehouses in the …
