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School work in the frame
Using steelwork as the framing material for a school project in south London has helped the team coordinate the programme around students and negotiate site …
BIM needs boost from clients
The steel construction sector may be ahead of the game as far as BIM is concerned, but is the technology being fully utilised all along the supply chain? BIM …
Progressive faculty opens in Coventry
Recently opened by Princess Anne, Coventry University’s new 15,000m² Engineering and Computing Building offers an array of world class teaching facilities …
Industry solves technical challenge
Structural steelwork has played a prominent role in creating a technical college with an industrial identity. A brownfield site in Woolwich, south London, is …
Atrium links academic centre
Steel construction has played an integral role in the building of St Peter’s Academy in Stoke-on-Trent. Knitting the project’s four educational wings …
Halls of residence for outlying islanders
Part of a multi million pound schools investment programme for the Orkney Islands, a new halls of residence is under construction at Kirkwall Grammar School. …
Edinburgh University’s wave and tidal test facility framed in steel
The new state-of-the-art wave and current test facility being built by Graham Construction at the University of Edinburgh has reached a milestone as the outer …
Academy rises with steel construction
Steel erection has been completed on the £16M rebuild of Outwood Academy Adwick in Doncaster. Working on behalf of main contractor Wates Construction, Atlas …
Steel construction drives college scheme
A new £1.5M steel framed training facility for construction and mechanisation skills has been erected at Bridgwater College in Somerset. Funded by EDF Energy, …
January 2013 – New focus for schools
At this time last year, in the first issue of NSC of 2012, we looked forward against a fairly gloomy economic backdrop to school building resuming after the …