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A design in isolation
A number of performance spaces, all needing to be acoustically isolated, have been constructed with a complex steel design at the new Guildhall School premises …
Full marks for steel design
Triangular in plan, a new and iconic steel framed Academy is taking shape in south Liverpool. Improving students’ educational performance often goes hand in …
Arts and education boost for Orkney
Structural steelwork is playing a major role in the construction of a new grammar school and theatre in Kirkwall. Martin Cooper reports from the Orkney …
Delivering a complete solution for schools
Metsec is delivering the steel framing systems for a Building Schools for the Future programme being undertaken by main contractor Balfour Beatty. The …
Town centre evolves with education
A four-storey steel frame, incorporating a retained listed fire station façade, will house a new vocational college in Dudley. Big changes are afoot in Dudley …
Schools galore
Flexibility, transportation and ease of construction played major roles in the decision to choose structural steelwork as the framing material for six school …
School reflects with steel
Steelwork erection will be completed this month on a new school building for the University Church of England Academy at Ellesmere Port near Chester. The new …
Community schools for former mill town
As part of the Academies framework, three new steel framed schools are taking shape in Oldham. Here NSC reports on the progress of each. At its peak in the …
Steel framed schools for former mill town
Structural steelwork is playing an important role in the construction of three new schools currently being built in Oldham by main contractor Willmott Dixon. …
January 2012 – Building for future prosperity
The start of a new year is a traditional time for a magazine to look forward, but there will be no market forecasts made in NSC’s pages against such an …