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ESCDOT clears first hurdle
A new on-line training platform for specialist steelwork designers using the Eurocodes won approval at a workshop to review its pilot phase last month. …
Industry to gain responsibility for Eurocode annexes
The British Construction Steelwork Association, Corus and the Steel Construction Institute have been given a strong indication from the government that a …
First test for online training site
A new website to train specialist steelwork designers in the use of Eurocode 3 and its differences from the British Standards will be tested this month. ESCDOT …
Steel design can be simple using EC3
Many steel designers still hanker for the simpler days of BS 499. But could a simple BS 449-like approach emerge from the apparent complexity of Eurocode 3, …
Letters: March 2005
NSC welcomes letters from readers on steel construction related issues. Please keep your letters brief — the Editor reserves the right to condense. Eurocode …
Eurocodes committee on course
Membership of the strategy committee which will co-ordinate the construction industry’s response to the introduction of the Eurocodes has been finalised in …
Letters: February 2005
NSC welcomes letters from readers on steel construction related issues. Please keep your letters brief — the Editor reserves the right to condense. …
The Eurocodes are coming… but does the steel know?
Steel’s fundamental behaviour is unchanged by the advent of the Eurocodes, and under the surface of the new documents there is much that should be familiar, …
STEEL ensures economical design
First fruits of a unique, pan-European effort to help designers use the new Eurocodes will be going online later this year. David Fowler reports on progress. …
News in Brief: January 2005
Erection of over 10,000t of steelwork for the new Swale crossing, linking the Isle of Sheppey to mainland Kent, began in December. Working in partnership with …
