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Know your boundaries
The design for an industrial/warehouse scheme in Beckton, east London is the first project to incorporate a new fire engineered boundary wall specification …
Bigger and better
The UK’s first distribution park is continuing to expand as logistics developer GLP is constructing its largest speculative unit to date. FACT FILEMagna Park …
Fire Protection 1975
From Building with Steel, February 2025 A building now nearing completion is the Berkeley Hambro Bank in Bishopsgate and Roy Thompson of Cascade Insulation …
Steel ready to respond to speedier investment approvals
The sound of a drum banging for investment is being heard loud and clear from Downing Street, with the government seemingly taking on board at least some of …
BCSA publishes fire protection guidance
The British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) has produced a new publication detailing how designers of constructional steelwork buildings can prove …
Forecasts suggest better times ahead underpinned by steel
It’s that time of year again when editors feel obliged to consider the prospects for the months ahead, but in a world where uncertainty seems to increase …
Open car parks in fire
The behaviour of all structures in fire has come under close scrutiny in recent years, and since the unfortunate event at Luton Airport last year steel framed …
Fire protection of steelwork
In this first of two technical articles, David Brown of the Steel Construction Institute gives some general background on fire protection and demonstrates how …
Protected portal frames on fire boundary
Where single storey buildings have external walls close to a site boundary, the walls are required to have fire resistance. Such external walls have commonly …
New guidance and specification show steel’s not standing still on fire protection
The government response to the Grenfell Inquiry final report was expected as NSC went to press, which the entire construction industry will be paying very …