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President’s Column – Fire design of car parks
In October 2023, a steel-framed car park at Luton Airport Terminal 2 was devastated by a fire started by a fault in a diesel-powered vehicle on level three. …
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 …
News in Brief – April 2015
Two new businesses have been launched by Barrett Steel, Barrett Materials Handling and Barrett Specialist Vehicles, which the company says is part of its …
Record number of attendees for steel seminars
The recently concluded series of Steel Essentials seminars attracted a record number of attendees across all four venues. Last autumn’s series of seminars …
Fire guide for the steel sector now available
All the information that architects and engineers need to know about designing for fire has been brought together in a new free technical guide from the steel …
Lessons from Madrid
Dr Roger Pope analyses the Spanish report into the causes of the Windsor building fire in Madrid. Unprotected steel mullions were not the sole cause of the …
Spanish condemn Madrid fire concrete
Spanish authorities have produced their report on the Windsor Building fire in Madrid a year ago, condemning the surviving elements of the concrete structure …
Questions raised over WTC report
The official conference organised to launch the report into the collapse of the World Trade Center towers took place in September. John Dowling of Corus …
United States can learn from worldwide fire engineering expertise
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology makes 30 recommendations to improve the safety of tall buildings in its report on the collapse of the …
March 2006 – The greening of sheds
Steel sector delegates at the major two-day sheds event in Newport last month (see News) heard much to please as well as much to challenge. The event was aimed …