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Quick steel is cost efficient
Using steel has paid dividends on a health care project in Doncaster with limited site access and storage space available. As part of a £14M project to …
Activating thermal mass
A steel frame has proven to be the answer for a multi-use building where natural ventilation and thermal mass needed to be incorporated in order to reduce …
More leisure and primary care opportunities for North East
Forming part of a programme to construct new leisure and primary care facilities in Gateshead, NSC reports on two steel framed centres currently under …
A sustainable landmark
A large vocational college is changing its name and constructing a new steel-framed and sustainable teaching block. NSC reports on a project making big news in …
News in Brief: February 2009
After a number of years of lobbying by the BCSA and its colleagues in the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group, changes to the ‘Construction Act’ …
Iconic office block for steel city’s gateway
A new pre-let eight-storey commer- cial development is taking shape on Sheffield’s Parkway. Approximately 400t of structural steelwork will be erected by …
Steel passes examination for Newcastle school
Covering an area the size of four football pitches (19,000m2), the recently opened steel framed Kenton Secondary School in Newcastle-Upon- Tyne has been …
Island’s healthcare gets a boost from steel
Getting the steel supply to the island was a logistical challenge which had to be overcome before construction work could begin on an extension to Guernsey’s …
Steel passes multiple grid examination
The latest phase in Guernsey’s secondary school redevelopment programme is making full use of steel to cope with a multitude of differing grid patterns. The …
Slough shed rockets ahead
Keen to cut construction times on sheds even further, Slough Estates has developed a prefabricated galvanised hollow section steel ground beam to replace the …
