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RIBA Awards recognise steel projects
Steel buildings were well represented at the recent Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards for 2006. The Evelina Children’s Hospital in London …
40 Years Ago: New trends in architectural design
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 Growing use of exposed steelwork — Sevenoaks General Hospital The £250,000 two storey building housing the new …
Rooney spotlights opportunities in Ireland
Steel companies are well placed to take advantage of opportunities in Northern Ireland, according to Dennis Rooney, chairman of the Development Fund for …
Steel-framed hospital floors ‘comfortably meet vibration limits’
New tests on floors in recently-built steel framed hospitals have demonstrated that they comfortably meet the NHS requirements on vibration response. The tests …
Race against time in fast-moving medical drama
A new private sector-provided orthopaedic treatment centre for Cheshire and Merseyside was urgently needed. Fortunately, by using steel a demanding schedule …
Children help create hospital with ‘wow’ factor
The new Evelina Children’s Hospital in London sets new standards for design and patient care, as Margo Cole reports. During the Victorian era hospitals, like …
Sheffield Professor to launch new charter at Steel Conference
Professor Roger Plank of the University of Sheffield will launch the Steel Construction Sustainability Charter at the BCSA’s ‘Steel Construction – The …
Fast track for New Forest hospital
Construction of a new private finance hospital for Hampshire, due to open next year, is comfortably ahead of schedule thanks to a steel frame structure. …
Ultra clean operations in Sunderland
Healthcare for residents of the Sunderland area is receiving a boost in the shape of an extension to the city’s Royal Hospital, where steel is reducing …
November/December 2005 – Steel gives hospitals ‘wow’ appeal
Steel has been making good inroads in the healthcare market over the past few years, a trend which can only be reinforced by the results from floor vibration …