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50 Years Ago: More Distinctive Buildings
From BUILDING WITH STEEL, May
Metrolink depot takes shape with steel
Construction work on a new second depot for Manchester’s Metrolink is continuing apace, with some of the tracks and the main frame of the workshop already in …
World class academy for Manchester
The steel frame for the new state of the art Manchester Enterprise Academy has been completed by Billington Structures. The £19M educational facility will …
40 Years Ago: First British Rail bridge in weathering steel
Taken from Build with Steel 1969 The first stage of the British Rail Freightliner network was virtually completed in mid-summer 1967 and plans were then …
SSDA 2009 – No 2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester
Providing high quality office, restaurant and retail space over six floors, the project is a landmark structure at the entrance to a city centre business …
Lights, camera and action
On a former dockland site in Salford, Media City UK will accommodate the BBC as well as other major broadcasters, large media corporations and a myriad of …
Bridging the gap at Manchester University
North Yorkshire-based Allerton Engineering has supplied three innovative bridges for an on-going construction project at Manchester University. The specialist …
Purlins hit the slopes at new ski centre
Steel purlins from Metsec have been used to create the external shell of the Chill Factor, the UK’s longest and the world’s widest real snow indoor ski …
Doing Manchester justice
In the first of a new series on completed steel framed buildings Nick Barrett looks at Manchester’s celebrated Civil Justice Centre, the biggest court …
Apartments rise up in former hat making district
Steelwork has recently been completed on a new luxury eight-storey residential block at Milliners Wharf, Manchester. The apartments represent the first phase …
