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Lighting up the Games
The twin hosts of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter and Paralympic Games each had their own intricately engineered and expanding cauldrons to accommodate the …
Helping to meet Paris 2024’s sustainability ambition
ArcelorMittal XCarb® steel was a partner of the most sustainable Olympic and Paralympic games ever Aligned with Paris 2024’s ambition that this year’s …
Shape of things to come
The use of curved steel bent into shape by UK specialist steel bending companies is helping designers create elaborate landmark structures. Bending steel …
Unusual Roof design at Tokyo Olympic Village
From Building with Steel November 1964 Japanese architects provided some unusual and rather daring roof designs for several of the buildings in the Olympic …
SSDA Award: London 2012 Velodrome, Olympic Park, London
The Velodrome is an iconic world class sporting venue, which will endure in its community legacy use in the VeloPark. The 6,000 seat London 2012 Velodrome will …
SSDA Award: Olympic Stadium, London
Completed within budget and early, the London 2012 Olympic Stadium has also achieved the client’s sustainability objectives, and is consequently the lightest …
Steel awards secure London Olympics legacy
The London 2012 Olympic Stadium, which will host many of the major sporting events at this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, is one of six Award winning …
July 2012 – Steel gives legacy lessons
Last year at this time NSC wished the rest of the London Olympics structures well in the 2012 Structural Steel Design Awards, following the success of the …
Around the Press: July 2012
Construction News 24 May 2012 Visualising building’s future “Everyone knew who was working where and when,” says BAM regional planner David Carson. …
September 2012 – Post Olympic glow
The London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics is vying for the accolade of the best organised and brilliantly delivered Olympic Games ever. For a few weeks the …