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Bigger and faster
Steel-framed distribution centres are not only getting larger, they are also being built more quickly. NSC reports on a Panattoni project that was erected in …
On the waterfront
The Humber International Terminal at Immingham has completed construction of a portal-framed warehouse that will increase storage capacity at the UK’s …
Cornish refuse station celebrates topping out
Main contractor Kier Construction has celebrated reaching the highest point of construction at the Hallenbeagle Refuse Transfer Station in Cornwall with a …
Know your boundaries
The design for an industrial/warehouse scheme in Beckton, east London is the first project to incorporate a new fire engineered boundary wall specification …
Back to school
Structural steelwork is proving to be the ideal framing solution for a school rebuilding programme near Newtownards in Northern Ireland. FACT FILEStrangford …
AD 536: In-plane member buckling lengths for portal frames
The verification of members in portal frames leads to a common question about in-plane buckling lengths, especially when designers are using general software. …
Steel solution for Welsh viaduct
Forming part of the wider Heads of the Valley scheme, steel construction is playing an integral role in the widening and strengthening of the Taf Fechan …
Protected portal frames on fire boundary
Where single storey buildings have external walls close to a site boundary, the walls are required to have fire resistance. Such external walls have commonly …
Steel lights up former tobacco site
Power Park will deliver more than 39,000m2 of industrial and logistics space in six steel-framed buildings on the former Imperial Tobacco site near Nottingham. …
Rafter stiffeners – needed or not?
Zealous application of the rules in EN 1993-1-8 has resulted in stiffeners being provided in rafters at the “sharp end” of portal frame haunches – where …
