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President’s Column: The British Steel conundrum
The recent eleventh-hour government intervention at the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe clearly demonstrated two things. First, that it was a perilous …
Are tariffs bad for business?
The USA is the world’s largest importer of steel, counting Canada, Brazil and Mexico as its top three suppliers, and the incumbent President’s view is …
Government needs to back UK steel capability
President’s Column March 2025 The new government initiative to meet with leaders from the UK steel industry to agree a strategy for the long-term future …
President’s Column – Hybrid Working
Being someone who until the UK entered its first lockdown period had spent every working day either in the office or travelling to business meetings, I may not …
President’s Column – Grenfell inquiry
The Phase 2 Report on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry was published in early September 2024 and contains some serious accusations of failings in companies and …
Steelwork sector can help generate Government’s clean energy aspirations
We emerge from our short summer break with a new Government in place who have promised to bring an end to ‘sticking plaster politics’ and meet the …
President’s column: Black box solution
If anyone read the article written by Hugo Rifkind entitled ‘Horizon was ‘computer says no’ on a vast scale’, which was published in The Times …
Presidents Column: February 2024
I recently learned that my very first design office manager, a proud Geordie named Alan Walker, had sadly passed away. He managed the engineering team at …
President’s Column – January 2024
Until global steel production from lower-carbon technology matches global demand, it is now becoming widely understood that specifying your steelwork supply …
President’s Column: Nov/Dec 2023
There is a simple question that relates to established UK steelwork design practice that is becoming increasing difficult to answer … when is a steelwork …
