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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 …
President’s Column: July/August 2023
Welcome to my first President’s column. In each edition, I want to discuss topical issues that are important to the industry and to the BCSA Membership, so …
President’s Column: May 2023
The draft version of the guide, Fatigue design of crane supporting structures has been issued for comment to the BCSA Process and Technical Committee. The …
President’s Column: March 2023
I think we can all agree that we’ve traded through a very difficult and unstable couple of years. One wonders how the next two years will pan out, especially …
President’s Column – February 2023
At the time of writing this article, 16th January, I read an article on the BBC quoting Anders Opedal (Chief Executive) of Equinor one of Europe’s biggest …
President’s Column: January 2023
Many thanks for Gary Simmons for stepping into the breach to write the last column in the November/December 2022 issue. I thought his article on the over …
