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New metal decking guides will aid onsite safety
The British Constructional Steelwork Association’s [BCSA] Metal Decking Group has developed four short guidance documents for those involved in the planning …
Innovation gong for offloading frame
Leach Structural Steelwork’s offloading frame won the Innovation category at the North West Construction Safety Group awards. Allowing an operative to safely …
Sub-contractors call for safe ground conditions
The British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA), the Structural Timber Association (STA) and the National Federation of Builders have joined forces to …
A rational design approach to fire safety
Structural Fire Engineering, a rational and scientific approach to ensuring the safety of buildings, is increasingly popular, as delegates to a series of …
Engineered fire safety
The British Constructional Steelwork Association and Tata Steel will bring together some of the UK’s leading experts on fire safety engineering in two …
Partial factors – obscure objects of desire? Part two
Alastair Hughes reviews the choices available in the Eurocodes and questions ‘what next?’. Part One (in the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of NSC) has been a long …
Steel safety system wins recognition
Leach Structural Steelwork won Balfour Beatty’s Zero Harm – Supply Chain Award at the contractor’s Northern Annual Supply Chain Seminar for 2012. The …
Partial factors – obscure objects of desire?
In a two part article, Alastair Hughes, formerly of the SCI, delves into the UK’s structural safety culture, remarks on an uncharacteristic permissiveness …
Steel supplement sets out the surest way for construction
Distributed with this issue of New Steel Construction, The Surest Way is Steel is a brochure that fully explains the many advantages associated with the design …
February 2012 – Steel creates its own legacy
The steel construction sector has always been able to boast about the high level of successful investment it makes in productivity and sustainability enhancing …