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SSDA Commendation: Energy from Waste Facility, La Collette, Jersey
Prominently located, the La Collette Energy from Waste Facility required a clever and architectural solution to assimilate the various shapes into a large …
Shared campus rises with steel
A new secondary school development is under construction in Port Glasgow, a shared campus which will bring together the existing Port Glasgow High School and …
News in Brief: June 2012
CSC has released a trial version of its Tedds structural calculation software and engineers downloading it get a free sample of automated calculations. “We …
Sustainable office accommodation
The EcoCampus at Hamilton is a sustainable business community providing open plan modern accommodation across three carbon neutral office buildings. …
Sustainability centre for London’s Docklands
Work is now underway on the £30M Siemens Pavilion in east London, a structure which will kick-start a planned Green Enterprise District centred around the …
Around the Press – November/December 2010
Construction News 14 October 2010 Leaning city library tears up the rulebook (Canada Water library) When complete, the entire building will be held together by …
The route to sustainable construction
The BCSA was the first representative organisation in the UK to launch a sustainability charter, the objective of which is to develop steel as a sustainable …
SSDA 2010 – Energy Recovery Plant, Corus, Port Talbot
A new BOS gas recovery plant will allow the Corus Port Talbot facility to harness off-gas as a source of energy for other on-site power plants. The payback …
Steel – the never ending process
The sustainability benefits of steel in terms of multi-cycling are becoming more widely appreciated, says John Dowling, BCSA Manager, Sustainability. Steel is …
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 …