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Structural steelwork has excellent sustainable credentials
Steel may be continually recycled without loss of properties and in the UK 94% of steel is reused or recycled. Steel structures have low carbon footprints, are …
July/August 2007 – Success follows excellence in design
Another outstandingly impressive set of entrants to the Structural Steel Design Awards has earned high praise from the independent judging panel, demonstrating …
Off-site manufacture boosts sustainability gains
The sustainability benefits of off-site construction have for long been appreciated by designers, contractors and owners of buildings. In the latest in our …
Two more members join charter
The Steel Construction Sustainability Charter has recently added two more BCSA members to its list, bringing the total number of companies to have been …
Zero carbon building envelope
Confidex Sustain has built on the success of the Confidex Guarantee, and the Corus commitment to sustainability, and offers the first carbon neutral building …
Sustainable steel combats climate change
Steel’s almost unique ability among construction materials to be reused or recycled is its most obvious sustainability strength. In the second article in our …
June 2007 – Sustainability is good business
The drive towards increasing sustainability of buildings was boosted recently by news from property developer British Land that it aims to become carbon …
Steel and Sustainability
Sustainability has become a key driver for companies and organisations of all types in the past few years. Steel has always had strong sustainability …
May 2007 – Think sustainable – think steel
Sustainability has emerged as one of the main business decision making drivers across all industries in a remarkably short space of time. The pace of …
September 2007 – Sustainably safe steel
One of the greatest success stories in the constructional steelwork sector has been the consistently improving safety performance over the past ten years, …