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Steelmaking’s sustainable future
As global supply and demand for raw steel moves into balance, steelmakers focus on a sustainable industry. The World Steel Association estimates that global …
Highly regarded engineer awarded Fellowship at National Dinner
The well-known and highly regarded structural engineer Roger Pope, who has been a specialist technical consultant to the BCSA and Tata Steel for many years, …
BCSA welcomes sale of Tata Steel long products division
The British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) has welcomed the announcement of the sale of Tata Steel’s Long Products Europe (LPE) business to …
Steel stalwart steps down as SCCS Chairman
Denver Woodward has stepped down as Chairman of the Steel Construction Certification Scheme (SCCS) after 18 years of service. Commenting on Mr Woodward’s …
Composite beam checking tool upgraded
The Composite Beam Checking Tool on www.steelconstruction.info has been upgraded to include the latest guidance in SCI-P405 Minimum degree of shear connection …
Design guidance tradition strengthened
At the start of last year the steel construction sector was confidently reporting to clients that there was plenty of capacity in the sector to ensure that …
New steel bridge design guides available from SCI
The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) has published two new steel bridge design publications that are now available at: …
New steel sector education and marketing initiative
BCSA has launched Steel for Life – a new market development programme designed to ensure that steel maintains and develops its leading position as the …
No crisis in structural steelwork supply
The words ‘steel’ and ‘crisis’ have been inseparable in newspaper headlines for the past couple of weeks, with good reason as the steel making industry …
Barometer says outlook is fine for steel
Official government statistics on construction workloads have been less than encouraging recently, but industry reports contradict this and suggest that demand …