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Powered up with waste
A new steel-framed waste-to-energy facility in Cheshire will help the nation reduce its reliance on landfill sites for refuse disposal. Hooton, near Ellesmere …
Retain and enlarge
A complex project that has included a partial demolition programme, strengthening of existing steelwork and the addition of new upper floors has extensively …
Steel frames a yarn
An irregular-shaped building with a folding origami-style roof is being built to house the Great Tapestry of Scotland. Martin Cooper reports on a project which …
Showing off the past
Accommodating many of Doncaster’s historical relics, a new steel-framed cultural hub has also been designed to surround and exhibit a retained Edwardian …
AD 435: Beams supporting precast planks: checks in the temporary condition
The purpose of this note is to remind designers of their responsibility for basing their design on a safe method of erection. This is particularly necessary if …
Steel at home
A residential scheme in Liverpool’s creative and digital quarter is using a steel framing solution due to the material’s spanning qualities and ability …
Retail mall goes undercover
A £75M transformation of intu Trafford Centre’s Barton Square is in full swing, as a new glazed roof and dome now span the previously open mall. Martin …
Steel takes to the stage
A steel-framed commercial building forms one of the main elements of £750M mixed-use development in Shoreditch that also includes the remains of a …
Capital regeneration
Numerous column grid patterns, requiring hundreds of tonnes of transfer structures, are helping to create a large retail-led mixed-use scheme in central …
Inspired design
A number of challenges have been overcome to erect a steel-framed student accommodation scheme that shares a constrained site with a Grade-A listed church …
