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Ravenscraig regeneration gathers pace
The site of the former steelworks at Ravenscraig in North Lanarkshire will be the UK’s first new town in more than 50 years and home to more than 10,000 …
AD 317: Use of integral crossheads in skew highway bridges
Guidance Note 1.02 in the Steel Bridge Group publication Guidance Notes on best practice in steel bridge construction (P185) includes advice about the use of …
Seven bridges for motorway widening
Rowecord Engineering has fabricated, supplied and erected a total of seven new steel bridges over the M1 motorway, as part of the on-going widening scheme …
40 Years Ago: Attractive new bridge at Windsor
Taken from Building with Steel, 1967 Victoria bridge, which carries the Datchet-Windsor road over the River Thames, was one of a pair constructed about 1851 by …
Steelwork complete for cross channel service station
Caunton Engineering has completed the erection of 450t of structural steelwork for the new Stop 24 Motorway Services Station at Junction 11 on the M20 near …
Traincare centre will ease the strain
Passengers using east Kent to London train services will soon benefit from a significant reduction in journey times on a new fleet of trains serviced and …
Multi-span viaduct wins ICE award
The Leven viaduct in south Cumbria has won the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) 2007 North West Merit Award for Engineering Excellence. The ICE judging …
Building bridges for east London
A total of ten new steel bridges have been erected as part of the northern extension to the East London Railway. Martin Cooper walks the line from Shoreditch …
Station gets special treatment
Bourne Special Projects (BSP), part of Bourne Steel, erected the pedestrian bridge at the new Shepherds Bush railway station in one overnight possession in …
CAD is just the ticket for new bus station
Barnsley’s new centrepiece transport interchange required some intricate 3D modeling to create a complex steel design. Martin Cooper reports on how the …
