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40 Years Ago: Developments at Gatwick Airport
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 Although Gatwick had been granted an æro-drome licence in 1930 the Airport only began operating in 1936 after completion …
40 Years Ago – Bridge travels from Glasgow to London
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 Motorists eagerly await the completion of the M1 Southern Extension which will give much greater significance to the …
Rebirth of St Pancras
Extending St Pancras station to handle Eurostar trains called for an extension in harmony with the existing structure. A slender steel canopy is the result, …
Historic planes come in from the cold
A new aviation museum in Shropshire designed to evoke the Cold War is set to make its mark on the landscape, reports Margo Cole. The Royal Air Force Museum …
Steel bridge installed safely over live railway
Rowecord Engineering has pre-assembled and installed a 900 tonne railway viaduct over the London Underground Hammersmith and City line at White City. Engineers …
Daventry shed checks out for Tesco
Caunton Engineering has won the contract to design, supply and erect a new distribution warehouse at the DIRFT Logistics Park and rail freight terminal at …
Smooth operations
Launching a new bridge of complex geometry across busy railway lines is demanding some heavy structural engineering, both temporary and permanent, reports Jon …
Terminal takes wing at Farnborough
TAG Aviation’s new Farnborough terminal and operations building will look like a giant silver wing, as though the building itself has just touched down on …
SSDA 2005 – Midland Mainline Bridge, CTRL 103 – Deck A – Kings Cross/St Pancras
Impressive engineering and an unusual launch scooped this year’s Bridgework award for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Midland Mainline Bridge Deck A. …
SSDA 2005 – River Usk Crossing, Newport Southern Distributor Road
With the new river Usk crossing the construction team have created a landmark structure designed and built in an extremely compressed timescale. Newport’s …
