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Steel design stacks up
Structural steelwork has provided the required efficient design and column-free spaces for a new leisure centre and an academy in east London. Martin Cooper …
Steelwork creates safe parking
Clad in order to reference the city’s maritime past, a new multi-storey car park in Liverpool has been built using a steel frame as the material offered the …
Building a better town centre
A multi-award-winning regeneration scheme, The Glass Works will provide a vibrant and modern retail and leisure offering which will transform Barnsley town …
Powering ahead
New steelwork construction and an extensive restoration programme are transforming Battersea Power Station into a huge multi-use destination, which will be the …
Bolt slip in connections
The effect of bolt slip in truss connections is an issue that is raised with SCI from time to time in various contexts. Richard Henderson discusses some of the …
American aircraft manufacturer invests in new hangar
US-based Gulfstream Aerospace has awarded VolkerFitzpatrick a £34M contract to construct a new maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) aircraft hangar at …
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 …
The right time for steel
In the second of our retail and leisure based regeneration projects, Martin Cooper reports from Time Square in Warrington. Warrington is perhaps best known for …
Trusses provide towering support
The centrepiece of a central London mixed-use development is two residential towers supported on a series of 15 steel trusses. A prestigious mixed-use scheme …
Steelwork performs complex circus act
A central London mixed-use development that contains an urban gallery and a basement auditorium is being constructed around a number of site constraints …
