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Continual supply
Barrett Steel has been affected, along with many other businesses across the UK by the pandemic lockdown, but it has remained operational throughout, focussing …
Cross-braced lateral load-resisting systems
Cross bracing is a traditional means of providing lateral stability to structures. Richard Henderson of the SCI discusses some of the features of this …
All about stockholding
NSC highlights the services steel stockholders provide, the benefits they offer and some of the standards and requirements applicable to this sector. Steel …
Award: Harlech Castle Footbridge
Designed as an S-shaped Vierendeel truss, a new footbridge links Harlech Castle with a new visitor centre and dramatically improves visitor access. Harlech …
Steel bending creates purpose-built motorway advertising arch
Metal fabrication and bending specialist Barnshaws Section Benders has contributed to the construction of what is said to be the UK’s first purpose-built …
New structural steel tube from Tata Steel
Tata Steel has launched Celsius® 420, a stronger hot-finished structural steel hollow section that reduces the weight of mechanical products and can speed up …
Foundation reuse creates sustainable landmark
An extensive sustainability agenda, incorporating the reuse of existing piles, resulted in a 16-storey London commercial development replacing an old …
Station to station
Mansfield’s new bus station, which links into the adjacent railway station, features an array of bespoke feature steel columns and connections. The former …
SSDA Commendation: Borough High Street Bridge, London
Substantial additional rail capacity is accommodated on the Borough High Street Bridge, a structure that had to be pre-assembled and then launched over a busy …
Additional design requirements for overlap joints in structural hollow sections
Christopher Morris of Tata Steel Tubes explains the reasons for an additional design requirement introduced into Eurocode 3 for K and N overlap joints. In …
