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NEWS
IN BRIEF
February 19
According to the latest market
survey by Construction Markets,
steel continues to be the framing
solution of choice in the UK and
accounted for 43.4% of the total
market in 2018.
Steel continued to dominate
the multi-storey office buildings
market with a share of over 70%
for buildings of two-storeys and
higher. For buildings of six-storeys
and over, steel’s market share was almost
79%.
Multi-storey public education buildings
exhibited a strong preference for steel
with a market share of 62.9%, although
the overall market eased with a 1.1% fall.
The multi-storey public health buildings
market suffered a fall of 23%, although
steel continued to enjoy a 46% share of
the market.
In the conventional single storey
non-domestic buildings’ market,
which includes public and private
health and education buildings,
retail, leisure and offices, there
was a fall of almost 4%, but steel
increased its share to almost 65%.
As usual, steel dominated the
other single storey non-domestic
buildings market, a sector that
includes industrial buildings and
distribution centres (sheds). This sector
increased by nearly 3% in 2018 and steel
increased the area of floor covered by over
2.5% and maintained a dominant market
share of over 90%.
News
McLaughlin & Harvey has
awarded Caunton Engineering
the steelwork contract for a
£114M distribution hub for
United Parcel Service at East
Midlands Airport. The 41,800m2
structure will be a multi-span
portal frame requiring over
3,000t of structural steelwork and
has been designed by architect
and structural engineer Aecom.
Broxtowe Borough Council’s
planning committee has
unanimously granted full
consent for a new cinema
and outline planning consent
for a further mixed-used and
residential building in Beeston,
Nottinghamshire.
Graham Construction has been
appointed as the contractor for a
new modern office development
known as i9, which is set in the
heart of Wolverhampton. It will
provide 4,600m2 of Grade A office
space when completed in 2020.
i9 is the next step in building
a thriving commercial quarter
at the heart of Wolverhampton
Interchange - bringing further
investment and jobs to the city.
Muse Developments has
launched a consultation on
plans to create a new £150M
neighbourhood at Church
Wharf in Bolton town centre. Set
alongside the River Croal and
between St Peters Way (A666),
Bank Street, Manor Street and
Folds Road, the under-used site
is set to be transformed. The
scheme will include a mix of
around 320 homes, a new hotel,
commercial offices, and leisure
and retail opportunities, such as
a café, convenience store or bar/
restaurant.
A £300M power station
producing energy from waste
could be built in North East
Lincolnshire. The proposed
plant would be located next
to the existing South Humber
Bank Power Station near
Stallingborough, according to
developer EP UK Investments.
More than 600,000t of domestic
refuse, brought in on trucks,
would be burnt to produce
enough electricity for about
500,000 homes, the firm added.
If approved, the station would
open in 2022 with the creation of
some 50 jobs.
Steelwork continues to dominate
structural frames market
Steel support for London residential towers
Structural steelwork on One Crown Place,
a prestigious mixed-use project in east
London, is nearing completion.
The scheme consists of 246 residential
apartments in two towers, reaching
heights of 29 and 33 floors respectively,
15,500m2 of Grade A office space, and a
boutique hotel and restaurant.
Working on behalf of main contractor
Mace, Severfield is fabricating, supplying
and erecting 2,600t of steel for the project.
The steelwork forms a six-storey
podium that supports the two reinforced
concrete apartment towers and
accommodates the scheme’s six floors of
column-free commercial space.
The podium structure is topped by a
series of 15 trusses that accommodates
levels seven and eight within their depth
and, importantly, allow the residential
parts of the development to have a much
smaller column grid pattern.
The truss elements will be left exposed
as architectural highlights within levels 7
and 8 (see above).
Level 7 will accommodate a gym, a
work hub, private screening room, meeting
space and other exclusive amenities for
the residents, while level 8 is given over to
apartments.
One Crown Place is due to complete in
February 2021.
Total market for structural frames
Steel arrives for new Antarctic wharf
A cargo ship loaded with 4,500t of
Nuttall will begin deconstructing an old
steelwork and construction equipment
wharf and building a new one big enough to
required to build a new wharf has arrived at
safely berth the new polar research vessel,
British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research
the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
Station.
British Antarctic Survey Programme
The DS Wisconsin has completed a
Manager David Seaton, said: “The arrival
month-long voyage from the UK and
of the Wisconsin is extremely welcome
transported plant equipment, 83 containers,
and we are all now very keen to get on
permanent and temporary materials and
with the work of building the new wharf
1,000t of steelwork.
– an integral part of modernising our
Her arrival at Rothera is a major
infrastructure and keeping the UK at the
milestone in the modernisation of the UK’s
forefront of polar science.”
Antarctic infrastructure, as once the ship
BAM Nuttall Project Manager Martha
is unloaded construction partner BAM
McGowan, added: “It was a major logistical
undertaking to get every single thing
needed to build a wharf in freezing
Antarctic waters loaded onto one ship. One
month and 11,000km later, it is very good
to see all that hard work paying off.”
An additional 50 members of the
construction team are present at Rothera
this season in order to deliver the first
phase of wharf work. This includes
deconstructing the old wharf and building
the rear section of the new one. Completion
of the project is scheduled for April 2020.
Working on behalf of BAM Nuttall, Four-
Tees Engineers has fabricated the steelwork
and has erectors in Antarctica to help with
the steel construction work.
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