News
Tekla partner with Farrat on new plug-in tool
New brewery planned
for Scottish capital
In the current circumstances, SCI have postponed all forthcoming face-to-face courses. A programme of online courses is being
arranged and will be publicised on the SCI website https://portal.steel-sci.com/trainingcalendar.html. The regular programme of
lunchtime webinars for members will be maintained. Further details of all the SCI online events are on the SCI’s website.
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Jun 20
Innis & Gunn has formally submitted
a planning application for its new brewery
at Heriot-Watt University’s Research Park
west of Edinburgh.
The project is said to be the first major
brewery in the Scottish capital for 150 years
and will host a world-centre for brewing
studies and applied learning in partnership
with the university.
Innis & Gunn said it will be the UK’s
first major tie-up between a full-scale
brewery and a university. The project will
create up to 30 new jobs and the firm's 45
office-based staff will relocate there from its
head office in Randolph Crescent.
The brewery will include a highspeed
canning and bottling line and will
consolidate all outsourced production
under one roof. Modern equipment and
technology are intended to reduce the
firm's carbon footprint by up to 30%.
Founder and Master Brewer Dougal
Gunn Sharp said: “I am excited that we
have submitted our planning application.
This means that the project now enters
a statutory phase during which our
application will be considered by the local
authorities in Edinburgh.
“In normal times, we would expect
this process to take three or four months.
However, because of the COVID-19
situation we are not able to say how long
this stage might take.
“This natural pause in the project comes
at a helpful time. Right now, our priorities
remain the welfare of our staff and ensuring
the continuing supply of Innis & Gunn
beers to our key customers in the UK and
overseas, where we have seen surging
demand since the start of this crisis.”
Trimble Solutions, in partnership with
Farrat, has launched a new Tekla plug-in
tool, which it said will help to facilitate the
efficient design and detailing of thermal
break plates in steel-framed buildings.
The tool, available for Tekla Structures,
enables Farrat’s structural thermal break
plates to be incorporated directly into a Tekla
user’s BIM model, as well as automatically
integrate with all structural attributes,
scheduling, and production dimensions.
The structural thermal breaks,
fabricated by Farrat at its Altrincham
manufacturing facility, are designed to
insulate the connections between structural
components, such as steel beams, reducing
both energy loss through the building and
the risk of interstitial condensation.
According to Trimble, prior to the
launch of the plug-in tool, customers would
have had to manually model a generic steel
plate with no specific attributes and simply
label it as a thermal break plate.
Steven Insley, National Sales Manager
at Trimble Solutions said: “We were
delighted to have the opportunity to work
with Farrat on this new plug-in tool. A
significant number of their steel fabrication
customers use Tekla Structures as their
primary design and detailing tool and, with
Farrat’s structural thermal breaks regularly
incorporated in the main frame model, it
made sense for us to collaborate and work
on combining the two.”
The new plug-in tool is now available to
download from Tekla Warehouse.
Tuesday 16 June 2020
Curved Steel
SCI/BCSA Members only
There is no guidance in
design standards when steel is
curved on plan or in elevation,
so other references must be
used. This webinar will cover
how steel is curved, what steel
properties are changed by the
curving process and how
design expressions may be
modified to account for the
form of the member and the
modified properties.
Tuesday 23 June 2020
Straight to the Point:
Steel design using the
Blue Book
This half day course is
designed for technicians who
want a practical
demonstration of how to use
the Eurocode Blue Book
immediately to select steel
members.
Tue 7 & Thu 9 July 2020
Second-order effects and
Frame Stability
Delivered in 2 sessions (2
hours per session) between
1000-1200. This course will
demonstrate that secondorder
effects are always
present, and how they are
managed in design.
Tuesday 14 July 2020
Connection Stiffness
SCI/BCSA Members only
Common UK practice has
been to use intuition and
experience to assess the
stiffness of a connection –
nominally pinned or
nominally rigid. The webinar
will look at the principles,
the calculations and some
software to draw
comparisons.
Tue 21 & Thu 23 July 2020
Nominally Pinned
Connections
Delivered in 2 sessions (2
hours per session) between
1000-1200. These two
sessions will cover the design
of nominally pinned
connections, based around
the rules in the Green Book.
Wates Construction has submitted plans on
behalf of Halton Council for a new 4,600m2
leisure complex in Widnes.
The facility will feature a 25m-long
swimming pool and 100-station gym, a
sports hall, squash court and soft play area,
and is expected to be completed by October
2022.
The centre, designed by architects Ellis
Williams, will replace Widnes’ ageing
Kingsway Leisure Centre.
The £20M project has been in the
council’s development pipeline since 2018,
when it commissioned Wates to undertake
a feasibility study for a new leisure centre.
The scheme has since been procured via
the Major Works UK part of the Scape
National Construction framework.
Dave Saville, Business Unit Director
for Wates Construction in the North West,
said: “This leisure centre represents a major
place-making opportunity for Widnes.
“Alongside Halton Council and our
architects, we’ve thoughtfully designed this
project to meet the health and wellbeing
needs of as many people as possible and
provide a community hub that can be
enjoyed for generations to come.”
Cllr Phil Harris, the Council’s Portfolio
Holder for Sport and Leisure, added:
“The proposals are for a centre that is fit
for purpose in terms of accessibility and
sustainability.
“It will be open to all, with a design
that is also dementia-friendly, and make a
significant contribution to the health and
wellbeing of our residents. We are also
exploring virtual reality-related exercise in
the spinning studio.”
Plans revealed for Widnes leisure centre
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