In this issue
NSC 3
Mar 20
Cover Image
Building S1, King's Cross, London
Main client: Argent
Architect: Mossessian & Partners
Main contractor: BAM Construction
Structural engineer: Ramboll
Steelwork contractor: Elland Steel Structures
Steel tonnage: 2,400t
March 2020
Vol 28 No 3
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5 Editor’s comment Questions are being asked about the whole life costs of all
construction materials. Editor Nick Barrett says steel is providing answers.
6 News Highways England updates NHSS requirements for the execution of steelwork and
the final elements are installed for a steel wharf in the Antarctic.
10 Sector Focus: Steel stockholders NSC looks at the steel stockholding sector; the
services and support it provides to the structural steel supply chain.
12 Energy Structural steelwork has proven to be the ideal framing solution for a new wasteto
energy facility in Cheshire.
14 Education Fife's continuing investment in new educational facilities is continuing with
the construction of the New Madras College in St Andrews.
16 Leisure Containing the world’s first artificial surfing lagoon, Adventure Parc Snowdonia
is now constructing a steel-framed hotel.
18 Commercial The second of twin office blocks in London’s King’s Cross development is a
12-storey building offering 17,000m2 of floor space.
22 Commercial The latest office scheme in Manchester’s burgeoning commercial sector is
the steel-framed Eleven York Street project.
24 Technical Richard Henderson of the SCI illustrates the design of a column bearing splice
considering the strut moment with a numerical example.
28 Advisory Desk AD 438 - Non-slip connections to BS 5950.
28 Codes and Standards
30 50 Years Ago Our look back through the pages of Building with Steel features
Cardiff Arms Park.
32 BCSA Members
34 Register of Qualified Steelwork Contractors for Bridgeworks
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