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IN BRIEF
Nov/Dec 18
Steel for Life will host a Steel Essentials
free half-day seminar in Westminster
on 20th November, presenting practical
guidance on key aspects from preliminary
scheme development to optimising
in-service performance for designers
considering the use of structural steelwork.
The seminar is aimed primarily at
engineers, but has been structured to
concentrate on good practice in steel
construction rather than focus on design
calculations.
It will provide helpful guidance
relevant to other disciplines such as
quantity surveyors, main contractors and
architectural technicians engaged in the
delivery of steel-framed structures.
For those attending the seminar,
familiarity with steel construction would
be helpful but not essential as none of
the topics covered will assume prior
knowledge.
The seminars topics will include steel
construction options, efficient steel design,
design performance, steel specification,
budget costing and a review of the free
resources available from Steel for Life and
the wider steel construction sector.
Steel for Life was launched in 2016 and
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British
Constructional Steelwork Association.
Its key purpose is to communicate and
disseminate the advantages that steel
offers to the construction sector which
make it the material of choice for a wide
range of buildings, bridges and other
structures.
To book a place at the seminar contact
Christina Gulvanessian, email: Christina.
gulvanessian@steelconstruction.org
or Tel: 0207 747 8139
News
London’s Science Museum was
the venue for the UK Steel
Innovation Day 2018, where
representatives gathered to
demonstrate the crucial role
a modern and vibrant steel
industry has to play in society.
Showcasing the high level of
technical innovation taking
place in the steel industry and
the opportunities the sector
represents throughout the
supply chain, the event was an
opportunity to hear the leading
innovators from the sector
discuss how R&D can unlock the
potential for a sustainable steel
industry.
Ardmore has been appointed
by developer Knight Dragon
to deliver the Design District, a
cluster of 16 artistically-inspired
commercial buildings devised
by a collection of eight separate
design practices offering
13,000m2 of workspace for
creative industries and 6,000m2
of education facilities and retail
space. It sits at the heart of the
Greenwich Peninsula master
plan, situated between The
O2 Dome, North Greenwich
Underground Station and the
new Upper Riverside residential
neighbourhood.
Premier League football club
Leicester City’s plans to create
a new football training ground
have been given the go-ahead.
The club has secured planning
permission to turn a 185-acre
golf and fishing complex off
the A46, eight miles north of
Leicester, into a £100M complex
where the first team squad will
practice.
The regeneration of
Gainsborough town centre has
moved a step closer following
the exchange of contracts
between West Lindsey District
Council and partner, Muse
Developments. The first phase
of development will focus on
the town’s historic centre, where
the team will look to develop a
cinema with restaurant outlets,
a new public square, along
with extensive public realm
improvements to the riverfront.
The London Legacy
Development Corporation
has approved plans for a
new commercial building at
International Quarter London
(IQL), the £2.4 billion joint
venture development between
Lendlease and LCR, in Stratford,
east London. The building
will provide 32,500m2 of new
workspace across 22 storeys
and will be positioned at the
gateway to the Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park.
Steel for Life to host
practical guidance seminar
Accommodation boost for Aberdeen students
Aberdeen’s burgeoning student population
is set to receive more accommodation
options once the prestigious Triple Kirks
scheme completes in late 2019.
Being developed by Dandara, the project
comprises three interlinked steel-framed
blocks (11, 12 and 13-storeys high),
offering 337 en-suite accommodation
units and ancillary facilities, that occupy
a constrained site with a Grade A listed
church spire dating from the 1840s.
Alongside the construction programme,
restoration and refurbishment work is also
being undertaken to the spire so that it
will become a feature element within the
completed development.
Work continues apace on Midland’s inland port
Covering 700 acres, a game-changing
distribution hub (inland port) is under
construction in Leicestershire.
Known as the SEGRO Logistics Park East
Midlands Gateway, the scheme combines
links to the M1 and East Midlands Airport
with a major new rail freight terminal.
Main contractor Winvic is undertaking
a huge earthmoving operation to prepare
the ground for the planned distribution
structures. This involves a plant fleet of 65
vehicles moving approximately 105,000m³
of earth every week.
Four of the site’s planned steel-framed
distribution centres are currently under
construction. Severfield is fabricating,
supplying and erecting three plots, while
a fourth is being constructed by Caunton
Engineering.
The three plots being erected by
Severfield are all large portal-framed
structures with their own office blocks.
Plot One (pictured), being built for an
online retailer requires 2,000t of structural
steelwork for the main frame and a further
4,500t for the building’s two internal
mezzanine levels.
Plot Two is the highest of the structures,
reaching a maximum height of 35m for
approximately one third of its overall length.
The remainder of this building is 19m-high.
The third plot is the smallest of three
Severfield distribution centres (46,451m²)
and will be occupied by another online
retailer.
Working on a design and build contract,
Caunton Engineering has fabricated,
supplied and erected 900t of hot and cold
rolled steelwork for Plot 4. Measuring 244m
× 69m and reaching a height of 12m, the
unit will offer just over 11,000m² of floor
space. This portal-framed structure will
be occupied by Swiss-based transport and
logistics company Kuehne + Nagel.
Dandara Engineering Director Greg
Kerwick said: “On a tight and constrained
site like this steel has the advantage of being
fabricated offsite. This results in far less
material on the footprint as it is brought to
site and erected immediately. It is also quick
to erect which is something we like.”
Fabricated, supplied and erected by
EvadX, the steel frame totals 600t with an
extremely high piece count. This is because
there are no long spans and the grid pattern
is very irregular as it has to encompass
three different room sizes, all of which are
present on each floor.
Typically, the design has a central
corridor with accommodation units
situated either side. Blocks one and two sit
to the north of the spire and block three is
positioned to the south. Two and three are
linked via a narrow corridor structure that
wraps behind the spire.
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