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September 18
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Three Snowhill, Birmingham
Main client: Ballymore Properties
Architect: Weedon Architects
Main contractor: BAM Construction
Structural Engineer: WSP
Steelwork contractor: Severfield
Steel tonnage: 4,500t
September 2018
Vol 26 No 8
These and other steelwork articles can be downloaded from the
New Steel Construction Website at www.newsteelconstruction.com
5 Editor’s comment The Structural Steel Design Awards have been highlighting all that
is best in steel construction for 50 years. Editor Nick Barrett asks what the awards
might look like in 50 years from now.
6 News The shortlist for the 50th Structural Steel Design Awards (SSDA), which will be
held during October, has been announced.
10 SSDA 50th Anniversary To celebrate the SSDA’s half century, NSC looks back at some
of the highlights during the last eight years.
12 Headline Sponsor Barrett Steel is one of the largest independent steel stockholders in
the UK, holding more than 110,000t of stock across 27 depots.
14 Sector Focus: Structural Components Bespoke items such as transfer beams, plate
girders and cellular beams are an integral part of steelwork design.
16 Leisure/Retail Big changes are afoot in Plymouth city centre, including the new Drake
Circus cinema, retail and restaurant scheme.
18 Leisure A steel-framed structure that sits above a dock in east London will
accommodate five-storeys of guest rooms, restaurants and leisure space.
22 Commercial The third of three planned office blocks in Snowhill, Birmingham has
quickly taken shape with steel construction.
24 Commercial Manchester is experiencing a commercial sector boom and NSC reports
on the latest scheme rising up on the city’s Deansgate thoroughfare.
26 Sport The redevelopment of the Headingley cricket and rugby stadiums continues a pace
with the aid of steel.
29 Technical SCI’s Richard Henderson introduces the background to the assessment of
fatigue performance in crane runway beams.
32 Advisory Desk AD 421 – Design responsibility for welds in fabricated plate girders and
AD 422 – Punching shear check for fin plates in P358.
33 Codes and Standards
34 50 Years Ago Our look back through the pages of Building with Steel features Lord’s
Cricket Ground.
36 BCSA Members
38 Register of Qualified Steelwork Contractors for Bridgeworks
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