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SSDA shortlist highlights steel success stories
The shortlist for the 50th Structural Steel
Design Awards (SSDA), jointly sponsored
by the British Constructional Steelwork
Association (BCSA) and Trimble Solutions
(UK), has been announced.
The 22 shortlisted projects are all steel
success stories, showcasing the material’s
flexibility and versatility in a number of
different and varying applications.
The shortlist also reflects the wide
geographical spread of steel’s appeal for a
variety of projects ranging from museums
and entertainment venues to education
buildings, with entries also received for a
variety of bridges, commercial schemes
and infrastructure facilities across the UK.
The winners will be announced at an
evening reception in London on 3 October.
“The structural steelwork sector has
evolved significantly since the SSDAs were
launched in 1969, however one constant
has been the ability of steel to deliver the
most efficient and cost-effective solution
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Manchester Airport has marked one year
of construction on the biggest investment
project in its history, which will see
Terminal 2 become 150% bigger.
The programme got under way a
year ago after a visit by the Secretary of
State for Transport, Chris Grayling. Since
then, the airport’s skyline has changed
dramatically as the first pier has been built
and over 70% of the steelwork has been
erected on the terminal extension.
It is one of the biggest construction
programmes in the north of England and
there are currently 1,200 people working
on site – including 80 apprentices, in
trades ranging from plumbing and
scaffolding to quantity surveying and civil
engineering.
So far on the project, more than 14,500
pieces of steel have been installed by
steelwork contractor William Hare.
The first pier is set to open to
passengers in April 2019. At 216m-long if
it was stood upright it would be the tallest
building in Manchester. The terminal
extension is on course to open in 2020.
Laing O’Rourke Project Director Bryan
Glass said: “We’re on schedule to deliver
the transformation of Terminal 2 and that
certainty of delivery has been driven by
our offsite construction approach, with
elements of the project manufactured
offsite and assembled by our expert
project team and technicians. There’s no
room for complacency of course! Our team
is focused on the next milestone – hand
over of the first pier in January 2019.”
After receiving reports of some
steelwork contractors continuing
to operate without CE Marking,
the British Constructional
Steelwork Association (BCSA) has
issued a reminder to clients and
main contractors that, by law, all
structural steelwork must be CE
Marked.
“CE Marking of fabricated
steelwork has now been a legal
requirement since 2014. It seems
unbelievable that there are still
non-compliant companies out there
winning work,” said BCSA Director
General Sarah McCann-Bartlett.
Clients and main contractors
should check that their steelwork
contractor has a valid Factory
Production Control (FPC)
certification from a UKAS Notified
Body.
The BCSA requires all of its
member companies to be CE
Marked as required by law.
for a building or structure, while also
providing practical, flexible and beautiful
spaces.
As the original offsite framing material,
structural steel is now looking to the
future to deliver a more complex level of
design for manufacture and assembly,”
commented BCSA Director General Sarah
McCann-Bartlett.
Trimble Solutions (UK) Managing
Director Richard Fletcher said: “It’s good
to see that the shortlisted entries in this
50th anniversary year of the SSDAs are an
outstanding combination of complex and
interesting projects which in some cases
have been modelled to very high levels
of detail.
“This illustrates the strength of
structural steel within the UK and Ireland
and also the maturity of digitalisation
of design for manufacture and assembly
within this industry, which Trimble are
proud to be part of.”
The SSDA 2018 shortlist is:
• Bloomberg London
• Two St. Peter’s Square, Manchester
• Thirty Broadwick, Soho, London
• Seventy Wilson, 70 Wilson Street, London
• Four Pancras Square, King’s Cross, London
• 101 The Embankment, Greengate, Salford
• 1 & 2 London Wall Place, London
• The Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy
Centre, London
• Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing
Centre, Wolverhampton
• Brooklands Museum Aircraft Factory and
Racetrack Revival, Weybridge
• Victoria Palace Theatre Refurbishment,
London
• Walthamstow Wetlands, Forest Road, London
• Belfast Waterfront Conference & Exhibition
Centre, Lanyon Place, Belfast
• The Beacon of Light, Sunderland
• V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, London
• The Ordsall Chord Viaduct, Salford and
Manchester
• Approach Viaduct South, Queensferry
Crossing
• Somers Town Bridge, King’s Cross, London
• Knostrop Weir Foot and Cycle Bridge, Leeds
• Walkway Bridges, London Wall Place, London
• Manchester Victoria Redevelopment
• London Bridge Station
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