{"id":21242,"date":"2016-02-11T13:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=21242"},"modified":"2016-02-11T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:02:19","slug":"steel-providing-a-safe-design-for-petrochemical-headquarters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/steel-providing-a-safe-design-for-petrochemical-headquarters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel providing a safe design for petrochemical headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"nINEOS1602\"A steel frame<\/a> designed specifically to withstand a blast scenario is taking shape at the INEOS petrochemical facility at Grangemouth in Scotland.<\/p>\n

More than 900t of structural steelwork is being erected<\/a> to construct a three-storey \u00a320M headquarters building for INEOS Olefins & Polymers UK, the country\u2019s largest privately-owned company and one of the world\u2019s largest chemical businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the location, the design stage for this project was more onerous than would be expected for a job of this size,\u201d said BAM Construction Project Manager Gary Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the building is located within a major petrochemical complex the office HQ had to be designed to take this into account and so we employed a specialist blast engineer who had to review all of the initial designs<\/a>, including the steel frame, secondary steel and cladding<\/a>, to ensure everything was blast resistant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woolgar Hunter Senior Engineer Kenneth Irvine added: \u201cWe worked closely with Michael Laird Architects to develop a solution for the steel frame and cladding, which addresses the loading issue but still provides an elegant and economic building.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe structural design had to take into potential blast loadings and so the steel frame has to be flexible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The requirement for the steel frame to be ductile<\/a> in the event of a blast led the design team to choose steel-framed cores <\/a>for the building instead of the more rigid concrete versions.<\/p>\n

All of the cross bracing comprises 250mm \u00d7 12mm flat sections which were chosen as this steelwork offers more flexibility.<\/p>\n

BHC is fabricating<\/a>, supplying and erecting the steelwork for the project, which is scheduled for an August 2016 completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A steel frame designed specifically to withstand a blast scenario is taking shape at the INEOS petrochemical facility at Grangemouth in Scotland. More than 900t of structural steelwork is being erected to construct a three-storey \u00a320M headquarters building for INEOS Olefins & Polymers UK, the country\u2019s largest privately-owned company and one of the world\u2019s largest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1025,729,2698,94,2700,2697,172,1180,2696,126,2208,2699],"class_list":["post-21242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bam-construction","tag-bhc","tag-blast-resistance","tag-cladding","tag-ductility","tag-grangemouth","tag-industrial","tag-offices","tag-refinery","tag-scotland","tag-steel-core","tag-woolgar-hunter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nINEOS1602.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-5wC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21243,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions\/21243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}