{"id":4550,"date":"2012-04-01T13:25:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T13:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2012-07-03T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T13:30:45","slug":"around-the-press-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/around-the-press-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Press: April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction News<\/strong>
\n8 March 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/em>
\nMixed scheme sets logistical puzzles<\/strong><\/span>
\nWith typical spans of 15m through the office space, the Severfield-Rowen team that took the steel subcontract has installed 1,440 tonnes of steelwork since it started its work at the beginning of August, using more than 2,000 lifts from the three luffing cranes that have been inched onto the site.<\/p>\n

Construction News <\/strong>
\n15 March 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/em>
\nRefurb challenge for Victorian icon<\/strong><\/span>
\nOver the years the continual use of the Royal Albert Bridge has seen some parts of the structure require significant strengthening work. In all, some 2,305 areas have required predesigned steelwork repairs. These include the cross girder end plate connections, which were showing signs of cracking, and diagonal struts, which were beginning to elongate and slacken.<\/p>\n

RIBA Journal <\/strong>
\nMarch 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/em>
\nSteely resolve<\/strong><\/span>
\n[Wills Imperial Tobacco HQ, Bristol] \u201cWith its exposed CorTen structure, it was one of the earliest examples of a modern movement office building in the UK,\u201d says AFM director David Caird. \u201cBecause the design set the weathering frame structure away from the building\u2019s glazed skin, it helped us in the refurbishment. Not only that, but the integrity of the primary structure meant the firm could cut out two structural bays for an atrium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Building Magazine<\/strong>
\n2 March 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/em>
\nJust what the doctor ordered<\/strong><\/span>
\n[The Royal London Hospital] With 148,500m\u00b2 of new build accommodation and 15,600m\u00b2 of refurbished space it is now the largest hospital in London. The frame comprises 1, 750 of structural steelwork.<\/p>\n

New Civil Engineer <\/strong>
\n23 February 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/em>
\nLow loader<\/strong><\/span>
\n[Troja Bridge, Prague] At its apex, the welded steel box section arch is 6.2m wide and a wafer thin 800mm deep. At approximately quarter span the arch dramatically splits giving it four legs, each measuring 4.5m deep by 1.1m wide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Construction News 8 March 2012 Mixed scheme sets logistical puzzles With typical spans of 15m through the office space, the Severfield-Rowen team that took the steel subcontract has installed 1,440 tonnes of steelwork since it started its work at the beginning of August, using more than 2,000 lifts from the three luffing cranes that have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[30,719,204],"class_list":["post-4550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-around-the-press","tag-conten","tag-severfield-rowen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Press.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-1bo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550","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=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}