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Honda selects design and build
A prestigious business park is rapidly expanding with two new steel warehouses, one a design build unit for Honda and the other Swindon’s largest ever …
Portals frame UK’s biggest sheds
One of the largest sheds built in the UK has just been completed, fittingly enough a short distance away from the Corus steelworks at Scunthorpe. Jon Masters …
Daventry shed checks out for Tesco
Caunton Engineering has won the contract to design, supply and erect a new distribution warehouse at the DIRFT Logistics Park and rail freight terminal at …
First UK contract for Corefast
Corus Bi-Steel has won its first contract in the UK for its Corefast prefabricated core system. It will provide lift and stair cores on the Forty …
Big in Bradford
Bradford’s biggest single office investment for over a decade, No 1 The Interchange, has been completed. Elland Steel Structures supplied and erected …
40 Years Ago: The ‘Sunday Times’ builds in Steel
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 In 1937 a steel frame building for the Daily Sketch was constructed in Gray’s Inn Road, London. It was erected only up …
Impressive cinematic debut
A new system for speeding the often critical process of constructing stair and lift cores won wide acclaim on its first outing, in a multiplex cinema in …
Extending the Empress State Building
An existing thirty-storey concrete office block in west London has been extended both vertically and horizontally in steel. Dominic Bettison and Bjorn …
SSDA 2003 – Millennium Point Birmingham
Sustainability and the care of our natural environment are increasingly important considerations of the construction industry and ones that are now affecting …