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Steel is just the ticket for over-station development
Structural steelwork has provided the required lightweight solution for a mixed-use scheme that sits directly above an Elizabeth line ticket hall. Martin …
Capital regeneration
Numerous column grid patterns, requiring hundreds of tonnes of transfer structures, are helping to create a large retail-led mixed-use scheme in central …
The right time for steel
In the second of our retail and leisure based regeneration projects, Martin Cooper reports from Time Square in Warrington. Warrington is perhaps best known for …
Jamestown – building for future strength
The steel industry is becoming more and more competitive and Jamestown says that in order to thrive now and in the future, it needs to constantly improve. …
On the water
A steel-framed structure, that sits above an east London dock, has benefitted from using a weathering steel base as its all-important lowest level. Sat on …
Drake leisure scheme sails into port
Offering 12 cinema screens and a host of retail and restaurant outlets, the Drake Circus leisure development is set to transform the site of a previously …
High-rise and column-free
Manchester’s latest commercial development is a 12-storey, column-free London-spec office block at 125 Deansgate. Martin Cooper reports. The twin cities of …
Bespoke structural components
NSC reports on fabricated structural components used in buildings and the capability and capacity required by producers of these items. Readers of NSC will be …
AD 421: Design responsibility for welds in fabricated plate girders
In recent months the SCI has received a number of questions about responsibility for the design of the welds between the web and flanges of a plate girder. …
A nod to an engineer
Exposed steelwork is the order of the day for a new eye-catching commercial development in west London. Martin Cooper reports. Overlooking the Grand Union …
