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Arts and education boost for Orkney
Structural steelwork is playing a major role in the construction of a new grammar school and theatre in Kirkwall. Martin Cooper reports from the Orkney …
A beacon for the arts
Installing a vast array of time-consuming acoustic pads was the key to a successfully completed steelwork programme on a new arts venue. Martin Cooper reports. …
50 years ago: Cable spinning for the Forth Road Bridge
Taken from Building With Steel, May 1962 On 17 November 1961 the first four wires of the cables on the new Forth Road Bridge were hauled over the tops of the …
Arts centre to reinvigorate waterfront
A new £7.8M arts centre is under construction on the banks of the River Clyde at Greenock. Part of a wider redevelopment of former industrial land along the …
Schools galore
Flexibility, transportation and ease of construction played major roles in the decision to choose structural steelwork as the framing material for six school …
Stations on track
Off-site construction has played a key role in the erection of steel structures at two new stations along Scotland’s newest railway line. Martin Cooper …
Steel provides first class solution
Designing a new school in central Scotland with a steel frame has provided the facility with an innovative oratory structure and classrooms of differing sizes. …
Giant sports complex for Scotland
One of the UK’s largest public sports centres is under construction in East Kilbride. Sporting facilities on offer at the Playsport Scotland project will …
Expansion at Scotland’s largest business park
The new £330M Maxim office development at the Eurocentral Business Park in Lanarkshire, will on completion offer 85,000m2 of office space in ten high quality …
