Category: steel
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The steel super sheds: inside construction’s booming logistics sector
The rapid rise of internet shopping has led to growing demand for distribution warehouses, which in turn are getting bigger and quicker to build. Martin Cooper reports on structural steelwork’s largest UK market. Encompassing parts of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, the area has excellent transportation links, being close to the M1 and M6 motorways. This…
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The steel super sheds: inside construction’s booming logistics sector
The rapid rise of internet shopping has led to growing demand for distribution warehouses, which in turn are getting bigger and quicker to build. Martin Cooper reports on structural steelwork’s largest UK market. Encompassing parts of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, the area has excellent transportation links, being close to the M1 and M6 motorways. This…
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A solution for structural steel reuse
RESTOR’s challenge was to create a scalable, digital-first framework to overcome technical, logistical and cultural barriers around reused steel – chiefly, a lack of confidence in repurposed material, no standardised data on its properties, and no digital infrastructure to support its integration into new builds. Collaborators included architecture firm Chetwoods and reused steel supplier Cleveland…
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McAlpine to build electric arc furnace at Port Talbot steelworks
Tata Steel’s EAF project lead, Peter Jones, added: “We’re delighted to confirm the appointment of Sir Robert McAlpine to support us on this once-in-a-generation investment project. Our new arc furnace will be one of the largest and most sophisticated of its kind in the world, so it is important that we work with highly skilled…
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Home help with light-gauge steelwork
Wavensmere Homes’ Nightingale Quarter in Derby features light-gauge steel framing A new light-gauge steel specification offers help for housebuilders looking to accelerate delivery. By Nick Barrett. Modern methods of construction (MMC) will be invaluable in tackling the UK’s housing shortages, and light-gauge steel will have a key role to play. Pioneers of MMC have of…
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How Mace built Landsec’s low-carbon hybrid
A hybrid steel and CLT solution, combined with a retained 1950s structure, helped cut construction-related CO2 on a Landsec scheme where Mace is main contractor. Martin Cooper reports from Southwark Targeting the highest sustainability ratings, a Landsec commercial scheme in Southwark, south London, provides an exemplary model of design, setting an industry-wide precedent for the…