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Corus Construction & Industrial: The Design of Steel Footbridges
Footbridges are needed where a separate pathway has to be provided for people to cross traffic flows or some physical obstacle, such as a river. The loads they carry are, in relation to highway or railway bridges, quite modest, and in most circumstances a fairly light structure is required. They...
High Life: The Use of Steel in the Design and Construction of Multi-Storey Residential Buildings
Multi-storey residential buildings demand construction methods that meet tight budgets and construction programmes, are flexible in planning and use, and exceed strict acoustic and thermal regulations. The growing number of multi-storey residential buildings being specified with steel frames clearly demonstrates the ability of structural steelwork to comfortably meet all of...
Sustainable Steel Construction: Building a Better Future
This paper is the first annual review of progress achieved in the delivery of the Steel Construction Sector's Sustainable Development Strategy following its launch in December 2002. The Strategy is set out in a report (Building a Better Future) that describes a number of key initiatives and targets to help...
Corrosion Protection of Steel Bridges
The use of steel for modern bridges has grown significantly over the last 20 years. Engineers and specifiers have recognized the benefits that steel offers as a construction material, which combined with imaginative designs has resulted in some striking bridges that have not escaped the public's attention. Modern bridges currently...
Composite Steel Highway Bridges
The current bridge code BS 5400 was conceived in 1967. Its ten parts cover the more common structural media. The 1980 conference in Cardiff introduced the Code relating to steel and made use of research carried out since 1970. Part 3 (Design of Steel Bridges) is compatible with the workmanship...
Weathering Steel Bridges
Weathering steel is a high strength low alloy steel that in suitable environments forms an adherent protective rust 'patina' to prevent further corrosion. This paper highlights the benefits of weathering steel bridges, describes the limitations, and comments on both the material availability and the appearance of such bridges. It also...
The Design of Steel Footbridges
This paper focuses on Footbridges which are needed where a separate pathway has to be provided for people to cross traffic flows or some physical obstacle, such as a river. The loads they carry are, in relation to highway or railway bridges, quite modest, and in most circumstances a fairly...
Bringing Steel to Life: A Comprehensive Range of Bridge Related Products and Services
Bridges have formed a vital role in the linking of communities, and of carrying goods over rivers and otherwise impassable obstacles, for more than 2000 years. Steel for bridges has a history of well over 100 years, following the earlier successful uses of cast iron and wrought iron, which revolutionized...
Bridged in Steel: Jackfield Bridge
A bridge of special quality and required wide consultation to establish the preferred type and form the structure should take. Particular attention was to be given to the question as to whether it should be a bold and visually striking structure, or an unimposing and purely functional one. Traffic movements...
Bridged in Steel: Lowry Footbridge
Plans were made for the dock area to be redeveloped to provide a mixture of commercial, recreational and housing use. During the late 1980's and throughout the 90's there was major investment in creating a new infrastructure on the site. Pier 8 of the dock area, fronting onto the Ship...
World Port Centre Rotterdam
The WPC was designed along the lines of 'twin towers'. The building consists of an 80m high four-sided tower with 22 floors and a 100m high semi-circular tower with 26 floors. On the top of the core building is the 'crows nest' fitted out with a completely glazed terrace, which...
ING Bank Head Office, the Netherlands
The prestigious ING bank headquarters in Amsterdam is one of the most exciting examples of steel construction using Slimdek. The 9-storey structure is approximately 20,000 sq.m floor area and the whole building is supported on inclined composite steel columns. The 'nose' of the building is designed as an auditorium and...
Shell AG Solar Power Plant
Shell's new solar cell plant at Gelsenkirchen (Germany) is an outstanding example of a building reflecting their corporate philosophy and culture. The hi-tec architecture of the building is totally representative of its dedicated function - the development of advanced photo-voltaics as one of the most important technologies of the future....
Business Centre Assembly
This three-part business centre design envisaged eight identical office units, each with three levels, up to a maximum building height of 9m. In between the office units, the plan was to make use of meeting rooms, which would be for hire. Beams were used for the intermediate floors. The wind...
Central Park, Dublin
Central Park, Dublin is a smaller version of London's Docklands or Paris' La Defense, and Slimdek was chosen for this major commercial development in strong competition with concrete to meet the client's target construction programme. The consulting engineer turned to Slimdek - which had the advantage of achieving the same...
Britannic Assurance, Bromsgrove
The new chief office for Britannic Assurance, completed in December 1996, comprises a 38,500 mts.square three storey main office and two-storey linked restaurant annex, both with curving stainless steel roofs. Approximate 120 tones of SHS were used for the atrium roof structures contract. Secreted connections, brackets and tracks were integral...
CePeZed Office, Delft the Netherlands
The building houses the CePeZed practice, the architects who designed it. Their brief to themselves was not just to build an office that would be practical and enjoyable to work in, but to demonstrate the flexibility, energy efficiency and cost effectiveness of steel and glass construction. The judges were particularly...
Ciba Polymors, Duxford
A two-storey 2,150 mts.square office development designed and built by Yorkon in only 18 weeks and can be adapted easily to future client requirements. The client appointed Yorkon on the basis of its experience and track record of handling projects of a similar size and quality. One of the practical...
Westcars Saab Showroom Glasgow, Scotland
A high profile site in Glasgow's city centre provides the location for a new car showroom, service workshop and office complex for Saab dealers Westcars. McEwan Smith Architects won the competition for the project, and have provided a dramatic high-visibility building that ably does justice to the site. The main...
The Gateway Development Port Talbot, South Wales
Baglan Energy Park in Port Talbot, South Wales, is an industrial development where tenants will draw electricity from an on-site power station. The Gateway Development forms the entrance beacon to the park, and was designed to make a striking statement about innovation, energy efficiency and the sustainable regeneration of a...
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