Dame Judith Hackitt’s warning at November’s CIOB lecture about independent assurance for construction products was not new. In the same lecture 12 months earlier, Paul Morrell highlighted this point –…

Sir Robert McAlpine has been appointed by Tata Steel to construct an electric arc furnace at Port Talbot steelworks, under a construction management contract. McAlpine will be responsible for managing…

A new light-gauge steel specification offers help for housebuilders looking to accelerate delivery. By Nick Barrett.

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

Soaring from a plot bounded by two of the City of London’s busiest thoroughfares, 8 Bishopsgate is the UK’s tallest structure to achieve a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating.

The Sky Innovation Centre represents the latest phase in the redevelopment of the media company’s west London campus.

There has been a surge in demand for scrap steel recently – but there are better ways of reducing carbon emissions in constructional steelwork, Nick Barrett says.

Mace’s steel-framed Edenica office project at 100 Fetter Lane in London features the first use of Waterman’s ‘materials passports’ system – which could transform the industry’s ability to reuse materials. Martin Cooper reports.

The first of two giant steel girders was recently delivered to the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station site in Somerset.

steel-framed buildings Existing buildings can be reused and repurposed, rather than demolished in favour of new-build, and steel-framed structures provide many examples of how this is possible, writes Martin Cooper.

The shortlist for the 55th Structural Steel Design Awards (SSDA), jointly sponsored by BCSA and Steel for Life, has been announced.

BCSA is allowing non-members to sign up to its Register of Qualified Steelwork Contractors (Building) for the first time.

Flexibility, speed of construction and large column-free spaces mean steel is the preferred framing solution for the UK’s booming film and TV studio sector.

The British Constructional Steelwork Association has published Commentary for the National Structural Steelwork Specification for Building Construction 7th edition.

Researchers at Swansea University will work with Tata Steel UK to develop solar panels that can be printed onto buildings.

A proposal by Britain’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) to drop measures to limit the import of Chinese reinforcement steel are “utter madness”.

The steel sector has responded to post-Grenfell fire safety concerns with a new steel facade system, writes Jonathan Arnold.

Laing O’Rourke has installed the first 18t internal ‘super column’ in the north-west corner of Everton FC’s new Bramley-Moore Dock stadium.