Emerging from the post-Covid outdoor learning landscape, weathering steel has created a sculptural pavilion canopy to span a teaching and performance space at an Irish grammar school.

A complex sculpture, supporting six Porsche sports cars, is an exemplary application of steelwork efficiency and design.

Connected to the National Cycle Network, a new river crossing in Worcester has created a sustainable commuting option for the city’s northern neighbourhoods.

Occupying a previously vacant City of London plot, 21 Moorfields spans an important underground station with an architecturally detailed exposed steel frame.

Helping to deliver a significant increase in UK electric vehicle battery production, a gigafactory in Sunderland has set new benchmarks in modular and efficient construction.

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.

The RESTOR project excited the judges with its potential for facilitating the reuse of steel sections – and won the Delivering Sustainability with Digital Innovation category at the Digital Construction Awards 2025.

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.

The GIIG (formerly the Government & Industry Interoperability Group, now part of nima) has given a cautious welcome to the recent announcement by Autodesk and Nemetschek that the two software giants have entered an interoperability agreement.

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.