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Britain) Limited | 1 Trafford Wharf Road | Trafford Park | Manchester | M17 1BY | www.hilti.co.uk 0817786 297x210 NSC.indd 1 18/2/09 10:39:50 CONTENTSMARCH 2009 VOL17 NO3 26 These and other 15 Editor’s comment Steel is the obvious choice for designers looking to minimise the carbon steelwork articles can content of structures, writes Nick Barrett. be downloaded from the New Steel Construction 16 News Corus and the BCSA launch Target Zero, a project aimed at achieving zero carbon website at www.new- buildings. steel-construction.com 11 The latest Market Shares Survey has confirmed again that steel dominates the multi storey building frames market. 12 Part of a £120M educational contract, one of West Dunbartonshire’s new schools is the innovatively designed St Peter the Apostle High School. 14 Ground conditions and programme costs led to the choice of a steel framed car park for a shopping centre extension in Fareham. 16 A traincare maintenance facility has been built at New Cross to serve the East London overground railway extension. 18 One of Europe’s most sustainable distribution centres has been built at a new logistics park at Chatterley Valley in Staffordshire. 22 The Target Zero project will research five building types in order to improve energy consumption and achieve zero carbon buildings for the future. 24 The latest in NSC’s Case for Steel series examines the sound economics associated with steel construction. Cover Image The Haymarket Hub, 26 An arrangement of steel trusses has allowed a new commercial development to be built on Newcastle-upon-Tyne Client: Nexus Closegate Projects jv top of Newcastle’s Haymarket Metro station. Architect: Reid Jubb Brown Architecture Steelwork contractor: 28 An old concrete viaduct on the busy A34 is being replaced with a new weathering Cleveland Bridge steel structure. Steel tonnage: 950t 30 A range of assessment services which cover all aspects of steel construction is available from SCI. 34 SCI’s Edurne Nunez Moreno explains the Eurocode Green Book on simple connections. 36 40 Years Ago Our look back through the pages of Building with Steel features the Yorkshire Television Studios. 38 Advisory Desk The latest advice from SCI - AD 332 - examines the toughness of bolts. 38 Codes and Standards 40 BCSA members 42 SCI members NSC March 2009 3 Reassuringly Richard Lees Steel Decking Ltd Moor Farm Road West, The Airfield, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 1HD, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1335 300 999 Fax: +44 (0) 1335 300 888 Email: [email protected] www.rlsd.com 4 NSC March 2009 MARCH 2009 VOL17 NO3 Building towards NEW STEEL CONSTRUCTION zero carbon www.new-steel-construction.com EDITOR Steel and sustainability go hand in hand. The case for selecting the Nick Barrett Tel: 01323 422483 [email protected] most recycled material in the world for constructing buildings, bridges DEPUTY EDITOR Martin Cooper Tel: 01892 538191 and other structures is robust; steel can be proven to deliver benefits [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITOR in all the key sustainability categories - environmental, social and Ty Byrd Tel: 01892 524455 economic. [email protected] PRODUCTION EDITOR Andrew Pilcher Tel: 01892 524481 That steel has always been quietly delivering sustainability benefits is [email protected] PRODUCTION ASSISTANT widely appreciated among designers, but there is still a gap between Alastair Lloyd Tel: 01892 524536 [email protected] embracing the commitment to improving sustainability and knowing NEWS REPORTERS exactly how best to do it. Corus and the BCSA have combined with Mike Walter, Victoria Millins ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER delivery partners, Faber Maunsell, Cyril Sweett and the SCI to fill that Sally Devine Tel: 01474 833871 [email protected] gap with a £1M investment that will provide the data needed to inform sustainable designs of non domestic buildings, including schools, PUBLISHED BY The British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd warehouses, offices, supermarkets and mixed use developments. 4 Whitehall Court, Westminster, London SW1A 2ES Telephone 020 7839 8566 Fax 020 7976 1634 Called Target Zero, the project is a key part of the steel sector’s support Website www.steelconstruction.org Email [email protected] for the government objective of reducing carbon emissions to zero in The Steel Construction Institute the construction of such buildings by 2019. Designers who have an Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7QN interest in achieving the best sustainable performance will take note. Telephone 01344 636525 Fax 01344 636570 Website www.steel-sci.org Email [email protected] The three-year project will examine these building types with a view Corus Construction and Industrial to generating fully costed demonstrations of how to achieve the three PO Box 1, Brigg Road, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire DN16 1BP Telephone 01724 404040 Fax 01724 404224 highest BREEAM ratings and meet the anticipated changes to Part L of Website www.corusconstruction.com the Building Regulations. The first report, due in summer, is certain to Email [email protected] spark rather more than a flurry of interest. It shows how schools can CONTRACT PUBLISHER & ADVERTISING SALES be designed with steel frames to generate annual savings that could Barrett, Byrd Associates Linden House, Linden Close, add up to £165M a year off the national schools heating bill. As well as Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8HH contributing to an improved environment, that is a sum that could be Tel: 01892 524455 www.barrett-byrd.com better spent on bringing modern schools – which have been proven to substantially benefit children’s educational prospects – on-stream EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Dr D Tordoff (Chairman); Mr N Barrett; Mr D G Brown, SCI; years earlier. Mr M Crosby, Capita Symonds; Mr R Gordon, Mace Ltd; Mr W Gover, Consultant; Mr R Harrison, Glentworth Fabrications Reports on the other sectors will then be released at three monthly Ltd; Mr A Palmer, Buro Happold; Mr R Steeper, Corus; Mr O Tyler, Wilkinson Eyre; Mrs K Lloyd, Corus; intervals, so soon there will be no excuse of ignorance for failing to Mr M Thompson, Mott MacDonald The role of the Editorial Advisory Board is to advise on the overall style take full advantage of the sustainability benefits that steel is delivering and content of the magazine. daily to projects of all types and sizes. New Steel Construction welcomes contributions on any suitable topics relating to steel construction. Publication is at the discretion of the Editor. Views expressed in Corus has also invested in developing a new methodology for this publication are not necessarily those of the BCSA, SCI, Corus or the Contract Publisher. Although care has been taken to ensure that all information contained calculating the embodied energy for steel sections that takes account herein is accurate with relation to either matters of fact or accepted practice at the time of publication, the BCSA, SCI, Corus and the Editor assume no responsibility for of the fact that steel is multicycled – which means that it can be any errors or misinterpretations of such information or any loss or damage arising from or related to its use. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form recycled over and over without any loss of its original qualities. without the permission of the publishers. Figures for the amount of CO2 per tonne of steel have been calculated for sections and plate. CHANGES TO THE MAILING LIST If you wish to notify us of a change: Non Members Non Members of either the SCI or the BCSA The outcome will be a new reservoir of knowledge made available by please telephone Corus on 01709 825452 Members BCSA Telephone BCSA on 020 7839 8566 the steel sector to designers that will help them improve operational Members SCI Telephone SCI on 01344 636525 energy consumption and reduce the embodied energy of structures. When sustainability is the target, the ammunition is steel. All rights reserved ©2009. ISSN 0968-0098 The British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd Nick Barrett - Editor NSC March 2009 5 NEWS Steel construction industry aims for zero carbon buildings The BCSA and Corus have launched highest BREEAM rating and meet the a major £1M initiative to help zero anticipated changes to Part L of the carbon buildings become a reality. Building Regulations. Known as ‘Target Zero’ the Beginning with the educational project will provide designers with sector, the five building types will the guidance they need to meet the be investigated in sequence with emissions reduction targets towards comprehensive guidance on each the aspiration of zero carbon by appearing every three months from 2019. this summer onwards. Five major building types will be BCSA President Richard Barrett looked at: schools, warehouses, said: “The schools study has already offices, supermarkets and mixed use.