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Assessing the environmental impacts that are associated with the manufacture and use of construction materials, over their life cycle, has been of interest to the construction industry since the early 1990s.

February 17, 2020

Supporting the US steel pipeline industry

Last year, annual crude production from the United States reached a record 11 (mb/d), representing the largest increase by any country ever, with annual production forecast to rise by 1.4 mb/d this year and…

February 12, 2020

Tata Steel wins three contracts with TechnipFMC

Tata Steel, one of Europe's leading steel producers, has secured three separate contracts with TechnipFMC for work in the UK North Sea

February 12, 2020

Building a sustainable future

Sustainability is probably not the first thing you contemplate when you think of steel, but it is an extremely sustainable material. Then there are the products that are made from steel.

January 31, 2020

39% of Dutch Architects don’t believe that constructio...

Research carried out by USP Marketing Consultancy, Rotterdam showed that 39% of Dutch Architects still find it hard to believe that the Dutch Construction Sector will ever become completely circular – the…

January 31, 2020

The magnificent 7 reasons why steel is sustainable

Sustainability megatrends are shaping our world. In particular climate change, scarcity of resources, and demographic shifts. This is feeding into societal expectations which in turn drives policy frameworks…

January 31, 2020

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Steel tubes - it’s all in the corner

Why are corners so important and what can you do to improve your next project by paying more attention to the corners?

January 27, 2020

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Tata Steel's enhanced slab vertical shear model

One of the design criteria for composite slabs is the resistance to vertical shear, and although not traditionally critical some very conservative design models were used.

January 14, 2020

Steel and the circular economy

The Circular Economy (CE) is a phrase arising out of the work of Walter R Stahel, an architect who, in a paper from 1982 titled ‘The Product Life Factor’ first described a model for a closed-loop economy…

January 31, 2020

Best practice for warehouse construction and building ...

The need for distribution centres and warehouse construction is at an all-time high - with the rise of online shopping this brings with it an increased need for warehouse space and large distribution centres…

January 8, 2020

How to fix decking to a support structure

The correct fixing as specified by the fastener manufacturer, to suit the application of fixing to cold rolled thin gauge purlins, hot rolled steel sections or timber supports.

November 29, 2019

Professional support for your roof deck project from s...

Tata Steel maintains a friendly technical help desk which is freely available to all Architects, Engineers and Contractors to assist with all aspects of RoofDek trapezoidal roof deck and liner tray design.

November 29, 2019

Specifying steel tube ensure availability MAIN

Specifying steel tube - how to ensure availability

When finalising your structural hollow section design, incorporating hot finished normalised S355NH steel tubes, do you then consider whether they’re going to be readily available?

November 20, 2019