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There has been a visible shift amongst clients, developers and architects, with increasing focus on the sustainability of a building and the materials required for its construction.

March 3, 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

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

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

fire testing steel PIR composite panel MAIN

What tests are used to measure the fire performance of...

At Tata Steel we use LPCB and FM Approvals for the best independent assessment for the applications (building types) that our products go into.

October 31, 2019

How do the August 2019 amendments to ADB2 effect steel...

Dame Judith Hackitt’s review (Building a Safer Future: Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, published in May 2018[1]) of fire safety regulations

October 31, 2019

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for Dummies

The attributes of steel make it well suited to circular economic use and highly sustainable. It’s durable, flexible, adaptable in use, and at end-of-life.

October 29, 2019

Designing sustainable buildings for disassembly and re...

Steel is 100% recyclable while maintaining quality. In addition, steel components can be reused as building components.

October 29, 2019

Trisobuild Horizontal Wall 3D render system build up

What is a systems approach to building?

A systems approach to construction means focusing on how components in the building envelope work together as a whole, rather than how they perform in isolation

October 10, 2019