Light Steel Frame News

Remagin Drives Affordable Housing in Greater Manchester Retirement Community

14th November 2024
Leading offsite construction manufacturer Remagin, part of Etex Group, is playing a key role in developing a new affordable retirement community in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The project, called Sydney Grange and set to open later this...
 

The new Building Safety Act amendments construction should know about

12th November 2024
The government has just brought into force three sections of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act that amend the Building Safety Act and have implications for construction. Douglas Rhodes and Cecilia Busby explain these changes. ...
 

NBS and CPI set to improve the quality and standard of product information within the construction industry

6th November 2024
NBS, a leading specification and construction product platform for the construction industry, announces its partnership with CPI Ltd, the independently governed, not-for-profit...
 

BCSA publishes light-gauge steelwork specification

30th October 2024
The British Constructional Steelwork Association has published a light-gauge steelwork specification to promote light steel usage
 

Joint Managing Directors Acquire Frameclad

29th October 2024
Light steel specialist Frameclad, announced that following a transitional period, Joint Managing Directors Nicholas Teagle and Martin Jamieson, have acquired the company from founder Mark Munns and his wife Diane. Back in...
 

Launch of the National Light-Gauge Steelwork Specification (NLSS)

23rd October 2024
To support the more widespread use of cold-formed, galvanized light steel, the British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) BCSA has launched the first National Light-Gauge Steelwork Specification (NLSS), to support...
 

Launch Of The First Production Management Platform For Steel Framing

22nd October 2024
Framecad launches Nexa, the First Cold-formed Steel Production Management Platform Nexa opens up access from all design software to FRAMECAD roll-forming equipment and delivers customers complete end-to-end visibility and control of their...
 

Leveraging Light Steel Panelised Construction To Address Skills Shortages

21st October 2024
Panelised steel frame buildings combined with intelligent software models and AI could help the industry tackle the impacts of the ongoing construction skills shortage, says Andy Higson, Business Director of Intrastack. With...
 

LSF Integrated System Accelerates Delivery Of 171 Homes

18th October 2024
The use of British Offsite’s light steel frame solution has seen the build programme of a housing estate in Bury St Edmunds reduced by around five months. The Tayfen Court residential project features the installation of 513...
 

FAA Installations Secures Million Pound Contract on Student Scheme

16th October 2024
FAA Installations has secured the contract to install the light steel framing system on a planned 82-bed student accommodation building in York. The scope of FAA Installations work is to install passive fire protection, internal partition...
 

Kingspan Appointed to Supply Light Steel Frame to £85M School Development

15th October 2024
Kingspan has been appointed to design the light steel frame for a new grammar school development in Scotland. Working in conjunction with Morrison Construction and Ryder Architecture, the Paisley Grammar School development is expected to cost...
 

Vacant Office Building to be Converted to Hotel Using LSF

11th October 2024
A vacant office building in East London is set to become a new Travelodge, with light steel frame being utilised in the retrofit. Barnes Construction is leading the way on the retrofit, with GA Interiors installing firestopping, drylining and...
 

London School Building ‘Unlike Any Other’ to be Delivered Using LSF

8th October 2024
Light steel specialist Stanta has lent its hand to the construction of a major expansion to a junior school in Kingston-upon-Thames. Construction is nearly complete onsite at Burlington Junior School to deliver major...
 

Skills shortage could be allayed by offsite steel frame construction

4th October 2024
Steel frame construction, consisting of panelised steel frame buildings being built offsite, coupled with AI models, could relieve symptoms of the skills shortage, says Intrastack The latest Construction Skills Network outlook, published in...
 

Construction Of New Railway Station Underway Thanks To LSF

3rd October 2024
A brand new multi-million-pound railway station is under construction, with a light steel frame system integral to the build. Craft Interiors has been given responsibility for the installation of the light steel system at Cambridge South...
 

 

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