FUTURE OF STEEL
ITS USE IN BUILDING Many experiments designed to reduce the costs and increase the efficiency of steel-framed buildings are described in the second report, issued recently, of the Steel Structures Research Committee of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, says the “Daily Telegraph." The committee, of which Sir Clement Hindley is chairman, began a five-year programme of investigations into the design of steel structures, including bridges, in 1929, and its final report and conclusions will be published in September. The British Steel Work Association is co-operating. In the present report, it Is stated that as a result of complicated mathematical and experimental investigations It will be possible for the committee “to make suggestions for considerable improvement in efficiency of design.” Discussing the report with a representative of the “Daily Telegraph,” Mr C. J. Kavanagh, director of the British Steel Work Association, said that pre-sent-day steel construction was still governed to a large extent by legislation containing many provisions which would be suitable to conditions of about thirty years ago. “The London County Council,” he said, “now has a committee studying the revision of the London Building Act. When the results of the Steel Structures Research Committee’s investigations are available they will be passed on to the L.C.C. committee for consideration and incorporation into its regulations. Eventually we hope there will be a new national code of steel work practice. “The steel constituent of an average modern office building is only about 10 per cent, of the total cost. The other 90 per cent. Is made up of enclosure walls, fire encasements, and many other items. We have investigated as many as possible of these other constituents, and I believe our final report will be of fundamental importance not only for Steel-constructed buildings, but for town planning as well.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 11
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302FUTURE OF STEEL Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 11
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