Light Steel Frame News

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...
 

T Lott Complete Works at Reardon Court Extra Care Home

27th September 2024
St Albans-based T Lott Ltd has completed two major projects in London using light steel frame. The construction firm recently completed Reardon Court Extra Care home in Enfield, North London and a new residential development, the Ecole project...
 

How steel framing software is revolutionising modern construction

26th September 2024
In today's rapidly evolving construction landscape,...
 

New Haymarket Yards Passes Key Milestone

24th September 2024
The project to build new high quality student accommodation in Haymarket Yards in Edinburgh passed a major milestone as Ogilvie Construction recently completed the structural steel framework of the building. The steel framework...
 

Car dealership To Be Redeveloped Using LSF

18th September 2024
A car dealership in Chigwell, East London is to be transformed into a mixed-use development, with a light steel frame at its core. The development is being undertaken by APC Building Services, with the light steel frame system...
 

LSF Installer Secures Contract for Bristol Housing Development

13th September 2024
BR Hodgson Framing, an approved accredited installer of Metframe, voestalpine Metsec's structural loadbearing building system, have secured a contract to provide a number of apartments for a development in Bristol for clients Legal &...
 

Partners In Steel

12th September 2024
LGSF are specialist providers of light steel frame solutions and work with a range of clients to provide the latest in quality panelised and volumetric building design. LGSF has been providing solutions in steel for over 30 years....
 

 

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