Users want to design buildings rather than understand new and unfamiliar codes of practice. Access Steel therefore concentrates on all the information needs for the design of:
Comprehensive coverage of non sway, braced, construction; the system that is most widely used, up to about eight storeys. The benefits of long span construction, where concrete cannot compete effectively, are a particular feature.
Comprehensive coverage of the forms of construction that underpin steel’s success in this sector:
- Portal frames constructed from rolled sections.
- Portal frames with variable I sections that are welded from plates.
- Trusses, supported on rolled section columns.
The information covers the entire superstructure, including purlins, side rails, stabilising and wind bracing and the cladding envelope.
Both single occupancy houses and multi storey, multiple occupancy apartment buildings are addressed. For the latter, light steel framing is considered for lower rise and hot rolled steelwork for higher rise construction.
For light steel framing, methods of construction extend from single elements assembled on site, to pre-assembled panels and modular construction.
For all construction, particular attention is addressed to acoustic requirements.
- Cost effective fire performance
Coverage includes all the strategic issues on fire safety, as well as the more conventional topics of active fire protection, passive fire protection and fire safety engineering.
These applications cover two thirds of the current usage of steel in European Construction.