Steel Construction News 1/2021 ECCS NEWS
ECCS member news ECCS welcomes a new member: PIKS – Polish Chamber of Steelwork
European Steel Design Awards 2021: Call for entries is open!
The Polish Chamber of Steelworks is a self-regulatory organization established in June 1996 by 115 founding members associating, in different periods, 125–150 companies of various size, ownership status and activity profile, including: – Steel structure manufacturers and assembly companies, – Companies cooperating in production and distribution of steel, aluminium systems and lightweight casing, technology and fasteners and welding materials as well as deliveries and services with respect to corrosion pro tection and fire safety, – Scientific, research, design and specialist entities. For more information see www.piks.com.pl/en
List of National Constructional Steel Days in 2021 Czech Republic: Czech Steel Conference 4 November 2021, www.caok.cz Denmark: Danish National Steel Day 11 November 2021, www.steelday.dk Norway: Norwegian Steel Day 11 November 2021, www.norskstaldag.no
The submission of national projects for the 2021 European Steel Design Awards 2021 has been launched. The ESDA Ceremony which will be held in Paris in September. This years call addresses as usually all kinds of steel structures but fosters also a special award for bridges. To participate, see your national steel construction association or send your request to eccs@steelconstruct.com.
Switzerland: Swiss National Steelday+ 7 October 2021, Bern, www.steelday.ch Turkey: Turkish Constructional Steel Day 24 November 2021 Eurosteel – 9th European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures Sheffield 1–3 September 2021, eurosteel2020.com
Projects must be submitted by 30th April 2021.
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ECCS R&D activities
RFCS projects FAILNOMORE – mitigation of the risk if progressive collapse in steel and composite frames under exceptional events
The main aim of this project is to produce a set of practical and user-friendly design guidelines for mitigating the risk
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of progressive collapse of steel and composite structures subjected to exceptional events such as impact and explosions. This will be based on recent research projects and available normative documents in order to propose a common design methodology to be implemented in the European practice. The main dissemination will be through a design manual including worked examples, which will be drafted in various national languages, as well as a series of training workshops in 11 European countries. The project started on 1 July 2020 and is coordinated by University of Liège.
More information at www.steelconstruct. com/EUProjects/Failnomore
FREEDAM + Valorisation of knowledge for FREE from DAMage steel connections The project FREEDAM (RFSR-CT-201500022), regarded the design and testing of innovative connections equipped with friction dampers able to withstand without any damage the seismic events. FREEDAM+ aims at the valorization, the dissemination and the extension of the results to a wide audience.
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