The 10.5 hector site is currently under construction in the east end of Glasgow, which is part of a huge regeneration of the area. Once completed, the arena will be amongst the largest indoor sports facilities in Europe, with the Velodrome covering 90.2m x 116.4m and the Indoor Sports Arena covering 92.4m x 110.7m. Combined, the arenas will hold 9000 spectators during the games.

3,250t of steelwork has gone into the build, with both main structures built upon a steel framework. Barnshaws Section Benders have carried out the curving of over 100 sections at various sizes, including 356 x 406 x 393 columns up to 24m long on a Y-Y axis, plus 300 x 200 x 8 RHS, 150 x 100 x 6.3 RHS, 254 x 254 x 89 UC and 200 x 100 x 8 RHS. The work took just 2 months to complete, on behalf of Watson Steel Structures.

The waveform shape of its complex steel roof flows
dramatically upwards in a smooth curve from one end to the other and also side to side.

Zaha Hadid designed building was engineered by ARUP and managed by contractor Balfour Beatty.

The extremely complex arrangement of metal bending needed highly accurate forming to assist in the equally complex structural engineering and fabrication undertaken by Rowecord Engineering. It is most certainly a lasting legacy to the Hoppe family whom will shortly have their second family member Ian, as President of the BCSA following on from the industry legend, Ben Hoppe.

The new ESAB machine works in perfect combination with the new range of Roundo Plate Rolling equipment and the sub-merged arc welding facility.

Barnshaw Plate Benders offers the UK’s best source for welded cylinders with the new facilities installed in 2011. Press Braking is also a service offered at this site.

For enquiries call Ian, Trevor, John or Nigel on 01902 880250.

Plates can be rolled on a quick turn around for a variety of shoring applications.

Call

Trevor Steward for plate rolling and piling cylinders – 01902 880250

Andy Tura for civil engineering projects – 01902 880848.

Scottish projects call John Chalmers 01698 421010

Manchester and North England projects call Tony Scholes on 0161 320 9696

Designed around a 70 x 50m indoor artificial pitch, the training centre will feature a transparent ETFE roof, and will act as an integral part of the landscape. The centre will contain state of the art facilities, such as a gym, media centre, medical facilities, hydrotherapy/ swimming pool, and a learning centre.

Barnshaws were commissioned by Watsons to undertake a significant amount of tube bending work for the £45m project.  Sections curved include 305 columns, 323.9 x 16 tubes, and 152 tees all multiple radius bends in the same length bar. Metal bending for the build was carried out across 4 months, after Barnshaws won the contract based on their technical expertise.

The 16 storey building will be the first phase of The Co-Op’s 20 acre site regeneration, and includes 320,000 sq ft of open plan office space. The building will become the first in Manchester to achieve the highest BREEAM rating, designed with a hollow centre and sloping upper levels.

The building was constructed using steel to allow for large column free floors and future flexibility. The three vertically and horizontally rounded elevations are formed by an outer double skin facade.

Beam Cambering and curving in the same bar is an extremely difficult process without the correct metal bending equipment. Barnshaws new 3d CNC bending machine allows beams to be curved in two axes in a single process. Other projects completed using this process are the new monorail at Heathrow airport. 400 x 200 RHS sections were curved in both axes.

To see progress on the build, visit the Co-Op’s live webcam from the construction site at:

http://www.co-operative.coop/estates/Developments/New-Head-Office/The-Building/Webcam

Barnshaws’ purpose built multi section induction bending machine was able to curve the 533 x 210 x  82 Kg/m  beam on the x-x axis to a 10300mm outside radius, a job which would previously have been fabricated from plate. The bend was achieved by producing a specialist-heating coil, along with a re-designed rear clamp method, which led to an overall more efficient production procedure.

Barnshaws manufactured specialist engineering tooling to ensure the successful and accurate bending of all 32 sections.

The curved metal sections will go on to become an integral part of the new £4.9m youth arts, performance and media centre on the sea front at Redcar, a complimentary feature of the Redcar regeneration scheme. Delivered by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, the centre’s striking design is an evolution of a sea shell concept, emerging from discussions with local young people.

The spiral shaped roof was fabricated and installed by ECS Engineering services using spiraled tube supplied by Barnshaws Metal Bending in West Midlands. It extends from the 8^th floor to the 19^th floor. ECS used Graitec Advance Steel CAD package to assist in the design for fabrication.

Architect for the £23.5m project was O’Connell East Architects.

Mace is the main contractor on the project, utilised modular construction techniques to deliver an accelerated completion.

The building contains 435 student rooms with en-suite facilities and features buildings at different heights to respond to neighboring lower residential and commercial buildings and nearby amenities.

Barnshaws Induction Bending facility is proving to be popular and the Offshore Europe 2011 Exhibition in Aberdeen.

With interest from Japan, Austria, Abu Dhabi and Germany the 2011 show is proving a success for Technical Sales Engineer Matt Holt of Barnshaws Induction Bending and Stuart Giffen from Barnshaws. Hamilton, Scotland.

Other areas of interest were the blast walling production and heavy cylinder production.

For details of our Induction Bending capacity please visit http://www.barnshaws.com/induction_bending.php

Hot Bending The bending of pipe or shapes through hot methods e.g. Induction Bending

Hard Way The most difficult axis to bend a section. Often referred as the X-X in beams / channels / Rectangular Sections.

Hump A rounded protrusion or bulge on the intrados / extrados.

I

I.D. / I.R. Inside Diameter / Radius of the material.

Intrados The inside arc of the bend.

J

Joggle A profile with 2 or more bends in a row in which each bend is in the opposite direction as the previous.

M

Minimum Wall Thickness The wall thickness specified on the fabrication drawing or computed in accordance with the applicable specification as the minimum acceptable for temperature and pressure application.

Machining Allowance An amount of material added to the section to be curved to allow the section to be machined back to an exact size. Careful note of the tolerances will help select the correct amount needed. Generally the larger the section the greater the allowance needed.