Codes and Standards / Advisory Desk

New and revised codes & standards

From BSI Updates March 2020

BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN 10149-2:2013 PD 6695-1-9:2008

BS EN 1090-2:2018 – TC Hot rolled flat products made of high yield Recommendations for the design of structures to
Tracked Changes. Execution of steel structures and strength steels for cold forming. Technical delivery BS EN 1993-1-9
aluminium structures. Technical requirements for conditions for thermomechanically rolled steels
steel structures BS EN 10149-3:2013 BRITISH STANDARDS WITHDRAWN
No current standard is superseded Hot rolled flat products made of high yield
strength steels for cold forming. Technical delivery BS EN ISO 14713-2:2009
BS EN ISO 2081:2018 – TC Zinc coatings. Guidelines and recommendations
Tracked Changes. Metallic and other inorganic conditions for normalized or normalized rolled
steels for the protection against corrosion of iron and
coatings. Electroplated coatings of zinc with steel in structures. Hot dip galvanizing
supplementary treatments on iron or steel BS 476-4:1970 Superseded by BS EN ISO 14713-2:2020
No current standard is superseded Fire tests on building materials and structures.
Non-combustibility test for materials BS ISO 11971:2008
BS EN ISO 6507-1:2018 – TC Steel and iron castings. Visual examination of
Tracked Changes. Metallic materials. Vickers BS 476-10:2009 surface quality
hardness test. Test method Fire tests on building materials and structures. Superseded by BS ISO 11971:2020
No current standard is superseded Guide to the principles, selection, role and
BS EN ISO 7500-1:2018 – TC application of fire testing and their outputs
Tracked Changes. Metallic materials. Calibration BS 499-2C:1999 (R12) DRAFT BRITISH STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC
and verification of static uniaxial testing COMMENT – ADOPTIONS
Welding terms and symbols. European arc welding
machines. Tension/compression testing machines. symbols in chart form 20/30399840 DC
Calibration and verification of force-measuring BS ISO 630-2 Structural steels. Technical delivery
system BS ISO 16715:2014 conditions for structural steels for general
No current standard is superseded Cranes. Hand signals used with cranes purposes
BS EN ISO 14713-2:2020 BS 4190:2014 Comments for the above document were required by
Zinc coatings. Guidelines and recommendations ISO metric black hexagon bolts, screws and nuts. 15 March, 2020
for the protection against corrosion of iron and Specification
steel in structures. Hot dip galvanizing BS 4320:1968 CEN EUROPEAN STANDARDS
Supersedes BS EN ISO 14713-2:2009 Specification for metal washers for general
engineering purposes. Metric series EN ISO 14713-2:2020
Zinc coatings. Guidelines and recommendations
BS IMPLEMENTATIONS BS 5228-1:2009+A1:2014 for the protection against corrosion of iron and
Code of practice for noise and vibration control on steel in structures. Part 2: Hot dip galvanizing
BS ISO 11971:2020 construction and open sites. Noise
Steel and iron castings. Visual testing of surface
quality BS 5228-2:2009+A1:2014
Code of practice for noise and vibration control on ISO PUBLICATIONS
Supersedes BS ISO 11971:2008
construction and open sites. Vibration ISO 4987:2020
BS ISO 20887:2020
Sustainability in buildings and civil engineering BS 7121-2-1:2012 Steel castings. Liquid penetrant testing
works. Design for disassembly and adaptability. Code of practice for the safe use of cranes. Will be implemented as an identical British Standard
Principles, requirements and guidance Inspection, maintenance and thorough ISO 20887:2020
No current standard is superseded examination. General Sustainability in buildings and civil engineering
BS 9102:2014 works. Design for disassembly and adaptability.
Code of practice for safe working on lifting Principles, requirements and guidance
BRITISH STANDARDS REVIEWED AND platforms Will be implemented as an identical British Standard
CONFIRMED
PD 6688-1-7:2009+A1:2014
BS EN 10149-1:2013 Recommendations for the design of structures to
Hot rolled flat products made of high yield BS EN 1991-1-7
strength steels for cold forming. General technical
delivery conditions

AD 439: Transverse reinforcement in

composite beams
This Advisory Desk note has been produced to light mesh reinforcement has been used in EN1994-1-1 are based on the premise that the
reflect the publication in 2015 of P405 Minimum throughout the slab, as a ‘deemed to satisfy’ longitudinal shear resistance of the slab must be
degree of shear connection rules for UK construction approach, although BS 5950-3.1 and EN 1994- greater than the resistance of the shear connectors
to Eurocode 4. As a result, AD 241: Transverse 1-1 give explicit guidance than can result in a (i.e. the longitudinal shear force that can be
reinforcement in composite beams is redundant. requirement for additional reinforcement. transferred to the slab). Thereby the ability to
Transverse reinforcement in the form of mesh This updated Advisory Desk Note focuses on achieve 6 mm slip at failure is maintained, because
or additional loose bars is required in composite Eurocode design, although the principles also failure of the connectors will always be more
beam design to transfer the longitudinal shear apply to BS 5950 design so the guidance given critical. However, and this was the origin of AD 241,
force from the shear connectors (typically studs) may be readily adapted. the number of shear connectors found in many
into the effective width of the slab. Traditionally, The requirements for transverse reinforcement composite beams is greater than the number

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 50 years ago

FROM

Building
with
Steel
May 1970

Packaged buildings for cash and carry

Butler Buildings (UK) Limited, London office plant at Kircaldy, Fife. Cladding was supplied 120ft clear span 168ft along with 2ft x 24ft
at 113 Upper Richmond Road, SW15, are at by Butlers Canadian plant, although production width extensions to form a 168ft foot square
present engaged in a program for Crest Cash of this has now commenced in the UK. The building. Canopy as shown is steel 26G
and Carry Stores (Gallaher’s Limited) which building clad both in Monopanl 24/26G dual Butlerib and steel gutters and downpipes are
provides an interesting example of steel skin with glass fibre infill and Butlerib single used throughout.
buildings into one of today's growth businesses. skin sheeting backed with board insulation Crest Cash and Carry stores incorporate a
The building pictured is the recently shows the harmony achieved with burnished very high standard of shopfitting to provide an
completed Hull store. As with other Butler gold walls and parchment Butlerib roof. The attractive interior - at Hull this work was also
Buildings for Crest the architects were roof is insulated throughout with Butler 25 entrusted to Messrs Houltons using a variety of
Boissevan and Osmond, Epsom, and insulation blanket. materials which enhance the clean lines of its
construction of the complete package was by Erection time for the building was 42 days, steel frame.
Geo Houlton and Sons Ltd of Hull, Butler Builder- the entire project being completed by Houltons Other projects to the same specification
dealers for the area. B.B. (UK) Ltd, the European in 21 weeks. 85 tons of steel were used. The have been completed at Morley near Leeds
subsidiary of Butler manufacturing Co, Kansas primary structurals being plate steel, sheared where the Butler Builders were R.M. Thompson
City, the world's largest manufacturers of and welded with roll-formed secondary Ltd of Leeds, and Butler are at present engaged
pre-engineered metal buildings, supplied the structurals. on the construction of the Clayton, Manchester,
primary and secondary structurals from their This Crest store is one of Butlers LRF range store.

needed to achieve the required beam resistance. was originally written has been the publication AD 241 alongside the guidance in P405 could
Often, the design of composite beams is governed of P405. Covering composite beams with both therefore result in a certain amount of double
by serviceability limits, and they are not designed transverse and parallel decking, and considering counting. Moreover, when beams are designed
to achieve their full bending resistance. In such a wider range of variables than EN1994-1-1, it in accordance with P405 it is unlikely that the
cases the studs provided are needed in order to provides new rules for minimum degree of shear ‘old problem’ of being unable to accommodate
satisfy the rules for minimum degree of shear connection. In many cases the number of studs sufficient transverse reinforcement to provide a
connection, which are associated with limiting slip needed on a beam has dramatically reduced resistance in excess of that of the shear connectors
at the steel to concrete interface. So in terms of compared to the EN1994-1-1 provisions. It is will remain.
beam resistance alone, fewer studs could be used, worth noting that one of the variables considered By applying the rules in P405 (which appear in
and therefore less transverse reinforcement. is the beam utilisation in bending, with minimum numerous design software packages) there is no
AD 241 therefore proposed applying a degree of connection now varying according to: need for AD 241.

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reduction factor to the longitudinal shear force 2
MEd
that was a function of the applied moment Contact: Eleftherios Aggelopoulos
MRd
divided by the moment resistance. Tel: 01344 636555
As noted above, a big change since AD 241 Applying the original guidance given in Email: [email protected]

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