Metsec Purlins Outpace Competition at Glasgow Velodrome For the roof construction of a multi-sport facility in Glasgow’s East End, the technical expertise of light gauge structural steel specialist, Metsec, was sought after to enable optimum structural support for standing seam cladding, high density insulation and acoustic boards. Inaugurated in 2012 to play host to track … Read more

Project: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Category: Education Products: Side Rails Scale: £200m project. 27,000 m2 building including 60 tonnes of Metsec light gauge steel C section side rails Metsec has supplied 55 tonnes of light gauge steel C section side rails to take the secondary cladding on eight towers included in a £200m state-of-the-art new … Read more

Project: Wimbledon Centre Court Roof | Product: Purlins | Architect: HOK | Engineer: Capita Symonds | Fabricators: Watson Steel Structures and voestalpine Metsec A roof doesn’t get much more complex than that created for Wimbledon’s Centre Court. The design, from architects HOK, includes a retractable centre portion with an intricate and unusual fixed perimeter. The … Read more

Metsec supplied 41 tonnes of light gauge galvanised steel zed purlins for the highly complex curved roof of the new OCS Stand at the Brit Oval cricket ground in south London. The new stand has increased the ground’s capacity from 18,500 to around 23,000. Structural challenges on the £25 million stand’s roof included curvature in … Read more