ITW (Illinois Tool Works) www.itw.com has acquired Cullen Building Products www.cullen-bp.com and its subsidiary companies in Canada, France and Ireland. The Glenrothes family business has established itself as a leading company in the development and manufacture of ancillary components for connecting timber to timber and timber to masonry. (11 November 2008)

New BS guide for specifying precast concrete masonry units

BS 6073-2_2008 Precast concrete masonry units. Guide for specifying precast concrete masonry units has just been published by BSI. It gives guidance on specifying precast concrete masonry units conforming to BS EN 771-3 and BS EN 771-4.

28/11/2008 ~ Comparing design outcomes from EC6 with design outcomes from BS 5628

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Volume 09

Construction on Contaminated Land

Flexural Strength Behaviour Normal to Bed Joint of Plastered Concrete Block Masonry

Theoretical Determination of Flexural Strength of Unreinforced Masonry

Collapse Modes of Masonry Arch Bridges

On the Modulus of Elasticity for Masonry

Creep Measured in a Brick Masonry Tower Block

A Non-Linear Finite Element Model for Reinforced Masonry Structures

Further Data on the Screw Pull-out Test for the In-situ Measurement of the Strength of Some Masonry Materials

Numerical Evaluation of Bond Tests on Masonry

Controlled Humidity/Salt Dose Tests for the Estimation of the Durability of Masonry Ties

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ITW acquire Cullen Building Products

New BS guide for specifying precast concrete masonry units

28/11/2008 ~ Comparing design outcomes from EC6 with design outcomes from BS 5628

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