Links to Free Downloads
Tata (formerly Corus) "blue book", provides section properties and member capacities of steel sections to Eurocodes and British Standards;
www.tatasteelconstruction.com/en/design_guidance/the_blue_book/
Tata Eurocodes Design Guidance documents, including Steel Building Design Data P363, which has data on the compression (for columns) and bending capacities of steel sections;
www.tatasteelconstruction.com/en/design_guidance/structural_design/eurocodes/
Approved Document A, gives standard details which are deemed to meet the structural requirements of the Building Regulations, the details are just one way of achieving compliance and other equally valid methods may be used. The previous 1992 edition has some useful timber span/load tables which have been omitted from the 2004 edition.
www.planningportal.gov.uk/buildingregulations/approveddocuments/parta/documenta
Free Padstone Calculator;
www.steelbeamcalculator.co.uk/freepadstonecalculator.aspx
Free Standard Beam to Beam Connection Details;