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The Structural Engineer, Volume 66, Issue 17, 1988
Peter Campbell will succeed Keith White as President of the Institution 1988- 89 at an Ordinary Meeting at Institution headquarters on 6 October 1988. The handover ceremony begins at 6.0 pm when Mr Campbell will give his Presidential Address, ‘Structural engineers-some of their wider responsibilities’, the full text of which will be published in The Structural Engineer in November.
The President: One of our concerns about building in urban areas in recent years has been the subject of water table, although it is not mentioned in the paper. I believe that, in Birmingham, the general rise of the water table, since extraction of water for industrial purposes has ceased, is at the rate of about 3m p.a. One of the consequences is to alter our thinking about pile design, from making them long and thin to making them short and fat. Would you care to say what considerations you gave to the changing water table.
Our Institution was one of the foundation members of the CPD in Construction Group which has an influence and membership stretching across the whole construction industry and its several professions. It is appropriate to remind all classes of Institution membership of the Group’s definition of CPD as ‘the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties throughout the practitioner’s working life’. Professor A. Bolton