All the articles published in the November 2016 issue of The Structural Engineer.
Publish Date – 1 November 2016
This paper contrasts current deconstruction practices and wood reuse practices in the USA and UK, and presents recommendations on how they can be encouraged in the UK.
This paper describes the structural engineering design for the South Stand expansion of the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, which was led by BuroHappold Engineering.
Our series from Griffiths & Armour continues by examining the issues involved in bringing a recovery action following settlement of a professional indemnity claim.
In the second part of the series, John Carpenter examines the impact of CDM 2015 and temporary works on permanent works design.
This article provides a brief summary of the impact of the most common forms of degradation on the safety of structures. This is illustrated by examples of where deterioration has caused collapse.
This article looks three examples of using a permanent works designer in temporary works.
This captivating book on the value of sketching – illustrated with a range of case histories – is a must-have for engineers at any level, concludes Paul Perry.
With an enormous quantity of easily accessible information, this practical book deserves to be widely adopted for timber scheme designs, says Richard Harris, although a greater focus on timber's sensitivity to moisture movement would have been welcome.
The examples in the book will be useful to engineers looking to set up models in Abaqus to investigate the collapse behaviour of structures, believes Roger Davies, but less so to the more general reader.
This month's letters return to the subject of the Eurocodes in the light of Brexit, consider the future of engineering and architecture, and ask for readers' help in identifying the youngest ever person to pass the Institution's CM Exam.
A round-up of events at Institution HQ and around the regional groups.
In this section we shine a spotlight on papers recently published in Structures – the Research Journal of The Institution of Structural Engineers.
The Institution's E-library was launched in June this year, for the first time offering members worldwide a Library service regardless of their location or the time of day.
This month we bring you another question from the Institution's Structural Behaviour Course. The topic is trusses. The answer will be published in December.