Practical Design of Steel Compression Members

The Adjudicators of the Dorman Long Travelling Scholarship had an extremely candidate difficult task in deciding the awards this year as the general standard of the entries was a very high one. Thirty-seven candidates took part in the Competition, the first half of which was held on June 20th, at ten different centres in Great Britain, namely, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne,Swansea and Middlesbrough.

The importance of close co-operation between the Architect and the Structural Engineer cannot be over-emphasised, as only in this way can the maximum economy of construction and adequate artistic expression be attained. S. Willis

THE object of this short paper is to set forth for the purpose of discussion, the assumptions made and the procedure followed in order to solve the problem of the erection of this type of structure on a site such as is described hereafter. J. Owens