Issue 9

Contents page

The Structural Engineer

Complete issue (September 2022)

All the articles from the September 2022 issue of The Structural Engineer.

Publish Date – 8 September 2022

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Competence, the UK Building Safety Act, and the Institution of Structural Engineers: a timely update

IStructE CEO Martin Powell provides an update on how the new Building Safety Act will affect the profession and sets out a proposal for a specialist Building Structures Register.

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Delivering steel's circular economy potential

Steel reuse is now a viable low-carbon option for all parties to a project, as this article explains from the perspectives of contractor, steel producer, fabricator, engineer and client.

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CROSS Safety Report: Concerns over robustness of some 20-year-old buildings

This CROSS report highlights the challenges associated with commercial and programme pressures which must be balanced against the need to produce a safe design.

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Safe erection of steel structures

This primer from Allan Mann presents an introduction to the practicalities and demands of erecting steel structures.

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Jewel Changi Airport: a destination in its own right

How the world's largest gridshell-enclosed building was designed and constructed in Singapore. 

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Barriers to low-carbon design: what are they and how can we overcome them?

Claire Thomas explores how her practice has fared regarding low-carbon design solutions, and asks what the construction industry can do to encourage low-carbon outcomes.

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Verulam (readers' letters – September 2022)

This month's letters cover snow loads, responses to last month's article by Alan Rathbone on plastic design of portal frames and the work of CROSS Australasia.

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Book review: Steel architecture: The designed landscape of modernity

Angus Macdonald's latest book provides 21st century context to modern architecture, from the framework of the Crystal Palace through to high-tech buildings vying for attention today.

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Diary dates (September 2022)

A round-up of events at Institution HQ and around the regional groups.

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Spotlight on Structures (September 2022)

Editor-in-Chief Leroy Gardner has chosen an article on semi-rigid moment-resisting connections made from composite cold-formed steel-rubberised concrete and its development as the ‘Featured Article’ from Issue 40 of Structures. The article will be free to access for six months.

Publish Date – 8 September 2022

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