Diary dates (March 2025)

Lei Wang, Associate Editor, has chosen a paper studying the bearing capacity of steel tubes reinforced with high-ductility concrete as the Featured Article for Volume 68 of Structures .

This month's letters discuss protected titles, designing by hand and steelwork design responsibilities.

A previous Conservation compendium article, 'Part 7: Imposed load in historic buildings: assessing what is real' , looked at assessing realistic live loads in historic buildings. This article considers the philosophy of factors of safety and how they should or should not be applied to older structures.