Examples of Modern Buildings With Particular Reference to the .Application of Reinforced Concrete. D

T 1. INTRODUCTION. THE author’s first impression on arriving in Mandalay was that the buildings there were subjected to a concertina action resulting in bending stresses causing the cracks which had, in some cases, been sufficiently serious to merit the reconstruction of the building. This impression was supported by the type of cracks found. F.L.D. Wooltorton

This month's letters include the answer to a two-year-old mystery wall query and the Venezuela earthquake and the role of no-fines concrete.

The building control regime in Scotland provides a level of rigour that Victoria Tinney finds reassuring; two years since establishing her own practice in Glasgow, she talks to Helena Russell about the Scottish building warrant system and the power of sketching.