City of London Reconstruction - Collaboration Between the Engineer and the Architect. Discussion of

MY first duty is to thank the members electing me to the highest position in the Institution. These are difficult times for the for all organisations such as ours and it will be difficult for me to give the time necessary to carry out all the duties devolving upon me, but, as I told the members when I succeeded to the Chair, I shall do my best. W.K. Wallace

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.