Some Irregular Cases of Beam Loading in Limit Design of Slab and Beam Floors

As is customary at the first Ordinary Meeting of the New Year, the meeting of the Institution at 6 o’clock on Thursday 8 January 1970 will take the form of an open discussion. This year’s theme is the economic consequences of substantial claims-a subject of importance to all engineers and indeed to all in the construction industry. All members are invited to bring to the meeting, colleagues from the contracting industry from whom contributions to the discussion will be most welcome.

The paper describes the main features of the design and construction of three 74-storey blocks of flats for the Royal Burgh of Ayr in the Bison Wall Frame System, an industrialised load-bearing wall system using large floor and wall panels of precast concrete. D.H. Orme and S. Thorburn

Professor Arthur Bolton, Dr. I.D. Armstrong and Mr. J.F. Doyle: ‘Referring to the derivation of S we feel that the expression has an error resulting from a simple oversight.'