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This paper is an extension of a paper by the same author published in The Structural Engineer for May 1968. Two aspects of the problem which were not dealt with in the previous paper are treated.

This paper describes the planning and construction of the various buildings and structures forming the steelworking facilities backing up the shipbuilding operations in the new shipbuilding dock at the famous Harland and Wolffs shipyard on Queen's Island,..Belfast. A general description of the various production Operations is given throughout the text. The design conception and the solutions adopted for the vast new buildings is discussed, and a description of the main construction and erection methods is given. W.G.N. Geddes, Graham Kinder and Archibald McGilp

Dr. R. A. Swann (Cement and Concrete Association, Research and Development Division): ‘I would like to describe briefly the two models which Mr. Lee has referred to.'