BS 5502 in Use-Code of Practice for the Design of Buildings and Structures for Agriculture

Floor loadings for industrial buildings Mr R. C. Hairsine queried (March 1981)the design load of 24 and 36 kN/m2, and we now publish some of the responses. Verulam

With the expected emergence of a new Engineering Council, and in the knowledge of competing claims among the various Institutions, the Council have authorised the publication of the following statement. Based on a draft prepared by Professor Sir Alan Harris, CBE (Past President), it sets out to inform the uninformed of the way in which the Institution serves and supports its members in the practice of their particular skills as structural engineers.

Mr T. N. W. Akroyd, MScTech, LLB(Hons), CEng, FIStructE, Member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister, is unique in the sense of being the first lawyer-and a barrister to boot-to be President of the Institution. He is, by education and training, an engineer and a lawyer and, by occupation, a consulting engineer and farmer. Taking office on 8 October next, Mr Akroyd will deliver his Presidential Address ‘Progressive collapse revisited (the problem of structural failure)’ at 6.00 pm that evening at the Institution, 11 Upper Belgrave Street, London SWlX 8BH.