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The Structural Engineer, Volume 60, Issue 11, 1982
The first major policy statement of the Engineering Council was made in London recently. The Council’s Chairman, Sir Kenneth Corfield, at a press conference to announce the details of his intentions, stressed that there was an urgent need to attract some of the best intellects into engineering, since it was not in the long-term interests of a company or an individual that first-class engineers better suited to the engineering function should be attracted into management for reasons of pay and status. The Council, he said, would consult with a wide range of organisations in an effort to change fundamental attitudes towards engineers and technicians throughout industry. The full text of the Council’s policy statement is given below: Introduction The performance of engineering in the United Kingdom is paramount to the nation’s future industrial, economic and social prosperity. The revenue earned from the products we make, the services we supply, and the business we generate, relies extensively on the quality of our engineering expertise and the development of our manufacturing capability.
The formal corntnent of the Institution on the consultative document Private certification for building control, issued by the Department of the Environment, is set out below. The observations reflect the long-standing policy urged on the Department by the Institution to vary the system of Building Regulation enforcement.
Mr E. H. Thorpe (M) (South West Water Authority): It has been my privilege to work alongside Mr Walmsley since 1974, during which time limit state design and BS 5337 were introduced and applied to the programme of investigation into the many alternative ways of designing service reservoirs and the considerations to be taken into account. From the paper you will have seen that, in one particular aspect, we have not adhered to BS 5337 and that is in our use of ‘option 2’ for the determination of thermal steel areas for reservoir roof flat slabs. Perhaps Mr Walmsley would like to make further comments on this point.