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The Structural Engineer, Volume 61, Issue 4, 1983
The nuclear debate and professional responsibility The current political activity and public concern with problems of nuclear policy has brought the following questions on professional involvement from Mr. R. Cheek: Should we, as constructors of the modern environment, be warning of its likely devastation in an atomic exchange? Verulam
Background Defects arising in a building or other type of structure to which the public may have access, may put the public at risk in terms of injury or even death. These defects may be either inside the building or related to the exterior. In many cases the actual structure of the building may not be in question, but doubts may exist on the behaviour of non-loadbearing walls, suspended ceilings, claddings both internal and external, fixings and fasteners that may be carrying loads, and similar items incorporated in the building or structure. C.W. Pearson
While the treatment of deflection in CP110 has been generally welcomed as an improvement on the rather rough-and-ready spaddepth rules in CP114, it is very cumbersome to apply in practice. The designer cannot check the spaddepth ratio until section design is almost complete and, if a problem arises, he/she has little guide as to what scope there is for solving it by redesigning with a reduced steel stress.