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

Practical design and construction procedures are outlined for a three-span continuous composite bridge deck, incorporating the use of curved plate girders and high strength concrete using cement/PFA replacement. T. Walter Reed

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.