Design and Construction of Sydney Tower

Links for torsion and for shear Mr. L. Wadsworth has followed the correspondence on the form of links for resisting torsion recorntnended in CP 110, which he questioned in his letter published in July last year. He writes: The two attempts to explain the inconsistency in CP 110 regarding the demand, when torsion is being resisted for type 74 links rather than type 60 (Mr Cronin, February 1983, and Dr. Swann, May 1983) are singularly unconvincing. Verulam

This viewpoint describes the operation of a team which has been formed in order to design and supervise the construction of a fully-serviced building of over 20 000m2. The principles are equally applicable to smaller projects, but some of the roles described would be carried out by one person rather than several. Richard Gardner

Dr. Roy Rowe, CBE, Director-General of the Cement & Concrete Association, will succeed Clifford Evans as President of the Institution 1983-84. The ‘handover’ comes on Thursday 6 October 1983 when, at an Ordinary Meeting at Institution headquarters, commencing at 6pm, Dr. Rowe will give his Presidential Address ‘To research, communicate, and codify-well!’ The full text will appear in The Structural Engineer in December next.