The Design of Slender Masonry Walls and Columns of Geometric Cross-Section to Carry Vertical Load

Hogging moment reinforcement in T-beams We have had three responses to Mr A. E. Archibald ’s tale of woe (reported in our August issue) from his graduate assistant days about the non-acceptance by his chief of his proposal to spread hogging reinforcement in T-beams out sideways into the slab. Mr E. A. F. Robinson, of Surbiton, expresses his reservations about Mr Archibald’s proposals because of the shear stresses that would be induced in the slab. Verulam

On 28 October 1987, in the elegant surroundings of the Cafe Royal in London, a l-day symposium addressed the problems, both real and perceived, of high-rise housing. Speakers from a wide range of backgrounds considered the past and future for this once popular, but now much deprecated, style of residential development. Cyril Morgan OBE(formerly, Secretary of the Institution), who chaired the morning session, began by flattering the assembled gathering, suggesting that most were too young to remember the Ronan Point collapse with any clarity!

Mr C. R. Macdonald (Secretary-General, National Baha’'i Assembly of the United Kingdom): The Baha’'is have very good reason to be grateful to the Flint & Neill Partnership who have, I suppose, become specialists in the construction of Baha’'i temples. There will of course be many more. Each of the 148 national Baha’'i Councils has an earmarked temple site, and each one of those will be the mother Baha’'i temple of that particular country, so one can visualise a succession of Baha’'i temples mushrooming in the future, and I hope that Flint & Neill will be associated with many of them.