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I would like to dwell on the recent correspondence on the subject of fee competition, but first would like to support, without reservation, all that Mr Wex expressed-views that any practising consulting engineer would be hard pressed to fault. Mr. Peter Campbell

Shortcuts Continuing the occasional contributions offering ‘shortcuts’ of one sort or another, we now have a simplified procedure for calculating the central deflections of simply supported beams, offered by Mr Brian Edmondson of Wrexham. Verulam

In the developed countries the problems of inner cities are among the most interesting that engineers now have to face. They also offer them one of the greatest challenges. Solutions are rarely purely technical but also have to deal with the social dimensions and the economic challenge of revitalising areas blighted by a change in the conditions that originally made them viable. S.B. Tietz and R.S. Narayanan