Site Investigations: Lessons From a Late Discovery of Hazardous Waste

Simple connections form a major part of many steel framed building structures. This paper reviews a fabrication company’s current design philosophy with regard to a number of the more commonly used connections. Elements of the design procedure outside the scope of present publications are identified and the important factors discussed. A.H. Pillinger

When I joined the industry in 1955, I was training to be a civil engineer. At that time, all the courses pointed in that direction and but for the fact that I never seemed to be able to fit in a year on site, I might have joined the ICE. D.M. Brohn

Trees are the greatest living things on earth, and as such the spreading oaks of England and the soaring conifers of Northern Europe and North America have long been the subjects of human awe, sometimes religious awe. But it was not until last century that an effort was made to consider what might limit the size, particularly the height, to which a tree could grow. Sir Alfred Pugsley