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Dixon, R;Taylor, P
The Structural Engineer, Volume 71, Issue 18, 1993
The Building Regulations - to be treated with caution? In his paper ‘The Building Regulations safe span tables for timber members’ published in The Structural Engineer for 18 May, the author, Dr J. B. Bellamy, expressed reservations regarding the adequacy of some of the guidance contained therein with respect to the design of sitecut roofs. Owen Hope, of Bradfiwd, tells us that, prompted by this article, he has borrowed from an architect friend a copy of ‘The Building Regulations, explained and illustrated’. This has resulted in his casting doubt on the validity or adequacy of the treatment accorded therein to a number of other matters: The timber tables are very comprehensive but fraught with traps for the unwary. There is no mention of trimmer beams, continuous spans, etc. Verulam
Howard Taylor will succeed Jack Waller as President of the Institution 1993-4 at an Ordinary Meeting at Institution headquarters on 7 October 1993. The handover will be at 6 pm when the new President will deliver his Presidential address ‘What was Troy to this?’, the full text of which will be published in The Structural Engineer in November.
Eurocode (EC) 3 is a new steel design Code for structures to be erected in the European Community and in other countries whose standards organisations have become members cf CEN. This paper studies some of the chunges which will be fuced by engineers designing to the Eurocode rather than to BS 5950. Some comparisons are also given of the results of designs to both sets of rules. A.D. Weller