Presidential Tour 1994

Patrick Dowling will succeed Howard Taylor as President of the Institution 1994-95 at an Ordinary Meeting at Institution headquarters on 6 October 1994. The handover will be at 6 p.m. when the new President will give his Presidential Address ‘Communication or isolation?’, the full text of which will be published in The Structural Engineer in November.

Wind flow around tall buildings We also publish from Graham Stark’s letter some thoughts stimulated, as he tells us, by having had to ‘wait, rain-soaked, at a windy bus shelter at Waterloo’. Verulam

This paper describes the events leading to the award of the contract to supply and deliver the highly complex tubular-steel wing structure of the passenger terminal building at Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan, and the subsequent manufacture and shipment. J. Locke