Codes for the BS£££, EC999 or Codes-U-Like?

The price of progress
Structural codes of practice have always been controversial but today the biggest issue for many practising engineers is not philosophy but cost. In tune with the spirit of the times, BSI has ‘built up its core market’, i.e. locked customers into QA schemes which require them to buy every new code edition or revision which is published, is ‘publishing more codes than ever before’, i.e. dividing up codes into innumerable parts and issuing ‘new editions’ instead of amendments, and, it seems, is intent on charging its captive customers more money for its codes than ever before.

A.N. Beal