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CDM Mr A. J. H. Davison has responded to Verulam S question regarding readers’ experience on the effectiveness of CDM. He writes from Arkley in Hertfordshire: Congratulations, Chartered Engineers, we are, yet again, lying on our backs with our legs in the air having our tummies tickled by bureaucrats. By this, of course, I mean the latest CDM Regulations. I feel compelled to write to your column after spending half a day, at no extra renumeration on an already cut fee, complying with the latest documentation known as the ‘risk assessments’ and telling a contractor what any competent contractor should already be perfectly aware of. Verulam

Brian Clancy will succeed Brian Simpson, OBE, as President of the Institution 1996-97 at an Ordinary Meeting at headquarters on Thursday 3 October. The handover takes place at 6pm when the new President will deliver his address ‘We, the members, are the Institution’, the full text of which will be published in The Structural Engineer in November.

In a similar pattern to last year’s presidential encounter, I met Brian Simpson towards the close of his year of office and on the eve of his departure to Canada for the fist leg of the annual overseas tour. The overall impression from this meeting was of the underlying healthy state of civil and structural engineering in the United Kingdom, despite the climate of recession which has dogged the construction industry over the past 4/5 years. John D. Allen