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The Structural Engineer, Volume 75, Issue 20, 1997
It is an honour to be elected President of our Institution and to be given the opportunity to serve the members. Our Institution will celebrate, in 1998, 90 years of service to the public and to industry. I consider it important, however, to set my election in the context of the tragic event which occurred in October 1996. The death of David Alsop, a Vice-president of the Institution and a long-serving member of Council and other standing committees, has affected all of us. The Institution was confronted with a sudden and tragic situation which required difficult decisions in a relatively short period of time. I am conscious of my position and am aware of the need to continue policies developed over the last few years. S. Thorburn
Mr President, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a very great honour to be here this evening on such a special occasion for the Institution and to have a chance to share with you some thoughts and ideas about what might be in store for you as structural engineers within and without the Institution, and the degree to which those concerns for the environment now impinge on all our lives. Jonathan Porritt
Dr A. J. M. Soane (F) (Bingham Cotterell) I have two questions on this very interesting project. First, how did you get on with DIN? Secondly, how did you get on with the Prufingenieur or - perhaps more importantly - how did the Prufingenieur get on with you?