Author: Byfield, M P;Nethercot, D A
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Byfield, M P;Nethercot, D A
The Structural Engineer, Volume 75, Issue 21, 1997
I cannot claim to be an authority on the subject on ‘women in construction’. Therefore I have subtitled this article ‘a personal view’. That is what it is - the perspective of a 30-something consultant engineer on the lower rungs of the management ladder. My views are based on my own experiences, talking to colleagues and the contact I have had with many schoolgirls over recent years talking at seminars to encourage them into engineering, or showing them what it’s really like through work-shadowing. Jo da Silva
The Building Act 1984, which generally came into force on 1 December 1984 in England and Wales, allowed provision to be made for the approval of persons to give a certificate that the proposed work, if carried out in accordance with the deposited plans, will comply with the Regulations. B.A. Cox
Mr J. K. Botterill (M) Further to the extensive correspondence in Verulam during 1995, I am still waiting for a revision, or at least guidance notes, giving a clearer and more complete set of safety factors for BS 8002 Earth-retaining structures, to enable engineers and technicians without specialist soil knowledge to design everyday retaining walls consistently.