What Every Structural Engineer Needs to Know about Construction Adjudication - Including You!

The PFF's revised Code of practice for the safe erection of precast flooring has been written to help everyone involved in designing, planning, using or erecting these products to understand the practicalities. P.A. Harris

Despite the unpopularity of collateral warranties with architects, engineers and contractors alike, there can be little doubt that, for the time being at least, warranties are here to stay. This article seeks to explain why that is the case and identifies some of the key considerations which need to be addressed before parties sign up. A. Rawston

Factors of safety in Codes Alasdair Bed, from Leeds, has returned to the fray and writes: Colin Taylor’s invitation (Verulam, 16 September) to a game of pingpong with him and Alan Weller is tempting (if we could find a suitably shaped table!), but the correspondence on the derivation of the BS 5950 safety factors had a rather more serious purpose.