The Design of Steel Framed Buildings Without Applied Fire Protection

As a learned society, our Institution deals with engineering competencies and avoids acting as a trade union. Personal rewards remain a private concern. But many bewildering changes triggered by the recession and our entry into the European Single Market justify looking at the marketplace as it affects our profession. We cannot count on the traditional continuity of jobs or even on being employed by companies run by other engineers. R.M. Amodia

Francis Walley was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and the University of Bristol. He was awarded a BSc in 1940, a MSc in 1945, and a PhD in 1968. R.F. Hughes

This paper describes the design and construction of a carpark for the Council of the Borough of Crawley, W Sussex. The structure is not notable for any ground-breaking originality but, in the designers’opinion, it demonstrates ingenuity in exploiting material properties in the pursuit of the client's expressed wishes. J.S. Fraser