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The Structural Engineer, Volume 77, Issue 17, 1999
Computers are becoming an integral part of most facets of the construction industry from conceptual design to maintenance planning. Their influence on structural design has been particularly dramatic, where software is available to assist analysis and design, and drawings are routinely produced on computer aided draughting (CAD) systems. Peter Gardner
The Government has set a challenging agenda for the construction industry, with a plethora of initiatives, which even Construction Minister Nick Raynsford has described as ‘almost too many - some might say an overload of initiatives’. However, they have, in his view been necessary to begin the long process of modernising the construction industry following the Latham and Egan reports. Kathy Stansfield
Movement in clay Rodney Higgins has usedpart of his holiday, he tells us, to catch up on back numbers of The Structural Engineer: most commendable! Evidently, his reading extended more widely, and he writes: Having recently read the new BRE Digest concerning the influence of trees in clay soils on low-rise buildings, I was reminded of an experiment I undertook on a subsidence claim following the 1989-90 drought.