Reducing Design/Construction Disputes

CO2 emissions Dr John Bellamy has also addressed this subject and writes Regarding CO2 emissions correspondence in Verulam 16 February 1999, I support Professor Bolton’s call for more timber to be used in construction. Growing trees removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but, at the end of their lives, the carbon dioxide returns to the atmosphere as the wood rots or is burnt. Using the timber in buildings postpones that time for a century or more. Structural engineers have a role to play in countering global warming.

Braehead is a £170 million regional shopping and leisure centre, being built as the focus of a major regeneration project including major new road and public transport links on a 200 acre site along the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow. It includes a new riverside park which will stretch along the waterfront, linked to exhibitions at the Maritime Heritage Centre, a new national museum.

Glass remains an elusive material for many engineers, distrusted because it is brittle, underused because useful design data is so hard to find. This is especially vexatious because it is a material much sought after by architects. Chris Jofeh