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The Structural Engineer, Volume 77, Issue 9, 1999
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.
Large buildings in urban areas are of complicated design. They are built on irregular sites containing old buildings which have to be demolished before construction can start. Planning and statutory requirements must be met. Nobody expects the management of one of these projects to be easy. Dr Malcolm Moncrieff
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