Becoming a sole practitioner consulting structural engineer

This month's letters discuss business guidance, moonlighting and professional indemnity insurance.

In this Viewpoint, Peter Gates raises the issue of structural engineers being forcefully imposed with the role of Principal Designer under the Building Safety Act on domestic alteration projects, and urges the profession to use a planned review of the act as an opportunity to seek reform.

Four thirty-somethings are just over one year into life as the Simple Works structural practice. Jackie Whitelaw talked to two of the founders, Sinead Conneely and Laura Hannigan, about branching out on their own, and shaping the future.