Becoming a sole practitioner consulting structural engineer

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

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.

This paper presents aspects of the structural engineering behind The Icon Hotel, a 42-storey tower set to form part of the Dubai Promenade in Dubai.