All articles published in Issue 8 (April 2011) of The Structural Engineer.
Publish Date – 19 April 2011
John Carpenter sets out the lessons learned from a recently published final report on the 2005 Buncefield Oil Depot explosion and subsequent fire.
A report on a Durham World Heritage Site renovation; a heritage restoration project preserving historic fabric with minor refurbishment.
Ian Gibb, Principal Materials Engineer at URS Scott Wilson, highlights the right and wrong way to specify concrete under the current standards.
This paper reports on the philosophy of and background to fabric formwork before techniques for the design, optimisation and shape prediction of fabric formed concrete beams are presented.
This month's letters discuss renumeration, moonlighting and builder's software.
Further correspondence has been received from Dr Stuart Matthews at BRE regarding 'Robustness and the relevance of Ronan Point today' by Tony Jones and Mike Bussell.