Steelwork Applied to Cinema Construction

The Adjudicators of the Dorman Long Travelling Scholarship had an extremely candidate difficult task in deciding the awards this year as the general standard of the entries was a very high one. Thirty-seven candidates took part in the Competition, the first half of which was held on June 20th, at ten different centres in Great Britain, namely, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne,Swansea and Middlesbrough.

A SPECIAL meeting of the Institution of Structural Engineers was held at 10, Upper Belgrave Street, London, S.W.1, on Thursday, May 7th, 1931, at 6.30 p.m., when the subject of “The Practical Design of Steel Compression Members” was discussed. Mr. R. H. Harry Stanger, F.C.S., A.M.Inst.C.E. (President of the Institution) was in the chair.

THE object of this short paper is to set forth for the purpose of discussion, the assumptions made and the procedure followed in order to solve the problem of the erection of this type of structure on a site such as is described hereafter. J. Owens