President's review: Reflections on a year as President of the Institution

Chief Executive Martin Powell reflects on some of the Institution's activities and accomplishments over the last 12 months and looks ahead to the exciting projects and plans in place for 2013 and beyond.

Letters this month include discussions on the carbon embodiment in buildings, builder's design software, structural assessment of LPS and concerns between timber safe load tables.

Jon Morris advocates seeing beyond initial embodied CO 2 figures and to think in terms of whole-life carbon content when considering the sustainability of a project.