Verulam (readers' letters – March 2012)

One of the Institution's oldest Regional Groups has its sights fixed firmly on the future...

Simon Pole provides a personal view of the current Party Wall issues surrounding retrofit basements, and offers some suggestions for how both the Institution and industry might respond to the challenges.

This paper presents a simple theoretical model for large moment transfer for straight cylinders with grout connection between them. The study identified that urgent research is needed for analysing the behaviour of such connections that transmit large moments, in order to understand the size effects and fatigue effects.