All articles published in the June 2014 issue.
(NB Technical Guidance Note Level 2, No. 12 contained within this issue was updated in October 2016. For the updated article, see the individual article entry for this issue.)
Publish Date – 29 May 2014
Winner of the Kenneth Severn Award 2014, Natasha Scott cites Visiting Professor schemes, apprenticeships and compulsory industrial experience for students, as some of the ways in which these two branches of the profession could work more closely.
Authors from Arup report on a redevelopment project that balances sensitive restoration and adaption of a historic building, with the design and construction of a sculptural form fabric roof.
This short article provides an overview of the formal, recorded process used to control work which is identified as potentially hazardous.
Browne Jacobson’s James Arrowsmith provides some guidance for those looking to recover losses incurred during the course of their work.
Steel portal frames, in particular, are a cost-effective structural system to support building envelopes requiring large column-free spaces.
The first in a ‘steel construction’ sub-series, this article discusses the often competing demands on the structural designer to balance frame cost against architectural demands and the cost of other building components, such as curtain walling.
In situ options tend to be used on projects where the speed of construction is not critical, or where the lower costs of the in situ works justify a slightly longer programme.
Fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) are increasingly used to retrofit concrete structures due to their many desirable properties. Researchers from the University of Exeter report on a series of experiments that apply nonlinear elastic wave spectroscopy to concrete beams strengthened with externally bonded FRP, in order to detect the onset of failure.
Roma Agrawal is using her rarity as a young, female engineer to front campaigns on television, in the papers and on billboards that raise the profile of an engineering career. More professionals should do the same, she tells Jackie Whitelaw.
Letters this month include discussion on: wind pressures, live loads standards and the Chartered exam pass mark.
Institution Fellow, Alasdair Beal, questions the lack of technical detail in this book by two concrete experts.
(NB The authors of this book, Costas Georgopoulos and Andrew Minson, challenge Alasdair Beal's review in a Viewpoint article published in July 2014.)
Robert Thorne is impressed by the narration and illustration of a book charting this engaging period in London’s structural history.