Profile: Roma Agrawal

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.)

Letters this month include discussion on: wind pressures, live loads standards and the Chartered exam pass mark.

If your dream job involves castles and stately homes, it's unlikely you would turn your attention to structural engineering. But as Kim Rochard explains, it’s possible to combine the two in the specialised field of conservation engineering. Helena Russell finds out more.