Viewpoint: Runway beam 'serviceability limit state' – deflection or slope?

John Parker finds this collection of papers to be something of a mixed bag, with some very useful and well set out, but others less so. Overall, though, he concludes that it would make a good addition to the library of any engineer designing high-rise buildings.

We have Fairtrade foods, why not 'fair-trade' construction materials, or even fair-trade construction contracts? asks Pete Gates in an article discussing the wider impact of our actions as engineers, and considering the advantages of quantifying and measuring our impact.

Synopses of the latest papers accepted for publication in the Institution's new research journal, Structures . Access to Structures is free to all during 2015.