Book review: Design of durable concrete structures

Letters this month raise concerns about the forces cited in an article published in May 2015 on assessing the capacity of the Grand Parade stone balustrade in Bath, UK; as well as considering structural safety margins and code discrepancies in relation to steel web buckling.

This book provides a valuable snapshot of the recent state-of-the-art in this important field, says John Bungey, and will be useful to students, researchers and forward-thinking practising engineers alike.

This new technical guide provides a useful source of cost data for pricing concrete bridges – particularly formwork and falsework – explains Matthew Myerscough, who has trialled it himself on a recent project.