Book review: Advanced modelling techniques in structural design

This month's letters include further discussion on the concept of 'reasonably practicable' and on web buckling of steel beams.

David Sanderson, Product Development Manager, Engineering Structures Division, Trimble, gives his perspective on developments in structural engineering software and asks whether it is time to starting thinking in terms of 'design and analysis', if not just 'design'.

Tim Lucas of Price & Myers envisages a not-too-distant future in which automation is extended to assembly on site, giving engineers full control of the building process and licence to explore their wildest design dreams.