Conservation compendium. Epilogue: The future of conservation engineering

This article aims to discuss some of the issues, challenges, tools and techniques available to the practising structural engineer when assessing existing structures.

This month's letters hark back to the advent of computer design and continue the debate over where responsibility lies when a fabricator designs the connections for a consulting engineer's steel frame.

In this article Philip Isaac, Dan Bergsagel and Sinead Conneely propose small, short, local design-and-build projects as an effective means of engaging students with engineering, and as a process which all members can get involved in.