Verulam (readers' letters – October 2017)

Peter Sparkes provides some background to the recent article on the strengthening of the Hammersmith Flyover, describing the investigations that triggered the strengthening programme.

Young structural engineers want variety, flexibility, recognition and challenge in their early careers. But above all they are eager to become chartered, as Jackie Whitelaw found out when she spoke to three members of the Institution's Young Members' Panel.

This month we present another question from the Institution's Structural Behaviour Course, looking at deflection of a portal frame.