Verulam (readers' letters – November/December 2017)

Iain MacLeod is impressed by this book discussing the latest developments in equilibrium models, which will prove invaluable to postgraduate students, researchers and industrial practitioners alike.

Malcolm Turpin takes issue with the view that the structural engineering and construction sector is the ‘poor man’ of innovation, arguing that change is largely effected through an evolutionary approach of incremental steps.

This month's winner is Alasdair Massie of Peter Brett Associates, who receives an e-book of his choice from the Institution’s current catalogue. Alasdair's sketches reproduced here illustrate how part of a chimney might be removed and re-supported.