Profile: Ingrid Chauvet

This month, readers share their thoughts on seismic strengthening in New Zealand, the need to teach earthquake engineering in the UK, Brexit and the Eurocodes, and reputational damage.

CIRIA’s new guide to embedded retaining wall design is a welcome update of a popular publication that will likely gain the same high level of acceptance within the industry as its predecessor, believes David Puller.

Several readers have questioned the solution provided to the buttress stability question in March’s ‘And finally…’ section. Here, Thilo Willems and author Hugh Morrison debate the issues. Allan Mann then adds a commentary on behalf of The Structural Engineer Editorial Advisory Group.