Diary dates (September 2017)

This month, Hugh Morrison MIStructE poses a question on bending and deflection for a steel floor beam.

The latest issue of Structures, Volume 11 (August 2017), has recently been published. Editor-in-Chief, Professor Leroy Gardner, has selected three highlights. The first paper, by Burgoyne and Mitchell, has also been nominated as the ‘Editor’s choice’ and will be available free of charge to all readers for six months. Access to Structures is free to Institution members (excluding Student members) as one of their membership benefits, with access provided via the ‘My account’ section of the Institution website. The journal is available online at: www.structuresjournal.org

This month's letters scrutinise the President's views on site supervision, raise some interesting questions in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, discuss the benefits and drawbacks of BIM, as well as commenting on concrete design to the Eurocodes and British Standards, fracking and various other topics.