Viewpoint: BIM: what's the point?

Defining the boundaries of responsibility for structural engineers' duties, further calls for simplifying safety margins in Eurocodes, and some thoughts on fire engineering in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy are discussed.

This interesting, well-illustrated book will be useful to engineers as a means of knowing what is important to consider in a holistic risk-based design against different natural hazards, but it is not a design guide, concludes Gerard Canisius.

Stephen Hargreaves discusses three evolving areas of practice that bring their own risks.