Book review: Disaster risk reduction for the built environment

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.

Kate Leighton asks whether BIM is really here to stay, and whether enough attention is being devoted to the long-term storage and accessibility of BIM files.

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