Structural Awards 2019: Winners and commendations

Richard Lankshear explores ways in which structural engineers are uniquely equipped to help tackle the UK's housing shortage.

This month's letters consider the restoration of Notre-Dame cathedral, the rising cost of insurance cover for engineers, subsidence terminology in insurance reports, lateral stability and other topics.

A specialist contractor design item that is usually outside the responsibility of the structural engineer. However, in order to assess a truss design, the engineer needs to understand the theory underpinning it.