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Issue 10

Browse the content of the October 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer.

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Complete issue (October 2020)
All the articles from the October 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer.

Publish Date – 16 October 2020

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Setting carbon targets: an introduction to the proposed SCORS rating scheme
Will Arnold, Mike Cook, Duncan Cox, Orlando Gibbons and John Orr present SCORS – a proposed carbon rating scheme for structures – and encourage engineers to adopt carbon targets for their projects.

Publish Date – 16 October 2020

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What do we mean by efficiency? A holistic approach to reducing embodied carbon
Ben Gholam describes the development by Price & Myers of a parametric benchmarking tool to allow engineers to produce scheme designs with the lowest embodied carbon.

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Rationalisation versus optimisation – getting the balance right in changing times
Ian Poole explores ways to improve the utilisation ratio of designs, and encourages engineers to challenge assumptions that favour rationalisation over optimisation.

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Business Practice Note No. 35: Dealing with unauthorised changes on site
In this note, Simon Pitchers provides advice to structural engineering professionals on how to proceed if they become aware that an unauthorised change to the design has taken place on site.

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An introduction to the COBie standard
The Institution’s BIM Panel provides a brief overview of the COBie information exchange standard, which is intended to reduce interoperability issues between different software systems.

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Stone as a structural material. Part 4: Contemporary loadbearing stone buildings
Webb Yates, in conjunction with The Stonemasonry Company, has begun to develop a building system that would be a low-energy alternative to more common steel and concrete-framed structures. In this article, we hope to demonstrate how a creative approach to engineering design can utilise stone to exploit its inherent strengths.

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Profile: Sinéad Conneely and Laura Hannigan
Four thirty-somethings are just over one year into life as the Simple Works structural practice. Jackie Whitelaw talked to two of the founders, Sinéad Conneely and Laura Hannigan, about branching out on their own, and shaping the future.

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Viewpoint: The box-girder failures 50 years on – lest we forget
Ian Firth looks back at the box-girder bridge collapses of 1970 and considers the applicability of the lessons learned to structural engineers today.

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Viewpoint: Structural engineering – a view from Jamaica
Alfrico Adams, a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, looks back at over 60 years of structural engineering in Jamaica and the Caribbean, and the development of local educational and professional bodies in the region.

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Book review: Durability of reinforced concrete structures
This concise book provides useful information and valuable guidelines for engineers looking to extend the service life of concrete structures, concludes Long-yuan Li.

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Verulam (readers' letters – October 2020)
This month's letters comment on Mike Cook's Gold Medal Address, matters of ethics, questions of climate change and carbon, and the need for sway frames in domestic opening-up projects, among other topics.

Publish Date – 16 October 2020

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Diary dates (October 2020)
A roundup of online events and activities available from the Institution. 

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Spotlight on Structures (October 2020)
Editor-in-Chief, Leroy Gardner, has selected a paper on ‘Performance of a novel slider device in multi-storey cold-formed steel modular buildings under seismic loading’ as his ‘Featured Article’ from the latest issue of Structures.

Publish Date – 16 October 2020

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