Issue 2

All the articles from the February 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer.

2020 President Don McQuillan – the Institution's 100th president – sets out his vision for the year in his inaugural address.

Rob Paul discusses factors which can affect a firm’s reputation and steps that can be taken to improve this.

This article highlights a report from the latest CROSS newsletter on disproportionate collapse assessment.

Designing a post-fixed anchor (either resin-based or mechanical) can be a convoluted process - principally due to the number of variables involved when considering its use in any given situation. 

This article discusses the technical challenges in the design of Xiqu Centre, a world-class venue and theatre, in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District. 

This book offers a good introduction to the philosophy and drivers for off-site manufacture, but may be less relevant to those interested in the structural and constructional issues that will affect the next generation of this form of manufacture.

This month's letters consider the future of the built environment, the sustainability of timber as a building material, and offer further views on subsidence, among other topics.

The Library aims to cover all aspects of structural engineering – design, construction and maintenance – including technological developments. Although books, by their nature, take time to research, write and publish, the following recent additions to the Library collection address some emerging technologies.

Upcoming events at HQ and around the Regional Groups.

Editor-in-Chief, Leroy Gardner, selects an article on structural behaviour of prefabricated stressed-skin engineered timber composite flooring systems as his ‘Featured Article’ from Volume 22 of Structures.

This month’s question from Martin Ashmead concerns bending moments and shear forces in a single-storey, single-span, industrial building framing system.