Issue 6

Contents page

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Complete issue (June 2020)

All the articles in the June 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer.

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Editorial: Climate emergency: adapting to change

Mike Cook, Chair of the IStructE Climate Emergency Task Group, introduces a new 'Climate emergency' section in The Structural Engineer.

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A framework for change

Mike Cook and Will Arnold outline the Institution’s approach to providing guidance on the climate emergency, discussing six key areas this guidance will fall into.

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The structural engineer's responsibility in this climate emergency

Will Arnold describes the role structural engineers can play in tackling climate change, by making informed design decisions and influencing other members of the project team.

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Nothing is better than something

Tim Ibell, James Norman and Oliver Broadbent challenge structural engineers to steer their clients away from a presumption of a new building.

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Finding a better balance

Three companies of differing sizes share their approaches to fostering an inclusive workplace and a healthy gender balance within their engineering teams.

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Business Practice Note No. 33: Developing a quality management system

Norman Train concludes his look at quality management systems by offering advice on how firms can set up a QMS.

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Stone as a structural material. Part 2: Traditional and reinforced stone stairs

By adopting a creative approach to structural analysis, design and detailing, the structural principles of stone cantilever stairs can be combined and extrapolated to design and construct more refined structures in myriad applications.

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Industry CPD: Steel and off-site construction

This CPD module, sponsored by Steel for Life, will look at the structural steelwork construction process with a focus on established off-site processes and practices and the benefits provided.

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The structure of the Grand Théâtre de Rabat, Morocco: from digital design to local construction

This paper describes the structural design, from concept to delivery, of the Grand Théâtre de Rabat in Morocco. 

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Profile: Kate Simonen

Kate Simonen has been promoting the cause of embodied carbon reduction in structures for the past decade through the Carbon Leadership Forum.

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Verulam (readers' letters - June 2020)

This month's letters discuss inspection of fire damage in buildings, floor loadings, building control processes and the benefits of remote learning, among other topics.

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Diary dates (June 2020)

This month we focus on e-learning opportunities, including new webinars on offer on the Institution website.

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Spotlight on Structures (June 2020)

As his ‘Featured Article’ from Volume 25 (June 2020), Editor-in-Chief, Leroy Gardner, has selected an article that presents a new design concept for the calculation of the local bending stresses in webs of retrofitted crane runway girders with a new boxed upper flange.

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The Drawing Board (June 2020)

This month Ron Slade has selected a sketch by Jialei Ding, produced for a bridge design project at university.

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