Book review: Concrete in extreme environments

This month's letters consider potential carbon savings in domestic foundations; discuss building control and planning procedures again; ask questions about failures and forensic engineering; and encourage engineers to promote their achievements better.

Dimitris Theodossopoulos is impressed by the excellent demonstration of applied research into recycling buildings in this ground-breaking book.

Alastair Hughes looks ahead to the next generation of Eurocodes and advocates a discretionary approach to the application of consequence classes for structures.