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McIlmoyle, R L
The Structural Engineer, Volume 11, Issue 11, 1933
THE results of the Portland Travelling Scholarship for 1933 were announced at the General Meeting of the he was awarded the Neale Bursary of the Institution on the 26th October. It will be remembered that the Directors of the British Portland Cement Association Limited, generously agreed to establish this scholarship value;E306; :he competition to be divided into two sections-one for £150 to be held in 1932, and the second for £150 to be held in 1933. The subject for the 1933 competition was the design of a concrete sports stand. After careful consideration, the Adjudicators made the following awards, which were confirmed by the Council :-
THERE is at the moment considerable controversy contrasting the relative merits of fire-resisting and timber floors, especially as applied to the ordinary dwelling house. In our present state of financial stringency the question of cost is naturally a very important factor in the discussion, and it is proposed to make the relative cost of timber and fireresisting floors the essential feature in this article. W.G. Shipwright
THE floors of multi-storeyed framed buildings represent 6 per cent. to 10 per cent. of the total cost of the structure, ignoring encasing of the main framework, and recently more attention is being given to endeavours to reduce this cost without reducing the resistance to fire or increasing the transmission of sound. Donovan H. Lee