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The Structural Engineer, Volume 59, Issue 10, 1981
Interest in the architecture and engineering of new industrial buildings continues to grow. Underlying the design of Cummins' latest diesel engine factory was a vigorous search for a natural and clear architectural expression of its many functions. This involved the orchestration of a large multidisciplinary design team. Generous flexibility of layout, rigorous planning for structurehervices integration, consistent structural detailing, and concern for progressive collapse, all sffected the design, which is described here from the structural engineer's point of view. P.B. Higson and R. Hough
Quality of steel There has been some correspondence in this column concerning the variability of the strength of structural and rein forcing steel. Mr G. T. Collett takes the opportunity to point out another type of variation in quality: Regarding the quality of structural steel, I feel duty bound to warn other members of our recent experience. Remedial work to a school in Corby involved the installation of a pair of steel beams and stanchions to support a sagging reinforced concrete roof. The beam section specified was 610 x 305 x 149 kg UB and the span approximately 10.5 m. Verulam
The first part of this paper indicates the principal differences between BS 5628: Part 1: 1978: The structural use of masonry and CP 111: 1970: Structural recommendations for loadbearing walls, and outlines the reasons behind the changes. They are essentially a combination of experience of the performance of buildings in service and new research data. The second part describes the assessment made during the final stage of drafting to ensure that the document was operationally satisfactory and that it provided suitably safe designs by comparison with existing practice. B.A. Haseltine and J.F.A. Moore