DOCSLIB.ORG

February 08 CONTENTS PAGE TITLE •

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
February 08 CONTENTS PAGE TITLE • CONTENTS ISSUE No. FEBRUARY 2008 001 PAGE TITLE 2.......................................................Message from the President • SEABC's Newsletter is edited and 4................................................... SEABC Technical Committees managed by Robert Smith 5.....................................................Seismic Restraint Task Force ([email protected]) 6................................................................................ On the Web • Submissions to the newsletter are 7...................................................................Structures Congress encouraged and all members of the 7............................................Applied Technology Council Report SEABC are asked to actively 8..................................................IStructE Centenary Conference participate in contributing to our 10 .......................... Olympic Speed Skating Oval - Roof Structure newsletter. 11 .......................................Massive Pile Test at Pitt River Bridge • SEABC editing staff reserve the 13 ........................................................................... Ask Dr. Sylvie right to include or exclude 17 ................................ Advantage Steel Article - Steel and Glass submitted material and in some 19 ................................ Advantage Steel Article - Steel and Wood cases edit submitted material to 25 ........................................................... NCE Article - Burj Dubai suit overall space requirements. If 28 ................................................................Mark Your Calendars submittals are not to be edited, 29 ..................................................................Question of the Day please advise editor at submission time. Published by the Structural Engineers Association of BC Executives / Board of Directors President: Dave Davey Secretary / Treasurer: Surrinder Parmar Other Directors: David Harvey, Cameron Kemp, Leslie Mihalik, Jim Mutie, Andrew Seeton, Rob Simpson, Thor Tandy, Carlos Ventura Communications Committee Chair: David Harvey CSE Organizing Committee Chair: John Pao Education Committee Chair: Andrew Seeton Professional Practice Chair: Thor Tandy Technical Committee Chair: Ken Elwood Newsletter Editor: Rob Smith [email protected] Assistant Editor: Clarissa Brennan Webmaster: Stephen Pienaar [email protected] Web site: http://www.seabc.ca February 08 SEABC New sletter February 2008 Message from the President By Dave Davey; SEABC Interim President It is with great pleasure that I accept the role of President of our newly formed Structural Engineers Association of BC and am able to welcome our new members. Of course, most of you were members of the Division of Structural Engineers or the Vancouver Structural Engineers Group or both and the activities of these two associations are continuing under the SEABC banner. SEABC was officially incorporated as a non-profit Society under the Provincial Society Act on January 3, 2008. This event marked the culmination of over two years of discussion and a year of planning with input from many structural engineers and with the approval of over 80% of the members of both the DSE and VSEGS. We have an interim Board of Directors and four committees in place, but there are many vacancies still to fill. The scope of our activities was well set out in the proposed organization chart that was published last year and which is reproduced below. The job of the Directors is to provide overall direction and government of the Society but the main thrust of the Society’s activities is expected to come from the committees working in the four main functions shown on the organization chart. The two functions of education and professional practice are basically the functions that were well performed by the VSEGS, the CSE Committee and the DSE in the past and those bodies are carrying on with this work under the cloak of SEABC. However, the functions of our Technical committees and Communications groups are widening the range of services that we want to offer to our members. It is gratifying to see the re- activation of technical committees that were originally set up by SECBC in the 1990s. The Technical manual that was drawn up by SECBC, though not quite a DIY guidebook for general practitioners of Structural Engineering was a valuable reference to help engineers keep up to date on the state of the art. Design codes are constantly changing and so are construction procedures and so the topics of interest are changing also. Two such topics have already been selected for review. One is the design of guards and handrails, of which a good Page 2 of 30 SEABC New sletter February 2008 proportion of recent construction can be seen to be deficient. Currently, Technical Committee guardrail design is often left to the manufacturer and does not begin until Ken Elwood - Chair construction is already under way. This can mean that the inter-face ° Rob Simpson between guard and structure is not coordinated and the question arises as ° Robert Jirava to who is responsible (and who is being paid to look after it). The design of ° Thor Tandy guards is the topic of an APEG seminar in Kelowna on January 30th. ° Kevin Lemieux The second is the question of how the 2005 Code seismic Education Committee requirements impact on the design of foundation walls. The change in Andrew Seeton - Chair design from 10% in 50 year return period to 2% in 50 years has resulted in a Leslie Mihalik - Vice chair large increase in seismic retaining wall design pressures coming from the Fran Abbuhl - Secretary ° Surinder Parmar geotechnical consultants. This needs to be addressed in a manner similar ° Martin Bollo to how the 2005 NBCC liquefaction issue was dealt with by the geotechnical ° Joel Hampson task force. The whole area of soil / structure interaction is complex. How do ° Tony Martin we bring this whole problem down to the practical level so that practicing ° Joe Tam engineers can produce realistic designs? We’d like your input on this or any ° Ken Elwood other technical matter that you feel needs to be brought to attention. ° Mahmoud Rezai ° Donald Burkholder The Communications group already has our website up and running at ° Gord Shannon www.seabc.ca. I hope that you have already had a chance to view it. It will CSE Organizing Committee improve and grow in time and very shortly it will incorporate an interactive John Pao - Chair forum for members to communicate directly with the SEABC body. It will be Fran Abbuhl - Secretary a site to post information of interest, to pose questions and to receive ° Carlos Ventura answers. ° Joel Hampson This Newsletter is a continuation of the DSE Newsletter. We hope to ° Martin Bollo ° Bob Schubak have the Newsletter issued quarterly in order to bring you more articles of ° Steven Kuan local interest and to keep you updated on what we are doing. ° Svetlana Brzev I see Communications as the most important function of SEABC. I Professional Practice believe that we all want to know what is going on in our province, we want Thor Tandy - Chair answers to our problems, we want a way to exchange information with ° Jim Mutrie others, we want all engineers to be working to a common standard that we ° David Harvey can all reach. We want communication and feedback. This is the task of ° Mazeed Abdulla our Communications Group. ° Leonard Pianalto ° Peter Trainor We are a non-profit society. We have no office and we have no full ° Andrew Watson time staff. We are a body of volunteers. Our success will depend on the ° Marian Podlovsky number and contribution of our members. If you are not yet a member of ° Rob Smith SEABC, I encourage you to register. If you have not received a Registration Communications Form by email, please download the form on the website. If you would like David Harvey - Chair to be a volunteer to work on one of our committees, please let us know. We ° Rob Smith will try to fit you into your preferred area of interest because the more ° Stephen Pienaar volunteers that we have, the less becomes everyone’s workload. ° Robert Jirava The committee members are as follows: ° Jeff Corbett ° Greg Beaveridge Interim Directors ° Doug Williams David Davey - President ° John Peddle Surinder Parmar - Secretary / Treasurer ° Grant Newfield ° Elizabeth Lawrynowicz ° David Harvey ° Jim Mutrie ° Leslie Mihalik ° Cameron Kemp ° Rob Simpson ° Thor Tandy ° Andrew Seeton ° Carlos Ventura Page 3 of 30 SEABC New sletter February 2008 • The makeup of the sub-committee is the SEABC Technical responsibility of the sub-committee chair. The chair decides the desirable size (max and min) Committees of the sub-committee and recruits a core committee membership. • Additions to the sub-committee membership are decided by the sub-committee chair, in Proposed working of the committee: consultation with the sub-committee members. New members will be selected from a list of T E C H N IC A L E X E C U T IV E C O M M IT T E E those members who have expressed an • The technical executive committee is interest to the technical executive committee in responsible for coordinating the work of the joining the sub-committee. technical sub-committees and task groups. It should be as small as possible (approximately 5 to 6 people). T A S K G R O U P S • Task groups will be formed by the technical • The technical executive committee will have executive committee or at the request of the regular meetings at an interval to be decided. sub-committee chairs. It is expected that 2 or 3 meetings per year will be
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Special Issue – Territorial Information No. 1 What Goes on in Turkey
    IMIA NEWS Special Issue – Territorial Information No. 1 Dec 2013 What goes on in Turkey Construction of the Gebze Izmir Motorway & Gebze Bay Crossing see more on page 4 More info p.2 The Turkish Insurance Market is growing by 24.8% as at end of September 2013. The Engineering Lines overall are growing by 37.7% when compared to the same period of time. When we look at the September results of the insurance companies in Turkey, Machinery Breakdown Insurances have grown by 24%, Electronic Equipment Insurance has grown by 21.2% and the Erection All Risks, together with Construction All Risks Insurances have grown by almost 60%. The major effect in this growth is one specific Project covering the highway construction from Istanbul to Izmir and the bridge to be built in the Izmit Bay. There are many other Engineering projects in the pipeline to come. Here are some examples: 1 THE THIRD BOSPHORUS BRIDGE Bridge of Firsts The 3rd Bridge, which is going to be built on the Bosphorus, Istanbul within the Northern Marmara Motorway Project executed by IC Ictas – Astaldi Consortium, is considered the future of transportation and commerce. The 3rd bridge, which is going to be built on the Bosphorus, Istanbul after the Bogazici Bridge, which started operating in 1972, and the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, which was completed in 1988, is regarded as the bridge of firsts. 8 lanes of motorway and 2 lanes of railway will be located at the same level on the 3rd Bosphorus Bridge, which will be a product of professional engineering and advanced technology built by a team, most of whom are Turkish engineers.
    [Show full text]
  • Millau Viaduct, France
    Recent Structures Worldwide: An Introduction Both our regular readers, the IABSE members, as well as it may be. IABSE is the prime professional organization for new readers who may be getting this special issue of “Struc- structural engineers truly committed to the exchange of tural Engineering International” at the Structures Congress knowledge and to the advancement of the practice of struc- 2005 in New York City, will be delighted to go through this tural engineering worldwide, as reflected in this and in every Recent Structures series, aimed at showcasing a wide range of SEI issue, and, if you are not a member yet, I invite you to structures recently completed. They all share common fea- join! tures: they were challenging to design and to build, uncon- This carefully selected group of recent structures, many of ventional in their own way, and innovative. They were built which will be presented by their designers at Structures Con- all over the world, and in many cases by a truly global part- gress 2005, is certain to stimulate our creativity. I invite you to nership of designers, detailers, fabricators and constructors. read the articles, and to attend the Congress. While in New As structural engineers in a world where country borders are York, hometown to some of the best and internationally rec- increasingly just a line on a map, we strive to feed on the ex- ognized structural engineering firms, don’t forget to visit the perience of other engineers, geographically or by specialty local outstanding structures, both new and old. both near and far from us.
    [Show full text]
  • Vincent De Ville De Goyet Chairman of the Board of Directors of GREISCH
    Vincent de Ville de Goyet Chairman of the Board of Directors of GREISCH COORDINATION ET CO-OPERATIVE, of BUREAU D’ETUDES GREISCH PLC and of GREISCH INGÉNIERIE PLC Administrator of BUREAU GREISCH LUXEMBOURG PLC Director for the entire group GREISCH 1956 Born at Huy Belgian nationality Domiciled in Huy Studied construction civil engineering at Liège university Final dissertation entitled "Contribution à l'étude de la resistance ultime dans le plan des poutres en treillis à nœuds rigides" (Contribution to the study of the ultimate strength in the plane of lattice beams with rigid intersections) 1979 Graduated Magna Cum Laude as construction civil engineer Doctorate thesis: "L'analyse statique non linéaire par la méthode des éléments finis des structures spatiales formées de poutres à section non symétrique". (Non-linear static analysis, using the finite element method, of spatial structures formed from beams of non-symmetrical section.) 1988 Graduated Summa Cum Laude as Doctor of Applied Science from Liège university Languages - french: native language, - english: written and spoken knowledge. Additional training - Liège university (Belgium): "Theory of vibrations", Prof. Géradin, - Brussels university (Belgium): "Special civil engineering problems", Mr. Sphel, senior lecturer, - Institute for Computational Engineering (France): "Non-linear Finite Element Analysis", Profs. Th. Hughes and T. Belytschko, - "École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées" (France): "Designing buildings, bridges and other civil engineering works in an earthquake zone".
    [Show full text]
  • Michel Virlogeux Consultant.Com
    He has been expert for the Moosou bridge in Ivory Coast and the Edea bridge in Cameroon, consultant for the Evripos bridge in Greece and many important bridges in France, specially on the A75 Motorway, such as the Truyère Viaduct at Garabit, the Piou and Rioulong viaducts, the bridge over the river Lot at la Mothe, and took part in the preliminary design of the Tanus viaduct over the river Viaur. With his team he also controlled the execution design of several important bridges in addition to those of which he developed the project : the bridge over the river Marne and the Neuilly Plaisance viaducts and later the Ru de Maubuée viaduct for the Marne-la-Vallée line of the Paris Mass Transit System, the viaducts over the Gouet and Gouedic at Saint-Brieuc, the Fontenoy viaduct over the river Moselle, the Meylan and Illhof pedestrian cable-stayed bridges, the Tricastin bridge over the Donzère-Mondragon canal and the experimental bridges at La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, Cognac, Arbois and Charolles. He contributed to some technical evolutions, such as for external prestressing, cable-stayed bridges and composite structures. Between January, 1994, and January, 1995, he worked as consultant for the Highways Direction at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Since February, 1995 he works as a private consultant. As such he developed the conceptual design of the Avignon viaducts for the French Railways (for the High Speed Train) and was later Michel VIRLOGEUX consultant of the French railways for its erection, and he leaded the control of the design of the Vasco de Gama Bridge for the Portuguese administration (GATTEL).
    [Show full text]
  • Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge Third Bosphorus Bridge (BB3)
    Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge Third Bosphorus Bridge (BB3) North of Istanbul across the Bosphorus near the Black Sea (TR) General calculations of the steel structure, construction methods studies, dynamic studies (wind, earthquake, trains) Owner Designers Cost of the works Studies KGM - Turkish ministry of trans- Michel Virlogeux and € 700 M excl. vat. 2012 - 2016 port - Highways department Jean-François Kleïn Execution 2013 - 2016 OA In the central span, the deck is in steel with an orthotropic plate (total steel weight : 45 000 tons). In the side spans, the deck is in concrete. The preliminary design is the result of a competition won by Michel Virlogeux (France) and Jean-François Klein (Switzer- land). The final design is made by T-Ingénierie (Switzerland) and Greisch (Belgium) on behalf of the joint venture Içtas and Astaldi S.P.a. Mission : - global calculations of the structure during its service life; - proposals for construction methods; - design of the steel deck in the main span; Suspended bridge with a main span length of 1 408 m and a - dynamic studies necessary to verify the behaviour of the glo- total length of 2 240 m located at the north of Istanbul near the bal structure: Black Sea. > under the wind (during the service life and the construc- tionstages - verifications made with numerical simulations Like the Brooklyn bridge, the main span is partially suspended and by tests in wind tunnel laboratory), at the pylons by stiffening cables and at the main cables with > under the earthquake and/or the passages of trains. vertical hangers. The top of the pylons is located at 320 m, they are composed of 2 concrete shafts (77 000 tons).
    [Show full text]
  • France Millau Viaduct Viaduc De Millau
    BARTLETT SCHOOL OF PLANNING France Millau Viaduct Viaduc de Millau LATTS 1 This report was compiled by the French OMEGA Team, Ecole Nationales Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, France. Please Note: This Project Profile has been prepared as part of the ongoing OMEGA Centre of Excellence work on Mega Urban Transport Projects. The information presented in the Profile is essentially a 'work in progress' and will be updated/amended as necessary as work proceeds. Readers are therefore advised to periodically check for any updates or revisions. The Centre and its collaborators/partners have obtained data from sources believed to be reliable and have made every reasonable effort to ensure its accuracy. However, the Centre and its collaborators/partners cannot assume responsibility for errors and omissions in the data nor in the documentation accompanying them. 2 CONTENTS Project timeline and decision making process A INTRODUCTION Type of project Current status and parent project: the Highway 75 (A75.) Location Technical attributes: from Normandy Bridge to Millau Viaduct B BACKGROUND TO PROJECTS Principal project objectives Project story line Main actors Key enabling mechanism Outcome Local economic development C MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROJECT The choice of the route: integrating local and environmental interests (1988-1990) The project: difficult choice and thorough investigations (1991-1996) Choosing between the high and low solution Definition of the project Competition for the design Selection of the design Conception of the project: elaborating
    [Show full text]
  • 2012 VINCI Construction Annual Report
    ANNUAL REPORT 2012 BRUXELLES, REUNION ISLAND SAINT ÉTIENNE RIVER BRIDGE The new bridge over the Saint Étienne River is being built to replace the structure destroyed by a cyclone in 2007. It is designed to withstand the island’s flooding and torrential rains and carry daily traffic of nearly 60,000 vehicles. The facings of its eight piers have a sugar cane motif. The Reunion Regional Council awarded the €95 million contract to a consortium made up of VINCI Construction companies. Dodin Campenon Bernard, Botte Fondations and SBTPC pooled their foundation, civil engineering and development capabilities to carry out the project. Special measures have been introduced to conserve biodiversity throughout the works. CONTENTS Interview with the Chairman 02 Management team 04 Profile 06 A DYNAMIC BUSINESS 08 MODEL Economic performance 10 Synergies 18 Sustainable development 22 2012 32 PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Building 34 Civil engineering 50 Hydraulic engineering 68 Main VINCI Construction companies 76 02 INTERVIEW WITH THE CHAIRMAN Jean Rossi Chairman of VINCI Construction "We are winning more and more contracts on the strength of synergies among our companies." 03 What is your assessment of 2012? fairly clear picture of what lies ahead. We expect During the year we demonstrated that our that volume will remain unchanged or perhaps Group is sound and can rise to new challenges. come in slightly higher than in 2012. The Notwithstanding the economic downturn remaining uncertainties are due to the lack of affecting our markets – especially in France and visibility in the French market at the end of the more broadly in Europe as a whole – our volume year.
    [Show full text]
  • Special Edition – Bridges and Viaducts 2016
    La Lettre Bridges and viaducts Special release / August 2016 Geotechnics for civil engineering structures from past... Editorial La Truyère viaduct (France) The bridge of La Truyère Civil engineering structures have always been a major factor on the A75 motorway was in the development of Terrasol. The geotechnical problems are designed by architect Alain varied (foundations, soil reinforcement, slope stability, rock or Spielmann to fit into the soil mechanics, hydraulic or mechanical stability of the bottom of landscape of the well-known excavations, retaining structures, etc.) and are often a major issue Garabit railway bridge, built for the projects with respect to control of costs and completion by Gustave Eiffel in the dates. 1880s, the two bridges spanning the very steep- This special issue of the Terrasol Newsletter presents some sided valley of the Truyère “historic” references (Poncin viaduct, Millau viaduct, Vasco de river. The motorway bridge Gama bridge and others), together with more recent structures, is a portal bridge with a major challenges with regard to their geotechnical aspects, such @Reserved rights total length of 308 m, and as the Bouregreg viaduct with its shallow foundations covering an legs inclined at 45° set into the valley slopes. Construction of the central area equivalent to a tennis court, or the Grande Ravine bridge with span necessitated the installation of temporary piles capable of supporting its 10 m shafts embedded in the rim of the ravine sides. Terrasol 11,000 tons, and was completed in 1993. has also been extensively involved in the many civil engineering structures, whether standard or exceptional, built in France over TERRASOL was involved in 1990 for the DUMEZ-GTM consortium, at the last few years as part of road or railway projects.
    [Show full text]
  • The Arup Journal
    ISSUE 2 2010 The Arup Journal B$UXSLQGG Contents 3 AAMI Park, Melbourne 25 The Denmark Pavilion, John Bahoric Greg Borkowski Expo 2010 Shanghai Peter Bowtell Tristram Carfrae Daniel Bosia Mikkel Kragh Frank Gargano Jarrod Hill Michael Kwok Nicolas Sterling Paul Stanley 34 Ropemaker Place, London EC2 16 North Melbourne station Michael Beaven Mick Brundle refurbishment Paul Dickenson Robert Pugh Joseph Correnza Patricia Culhane Marco Furlan Jochen Ristig Paul Stanley 1. AAMI Park on Melbourne’s famous Yarra River. 2 The Arup Journal 2/2010 B$UXSLQGG “The stadium is the latest jewel in the crown of AAMI Park, Melbourne’s sporting infrastructure, and will be the new home of soccer, rugby league and rugby union in Victoria. Victorians love their sport and AAMI Park Melbourne is the latest addition to a first-class suite of sporting infrastructure that is the envy of any city in the world.” James Merlino, Victoria Minister for Sport, Recreation and Youth Affairs John Bahoric Greg Borkowski Peter Bowtell Tristram Carfrae Frank Gargano Jarrod Hill Paul Stanley Overview and inception Awards 2008 Be Inspired Award of Excellence in the Innovation There is no other place in Australia that lives and breathes sport like Melbourne. in Commercial or Residential Building category As the traditional heartland of Australian Rules football, the city’s sporting venues are (Bentley Structural Awards) typically oval-shaped to accommodate AFL in the winter and cricket in summer. 2010 Structural Engineering Steel Building Design Award and Large Project - Architectural Steel Design Melbourne, however, also boasts a passion for codes that play on a rectangular (Australian Steel Institute Awards) pitch, and AAMI Park fills a major gap in the city’s sporting infrastructure, providing 2010 shortlisted for Award for Sports or Leisure soccer, rugby league and rugby union teams with Melbourne’s first purpose-built, Structures (Institution of Structural Engineers) rectangular-pitch stadium.
    [Show full text]
  • The Millau Viaduct
    “Mega Transport Projects planning, appraisal and delivery: A review of case study experiences and research findings” WCTR special session 11-15 July , Lisbon, Portugal The Millau Viaduct (FRANCE) Elisabeth CAMPAGNAC LATTS The Millau viaduct presents different interests from the point of view of Mega Transport Projects planning, appraisal and delivery. We propose to focus this paper on four of them: - A successful multi-purpose project: from technical innovation to territorial issues. - The importance of context in decision making process: the turning points. - The project as a risk treatment process - The appraisal and evaluation face to new issues: the sustainable development. Then we will conclude with the passage from a close to an open system, trying to clarify between specific context and generic lessons. I. A SUCCESSFUL MUTI-PURPOSE PROJECT: From technical innovations to territorial issues. If we consider that a mega urban project transport (MUTP) could be defined on the basis of the interdependence between different infrastructures and through its impact on territories, Millau viaduct is of specific interest to study the tension between technical innovations and territorial issues, in a multi purpose project. 1.1. A COUNTRY AND TOWN PLANNING MOTORWAY: The Millau Viaduct and the A 75 The Millau Viaduct has to be considered at first, as the missing piece of the A 75 (Clermont Ferrand- Montpellier). This motorway, also called “la Meridienne”, is a major axis of the Massif Central. The first objective was to open up this mountainous1 and very sparsely populated area to create a large axis as a potential alternative to the Rhone valley corridor (quite saturated); and, at a larger scale, to supply an international major road to go from the North West of Europe to Spain and Mediterranee; But because this area in the centre of France was neither a densely populated nor a rich one, it could not be put on the agenda without a strong political will and an influential support.
    [Show full text]
  • The Arup Journal
    THE ARUP JOURNAL \ 50TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE~lt~ I Vol. 31 No.2 Editor: David J . Brown Front cover: 2/1996 Art Editor: Johannesburg Stadium Published by Desmond Wyeth FCSD (Photo: James Burland) THEARUP Ove Arup Partnership Deputy Editor: Back cover: 13 Fitzroy Street Helene Murphy London W1P 680 Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Editorial: (Photo: Patrick Bingham Hall} Tel: +44 (0)1716361531 Tel: +44 (0)171 465 3828 JOURNAL Fax: +44 (0)171 580 3924 Fax: +44 (0)171 465 3716 0resund Link image: Nigel Whale Editorial This is the second of two special numbers of The Arup Journal to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the firm . Issue 1/1996 was de­ voted to recent projects in Brita,in and Ireland, in both of which countries Ove Arup started his consulting engineering practice simultaneously in 1946. Over the ensuing half-century, the work of the organisation he created has expanded 3 geographically and diversified into new fields of 31 activity to an extent beyond anything he could Brisbane have envisaged at the outset. This second cele­ Saving Convention and bratory Arup Journal includes recent projects in a landmark - Exhibition Centre five continents - North America, Europe, Asia, California style Ian Ainsworth Africa, and Australasia. The work described and Catherine Wells Tristram Carfrae illustrated here covers many different dis­ Bill Short ciplines, ranging from 'traditional' structural engineering in widely varied forms to civil engi­ neering works on the most massive scale; from the creation of energy-efficient internal building environments to the sophisticated analysis of a 11 single structural detail to help withstand earth­ 34 quakes; and from the architectural design and lnventure Place, engineering of a new stadium celebrating a City of Hope: Akron, Ohio reborn nation to planning a visionary bridge link Steel moment Raymond Crane between two Scandinavian countries.
    [Show full text]
  • RAE Annual Review
    Bankers National Westminster Bank plc Charing Cross, London Branch PO Box 113 Cavell House 2a Charing Cross Road London WC2H OPD Solicitors Bristows 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DH Auditors PKF (UK) LLP Farringdon Place 20 Farringdon Road, London EC1M 3AP Investment Advisers OLIM Limited Pollen House Annual Review 10-12 Cork Street The Royal Academy of Engineering promotes The Royal Academy of Engineering London W1X 1PD excellence in the science, art and practice of 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DG engineering. Tel: 020 7766 0600 Fax: 020 7930 1549 Registered charity number 293074 www.raeng.org.uk 2011/2012 Engineering Strategic Priorities the Future Competing in the global economy For the engineering leaders of tomorrow A series of debates Two lectures by Lord Browne of Madingley President, The Royal Academy of Engineering 2006-2011 As the UK’s national academy for engineering, we bring together the most successful and talented engineers from across the engineering sectors for a shared purpose: to advance and promote excellence in engineering. We provide analysis and policy support to promote the UK’s role as a great place from which to do business. We take a lead on engineering education and we invest in the UK’s world class A selection of Academy and research base to underpin innovation. We work to improve public awareness and understanding Engineering the Future publications of engineering. We are a national academy with a global outlook and use our international partnerships to ensure that the UK benefi ts from international networks, expertise and investment. 2011/2012 Nuclear Construction Lessons LearnedLessons Learned The Academy’s work programmes are driven by four strategic challenges, each of which provides a key Guidance on bestBest practice:Practice: weldingWelding contribution to a strong and vibrant engineering sector and to the health and wealth of society.
    [Show full text]