Author: Allan Mann
The author has lectured widely on a variety of technical subjects, published numerous papers and received a number of awards and provided support/drafting to many technical publications and codes of practice. His achievements were recognized by election to the Royal Academy of Engineering and the award of the Institution of Structural Engineer’s Gold Medal.
We all depend on infrastructure for civilised living with the scale and sophistication of what we build ever increasing. Manifestly we all have a vested interest in construction being safe, and yet failures occur. Not infrequently these failures are catastrophic and accompanied by huge c... more...
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This is an unusual maritime story in that the author looks at life from the lower echelons of a m...