That time of year again where CPD evidence is likely to be called in by The Institution of Structural Engineers - think I've only not been called once in the last 5 years. So....
At time of writing, 2.30pm, 29-DEC-23 we have..... 581 hours of evidence this year. Bosh. Better than I thought, expected to be light this year. Evidence includes:
Training - Courses / Events / Seminars
Training - Horizon broadening activities
- A lot of work on the Robustness book as you'd expect and the research that went into that.
- A review of the Health and Safety Executive's R2P2 report (and various other risk related documents).
- Review of A-DE of the Building Regulations (part of our review on build-ups).
- Various technical reading as a side step from our main work in Structural Engineering, such as the IABSE - International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering book on Safety and Reliability of Structures (great book by the way, fully recommend).
Training - Self directed study
- Reading and Review of BS 8666 (Rebar shape codes - I'm not great at concrete to be fair so brush up when I can).
- 'Structural Engineering Failures, lessons for design' - N. Macalevey (I do like learning from failure. They're a good teacher).
- IStructE Tech Note. L1.31 Drawing Nomenclature - (Ah, this was when I was running down the look up/down drawing question - found the answer, but goes against current industry practice).
- DETAIL - 'Refurbishment Manual' (Decent)
- GOV - 1968.10 Report into Ronan Point (very good report! I'd go so far as saying it should be mandatory reading for students at uni to understand the concept of disproportionate collapse and its origins).
- Reading of Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures (CROSS) report 'no worse than existing' and relevant GOV documents (progressed my thinking on this topic now and have it a lot clearer than I did).
- The Fees Bureau - Engineers Fees 2023 (Book from IStructE Library)
- CEB - 'General principles on reliability for structures. A commentary on ISO 2394' (I really like this document).
Training - Work Based Learning
- Reading CLT code. 2015. BS EN 16351 - CLT
- Composite action of timber decking and calcs. Discussion and work through with KL (we see so many notes on engineers drawings saying 'deck glued and screwed' but nothing within the calcs, so dug into how much strength you actually get from composite action, the fasteners used and what glue should be specified if you are gluing and screwing - in short, its a pointless note from a technical perspective).
- EC5 Screwed connection design (went deep into each of the fasteners specification requirements).
- Review of companies finances with KL and explanation of bookkeeping, tax etc. (this was really important actually, not much out there to show you how to piece everything together from fee to finish).
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