Recent content by J s

Rather sounds like something to stop flooding when the water table level rises during prolonged rainfall periods. If it’s mitigation, it might include something like doubling up the floor slab to include a cavity drainage layer between + inclusion of sump’s and active drainage pumps. You could...

Unless I’m missing something, I’m not sure why that shape would be beneficial if that was your concern. If anything I expect that shape has worse resistance to lateral pressures.

A catenary arch wouldn’t have a point. A pointed arch like that would be called a Gothic arch. I can’t immediately think of any structural reason why a long pointed arch would be beneficial. Maybe it was done simply for architectural reasons?

Modular design gets cost efficiencies from producing lots and lots of units and thereby making savings through economies of scale. It’s analogous to buying the family sized pack of crunchy nut vs. the standard pack. The individual portion is cheaper. In other words you’d need to be building...

The railway should be accessible to those with mobility issues - it would be a failure not to accommodate for that in my view…

Interesting bit of background here from an FT journalist: https://bsky.app/profile/jenwilliamsft.bsky.social/post/3mch322twqc2i 1768481065 Most interesting point I suppose is that some of the £45bn will be released in the 2027 spending review

Virtually all steel in the UK does actually get recycled rather than sent to landfill if you look at the stats (whether done domestically - or more commonly shipped abroad). Most scrap gets recycled in electric arc furnaces hence the need to export as we don’t have any major EAF plants in the...

Really one of those very few times where the renders look like the end result! In fact maybe the structure which looks most like the proposed renders I can remember seeing!

Depth is dependent on exposure class and cement mix, but 50mm is probably a safe bet for most circumstances.

I have no knowledge about this bridge in particular but ‘concrete cancer’ does sound like a very plausible explanation for the poor state of the bridge. You see this a lot in buildings which obviously don’t suffer from bridge strikes in the same way. ‘Concrete cancer’ is just a result...

The suggestion that Victorian engineering is in any preferable to now is simply absurd! The shear number of deaths involved is a simple enough rebuttal to shut down the argument on its own. Besides that, the whole framework that Victorians operated in is entirely to the modern day; skilled...