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This material is copyright - all rights reserved. Reproduced under licence from The <strong>Steel</strong> Construction Institute on 12/2/2007<br />

To buy a hardcopy version of this document call 01344 872775 or go to http://shop.steelbiz.<strong>org</strong>/<br />

<strong>Steel</strong> <strong>Designers</strong>' <strong>Manual</strong> - 6th Edition (2003)<br />

technical publications relating to steelwork connections. He also compiled the<br />

National Structural <strong>Steel</strong>work Specification for Building Construction, which is now<br />

in its 4th Edition.<br />

Paul Tasou<br />

Paul Tasou graduated from Queen Mary College, London in 1978 and subsequently<br />

obtained an MSc in structural steel design from Imperial College, London. He<br />

spent eleven years at Rendel Palmer and Tritton working on a wide range of bridge,<br />

building and civil engineering projects. He is now principal partner in Tasou<br />

Associates.<br />

Colin Taylor<br />

Colin Taylor graduated from Cambridge in 1959. He started his professional career<br />

in steel fabrication, initially in the West Midlands and subsequently in South India.<br />

After eleven years he moved into consultancy where, besides practical design, he<br />

became involved with graduate training, the use of computers for design and drafting,<br />

company technical standards and drafting work for British Standards and for<br />

Eurocodes as editorial secretary for Eurocode 3. Moving to the <strong>Steel</strong> Construction<br />

Institute on its formation as manager of the Codes and Advisory Division, he also<br />

became involved with the European standard for steel fabrication and erection<br />

Execution of <strong>Steel</strong> Structures.<br />

John Tyrrell<br />

John Tyrrell graduated from Aston University in 1965 and immediately joined Ove<br />

Arup and Partners. He has worked for them on a variety of projects in the UK,<br />

Australia and West Africa; he is now a project director. He has been responsible for<br />

the design of a wide range of towers and guyed masts. He currently leads the Industrial<br />

Structures Group covering diverse fields of engineering from telecommunications<br />

and broadcasting to the power industry.<br />

Peter Wickens<br />

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Having graduated from Nottingham University in 1971, Peter Wickens spent much<br />

of his early career in civil engineering, designing bridges and Metro stations. In 1980,

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