Howard Peter John Taylor FREng FIStructE FICE (1940 – 2016) was a British

structural engineer Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants. Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economic ...

. He was born in 1940 near Manchester and died in 2016.

Early life and education

Taylor was the son of a mastic roof contractor. The family moved to Somerset where he attended Frome Grammar School. He read Civil Engineering at UMIST ( University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) and graduated in 1961.

Career

Taylor joined

Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners was a British firm of consulting civil engineers, based at Queen Anne's Lodge, Queen Anne's Gate and subsequently Telford House, Tothill Street, Westminster, London, until 1974, when it relocated to Earley House, 427 ...

( Jacobs Engineering Group since 2001) after graduation, working in the design office before being moved to site supervising the piling works at Tilbury B Power Station and the

West Thurrock Power Station West Thurrock Power Station was a coal-fired power station on the River Thames at Stone Ness, West Thurrock in Essex. The station was at the northern end of the 400 kV Thames Crossing of the National Grid. History The station was built by the ...

where he became senior engineer. In 1964 he joined the Cement & Concrete Association ( Mineral Products Association since 2009) as a research engineer. He was awarded an external PhD at City University in 1971. He was appointed the Cement & Concrete Association's technical manager of the 'Concrete in the Oceans' programme but moved in 1978 to be chief engineer of Dow Mac Concrete Ltd, becoming a director in 1986. When the company was taken over by Costain Building Products Ltd he was appointed a director of the concrete division of the new company. Taylor was a member of

BS 5400 BS 5400 was a British Standard code of practice for the design and construction of steel, concrete and composite bridges. It was applicable to highway, railway and pedestrian bridges. It has now been replaced by the European standard, BS EN 1991-2_2 ...

and BS 8110 committees and the Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures Committee. He was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Magazine of Concrete Research and a

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham. Taylor was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1993-4.

Awards and honours

*Oscar Faber Bronze Medal 1971 of the Institution of Structural Engineers *Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor University of Nottingham

Selected publications

*''The Precast Concrete Bridge Beam: the First 50 Years'' *''The influence of reinforcement detailing on the strength of concrete structures''

References

External links

Institution of Structural Engineers
{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Howard 1940 births 2016 deaths Fellows of the Institution of Civil Engineers Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Presidents of the Institution of Structural Engineers British structural engineers Engineers from Manchester