{"id":14650,"date":"2017-01-11T17:52:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14650"},"modified":"2017-01-11T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:52:40","slug":"context-cpd-boost-ruchill-hospital-water-tower-how-to-stabilise-and-repair-a-10-story-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14650","title":{"rendered":"Context CPD boost: Ruchill Hospital water tower \u2013 How to stabilise and repair a 10-story structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ruchill-Hospital-water-tower-_Ian-Andrew-e1484157141655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14651\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ruchill-Hospital-water-tower-_Ian-Andrew-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ruchill Hospital water tower\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The requirement to restore the severely decayed, Category A listed, hilltop Victorian water tower at the former Ruchill hospital in Glasgow, set a challenge to its structural engineers, says Ian Andrew.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In his Context article titled <em>Conserving Ruchill Hospital water tower<\/em>, Andrew discusses the technical challenges of repairing structural steelwork and masonry on the 10-storey Victorian water tower, while conserving the historic fabric.<\/p>\n<p>The original article may help members develop their CPD across the IHBC\u2019s Professional and Intervention <a href=\"http:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/learning\/cpd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Areas of Competence <\/a>especially<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/context\/146rev\/#47\/z\" target=\"_blank\">View the Context article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The requirement to restore the severely decayed, Category A listed, hilltop Victorian water tower at the former Ruchill hospital in Glasgow, set a challenge to its structural engineers, says Ian Andrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14652,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions\/14652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}