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Jack Porteous BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD,
CEng, MIStructE, FICE
Director
Jack Porteous Consultancy
Abdy Kermani BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng,
MIStructE, FIWSc
Professor of Timber Engineering
Napier University, Edinburgh
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