Howard Taylor (engineer)


Howard Peter John Taylor was a British structural engineer. 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 and graduated in 1961.

Career

Taylor joined Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners 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 where he became senior engineer. In 1964 he joined the Cement & Concrete Association 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 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 Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham. Taylor was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1993-4.

Awards and honours

Selected publications