James Armstrong

James Armstrong was a British structural engineer born in 1947 in Cumbria and died in 2010.

Early life and education Armstrong was born in Cumbria in 1926 and read civil engineering at the University of Glasgow.

Career After graduating in 1946, Armstrong undertook engineering training in Scotland in design and site supervision. He became head of foundations and special structures at Soil Mechanics Ltd (liquidated 2019). ) In the early 1960s, he joined Harris & Sutherland (part of Jacobs Group since 2004) working on a prestressed concrete buoyant foundation for a sugar store in Guiana and the parabolic roof structure of the Commonwealth Institute in London. Hon DEng Kingston University

Selected publications

Design Matters: The Organisation and Principles of Engineering Design 2008