Lin-Hai Han is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. He is Vice President of the China Society of Fire Protection on Steel Construction, and of the China Society of Steel-Concrete Composite Construction and is a fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and of the Institution of Civil Engineers in UK. Dennis Lam is Chair of Structural Engineering and the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Environments at the University of Bradford, UK. He was also formerly Chief Structural Engineer for the City of Wakefield, UK and is a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers. He is the President of Association of Steel–Concrete Composite Structures. He is also a member of the British Standard Institute and European Committee on Standardization (CEN) responsible for the Eurocode 4 and chairs the working group for the revision of the Eurocode 4 (EN1994-1-1). David A. Nethercot is former Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College, London. He was for more than 10 years chairman of the BSI Committee responsible for BS5950 and for UK input into EC3, is a past chairman of IABSE's technical committee, past Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Steel Construction Institute. He is Past President of the IStructE and a former Council Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2008 recipient of the Charles Massonnet prize from the European Convention for Structural Steelwork and received a Gold Medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2009.