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Notwithstanding these limitations, the Team felt that they had an opportunity to set things right. With the participation of the best known centres of expertise in India, the Expert team - with a total relevant experience of over 150 years gained in this country and abroad - is perhaps the best that can be assembled in this country. Some very bright young men and women, with excellent potential to become future leaders in the profession, were recruited as Project Associates. The Team had access to all the relevant books and journals. With these favourable conditions, the Team set out to assemble an up-to-date and technically complete material, which could be used to cover the needs of a typical undergraduate course. We obtained the syllabi from most of the Indian Universities, which helped to guide us to formulate the contents of the Resource. The material generated is user-friendly and does not demand references to many other books, - not available (in India) to the teachers. University Teachers and panels of experts reviewed the drafts before finalisation. Drafts were also published in the web site of INSDAG in instalments to enable University Teachers and other interested persons to review them. The Members of the Expert team hope that the Resource material generated with so much effort and care would help to eliminate an important gap in the training of Structural Engineers in the area of Structural Steel design. Suggestions to improve the contents and constructive comments and criticisms will be gratefully received by the Team.

An exciting aspect of the project was to discover the number of people in India with a lively interest in the developments in the subject. The writer values the many new friends he has made in the course of directing the Project and is grateful to the many academics - too numerous to mention - who devoted their time to review and improve the Project. For those who donated their time so generously to the Project, as well as those who funded it, there could be no greater reward for their efforts than to see the benefits accruing to the next generation of Structural Engineers.

Rangachari Narayanan