Northern Counties

IStructE statement: Francis Scott Key Bridge Baltimore collapse

IStructE believes that ongoing risk assessment of structures is critical. Investigators will review the pier design and changes to vessel impact protection devices to determine potential shortfalls in risk management. Bridge expert Ian Firth, independent consultant, IStructE’s past-President and a Fellow shared his views.

Publish Date – 26 March 2024
Author – IStructE

IStructE publishes the outcomes of five disciplinary cases from 2023

The Institution publishes the outcomes of five separate cases arising out of complaints submitted to the Institution.

Publish Date – 13 March 2024
Author – IStructE

Embodied carbon regulation - alignment of industry policy recommendations

UK political party leaders urged to make manifesto commitments for embodied carbon regulation in the UK.

Publish Date – 31 January 2024
Author – Various

Michael Pawlyn reviews 'The regenerative structural engineer' book

"The book is illustrated with excellent case studies where structural engineers have played a pivotal role in aiming higher in the system to create new business enterprises."

Publish Date – 23 January 2024
Author – IStructE

IStructE new President Tanya de Hoog launches her vision

Tanya de Hoog FIStructE, the Institution of Structural Engineers’ new President for 2024, calls on her profession, and those in the wider built environment, to harness their collective expertise to accelerate meaningful, scalable, and positive change towards the environment and humanity.

Publish Date – 23 January 2024
Author – IStructE

Engineers call for the design of buildings, towns and cities that will repair the natural world

We must move from an agenda of “do less harm” to one of “do more good”.

Publish Date – 24 January 2024

Putting the net-zero hierarchy into practice: Build nothing

Emily Halliwell introduces a new series of notes that will signpost key climate resources for IStructE members around each level in the hierarchy of net-zero design.

Publish Date – 2 January 2024
Author – Emily Halliwell

Inclusive design brings economic benefits, says new guidance from IStructE

Design of buildings and spaces needs to remove barriers to inclusivity - including age, disability, ethnicity, gender, and neuro-divergence.

Publish Date – 6 December 2023
Author – IStructE

The Building Safety Act – Demonstrating competence

In accordance with the Building Safety Act 2022 engineers working on Higher-Risk Buildings (HRB) will be required to demonstrate their competence to do so. The Institution of Structural Engineers and Institution of Civil Engineers are developing a joint registration process to enable members of both institutions to demonstrate their competence against a new structural engineering HRB standard

Publish Date – 23 November 2023
Author – IStructE