COP26: Built Environment Virtual Pavilion

This one-day, online advanced practical workshop will teach complex timber engineering through worked examples. It encourages problem-solving through teaching tools and group discussion.

This half-day in-person course provides guidance to early-career structural engineers to develop a better understanding of geotechnical engineering and use that knowledge to enhance and promote sustainable design.

This course provides guidance on specific aspects of demolition and refurbishment from an engineering perspective, while addressing safety, environmental and sustainability influences.

This practical course will help structural engineers to confidently approach a refurbishment or reuse project. Looking at the initial steps needed to understand an existing structure, how to apply basic conservation principles and the design implications and considerations.

2024 Gold Medallist Werner Sobek reflects on his illustrious career and shares his views on the challenges facing the building industry and what engineers can do to overcome them.

This interactive online course will share current state-of-the-art frameworks for the adoption of resilience-based design in professional practice, demonstrating advantages compared to a traditional prescriptive design and providing examples of how they benefit the client.

This course takes place as a series of two-hour interactive sessions over three weeks. It introduces EN 1991-1-4 for determining wind actions on structures, outlines the basic principles behind the code and covers each step of the procedure for calculating the wind loads on structures. Attention is given to important features introduced by the UK NA.

This course equips attendees with practical knowledge about structural design with bamboo stems (culms). The course considers aspects of concept design, detailed design and durability by design.

Bringing together the next generation of construction leaders, this popular annual conference focuses on resilient structural engineering and making a positive impact.

Griffiths & Armour Partner, Tanya Winstanley, shares her thoughts on building resilience into SME businesses and provides an update on Griffiths & Armour’s ‘Constructing change’ initiative, which aims to stimulate debate on the wider issues facing the sector.

Eiki Homma and Andrew Lawrence present a study examining the impact of secondary components on the upfront embodied carbon of a timber superstructure.

IStructE President Tanya de Hoog talks with celebrated engineers Paul Fast and Chris Wise about how they embed people and planet at the heart of their work.

Discover how bio-based materials such as cork, whole-trees and sugarcane are reshaping the construction industry and how to use them successfully in your projects.

The report of the 2023 Research into Practice Award winner.

Natasha Watson aims to demystify embodied carbon assessments for smaller structural engineering firms, considering why and when these are needed, as well as some practical actions to reduce carbon emissions when a full assessment is not performed.