Safety of society

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 an introduction to structural steelwork design to Eurocode 3 for building design.

This two-day course shows engineers how to arrive at a qualitative solution to both create a structure and check computational results.

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

A one-day Fire Forum discusses state-of-the-art trends and challenges in structural fire engineering.

This course is designed to provide structural engineers with a greater understanding of fire safety, key legislation, and the principles of risk analysis in order to ensure that adequate structural performance in fire is achieved. Participants will examine case studies of structural and non-structural failures as a result of fire.

This technical lecture introduces a new assessment tool for those involved in checking and renovating existing building structures.

This month's report concerns durability issues with engineered timber due to water ingress or condensation issues. Engineered timber appears to disintegrate more quickly than conventional timber, resulting in structural failure rather than distortion.

This blog, authored by a member of the Safety, Health and Wellbeing Panel, details some of the challenges and benefits of the post-COVID working environment.

This month we present a report concerning the monitoring of photovoltaic panels and lessons learned from current experience.

Watch the recording from a panel discussion on the Building Safety Act, uncovering key considerations on building control regime, gateways, golden thread, safety cases, impact on small domestic projects.

This month we present key elements of a CROSS Safety Alert from December 2020 detailing the failures and lessons learned from the Florida bridge collapse in 2018.

Exploring the benefits and principles of strengthening historic concrete structures using carbon fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) and how these are implemented in the Eurocode 2, second generation.

The Institution sees this as a missed opportunity to regulate embodied carbon to meet the UK’s net zero legal commitments.

This month we present a report about a permanent works design engineer who noticed that hydro-demolition of the end of a floor supporting beam had taken place out of sequence. This introduced a pattern of bending moments and shear forces that were not considered in the original design.