Verulam (readers' letters – October 2025)

David Leversha, Diego Padilla-Philipps and Emma Francois explain how their firm, WSP, has approached its decarbonisation goals and what progress it has made in the past five years.

The structural engineering profession is at risk of accelerating business-as-usual with its current focus on the productivity gains offered by artificial intelligence (AI), argues Megan Greig. Instead, a strategic approach is needed to prioritise adoption of AI in the pursuit of sustainability goals.

Robin Jones provides a summary of the discussion at a roundtable hosted by the IStructE in June 2025, exploring ethical and business practice impacts of the adoption of artificial intelligence in the structural engineering sector.