Issue 4

All the articles from the April 2025 issue of The Structural Engineer.

Owen Brooker, Chair of the Technical Products Panel, outlines the Institution's approach to updating its highly valued Eurocode guidance.

This month's report discusses the structural design of a single storey, timber-framed house in New Zealand.

This article tackles the challenge of reducing embodied carbon in the seismic design of new buildings.

This article explores the various benefits that can be obtained by incorporating a supplementary damping system to reduce footfall, wind and seismic vibration, and dynamic structural response.

James Norman is excited about the future of structural design, believing that engineers will be freed up to explore new materials and pursue regenerative strategies by increased automation. As his latest book is published, he talks engineering, education and ethics with Helena Russell.

The industry must pull together and urgently develop new vibration serviceability guidance if we are to realise a future of lighter-weight, lower-carbon structures, argues Gillian Browning, Head of Structural Dynamics at Buro Happold.

This month's letter remembers Tony Flint with memories of his lectures at Imperial College London and a site visit to Bristol. 

The breadth of technical data, design details and worked examples in this practical guide to structural insulated panels will fill a gap in an engineer's technical library, believes James Norman.

In this feature, we share news, updates and initiatives from the Institution's regional group network around the world. This month, we hear from regional groups in Hong Kong, Singapore, Scotland and the North East. 

A round-up of events at Institution HQ and around the regional groups.

Dario De Domenico, Associate Editor, has chosen a paper introducing a new reliability-based procedure for life-cycle management as the Featured Article for Volume 70 of Structures.

This month, Ron Slade has chosen a sketch by Pasindu Perera as the winner of The Drawing Board.