Issue 10

The Structural Engineer

Complete issue (October 2026)

All the articles from the October 2026 issue of The Structural Engineer.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

The Structural Engineer

Putting the net-zero hierarchy into practice: Specify low-impact

Conor Hayes expands this series of guidance summaries to move beyond the levels of 'Use less stuff' to the next step in the hierarchy: specifying low-impact materials.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

The Structural Engineer

CROSS: Champlain Towers South forensic report findings

This month, Alastair Soane, Principal Consultant for CROSS, discusses the recently published report into this catastrophic collapse and considers the implications for building safety improvements.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

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How Canada's performance-based design culture helped shape three decades of timber engineering

A regulatory framework that supports innovation backed by demonstrable analysis and testing has enabled Canada to pioneer new approaches to timber design, explains Eric Karsh while also comparing the Canadian experience with approaches in other countries.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

The Structural Engineer

Calcined clay as a cement replacement: technical properties and implementation

Calcined clay has emerged as one of the most promising solutions to the challenge of finding a replacement to ground granulated blast-furnace slag and pulverised fuel ash or fly ash. This article examines its technical properties, environmental benefits, and practical implementation for structural engineers within current standards and practices.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

The Structural Engineer

Large openings in domestic structures Part 2: Foundations

The second article in this series takes a wider look at different foundation systems beneath steel moment frames, and the importance of understanding existing structural arrangements and structural performance of a building, as well as the local geology and environment.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

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Technical Guidance Note (Level 1, No. 36): Introduction to calculating embodied carbon

This Technical Guidance Note provides a short overview of the IStructE's How to calculate embodied carbon (HTCEC) guide, and acts as a memo for some of the most important information within it, focusing on upfront carbon. HTCEC should be used to supplement this TGN when doing carbon calculations on projects.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

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Industry CPD: Load take-down analysis in structural FEM software

This CPD module, sponsored by SCIA, introduces best-practice guidelines for load take-down (LTD) analysis – the determination of how vertical loads accumulate and travel down through a building to its foundations. It explains when a simple tributary-area approach is sufficient, when a full finite element approach is required, and how the dedicated LTD capability introduced in SCIA Engineer V2027 bridges the two.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

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Profile: Tina Vejrum

The award of this year's IStructE Gold Medal to Tina Vejrum not only boosts the representation of women on the prestigious roll call, it also signals a nod to the specialist long-span bridges sector. Helena Russell finds out about her career so far.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

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Viewpoint: In search of confidence: a career with imposter syndrome

Nikki Stockbridge opens up on her experience of imposter syndrome while building a successful career in the structural engineering profession, describing how she has learned to see her doubts in a different light and keep pushing herself forwards.

Publish Date – 1 October 2026

The Structural Engineer