Profile: Tom Howarth

A textbook approach to design is an impediment to wider reuse, believes Tom Webster, who argues that the profession must place more value on the actual performance of reused components.

Structural engineers must learn to share their experiences, innovations and failures more openly if the pace of sustainability change is to accelerate, believes Anna Beckett.

Within the next five years, structural steel designers will be making greater use of advanced design methods and 3D printing to achieve more efficient structures and reduce embodied carbon, believes Leroy Gardner. Helena Russell finds out more.