Viewpoint: Collaboration among engineers is the key to change

Tom Howarth found himself fully immersed in a major steel reuse project just a couple of years after graduating – now he's bringing his knowledge and experience to bear on developing a template for the 'circular city'. Helena Russell reports.

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.

James Morgan describes the genesis of The Engineers Reuse Collective and explains how the organisation is building knowledge and helping engineers to advocate for greater reuse across the industry.