All the articles from the March 2026 issue of The Structural Engineer.
Publish Date – 4 March 2026
This article – the winning entry to the IStructE Research into Practice case study competition in 2025 – describes research and development undertaken for design of the four facade towers for the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona.
The IStructE Business Practice and Regulatory Control Committee summarises new obligations for UK employers regarding the prevention of sexual harassment at work.
The IStructE Benevolent Fund offers support to members – and their dependants – when times are hard, but the ability to provide this assistance relies on the generosity of members, explains the Fund's Chair, James Parsons.
In 2025, CROSS celebrated its 20th anniversary. Against this backdrop, CROSS-UK's Structural Safety and Fire Safety Expert Panels met to reflect on the past, present and future of the scheme.
This article provides a snapshot of some of the outputs developed in the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products' DISRUPT II project to recover more steel from demolitions.
This article explores the engineering techniques used to stabilise and strengthen existing masonry.
Stuart McNash and Stephen Fernandez describe the project to retrofit the Castle Meadow buildings in Nottingham, turning them into a new city-centre campus for the University of Nottingham.
Phil Isaac and Sinéad Conneely discuss the challenges of building a practice with a strong ethical foundation while also balancing the books.
This month's letters include discussion on foundation design, protecting the profession and recent articles on artificial intelligence.
A round-up of events at Institution HQ and around the regional groups.
Associate Editor, Ashraf Ashour, has chosen a paper on an investigation into the seismic performance of a novel cast-in-place system as the Featured Article for Volume 82 of Structures.