The British Airways London Eye. The Ride of the Century

Sports stadia are being renewed, or built from scratch, all over the country as demand grows and grows for mass public sporting and other events. Football and pop concerts are big business requiring media coverage; the public demands greater comfort and safety than that afforded by a standing space; corporate ticket holders require ever more sophisticated facilities. And the regulators demand ever higher safety standards. Kathy Stansfield

From the Hong Kong airport to the Channel Tunnel to the Millennium Dome, the excellence of British structural engineers is clear to see. Innovative in their design, modern in their construction techniques, and uncompromising in their standards, Britain has good reason to be proud of its engineers. Lord Sainsbury

The Department of Civil Engineering is part of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Wales, Swansea. Other departments in the Faculty cover the disciplines of chemical, electrical and electronic, materials and mechanical engineering. M.M.K. Lee