Viewpoint: Computational design: embedding sustainability

John Callanan shares his experience as a specialist structural steelwork fabricator to make the case for greater material efficiency as we respond to the climate emergency.

MIT professor Caitlin Mueller gave the keynote presentation at the IStructE Digital Design and Computation conference in May 2021. Here, she tells Jackie Whitelaw how computer tools she's developing will help structural engineers design for zero carbon.

This month's letters discuss building safety regulations; lateral stability; the snow protection tunnel on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway; safety factors for overturning; and recent articles on Alistair Day and Pier Luigi Nervi.