Profile: Fiona Cobb

The Institution’s Digital Workflows and Computational Design Panel calls for a rethink of what computational design offers the industry for more sustainable design.

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.

If your dream job involves castles and stately homes, it's unlikely you would turn your attention to structural engineering. But as Kim Rochard explains, it’s possible to combine the two in the specialised field of conservation engineering. Helena Russell finds out more.