Profile: Kate Simonen

Claire Thomas explores how her practice has fared regarding low-carbon design solutions, and asks what the construction industry can do to encourage low-carbon outcomes.

Eleana Savvidi laments the resistance that engineers can face when proposing lower-carbon solutions, but urges members to stand firm against misguided pushback.

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