Climate emergency (five-volume package)

Author: Various

Date published

12 March 2025

Price
Standard: £167.95
Member: £109.95
Student: £83.95
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Climate emergency (five-volume package)

Guidance

Author

Various

Date published

12 March 2025

Author

Various

Price

Standard: £167.95
Member: £109.95
Student: £83.95

PDF

Essential titles from the Institution to assist built environment professionals in tackling the climate emergency. Save approximately 20% by purchasing these titles as a package.

This five-volume package brings together key Institution publications focused on climate emergency challenges within the built environment. 

The collection comprises Design for zero, Circular economy and reuse: guidance for designers, The regenerative structural engineer, The future of structural design, and How to calculate embodied carbon (3rd edition). 

Shop the individual titles

Guidance

Circular economy and reuse: guidance for designers

Circular economy and reuse: guidance for designers
This new guidance is an essential read for any built environment professional developing new (or reusing existing) structures today. Across four principal sections it explains why the adoption of circular economy principles is critical.
Date – 11 July 2023
Author – Penny Gowler et al.
Price – £39.95
Guidance

Design for zero

Design for zero
This guide explains why overdesign is so prevalent, its impact on material consumption and CO2 emissions, and provides five key actions you can take now, to reduce the carbon your projects produce. 
Date – 29 October 2021
Author – J J Orr, M Cooke, T J Ibell, C Smith & N Watson
Price – £24.95
Guidance

How to calculate embodied carbon (Third edition)

How to calculate embodied carbon (Third edition)
A comprehensively refreshed set of embodied carbon calculation principles for the structural engineering community to follow.
Date – 20 January 2025
Author – O P Gibbons, J J Orr and W Arnold
Price – Free/From £34.95
Thought leadership
Front cover of the book Regenerative Design

The regenerative structural engineer

The regenerative structural engineer
How to design for the climate & biodiversity emergency: thought leadership from the Institution of Structural Engineers.
Date – 12 January 2024
Author – Oliver Broadbent and James Norman
Price – £19.95
Thought leadership

The future of structural design

The future of structural design
Thought leadership guidance from the Institution of Structural Engineers.
Date – 12 March 2025
Author – James Norman et al.
Price – £22.95

Key features: 

  • Includes five climate-focused Institution titles 

  • Supports built environment professionals 

  • Covers circular economy and reuse principles 

  • Includes embodied carbon calculation guidance 

  • Package purchase offers approximately 20% saving 

Who the book is for: 

  • Structural engineers 

  • Built environment professionals 

  • Designers seeking climate-focused guidance 

  • Professionals interested in circular economy principles 

  • Practitioners calculating embodied carbon 

What you will learn: 

  • Approaches to design for zero 

  • Principles of circular economy and reuse 

  • Perspectives from regenerative structural engineering 

  • Future-focused structural design thinking 

  • Embodied carbon calculation principles 

Additional information

Format:
Book (A4/Royal print or PDF)
Publisher:
IStructE Ltd

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Guidance Sustainability & Environment Climate change IStructE London HQ Guides

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