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Industry CPD

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) ensures you remain competent in your profession. Chartered, Associate and Technician Members of the Institution must complete a specified amount each year. All CPD undertaken must be reported to the Institution annually.

Completing Industry CPD modules in The Structural Engineer can contribute to your CPD reporting.

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Industry CPD: Good FEA modelling for static linear analysis
This CPD module, sponsored by Oasys, examines the use of static linear analysis for modelling building and bridge structures and how to generate realistic, accurate results.

Publish Date – 1 August 2025

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Industry CPD: Designing LVL beams with connections
This CPD module, sponsored by Metsä, introduces readers to laminated veneer lumber (LVL), before summarising the design of an LVL beam with connections.

Publish Date – 3 February 2025

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Industry CPD: Incorporating carbon assessments into your modelling workflow
This CPD module, sponsored by Trimble, explores the benefits of integrating ongoing carbon assessments into the modelling workflow for a structure.

Publish Date – 2 September 2024

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Industry CPD: Design of solar panel mounting structures made of cold-formed steel
This CPD module, sponsored by GRAITEC UK, explores the structural analysis and design of solar panel mounting structures made of cold-formed steel.

Publish Date – 1 July 2024

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Industry CPD: Accuracy and precision in finite-element analysis
This CPD module, sponsored by Oasys, explains what we mean by accuracy and precision, looks at possible causes of inaccuracy when conducting a finite-element analysis and discusses the role of validation and verification in checking the accuracy of modelling output.

Publish Date – 10 November 2023

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Industry CPD: Composite column design
This CPD module, sponsored by SCIA, examines the analysis and design of steel-and-concrete composite columns.

Publish Date – 6 September 2023

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Industry CPD: Structural waterproofing by design
This CPD module, sponsored by MAPEI, explores the addition of waterproofing admixtures to concrete in order to build a watertight below-ground structure.

Publish Date – 1 October 2022

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Structural thermal breaks: design considerations and certification
This CPD module, sponsored by Farrat, examines the realities of designing for the competing requirements of structural, thermal and fire performance through the lens of structural thermal breaks.

Publish Date – 1 July 2022

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Industry CPD: Calculating cracking deformation in concrete
This CPD module, sponsored by Buildsoft, explores the benefits of advanced structural analysis software when calculating cracked deflections of reinforced concrete beams and floor slabs.

Publish Date – 1 June 2022

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Industry CPD: Parametric design and visual scripting
This CPD module, sponsored by SCIA, explores the productivity benefits that structural engineers could gain by adopting a parametric approach to design.

Publish Date – 1 March 2022

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Back to basics in troubled times – your notification obligations to your insurer
This CPD module, sponsored by Griffiths & Armour, offers guidance to engineers on when they should notify their professional indemnity insurers about potential claims on their policy.

Publish Date – 1 February 2022

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Industry CPD: Thermal bridging and structural thermal breaks
The CPD module, sponsored by Farrat, discusses the use of structural thermal breaks to reduce energy transfer and loss between structurally loaded building details.

Publish Date – 5 July 2021

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Design approach for structural strengthening of reinforced concrete structures using FRP
This CPD module, sponsored by MAPEI, introduces the use of FRP for the structural strengthening of reinforced concrete structures. It provides an overview of the composite materials and the design approach for flexural, shear and axial strengthening.

Publish Date – 28 May 2021

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Industry CPD: Numerical modelling of joints for structural design using CBFEM
This CPD module, sponsored by IDEA StatiCa UK, introduces CBFEM, a method to analyse and design connections of steel structures, which is a synergy of the standard approach to connection design (component method) and finite elements.

Publish Date – 30 April 2021

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Industry CPD: Structural steel and the circular economy
This CPD module, sponsored by Steel for Life, examines a number of steel’s credentials specifically on its ability to be reused, recycled and multi-cycled, its structural efficiency as a construction material, and its alignment and application to circular economy principles.

Publish Date – 25 February 2021

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Industry CPD: Steel and embodied carbon
This CPD module, sponsored by Steel for Life, examines the embodied carbon credentials of steel and its potential to contribute to a zero-carbon future.

Publish Date – 13 November 2020

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Industry CPD: Steel and off-site construction
This CPD module, sponsored by Steel for Life, will look at the structural steelwork construction process with a focus on established off-site processes and practices and the benefits provided.

Publish Date – 1 June 2020

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Industry CPD: Modelling buildings for seismic analysis
This CPD module, sponsored by SCIA, introduces best practice guidelines for performing seismic analysis using the Modal Response Spectrum Method in finite element software. These principles ought to be well understood when applied to 3D models.

Publish Date – 1 May 2020

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Industry CPD: Fire protection of steel-framed buildings

This CPD module, sponsored by Steel for Life, provides an introduction to fire protection of new steel-framed buildings. It will provide an overview of the performance of steel in fire, legislation and standards on fire resistance, fire resistance periods and fire protection options for steel-framed buildings.

Publish Date – 3 March 2020

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Industry CPD: How engineering companies can avoid struggling with large amounts of project data

Modern construction projects produce an enormous amount of data, which can become a great risk for engineering companies and other AEC firms. This CPD module, sponsored by Newforma, examines various digital workflows which are suitable to tackle those challenges.

Publish Date – 1 April 2019

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