How To Reduce Your Home’s Carbon Footprint
Carbon footprint is defined as the total emissions of CO2 generated by a single person or group. This is based on the level of consumption of fossil fuels, your lifestyle,…
A Closer Look: Steel I-Beams And Their Purposes In Construction Projects
Structural steel can be fabricated into different shapes while still maintaining its strength. It can be formed into long structural items called beams. These beams not only come in different…
Why Are Pole Barns Efficient, Multi-Purpose Buildings?
If you want to build green and save money, there are plenty of ways to do it. These green methods outperform the average stick-framed home in durability, energy efficiency, and…
How are Modular Homes different from Conventional Homes?
Modular homes are becoming increasingly popular and there’s a high chance there are a few in your neighborhood. You may not notice them because a modular home is almost identical…
The Award for Sustainability: the most important Structural Award?
Structural Awards judge and Institution Past President, Ian Firth, discusses the importance of celebrating sustainable engineering solutions.During the eleven years I’ve been judging the Structural Awards, the Award for Sustainability has taken…
Three ways structural engineers can help create a zero-waste future
Rethinking production and the life cycleDespite continuing efforts to reduce inefficiencies in the construction industry, excessive waste remains a problem: there is a real need to rethink production of components…
Why leadership is essential in uncertain times
Volatile economic and political environments offer the threat of uncertainty, increased competition and the opportunity of new market expansion and business growth. I’ve learnt, in over thirty-five years in business,…
How My Phone’s Most Annoying Feature Saved My Life
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on…
National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
The National Planning Policy Framework was published on 27 March 2012 with the aim to make the planning system less complex and more accessible, to protect the environment and to…
Water-resistant concrete
Water-resistant concretes are impermeable to water and other fluids either above or below ground. They are high density concretes that incorporate fine particle cement replacements. Your third party accredited supplier…
