Showing 45 articles for: Art and Architecture
Green facelift for concrete buildings
Professor Doug King FREng
Recladding energy-inefficient buildings is far less carbon-intensive than knocking down and rebuilding
Building bridges
Freda Chu
Engineers in Arup’s Hong Kong offices worked with a team of volunteers and villagers to build a footbridge in a remote area of China
Inside the rain room - No umbrella required
Tim Rushby-Smith
The Rain Room creates an interactive indoor downpour that gallery visitors can walk through without getting wet
Building the Shard
John Parker
With London’s newest landmark, engineers needed to resolve challenges including building around unmovable cores, extreme craning and controlling the sway of the spire
Celebrating steam innovation; Water music; SET for Britain; Forum for engineering
In Brief: short articles and engineering news
Edward Dubois FREng - Architect at sea
Michael Kenward OBE
Ed Dubois’s career has moved on from designing yachts built for speed to building top-of-the-range superyachts
Painting a new London
Damian Arnold
The artist Jonathan Meuli talks to Ingenia about his artistic collaboration with the Institution of Civil Engineers
Infinity crosses the Tees
Professor Chris Wise FREng, Tim Harris
The Infinity Footbridge in Stockton has won many awards and is the centrepiece for the region’s regeneration
Constructing Temenos
Tees Valley becomes home to one of the UK’s biggest public works of art, designed by the artist Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond
Design Drives - Materials Innovation
Dr Raymond Oliver FREng, Anne Toomey
A new generation of ‘smart’ materials could fundamentally change the way we live our lives.