Published articles and lectures
Explore our collection of published articles and lectures, featuring expert insights on industry challenges and project case studies and thought leadership on emerging trends.
Neighbourhood North: maximum gain, minimum pain – transformational office redevelopment
The Structural Engineer – 3 June 2024
This article explores the project aims, challenges, solutions and lessons learned in redeveloping an existing 1980s quayside office block in southwest England.
“Less is More” Milne Medal 2021 lecture by Margaret Cooke
IABSE – 9 November 2022
Margaret Cooke, recipient of the 2021 Milne Medal – awarded to an individual engineer for excellence in structural design – lectures on the importance of why we need to build less and reuse more.
Barriers to low-carbon design: what are they are how can we overcome them?
The Structural Engineer – 8 September 2022
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.
Design for zero
The Institution of Structural Engineers – 29 October 2021
Overdesign results in carbon-intensive buildings. This guide explains why overdesign is so prevalent, and its impact on material consumption and CO2 emissions. The guidance covers the design process, through to fabrication, assembly, use, and deconstruction.
How can structural engineering be an unending stream of goodness?
IABSE Henderson Colloquium webinar – 5 October 2021
Margaret Cooke and three fellow speakers from the 2019 IABSE Henderson Colloquium, delve deeper into what characterises structural ‘goodness’. They discuss how emerging technologies and societal shifts may shape, support or challenge the profession’s ability to achieve excellence in structural design.
Three Bath building projects ‘virtually enabled’
Health Estates Journal – 17 October 2019
Integral Engineering Design has collaborated with the Royal United Hospitals (RUH) NHS Foundation Trust in Bath on several new building projects. Claire Thomas explains how Building Information Modelling (BIM) and 3D modelling have been crucial in both above-ground design and essential enabling works on the existing hospital site.
