This panel discussion pulls together some participants from the recent IABSE Henderson Colloquium to discuss the topic of "Moving Bridges", outlining the challenges and difficulties of designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining these structures. Based on the discussion had at the colloquium, this event (and the accompanying short report) shares the areas for further research around […]

For interest of IABSE British Group members, this conference will be hosted by the French Association of Civil Engineers in Menton on the French Riviera: DESIGNING, BUILDING AND RETROFITTING WITH UHPFRC: WELCOME TO MENTON! Seven years after the 2017 Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) conference held in Montpellier, focused on the know-how and applications carried out […]

The Milne Medal is awarded to an individual engineer for excellence in structural design, both in the overall concept and in the attention to detail in their work, and is named in recognition of the late Bob Milne, who served for many years as the Honorary Secretary of the IABSE British Group. This year, we […]

The IABSE British Group is delighted to be able to offer a site visit to the Renfrew Bridge, following the Bridges Scotland Conference and hosted by Hardesty and Hannover. Project Background The Renfrew bridge is a 184-meter double-leaf bobtail cable-stayed swing bridge connecting Renfrew to Clydebank and Yoker. The crossing is the centrepiece of the […]

Speaker: Max Clayton, Winner of the Nethercot Prize 2024, IABSE British Group.                      Moderator: David Knight, Chair, IABSE British Group The 2024 Nethercot Prize winner Max Clayton will give a webinar on his paper outlining the design and construction of Fern the Diplodocus. In the gardens of the Natural History Museum, […]

The 2025 IABSE Annual Lecture will be given by Catherine Ramsden of Useful Studio. Through the redline By consistently looking through and beyond the narrow remit of the redline, a binding project boundary, we can reach indirect, and even unknown, benefits and outcomes while better responding to critical aspects that disregard edges such as light, […]