The British Group of IABSE is pleased to announce that this year's winner of the coveted Milne Medal is John Parker, Director of Building Structures at WSP in the UK. 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 […]

Since 1975, the British Group of IABSE has held a two day colloquium in Cambridge every summer for about 25 invited participants. The purpose of the event is to exchange views on a structural engineering theme of topical importance. The Institution’s Structural Futures Committee, in conjunction with the IABSE British Group are hosting a discussion […]

Join us for an informal evening of discussion and debate about how to make a successful career in engineering. This is an opportunity to hear leading figures from industry reflecting back on their career and sharing their own personal story about their journey to success. The panel discussion will be followed by an informal mentoring […]

British Group chair Ian Firth (COWI) and IABSE member Martin Knight (Knight Architects) will be running a two day course on the conceptual design of bridges. The course helps engineers gain an appreciation of the process of conceptual design for bridges, in terms of both selecting a structural form to suit the constraints of a […]

We are delighted to welcome you to Future of Design Birmingham 2019, a full-day conference and dinner in Birmingham aimed at promoting innovation and inspiring the designers of the future. This is the fourteenth Future of Design Conference organised by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) British Group. The day will consist of engaging and thought provoking talks from a variety of […]

The British Group of IABSE is organising an afternoon tour of Clifton Suspension Bridge, which will be led by the Bridgemaster Trish Johnson and John Rees of COWI. Delegates will learn how the difficult balance of preserving the bridge’s heritage whilst maintaining current functional and maintenance standards has been achieved on this awe-inspiring bridge across […]

Description This Year's IABSE Annual Lecture is a special one; we'll firstly be treated to a Lecture by Guy Nordenson, entitled "What We Do", followed by dinner aboard a boat on the Thames! “What We Do”, Guy Nordenson “This then is the engineer’s principal destructive weakness, to play Iago to the architect, or indeed to […]

We welcome you to Future of Design London 2019, a conference aimed at fostering creative innovation and inspiring the next generation of designers. FoD London 2019 will mark the 15th future of design conference organised by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) British Group. The conference brings together a variety of keynote […]