6.External References

6.1 Ref. 1.Strategic Planning

• 6.1.1 IStructE Climate Action End of Year Report 2024

  Five years of climate action. IstructE annual report is a summary of all activities and contributions the institution has made to the engineers profession.

This year there is a special focus on the Net Zero 5 year journey undertaken by the institution. Multiple references to other documents are given.

• 6.1.2 C40 Organization

  This is a network of the Mayors of the world's leading cities united in action to confront the climate crisis

• 6.1.3 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

  Community of Architects and Engineers . . .

• 6.1.4 The RIBA Journal

  RIBAJ is a journal to help architects in their work and in their practices, provides intelligence, inspiration and technical support.

• 6.1.5 The Structural Engineer

  The publication of the Institution of Structural Engineers. The Structural Engineer archive contains work published in relation to structural engineering over the last 100+ years.

• 6.1.6 The Architects Journal

  The latest architecture information related to buildings, architects, planning, competition wins and business. Other topics include: climate emergency, retrofit, the RIBA and architectural education

• 6.1.7 International Federation of Consulting Engineers
• 6.1.8 International Federation of Structural Concrete
• 6.1.9 Trust and Productivity. The Private Sector construction Playbook [N22]

  This document is critical to understand the position and the drives of our private sector industry. The principles: Being outcomes focus, practical and pragmatic. Its priority is engaging with tehe industry to adopt more effective practices. Support on the lounching of the Data Trust, a framework to collect site data focused on correct inefficiencies.

• 6.1.10 The construction Playbook. The UK Gov change Initiative for Public Sector [S22]

  This document is critical to understand the position and the drives of our Public sector industry.

6.2 Ref. 2.Design Methodologies

• 6.2.1 IStructE How to calculate Embodied Carbon

  This is a Key publication issued in January-25 by IStructE on Whole Life Carbon Assessments.

If offers a fundamental data and methodology to calculate Embodied Carbon emissions Preliminary Analysis for buildings.

• 6.2.2 LETI Supplementary Guidance. Embodied Carbon

  This Supplementary guidance expands on Embodied Carbon. LETI EDG has only chapter:2 on Embodied Carbon.

• 6.2.3 RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment for the Built Environment

  The RICS Professional Standard has ben critical to understand the Modular frame in Whole Life Carbon Assessment fro buildings

• 6.2.4 IStructE Building Safety Act

  This is the institution guidance with multiple references to regulatory sites.

• 6.2.5 Manual to the Building Regulations

  This is a short manual on the Building Regulations, providing guidance on the Building Regulations system in England.

• 6.2.6 Circular Buildings Toolkit [Arup]

  This is a Collection of Tools to manage the Circularity aspects of a project.

6.3 Ref. 3.Team Leadership

• 6.3.1 IStructE Structural Plan Of Work.

  Note: It is intended that the Structural Plan of Work provides a complementary framework for organising the structural engineering requirements for building projects to provide structural engineers, clients and other design disciplines with a more collaborative and unified approach to the process planning of projects.

This Resource Produced by the IstructE Institution has been fully adopted in the generation of the Organogram presented in this website.

6.4 Ref. 4.Project Management

• 6.4.1 IStructE Structural Plan Of Work

  The IStructE Plan of Work has been adopted in the enclosed methodologies

• 6.4.2 IStructE Structural Plan Of Work Overview and Guidance

  This document is critical to understand the IStructE Plan of work. All the information is fully adopted in the enclosed methodologies.

• 6.4.3 External Reference Guide to Project Planning

  Waterman Director M. Exeter. Schedules for Planning actions related to management.

• 6.4.4 External Reference Structural Engineers Deliverables

  Waterman Director M. Exeter. Schedules for the Engineers deliverables throughout Riba Stages.

• 6.4.5 IStructE Structural Sustainability Report

  The IStructE Structural Sustainability Report will be adopted in future projects

• 6.4.6 IStructE Structural Engineers Responsibility Matrix

  IStructE DRM has been adopted and it is critical to understand the scope of works in coordination with all other design packages.

• 6.4.7 SPoW Sustainability Checklist [IStructE]

  This Resource is fully used in Sections 2.2.1. and 2.2.1

• 6.4.8 Design Structure Matrix Proof Olivier de Weck MIT

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Design approach biased on Splitting a Design in different interdependent units, called Systems. The interdependencies will be plotted in the squared areas of the matrix. Other relationships like Requirements and resources will be related in the non squared areas of the matrix.

• 6.4.9 Internal Resources lcncmo.com

  These are a few excel spreadsheets that can be downloaded and used.

6.5 Ref. 5.Quality Management

• 6.5.1 Wikipedia Quality Assurance
• 6.5.2 ASQ Quality assurance vs Control

6.6 Building Regulations and UK Standards

• 6.6.1 Access to BSI standards through your IStructE membership
• 6.6.2 UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard

  This is an internal link where the UK Net Zero Standard is summarized.

• 6.6.3 UK Gov Building Regulations

6.7 Sustainability

• 6.7.1 UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard

  This is a link to the Pilot version of the UK Net Zero Standard. The Standard enables industry to robustly prove their built assets are net zero carbon and in line with our nation.s climate targets.

• 6.7.2 IStructE Sustainability Resource Map

  This is a really important resource; mapping multiple references to documents and presentations related to the Net Zero targets in our industry.

The document has been elaborated by the IStructE and provides references to the most relevant documents generated in the last five years in relation to the environment. The vast majority of the references are articles in the The Structural Engineer Journal.

• 6.7.3 ICE Environmental Impact Assessment

  The EIA is a required document intended to inform planning authorities about the environmental impact of a specific development being proposed. (EIA) and the introduction in 2024 of Environmental Outcomes Report (EOR)

• 6.7.4 UK GOV Climate Change Committee

  The sixth Carbon Budget, required under Climate Change Act, provides ministers with advice on the volume of GHG the UK can emit within the 2033-37 period. GHG Budget the UK

• 6.7.5 Sustainable Development Goals

  The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are targets for global development that were adopted in 2015. All countries have agreed to work towards achieving them by 2030.

• 6.7.6 LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide

  London Energy Transformation Initiative. Evidence-based recommendation for New London Environmental Strategy 2020. GLA. Rewrite London Plan. How Buildings can make the UK Net Zero Target

This is 1000 volunteers belonging to different parts of the industry aiming to create a document which will form the advice from experts to the GLA.

• 6.7.7 How to Calculate Embodied Carbon WLCA IstructE guide
• 6.7.8 A short guide to carbon off setting
• 6.7.9 Circuit-Circularity

  Atlas, Space Monitoring Service. Really promising feature to analyse and map useful data on Cities.

• 6.7.10 Built Environment Database

  Launched 23 October 2023

• 6.7.11 ECO Platform. EPD management Database

  Europe-Concrete, steel, timber, insulation

• 6.7.12 EPD International (Environdec) EPD management Database

  Global-All construction materials, MEP products

• 6.7.13 BRE EPD (UK) EPD management Database

  UK & Global-Construction materials, MEP

• 6.7.14 UL Environment (US & Global) EPD management Database

  North America & Global-Steel, concrete, finishes

• 6.7.15 CLF Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) EPD management Database

  Global-Concrete, steel, insulation, glazing

• 6.7.16 The Carbon Trust

  A leader in sustainability, the Carbon Trust works on reducing carbon emissions across industries, including construction. They provide expertise on low-carbon strategies, including embodied carbon, and have resources to help businesses assess and reduce their carbon footprint.

• 6.7.17 The Green Building Council (UKGBC)

  UKGBC advocates for sustainable practices in construction and has produced multiple reports and guidelines on reducing embodied carbon, including strategies to improve building materials' carbon efficiency.

• 6.7.18 Building Research Establishment (BRE)

  BRE provides tools, certifications, and research to help the construction industry reduce its environmental impact, including embodied carbon. Their BREEAM certification process encourages sustainable building practices that address both operational and embodied carbon.

• 6.7.19 The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

  RICS works to promote sustainability in the built environment, including addressing embodied carbon. They have created standards and guidelines that help construction professionals understand and reduce embodied carbon impacts in their projects.

• 6.7.20 Circular Buildings Toolkit by Arup

  Characterize circular Strategies by the design approach. Not by their outcome or their direct Impact on how the WBLCA is conducted

• 6.7.21 BRE Group

  BRE delivers innovative and rigorous products, services [BREEAM Certification], standards and qualifications to make buildings better for people and the environment.

• 6.7.22 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

  LEED is the world's most widely used green building rating system.

• 6.7.23 European Commission

  European Framework for sustainable buildings

• 6.7.24 Evaluating re-use potential: Material profiles and vision for project workflow

  There are workflows to facilitate reuse of materials. Actions at each stage of the project are outlined.

• 6.7.25 European Commission-Sustainable Finance Europe

  To be completed

• 6.7.26 European Commission-Green Forum

  To be completed

6.8 Timber Construction

• 6.8.1 Arup Embodied Carbon Timber Ref:07762000-RP-SUS-0002 June 2023

  Arup offers an overview of the embodied carbon impact of Timber Modules A1-5

• 6.8.2 Timber In Construction Road Map

  UK Gov document explaining the plans for the development of the timber construction industry, in line with the environmental agenda and the housing crisis agenda. It is worth exploring the references in this document: there are some Project examples.

• 6.8.3 Lever Architecture

  This Architectural firm offers Innovative material on timber construction. Available on Line.

• 6.8.4 Lever and Atelier ten Mythbusting Mass Timber

  Mass timber experts and carbon impact specialists debunk common myths about mass timber construction.

• 6.8.5 Structural Timber Design [Book]

  Werner Seim. German Author on Timber Design engineering

• 6.8.6 NHERI Tall Wood [Research Project]

  Research Project in Timber Construction. Analysis based on testing and methodologies are offered to achieve Mass Timber construction including Cores in Seismic areas.

The Vision of this project is to develop and validate a seismic design methodology for tall wood buildings that can quantitatively account for building resilience

• 6.8.7 The Sky Craper Museum NY

  Tall Timber The Future of Cities in Wood. Accessed 19-02-2020. This is a reference to a exhibition in NY focusing on Tall building construction in Timber.

There are multiple references to talks and presentations, extremely useful to inform Structural engineers on the latest trends.

• 6.8.8 Lever Architecture US

  Lever Architecture is US Engineers firm offering free access to their investigation work related to Tall Timber construction. It offers a very relevant piece of information around Mass Timber Construction [CLT] and design by testing. Last access 24-02-25.

• 6.8.9 CTBUH 2022 Steel-Timber Hybrid Buildings Conference

  This a reference on Line to a conference held in Chicago in May-2022. It offers access to multiple presentations on Hybrid timber Steel Construction. It offers really useful information from consultants all around the world. Last accessed 24-02-25.

• 6.8.10 Timber Development UK

  This is a very important resource for Designers and traders related to Timber Construction. The organization is privately funded with an annual fee of 250 pounds. It is considered of a prime necessity for engineers designing in Timber.

6.9 Steel in Construction

• 6.9.1 Arup Embodied Carbon Steel Ref:07762000-RP-SUS-0001 June 2023

  Arup offers an overview of the embodied carbon impact from the use of Steel Modules A1-5

• 6.9.2 British Constructional Steelwork Association

  BCSA - The national organisation for the steel construction industry. NSSS 7th Edition, 1st Revision has been launched

6.10 Concrete in Construction

• 6.10.1 Arup Embodied Carbon Concrete Ref:07762000-RP-SUS-0003 June 2023

  Arup offers an overview of the embodied carbon impact derivate from the use of Concrete, Modules A1-5

• 6.10.2 The Structural Engineer, Volume 103,Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) 25-29: Classifying the embodied carbon of concrete: a guide to three recent tools

  This article by Fragkoulis Kanavaris and Bruce Martin briefly describes three embodied carbon classification tools available to engineers in the UK and illustrates how they may be applied in the industry.

• 6.10.3 Mineral Products Association [The Concrete Centre]

  MPA is the trade association for the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, dimension stone, lime, mortar and industrial sand industries.

• 6.10.4 The Concrete Centre

  The Concrete Centre is part of the MPA

• 6.10.5 PTI Post Tension Institute

  Post Tension Institute and High Strength Concrete

6.11 Aluminium Construction

• 6.11.1 Arup Embodied Carbon Aluminium Ref:07762000-RP-SUS-0004 August 2024

  Arup offers an overview of the embodied carbon impact of Aluminium Modules A1-5