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Civil & structural

Recycled plastic is on the road to sustainability

Artificial lava used to plug oil and gas wells

Buildings destroyed by war in Aleppo, Syria

Rubble from war-torn buildings repurposed as concrete aggregate

Abandoned vehicle inside the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone

UK-Ukraine team to boost Chornobyl radiation monitoring

Comment: Digital disruption is shaping Britain’s future highways

Poll results: Should HS2 be scrapped?

Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, assistant professor of engineering design in the Penn State School of Engineering Design and Innovation, uses Tobii eye-tracking glasses to assess damages in row buildings in Mayfield, Kentucky after the region endured tornadoes in December 2021

Gaze of building inspectors could inform code for drone inspections

Port Talbot

Comment: Decarbonising private sector housing in Wales

New study on borehole disposal for nuclear waste

National Grid eyes e-field drone inspection for pylons

Gravitricity's core technology uses a system of weights and winches to store energy in the form of gravity

Gravitricity and Czech firm DIAMO announce plans to cooperate on full scale gravity energy store

Wood pieces at different stages of modification, from natural (far right) to delignified (second from right) to dried, bleached and delignified (second from left) and MOF-infused functional wood (first on the left)

Engineered wood traps carbon dioxide