Monthly Archives: August 2014
Engineering Is Art: 050 – 099
August 31, 2014 2
The real shame of engineering is that we spend so much of our time trying to hide people from our craft. It’s the architecture that people are encouraged to appreciate, not the structure behind it. In…Read More
IABSE Future of Design 2014
August 15, 2014 2
It’s that time of year again; the annual IABSE Future of Design event is looming. I’ll be going, and you should be coming too. Whilst a lot of industry conferences and events are aimed at the engineers…Read More
Adaptive Structures
August 7, 2014
One of the core motifs of Transistor is the notion of self adapting structures: Buildings and infrastructure that alter their states, with apparent sentience, to cope, survive and provide for scenarios beyond…Read More
Being Brunel for Two Years
August 4, 2014 2
Who would have thought it? – Wait; haven’t I said that before? It’s August 2014 and I’ve now been Being Brunel for two whole years. A lot has changed since I begun: for a start people now actually read…Read More
