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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures. 

HR Wallingford is an independent civil engineering and environmental hydraulics organisation with a 70 year heritage, delivering solutions to complex water-related challenges worldwide across both freshwater and marine sectors.

Royal HaskoningDHV is an independent international engineering and project management consultancy with more than 6,000 professionals operating across the world guided by a common principle – to enhance society together.

Hewson Consulting Engineers is founded on an underlying passion for good engineering and creative design.

Over the past five years professional services consultancy WSP has grown significantly, and its recent rebrand from WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff to WSP reflects that. WSP’s global workforce has grown to more than 36,000 with 85 companies coming together.

Leading multidisciplinary consultancy RPS Group advises on all aspects of the built and natural environment.

I was surprised by the Comment in the last issue, especially the assertion that, “having a robot that can run countless iterations of a complex structural conundrum…has to be another good thing”. It appears that the obvious lack of understanding of the spectrum of a structural design engineer’s input has…

Boredom afflicts almost half (47.2%) of engineering workers, with a staggering 55.6% admitting that they have looked for a new job as a result of a dull work life. That, according to a recent survey of 1,200 professionals by job board CV-Library.

This month, the Lighthouse has been thinking a lot about professionalism, what it means and where it is going.

A hillside stabilisation project which helped to protect the Ironbridge Gorge Unesco World Heritage Site was overall winner and geotechnical award winner at ICE West Midlands’ Annual Awards on 17 May.