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Department of Civil and Structural Engineering

Civil and structural engineers help to create and protect the world we live in. Driven by teaching and research excellence, we inspire and empower our students to engineer a better future.

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15 September 2021

What contaminants lurk in the UK's drinking water?

Vanessa Speight, Professor of Integrated Water Systems, writes how building owners need to test water for contaminants like lead, and discusses how an increasingly polluted environment means contaminants are making their way into our drinking water.

The Conversation
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1 September 2021

Steel’s coming home

Eurosteel, one of Europe’s biggest steel conferences where some of the latest research innovations to support the use of steel in the construction industry are presented, began today, hosted by our department of Civil and Structural Engineering
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2 August 2021

The beginning of the end of the Covid pandemic?

Dr Abigail Hathway discusses how to keep buildings ventilated during the pandemic, and why it's so important on
BBC Radio 5 Live (item starts 12:12).

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Video

What happens when a bomb explodes?

Watch this video showing the fantastic work of Dr Sam Clarke and Dr Sam Rigby at our Blast Laboratory where they work with the Ministry of Defence on the impact of explosions at close range.

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Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street (via Broad Lane)
Sheffield
S1 3JD

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+44 114 222 5738

civil@sheffield.ac.uk

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