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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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Professor Vanessa Speight contributes to article in The Telegraph 'Is your tap water safe to drink?'

Pressure is building on the UK Government to take more stringent action on the levels of so-called “forever chemicals” in our drinking water, Professor Speight contributes to an article focused on this issue in The Telegraph.

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What Lurks Beneath: How Robots Can Save City Plumbing with Vanessa Speight

Professor Vanessa Speight speaks to Jay Famiglietti about pipe-traveling robots on his podcast channel, What About Water?
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Building standards are failing to deliver healthy ventilation

A panel of leading scientists and engineers, including Dr Abigail Hathway, contribute to a report on air pollution by England’s Chief Medical Officer.
Ventilation

Our engineers join forces to champion building ventilation

An international awareness campaign to promote the critical role of better building ventilation supporting health, well-being, and productivity has been launched by a coalition of scientists, academics, engineering bodies and environmental activists.

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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