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CIV Sam Clarke
15 November 2021

Deaths from landmines are on the rise – and clearing them all will take decades

Dr Sam Clarke tells The Conversation how research at the University of Sheffield has been looking at quantifying how the soil around landmines changes how deadly they are.

Rhona Kerr & Lara Lightfoot
5 November 2021

Sheffield Civil Engineering graduates chosen as ICE President's Future Leaders

President of the Institution of Civil Engineers chooses Lara Lightfoot and Rhona Kerr as Future Leaders

Student winners
29 October 2021

Sheffield Team win the Engineers in Business Innovation Competition

Structural Engineering & Architecture student Jonathan Moniz is part of a team of other engineers that have won first prize in the final of the Engineers in Business Champion of Champions innovation competition - ‘big ideas’ category.
CIV build

Why are our buildings still single use?

Charles Gillot, a PhD Student in our Department has been talking to The Conversation about the problems we face in decarbonising the Built Environment and what actions we need to enable this.

12 November 2021
water research

€5.1M Horizon 2020 project to build collaborative Urban Drainage research communities

A new project will integrate research and innovation activities in the field of Urban Drainage Systems to address pressing public health and flood risks, and emerging environmental challenges.

1 November 2021
Water splash

The University of Sheffield named among winners of £36m Water Breakthrough Challenge

As a partner of the Anglian Water team, we have been named as one of the winners of Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge, sharing in £36 million to deliver wide scale, transformational change to benefit customers, society and the environment.

30 September 2021
Water coming from a tap
Photo by Jacek Dylag

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.

15 September 2021 | The Conversation
An illustration of a city's skyline showing cranes constructing buildings

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

1 September 2021