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THE 50th anniversary of the opening of the M5 across the Clevedon Hills is fast approaching.

We award professional qualifications that are the civil engineering standard, lead the debates around infrastructure and the built environment and provide training, knowledge and insight.

The CSIRO’s 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio telescope in the world

60 years later, the Parkes dish is still performing world-class science and making discoveries that shape our understanding of the Universe.

CSIRO, Author provided The CSIRO’s 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31 1961.

Thomas Telford, the pioneering Scottish civil engineer, had first proposed a bridge across the Severn estuary in 1824. It fell to Michael Parsons to help fulfil that vision with his designs of the

Michael Parsons, brilliant civil engineer who revolutionised suspension bridge design – obituary His aerodynamic design for the first Severn crossing, with its streamlined bridge deck, influenced the design of bridges worldwide Michael Parsons Credit: family Michael Parsons, who has died aged 92, played a key role in designing and building four of the world’s greatest long-span suspension bridges – the Severn Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge, the first suspension bridge across the Bosphorus...