[2] It provides professional accreditation and publishes a magazine, The Structural Engineer, which has been produced monthly since 1924.

[3] It also has a research journal, Structures, published by Elsevier.

It was established at the Ritz Hotel, London on 21 July 1908 as the Concrete Institute, as the result of a need to define standards and rules for the proper use of concrete in the construction industry.

H. Kempton Dyson was one of the founder members and the first permanent secretary.

It was renamed the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1922, when its areas of interest were extended to cover 'structures' of all kinds.