Tag Archives: Profession

Knowledge Hub gets an update

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Online platform helps engineers with continuing professional development and has a focus on resilience, productivity and low carbon.

Members looking to explore civil engineering topics and earn Continuing Professional Development credits can now do so on the refreshed ICE Knowledge Hub. The platform is for all ICE members and offers a…

NCE Graduate & Apprentice Awards winners profiled

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The civil and digital engineering skills of early career professionals have been recognised at the NCE Graduate & Apprentice Awards 2023.

This year’s event, held at the ICE in November, was produced in partnership with the ICE and sponsored by Amey Consulting, Balfour Beatty, Binnies, GHD, Heathrow, Joseph Gallagher, Mott MacDonald and…

Tall building competence register to be set up

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ICE/IStructE initiative to register competence of engineers working on tall buildings to reassure public about the safety of these structures

The ICE and the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) are to run a joint registration process for a new competency register of members who work on tall buildings. The register aims…

Trustee’s View | Perspective in updating ethics guidance is vital

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A few days after this column is published, the ICE will publish new, updated advice on ethical conduct for its members. The new guidance encompasses many key topics for the ICE’s membership including clarity of communications with clients, declaring conflicts of interest, respecting boundaries (specifically related to the provision of…

Trustee’s View | Be a professional reviewer

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In today’s evolving and increasingly demanding engineering landscape, the pursuit of professional recognition has become more critical than ever. However, the pathway to professional recognition is not a solitary journey. Rather, it is one where candidates are joined by those who once walked in their shoes, to become qualified themselves.…

President’s View | A year of listening and learning

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Former Presidents warned me how the presidential year flies by, and it is hard to believe mine is coming to an end. I set out in November 2022 the aim of listening to our members, updating them on the Institution’s work and persuading them that sustainable development – with a…

Spotlight | Keeping the edges fuzzy

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Civil engineering projects do not live in a vacuum. Technical decisions have impacts on people, communities and the environment. The periphery of projects blends into wider areas of influence and it is here, at the fuzzy edges, our skills can go beyond technical input.  Wider, fuzzy-edged thinking brings in different…

ICE knowledge programmes revamp

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ICE Council has restructured its Community Advisory Boards (CABs) and Knowledge Networks to improve the delivery of content, research and activity.

The aim is for the CABs and Knowledge Networks to be better set up to support the delivery of the ICE’s five year plan. Seven strategic CABs relating to key…

ICE consults members on CPD requirements and assessment

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The ICE has launched a consultation exercise focusing on the continuing professional development (CPD) needs of members.

It will examine what CPD should be required of professionally qualified members and how they should demonstrate their compliance. It will explore the potential and practicalities of introducing a mid-career reassessment. Members will be…

What’s on 5 to 11 July

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East  Midlands 06 July: Membership surgery, West Midlands. 10am to 5pm, online. Click here for more details. Contact memsupp.coordinator@ice.org.uk 11 July: Supervising civil engineer, delegated engineer and mentor training/refresher workshop. 2pm to 4.30m, online. Click here for more details. Contact memsupp.coordinator@ice.org.uk North West 05 July: Jodrell Bank’s First Light Pavilion dome. 6pm, Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement,…