Why the ICE took the radical step of setting up a magazine for its members and how New Civil Engineer was born.
In the late 1960s ICE secretary Garth Watson was beset with two connected problems: the first was communicating with members and the second was cost. Communications at that time were…
Managing surface water in urban areas has the potential to enhance the environment. benefits already seen are just the beginning.
Imagine a future where instead of looking out over a sea of grey roofs, all you can see are meadows – but you are still in a city centre. Maybe it…
On 23 May 1984, an explosion tore apart the Abbeystead valve house at the recently-completed Lune-Wyre water transfer scheme in Lancashire, killing 16 of a party of visitors and leaving many more seriously injured. It is the only incident I can recall of a civil (or structural) engineering failure in…
With the primary bores on the £4bn Thames Tideway Tunnel project now complete, client Tideway reflects on the lessons learned.
Tideway chief technical officer Roger Bailey believes that the undoubtedly successful construction of London’s super sewer – the 25km long Thames Tideway Tunnel – is largely down to early upfront collaborative…
1972 – Tarbela dam – Pakistan The 1972 collapse of irrigation and power tunnels on one of the world’s largest dams was caused by scour and poor design but was the first of several collapses that affected the project over the next three years. 1973 – Rio-Niteroi Bridge – Brazil…
When I was 20, I became a student member of the ICE and started to get my own copy and found my first three jobs after graduation through its recruitment pages. It was in NCE too that I had my first article as a construction journalist published – at which…
The events that dominated my time as editor actually predate the launch of NCE, but the detailed analysis of these events, right from the launch issue, really captures what the magazine set out to do. It was the collapse during construction of three box girder bridges of similar design that…
New Civil Engineer brought up its half century in style last night.
Celebrating 50 years of unrivalled content, NCE staff past and present came together with industry big wigs at a birthday bash to remember at the ICE’s central London headquarters. Kicking off the festivities, incumbent NCE editor Claire Smith took…
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