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Speakers revealed for NCE Flood Resilience conference 2024

NCE News — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 05:31:58 +0000

New Civil Engineer has revealed the first speakers set to appear at NCE Flood Resilience 2024 on 24 April.

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NCE at 50 | How predictions from 25 years ago stood the test of time

Claire Smith — Wed, 25 May 2022 01:15:05 +0000

NCE’s 25th anniversary supplement made predictions for what the world of civil engineering would look like in 2022 – how did those forecasts hold up?

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NCE at 50 | Editors’ key moments: Claire Smith 2020-present

Claire Smith — Wed, 25 May 2022 00:15:43 +0000

Getting journalists onto site quickly to ascertain the contributing factors that have led to engineering failures has been central to the success of the insight NCE has delivered over the last 50 years. I feel fortunate that, at the time of writing, there have been…

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NCE at 50 | Editors’ key moments: Mark Hansford 2013-2019

Claire Smith — Tue, 24 May 2022 00:15:46 +0000

Bridge collapses have been an ongoing topic for NCE’s news team right from the launch issue. The collapse of the Polcevera viaduct on the A10 in Genoa, Italy on 14 August 2018 killing 43 people and injuring a further 16 sent shockwaves through the industry.…

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NCE at 50 | Editors’ key moments: Antony Oliver 2000-2013

Antony Oliver. — Mon, 23 May 2022 00:15:58 +0000

Unthinkable. It was the single word that captured a stunned reaction to the sight of the New York World Trade Center Twin Towers collapsing into a plume of dust on 11 September 2001. It was the word chosen for NCE’s cover as we raced to…

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NCE at 50 | Editors’ key moments: Alistair McLellan 1998-2000

Alastair McLellan — Fri, 20 May 2022 00:15:39 +0000

My time as the editor of NCE lasted less than two years. I was the first and last not to have an engineering background and was keen not to overstay my welcome. My predecessor, the late Mike Winney, lived and breathed civil engineering. He had…

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NCE at 50 | Editors’ key moments: Mike Winney 1993-1998

Ty Byrd — Thu, 19 May 2022 00:15:20 +0000

Mike Winney died in 2007. This is written by his close former colleague Ty Byrd.

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NCE at 50 | The ICE view

Claire Smith — Wed, 18 May 2022 23:15:40 +0000

Issues facing members of the Institution of Civil Engineers in the next 50 years go beyond the technical to include ethical and social considerations.

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NCE at 50 | Editors’ key moments: Ty Byrd 1989-1993

Ty Byrd — Wed, 18 May 2022 00:15:07 +0000

Failure in April 1978 of the Willow Island cooling tower in Wheeling, West Virginia – still considered the worst ever construction disaster in the United States – was perhaps the most significant event during my time on NCE. Fifty one men died when concrete failed…

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NCE at 50 | Why the ICE needed NCE

Hugh Ferguson — Tue, 17 May 2022 02:05:31 +0000

Why the ICE took the radical step of setting up a magazine for its members and how New Civil Engineer was born.

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