ICE Council is seeking new members for the session which begins in November.
There are 11 vacancies: Five general members (comprising Chartered, Incorporated and Technician Members), who are elected by the professionally qualified members worldwide and do not represent any particular constituency Five regional members – one member to represent each…
Hall succeeds Anusha Shah in November. He is an academic widely recognised for his research into water resource risk analysis.
ICE senior vice president Jim Hall has been officially elected to be the next ICE president by ICE Council. He succeeds Anusha Shah in November 2024. The ICE nomination committee put…
The “father of civil engineering” John Smeaton is credited with coining the term civil engineer. His legacy is impressive, and includes many famous structures such as the Eddystone Lighthouse. He also founded the first engineering society in the world – the Society of Civil Engineers, renamed the Smeatonian Society of…
Main Point Peter Meanley is quite right that we need a British Standard to encourage the use of basalt reinforcement (Your View, December 2023). However, in my view we also need a change of attitude in the risk averse procuring authorities, primarily government departments. They often view innovation with suspicion and…
The UK’s infrastructure industry might be forgiven for being downhearted as we come into the New Year. Confidence in major project and programme delivery is at, what feels like, an all time low. The cancellation of Phase 2 of High Speed 2 (HS2) is a recent – and very public…
Now is the time to shift the mindset on water management in communities to capture the many benefits collaboration brings. Uniquely, water, or a lack of, is at the root of many societal challenges, including droughts, floods and pollution, which often exist side by side. It should be reassuring that…
It has been an eventful few months for UK infrastructure policy, even by recent standards. Industry warnings about offshore wind incentives were ignored, net zero policies were scaled back, and the northern leg of High Speed 2 was cancelled. Within this whirlwind policy environment, the second National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA2)…
Aecom decarbonisation technical director Chris Landsburgh (above) has been awarded the new title of Chartered Infrastructure Engineer.
The protected title is the first to have been created in 100 years. Landsburgh was a President’s Future Leader under ICE past president Paul Sheffield. The Chartered Infrastructure Engineer title was introduced in response…
New ICE President Anusha Shah delivered her Presidential Address on 7 November.
She outlined her vision for civil engineers, urging them to work in harmony with nature to reach net zero. The focus of her presidential year will be to make civil engineering a nature and people-positive profession. She believes adopting…
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…
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