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New guide to help boost productivity

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A new guide providing practical advice for boosting productivity across the infrastructure lifecycle, has been published by the ICE.

Driving Productivity: Infrastructure Lifecycle Guidance is an online publication which builds on the Institution’s State of the Nation 2022: Improving Infrastructure Productivity report. State of the Nation 2022 explored possible interventions that…

Nominations deadline for 11 ICE Council places is 29 March

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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…

Jim Hall to be next ICE President

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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…

Trustee’s View | An opportunity to commemorate Smeaton

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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…

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…

IPA wants AI, modern methods of construction, infrastructure pipeline to be ‘business as usual’ by 2025

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Use of artificial intelligence (AI), implementation of modern methods of construction (MMC) and a comprehensive pipeline of work should be “business as usual” in infrastructure delivery by 2025, according to the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA).

These business as usual expectations were the main theme in the IPA’s latest Transforming Infrastructure…

First Chartered Infrastructure Engineer named

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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…

Engineers must work in harmony with nature says new ICE President

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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…