1. ICE was founded in a coffee shop in London by eight young civil engineers, the youngest was 19.
2. The population in North East London requires the equivalent of 23 Olympic sized swimming pools of water at peak periods, to prevent half a million people running out of water.
3. Each gate at Thames Flood Barrier is a hollow steel-plated structure over 20 metres high, weighing around 3,700 tonnes, equal to 3,500 Mini Coopers.
4. The diagonal trusses on Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai are the same length as a football pitch and weigh the same as 20 double-decker buses.
5. It took machines as long as two football pitches, drilling over 76m a day, three years to drill the tunnel for the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France.