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Widening engineering horizons: addressing the complexity of sustainable development

Prof Peter Guthrie, Dr Richard Fenner, Charles Ainger and Dr Heather Cruickshank present their award-winning paper on the complexity of sustainable development and present updated research. ICE Prestige Lecture 2008.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Environment & Sustainability

UK energy infrastructure - local grids and national networks

Chris Bennett, National Grid and Graham Meeks, Combined Heat and Power Association, discuss the environmental and economic pressures on the energy grids and how civil engineers can help develop solutions to society's energy needs. ICE Lecture 2008.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Energy

Tunnels and deep excavations for transport infrastructure. Advances in research and practice.

Professor Robert Mair of Cambridge University presents examples of recent advances in construction of large tunnels and deep excavations for transport infrastructure, drawing on case histories from around the world in a variety of ground conditions. ICE/TRF Fellows Lecture 2009.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Ground engineering

This one will bring the house down: the unexamined role of the manager in failure

Richard Williams, Mott MacDonald, believes that the systematic failure of management is one of the greatest risks facing a company and can bring down the business. He argues that it's about getting behaviours right. ICE/IStructE/HSE/SCOSS Prestige Lecture 2009.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Health and safety , Management , Structures and buildings

The delivery of a low carbon society - beyond rhetoric

Keith Clarke, Chief Executive, Atkins, drawson the inspirational leadership of engineers of the past to consider what engineering changes need to be implementedtoday to deliver a low carbon society. 8th Brunel International Lecture 2010.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Environment & Sustainability

The challenges and opportunities for the freight industry from 2014 to 2025 and beyond

Lord Tony Berkeley provides a wide-ranging review of the future opportunities and challenges for national and international freight services in the UK. ICE/Faber Maunsell Prestige Lecture 2009.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

Sustaining cities into the future - the Ozymandias question

Simon Willis, Global Innovation, Cisco, presents his experience from cities around the world and gives his views on how city leaders, engineers, IT providers and communities must work in partnership to tackle social, economic and environmental challenges. ICE/AECOM Prestige Lecture 2010.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Environment & Sustainability , Information systems , Municipal engineering

Sustainable structures - assessment and strengthening with special application to bridges

Lennart Elfgren, Professorat Lulea University of Technology,Sweden, discusses the assessment and strengthening of sustainable structures, notablybridges. He gives examples onhow tomonitor and strengthenstructuresand provides an example of full scale test to failure. ICE Unwin Lecture 2010.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Innovation and research , Structures and buildings

Sustainable bridges through innovative advances

Professor Adrian Long, Queen's University, Belfast, looks at the complex issue of sustainability in relation to bridges. ICE/TRF Fellows Lecture 2007.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Structures and buildings

Safety first as second nature: a question of priorities

Gordon Masterton, Vice President, Jacobs Engineering, draws on personal, corporate and published experience of analysing safety failures and successes and sets out some challenging ideas for change in the field of safety. ICE/IStructE Prestige Lecture 2007.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Health and safety , Structures and buildings

Realities, engineering challenges and opportunities of climate change

Professor Jorg Imberger of the University of Western Australia, reviews the key factors behind climate change and investigates the feedback mechanisms in the water and aquatic cycles, both aquatic and terrestrial. ICE Dugald Clerk Lecture 2009.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Environment & Sustainability , Water

Predicting footfall induced vibration

Michael Willford, Director, Arup, reviews different methods that are currently available for the prediction of footfall-induced vibration in structures.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Structures and buildings

Modernising our motorways - managing a key national asset

Graham Dalton, Chief Executive, Highways Agency outlines the current challenges facing the motorway and trunk road network and considers some of the possible developments for our motorways in the future. ICE/Scott Wilson Transport Lecture 2009.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

Meeting growing transport needs in an age of austerity

Professor Stephen Glaister, Director of the RAC Foundation, challenges the government as to how it will respond toincreasing demands on an already congested road and railway system and sets out his views as to howEngalnd's roads might be paid in an era of austerity. ICE/TRF Fellows Lecture 2010.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

Learning from failures at the interface

Dr Allan Mann, Senior Consultant, Jacobs, looks atvarious interfaces between engineering disciplines where there are opportunities for misunderstandingsthat can result in failures. ICE Lecture 2009.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • ICE topics:

  • Structures and buildings

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