G&S Papers competition winner: Martin McGready
The annual Graduates and Students papers competition is held to promote and reward excellence in the communication of civil engineering issues and ideas.
The winner of the 2011 North East heat is Martin McGready a Graduate Civil Project Engineer at PD Teesport. He impressed the panel with his written paper and presentation: Estimating the Carbon Footprint of Civil Engineering Projects within the Built Environment - Case Study of Heworth Grange School, Gateshead.
Martin received a £250 cash prize and has now been entered into ICE’s national competition. If he makes it through, Martin will be invited to present at the national final where he will compete against winners from other regions.
Runner up: ‘The validity of flood alleviation design using design rainfall in an unverified model‘ by Michael Gaunt, Graduate Engineer, Mott MacDonald.
Third Place: ‘Adopting a systems approach to the analysis of a contemporary civil engineering project’ by Charlotte Owen, MEng Civil and Structural Engineering student, Newcastle University.