Top engineer to chair London civil engineering awards judges
The man behind the London Olympic Park; Royal Ascot; Battersea Power Station; BBC White City Media Village; The Royal Armories Museum, Leeds; and the Riyadh Financial District in Saudi Arabia has been chosen to chair the judging panel for the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) London Civil Engineering Awards 2013.
Rod Macdonald will start in the role on Friday 09 November 2012 when expressions of interest in entering the awards close.
He was a founding Partner of Buro Happold and Chairman for six years, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, Member of the Institution of Royal Engineers, and a past Chairman of the Association of Consultancy and Engineering.
Director of ICE London, Miranda Housden, said: “ICE London Civil Engineering Awards celebrate outstanding civil engineering achievement, innovation and ingenuity in London and during the last decade have become the highest honour for engineering excellence in the capital.
“Winning projects need to demonstrate how civil engineering has gone beyond the technical to make an excellent contribution to the sustainable creation, improvement and nurturing of the physical and social environment as well as being excellent in design, construction, project management, financial control, infrastructure maintenance and network operation.
“To secure Rod Macdonald as Chairman of the Judging Panel means those standards will be rigorously enforced and the final winners will know that they really are the best in London if not the world!”
Rod Macdonald said: “I have seen prestigious projects such as Kings Cross Station re-development, the Velodrome at the Olympic Park and Thames Water’s Lee Tunnel win the ICE London Civil Engineering Awards and know the pride that has brought to the civil engineers who worked on those schemes so I am very aware of the great responsibility which rests with the judging panel.
“Chairing the panel will not be easy as 2012 has seen many impressive civil engineering projects taking place in London or being developed by London firms for delivery outside London and in many cases outside the UK.
“I am looking forward to seeing the entries and visiting the shortlisted projects next February to help us decide who will receive the accolades of being the 2013 winners.”
More information is available at www.ice.org.uk/londonawards
ICE London has more than 8,000 members living and working in the city. More information can be found at www.ice.org.uk/London. You can follow ICE London on Twitter: @ICE_London