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New Workington bridge highly commended in NW civil engineering awards

3 FEBRUARY 2012

A footbridge built to reconnect Workington’s communities following the devastating 2009 floods has been highly commended in the prestigious North West Civil Engineering Community Award.

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  • Awards & competitions , Structures and buildings

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  • North West

Burscough bridge named NW Civil Engineering Small Project of the Year

3 FEBRUARY 2012

The imaginative £434k reconstruction of Burscough’s Flax Lane Bridge spanning Abbey Brook has secured a prestigious North West Institution of Civil Engineers award for the project.

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  • Awards & competitions , Structures and buildings

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  • North West

Media City footbridge NW Civil Engineering Large Project of the Year

3 FEBRUARY 2012

The iconic Media City UK Footbridge has won this year’s prestigious North West Institution of Civil Engineers large project award.

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  • Awards & competitions , Structures and buildings

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  • North West

Useful information for members: lessons learned and case studies

2 FEBRUARY 2012

During a series of regional workshops last summer, learned society staff received frequent requests from members for more case studies and lessons learned from failures.

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  • Health and safety , Structures and buildings

Here's one we built earlier

1 FEBRUARY 2012

A bridge will be the first man-made structure to join an exclusive club alongside the Queen and David Beckham - by receiving a Blue Peter badge.

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  • Awards & competitions , Historical engineering , Structures and buildings

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  • Scotland

Building Control Survey - your chance to input

5 JANUARY 2012

ICE and IStructE have jointly established Structural Engineers Registration Ltd (SER), which provides registration services for chartered engineers licensed to carry out buildings regulations compliance.

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  • Structures and buildings

EEFIT Tohoku Mission Slides Available

20 DECEMBER 2011

The slides from the joint IET and ICE event on 5 December are now available online.

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  • Structures and buildings

  • ICE regions:

  • South West

Scotland’s engineers welcome infrastructure investment

6 DECEMBER 2011

The Institution of Civil Engineers in Scotland has welcomed the announcement by the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment to invest billions in more than 80 major capital projects and programmes to revitalise Scotland's economy.

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  • Education , Health and safety , Public affairs , Structures and buildings , Transport

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  • Scotland

ICE calls met in autumn statement: National Infrastructure Plan provides clear pipeline

30 NOVEMBER 2011

The Chancellor’s autumn statement and the launch of the second National Infrastructure Plan on 29 November has provided a clear framework for infrastructure investment.

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  • Energy , Environment & Sustainability , Ground engineering , Maritime , Structures and buildings , Transport , Water

ICE responds to second National Infrastructure Plan

29 NOVEMBER 2011

ICE Director General Tom Foulkes has given his response to the 2nd National Infrastruture Plan announced today.

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  • Energy , Environment & Sustainability , Municipal engineering , Structures and buildings , Transport , Waste management , Water

Engineering the Olympic Park

Engineering the Olympic Park

23 NOVEMBER 2011

More than eight million people have obtained tickets for next year’s Olympic Games and a prestigious event in Nottingham this month will explore the issues involved in delivering the infrastructure involved in delivering an event on this mammoth scale.

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  • Environment & Sustainability , Geospatial engineering , Ground engineering , Health and safety , Learning Legacy , Structures and buildings , Transport

  • ICE regions:

  • East Midlands

Liverpool engineering walk

Liverpool engineering walk

14 NOVEMBER 2011

The event, hosted by the Merseyside branch, sponsored by the University of Liverpool and supplied with PPE by Morrisroe, attracted a crowd of sixty people on a sunny Saturday afternoon early in October.  A large group of students new to the city were joined by graduates and professionals from across the North West. Splitting into smaller groups the tour guides started the walk at Brownlow Hill and headed first to Liverpool City Centre.

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  • Historical engineering , Structures and buildings

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  • North West

The capital's infrastructure revealed for Open House London

The capital's infrastructure revealed for Open House London

25 OCTOBER 2011

For the first time this year, ICE London took part in the annual Open House London festival.  For one weekend in mid-September, hundreds of buildings, structures and sites opened their doors to the public for a fascinating series of free events, with more than 17,000 people taking part in events which raised the profile of civil engineering.

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  • Education , Energy , Environment & Sustainability , Historical engineering , Structures and buildings , Transport , Waste management , Water

  • ICE regions:

  • London

ICE responds to new planning framework

19 SEPTEMBER 2011

ICE has responded to the Government’s consultation on the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) for England.

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  • Environment & Sustainability , Municipal engineering , Structures and buildings

All Party Infrastructure Group re-forms with event on Thames Tideway Tunnel

28 JULY 2011

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure (APPGI) met on 5 July to hold its Annual General Meeting and receive a presentation on the Thames Tideway Tunnel.

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  • Environment & Sustainability , Public affairs , Structures and buildings

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