The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has expressed its congratulations to the eleven members who received awards in this year’s Queens Birthday honours.
Current ICE president Peter Hansford said:
“It’s wonderful to see so many civil engineers recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours. This is a remarkable achievement and testament to the enormous contribution engineers make to society.
“In particular we warmly congratulate immediate past president Paul Jowitt on his CBE.”
ICE members to receive awards include:
Civils
Knighthood
David Hartman Higgins, lately Chief Executive, Olympics Delivery Authority, for services to regeneration
CBE
Alan Baxter, Founder of Alan Baxter & Associates, for services to engineering and conservation
Terence Malcolm Hill, Chairman, Arup Group Trusts, for services to civil engineering
Professor Paul William Jowitt (immediate Past President), Professor of Civil Engineering Systems, Heriot Watt University, for services to technology
OBE
Professor Alexander Messent Cairncross, for services to environmental health overseas
Joanna Gabrelle Da Silva, for services to engineering and to humanitarian relief
Glyn Vaughan, Area and Coastal Flood Risk Manager (Cumbria and Lancashire), Environment Agency, for services to flood defence
Haydn White, Chairman, Infrastructure Committee, British Standards Institution, for services to the water industry
MBE
Donald Ramsey Lamont, HM Principal Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety (Civil Engineering), Department for Work and Pensions
Military Division
CBE
Major General Alan Drury McKlin, Late Corps of Royal Engineers
Brigadier Tyrone Richard Urch, Late Corps of Royal Engineers
Contact: Emily Beadon, ICE Media Relations Manager, 020 7665 2261 or 07917215055 emily.beadon@ice.org.uk
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) was founded in 1818 to ensure professionalism in civil engineering. It represents 80,000 qualified and student civil engineers in the UK and across the globe. The ICE has long worked with the government of the day to help it to achieve its objectives, and has worked with industry to ensure that construction and civil engineering remain major contributors to the UK economy and UK exports.