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The ICE press office is always happy to help with media enquiries. We regularly comment on a wide range of infrastructure and civil engineering issues including energy, transport, climate change, water and waste, flooding, planning, funding, international development, and skills.

We also have an extensive database of expert spokespeople available for interview, and can provide research, facts and figures and photos if necessary.

Journalists wishing to contact the ICE Press Office should contact media relations manager: Kate Ison (kate.ison@ice.org.uk) 020 7665 2104.  For out of hours enquiries please check our media contacts page

For regionally specific media enquiries please contact the appropriate regional branch of ICE.

Please note if your enquiry is not media related please call the switchboard on 020 7222 7722.

Infrastructure cost review plan - ICE announces industry champions

31 MARCH 2011
Commenting on the Cost Review Implementation Plan published today by Infrastructure UK, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) President Peter Hansford said:

Budget 2011 - ICE response

23 MARCH 2011
Commenting on the 2011 Budget, ICE Director General Tom Foulkes said it was encouraging to see the Budget and accompanying Strategy for Growth show that progress is being made with some key policies that could pave the way for infrastructure to be the economic driver it promises – however he urged Government to now firm up accountability and build confidence that commitments will be delivered on:

Engineers: Budget must translate plans into action for infrastructure to deliver in growth strategy

4 MARCH 2011
Government must use the upcoming Budget to drive forward the implementation of it’s plans to secure targeted investment in essential infrastructure – only then can infrastructure deliver as a key strand in the Government’s strategy for growth, says the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in its Budget Submission.

"Painting a new London" The transformation of a city in the build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games

15 FEBRUARY 2011
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has funded a number of paintings by artist Jonathan Meuli, which uniquely capture the huge scale and ambition of the major construction underway in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Engineers: Localism Bill lacks clarity on ‘larger than local’ planning

14 DECEMBER 2010
Commenting on the Localism Bill, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Director General, Tom Foulkes, said:

Engineers must focus on delivering value - new ICE president

3 NOVEMBER 2010
Peter Hansford, new President of the Institute of Civil Engineers

■ Delivering value for money
■ A low carbon routemap to 2050
■ Create Sport schools competition

ICE responds to new graduate employment statistics

2 NOVEMBER 2010
Responding to Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hescu) figures that show 11.9 percent of civil engineering graduates are unemployed, ICE president Peter Hansford said:

Engineers welcome stamp of certainty and leadership on nuclear future

22 SEPTEMBER 2010
Commenting on the Liberal Democrat party speech by Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change –

President Obama makes commitment on US infrastructure: ICE response

7 SEPTEMBER 2010
Following the commitment from President Obama to invest $50bn into US infrastructure and create a National Infrastructure Bank – Tom Foulkes, Director General, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), said:

Quarterly media report - Q1 2012

23 APRIL 2012
The first quarter of 2012 saw a number of events and announcements that led to considerable media coverage for ICE, not least the Prime Minister delivering his pre Budget announcement on infrastructure at ICE’s headquarters, just weeks after the Prince of Wales delivered his first speech on infrastructure at the ICE/Halcrow lecture, also at One Great George Street.

ICE comment on hosepipe bans

5 APRIL 2012

Chair of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Water Panel Michael Norton said:

ICE media report - quarter 3 2011

28 OCTOBER 2011
Every quarter ICE evaluates its media impact through coverage of media campaigns and announcements.

ICE quarterly media coverage report - Q1 2011 (January - March 2011)

18 MAY 2011
The first quarter of 2011 kicked off with the launch of ICE’s State of the Nation report on waste and resource management.

ICE quarterly media coverage report - Q3 (July - Sept 2010)

26 OCTOBER 2010
Unsurprisingly, the media’s focus over the last quarter has been on the Government’s comprehensive spending review (CSR), with daily media speculation on the depth of the cuts and which areas are in the firing line. Alongside that are pleas from bodies and organisations right across the UK making their case for immunity or at least a ‘fair hearing’ in the review.

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