This page contains details and links to regional publications.

ICE East of England Yearbook 2012/13

The Yearbook for 2012/13 containing information on planned ICE events in the region, along with other institutions and organisations which may be of interest. The Yearbook also contains details of local branch committees, winners of the 2012 Merit Award and forthcoming ICE East of England competitions.

Download the ICE East of England Programme Booklet 2012/13

Historic Civil Engineering in Essex

This informative leaflet includes over 17 examples of historic structures throughout Essex compiled by the Essex Branch Committee and the ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works (PHEW).

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This leaflet gives brief descriptions of some of the interesting civil engineering works in Essex. Transport links in Essex began with the first roads built by the Romans between towns, which are still evident. The original route of the A12 between Brentwood, Chelmsford, Colchester & on past Ipswich to become the A140 to Norwich is still visible, as is Stane Street, the old A120, running West-East between Bishops Stortford, Great Dunmow & Braintree, meeting the old A12 at Marks Tey, although both roads have now bypassed the towns. The other main route to the North is on the West, now the M11 to Cambridge, having bypassed the old A11.

The Chelmer & Blackwater Canal (open 1796) & the Stour Navigation (open 1725) proved successful shipping routes until the advent of the railways. The first railways linking London to the main centres  were to Chelmsford & Colchester in the 1840s, the London, Tilbury & Southend (1852-94) & the Shenfield to Southend (1887-89). These allowed branches to smaller towns including the Braintree-Witham-Maldon line (1848), the Marks Tey to Sudbury line (1849), the Harwich & Parkeston Quay line  (1853-54), the Chappel to Halstead line (1860), & the Colchester to Clacton & Walton line (1860-82). Shipping ports are at Harwich, & Mistley further up the River Stour, in the North & Tilbury in the South, the smaller ports at Colchester & Maldon both being now defunct. Airports are at Southend, having been redeveloped recently, & London Stansted.

ICE East of England Yearbook 2011/12

The Yearbook for 2011/12 containing information on planned ICE events in the region, along with other institutions and organisations which may be of interest. The Yearbook also contains details of local branch committees, winners of the 2011 Merit Award and forthcoming ICE East of England competitions.

Download the ICE East of England Programme Booklet 2011/12
 

Historic Civil Engineering in Hertfordshire

This informative leaflet includes 17 Examples of historic structures throughout Hertfordshire compiled by Hertfordshire Branch Committee and the ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works (PHEW)

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This leaflet gives brief descriptions of some of the interesting civil engineering works in Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire has always been a conduit for man and his goods. The Icknield Way traversed the modern county following the line of the Chilterns. The Romans brought discipline with Akeman Street and Watling Street, straddling their new town of Verulamium (modern St Albans), a road many times altered but still the London-Holyhead Road; and the Great North Road, a name to catch the imagination rather than the prosaic A1 or A1(M).

In due course, at the end of the nineteenth century the navvies arrived to excavate the Tring cutting for the Grand Junction Canal which then followed the Bulbourne and Gade valleys.  A generation later the London and Birmingham Railway also tackled the same Chilterns scarp near the canal and squeezed down the valley through Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead alongside the then A41 and canal or river. The Great Northern Railway followed and eventually the Midland Railway, tired of using other railways into London, constructed their own extension link through Harpenden and St Albans. Now the M1 has celebrated its’ 50th anniversary, and in due course the M25 will achieve historical status.
 

Historic Civil Engineering in Suffolk - Updated for 2013!

This informative leaflet includes 19 examples of historic structures throughout Suffolk compiled by the Suffolk Branch Committee and the ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works (PHEW).

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This leaflet gives brief descriptions of some of the interesting civil engineering works in Suffolk. The county is bordered by the Rivers Stour and Waveney in the South and North respectively, which like other rivers within Suffolk have a long history of bridges for both road and rail.  Suffolk has some of the earliest cast iron bridges at Clare, Brent Eleigh, Culford and Helmingham.  The use of tidal power is still visible from the River Deben at Woodbridge Tide Mill.  The River Orwell has provided opportunities for the growth of ports at Ipswich and Felixstowe.  Leiston has one of the first production line buildings and Lowestoft has the earliest lighthouse still in use.  The building of the railways across Suffolk produced some fine bridges and stations, as well as innovative solutions to specific problems like Halesworth movable platforms.