Respected internationally, ICE Fellowship is the highest grade of ICE membership and a benchmark for those practising at the top of the civil engineering profession. Only those with a position of responsibility in the planning, design, construction, maintenance or management of important engineering work can be awarded this level of membership.
Ralph Freeston CEng RPP FICE
Where do you work? I work in the Capital Projects Directorate of London Underground as Head of the Station Capacity programme.
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? It is a great honour for me to receive this recognition for undertaking works that I feel privileged to be involved in. I have spent the last 15 years working on schemes which have pushed the boundaries of our profession and changed the face of London. Not only the way London looks but the way it works and thinks.
Kathiravelu Anton Gangakumaran FICE CEng BE(Civil), MSc(Structures), MSc(Railway System)
Where do you work? London Underground Ltd - Capital Programme Directorate
What do you do? I'm Programme Delivery Engineer for the Sub-Surface Railway Upgrade Programme
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? It is an incredible honour to have been accepted as a Fellow at this venerable Institution. I feel very proud and privileged to have been recognised by my peers for the 29 years I have spent working in the civil engineering discipline. I hope my hard work and dedication to my profession will serve as an inspiration to the younger generation who are vital in continuing our integral contribution to society.
David Pearson BEng CEng FICE MAPM
Where do you work? I work on the Crossrail Programme for Network Rail
What do you do?: I am a Senior Programme Manager on the Crossrail West surface works responsible for route-wide projects and Paddington
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? In becoming a Fellow I believe that you are trusted to be an ambassador for ICE and for the profession, within your organisation and the circles in which you move. On a personal level it is a huge source of pride to me and an affirmation of being ready to mentor and develop the next generation of civil engineers.
Richard Sutherden BEng (Hons) CEng FICE
Where do you work? AECOM at their Croydon office, and Thames Water’s Lee Tunnel Project at Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.
What do you do? I am a Technical Director for AECOM in the Tunnels and Underground Structures team. I am currently the Design Manager for the Project Management Team on Thames Water’s Lee Tunnel Project. I have been involved in the Lee Tunnel Project since inception and have led many aspects of the design and design development as well as enabling works and contract document production. I am also AECOM’s lead Supervising Civil Engineer responsible for our Company Approved Training Scheme with the ICE.
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? Becoming a Fellow gives me official endorsement from the Institution of my engineering achievements and I am proud to have attained the highest grade of membership. I see it as recognition of my commitment to the profession as a whole in terms of technical contribution, project management, the promotion of the profession, and to the development and training of less experienced engineers for the benefit of the industry.
November 2012
Clare Courtney FICE CEng FCIPD
Where do you work? I work for Vodafone where I support their Technology Organisation delivering services globally to over 300 million customers.
What do you do? My role is to design and implement improvements to the organisation (structure and processes) to be more effective in delivery.
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? I am proud to be a Fellow as I believe that it is important to be a role model and promote the varied careers that you can have as an engineer, all of which contribute to society. I want to encourage young people - particularly women, and make them aware of the opportunities available to them in engineering and technology.
Richard Hodgon CEng FICE
Where do you work? Capita Symonds in East Grinstead
What do you do? I am a Technical Director – Geotechnical Engineering
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? To be awarded the status of Fellow is a great honour which recognises my work as a civil engineer for over 35 years. I have been fortunate to work on many interesting and technically challenging major projects throughout my career. The Fellowship also enhances my role as a Supervising Civil Engineer and mentor.
Antony Oliver CEng FICE
Where do you work? New Civil Engineer magazine
What do you do? I'm editor of New Civil Engineer, and editorial director, Emap
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? Being accepted by the ICE as a Fellow is a really important and welcome affirmation of my position in the profession, despite the obvious fact that I now spend my time observing, reporting and commenting on the achievements and struggles of other, usually more talented engineers. When I started my career as a graduate civil engineer with Sir Owen Williams & Partners my goal was to become a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. After much study and a couple of years seeing the real construction world on site with Balfour Beatty, Member status was a monumental career milestone. Two decades later, becoming a Fellow is that much more important. It is a professional milestone that really underlines the commitment that I now feel to the profession.
August 2012
Nigel Fine CEng FICE FIET
Where do you work? At the Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET)
What do you do? I'm Chief Executive
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? It's recognition by my peers of the standard of professional competence that I have achieved in my career combined with a personal ambition of reaching this senior level of membership with the ICE. Becoming a Fellow is not an end point but is the starting point of being able to contribute more to the ICE and the wider engineering profession.
November 2011
Andreas Markides CEng FICE
Where do you work? At SKM Colin Buchanan
What do you do? I am a Director on SKM’s European Board and my responsibility is to grow the company’s Private Sector business.
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? It’s recognition of nearly 30 years in the industry, leading on key challenges which are faced by our profession (status, funding of infrastructure, the Sustainability agenda and Planning). It also means that I now have more enhanced responsibilities towards both the Institution and our profession which will require more energy.
November 2011
Dr Vicknayson Thevendran CEng FICE
Where do you work? Costain Group
Currently in Royal Oak Tunnel Portal and Paddington Station, Crossrail.
What do you do? I'm a Project Manager
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? Becoming a Fellow encourages me to continuously develop as a professional and has given me further confidence to manage challenging engineering major projects. Being awarded the Fellowship places me in a better position within my organisation to further promote ICE membership. The Fellowship also better equips me to act as a mentor to others who intend to gain their membership with the ICE.
November 2011
Dr Mohsen Vaziri CEng FICE
Where do you work? At Ramboll
What do you do? I'm Director of Geotechnical Engineering
What does becoming a Fellow mean to you? I was highly motivated to apply and become a Fellow of the Institution after getting to know a number of very successful engineers who are also Fellows. Aside from the obvious honour of being made a Fellow of ICE, there’s the knowledge that I belong to a group of distinguished engineers who are dedicated to supporting and promoting the industry.
November 2011
Mark Creighton CEng FICE
Where do you work? I work mainly out of Galliford Try’s Head Office in Uxbridge, Middlesex.
What do you do? As Galliford Try Construction’s chief engineer, I am responsible for overseeing the engineering activities of the Building Division South, a £250 million turnover business unit that forms part of the £1.2billion Galliford Try Plc Group.
Since joining Galliford Try in 2005, my contributions have been both group wide - as a champion for robust temporary works management procedures and training - and regionally, on individual tender awards and successful project delivery. This involves working predominately in a very commercial and competitive London market.
I look to make a positive contribution to our profession through championing the change process by adopting new sustainable building techniques and understanding the cause and mitigation of incidents on construction sites. I am keen to break down barriers that resist change in this industry.
What does becoming a Fellow of ICE (FICE) mean to you? Becoming a Fellow is the ultimate professional attainment and the pinnacle of my engineering career to date, which has been developed through hard work and determination. I have been lucky enough to work on a diverse range of interesting and challenging projects from £1m to £100m.
It gives me a huge sense of pride to use the initials FICE, particularly as I have followed an unconventional non-university route. I became a Chartered Engineer as one of the few that the ICE piloted through the simplified Mature Route in 2003.
I am both proud and passionate about civil engineering and I hope that the insight I offer to peers from my own experience can encourage others that follow to progress to membership and ultimately, to the most senior grade of Fellow and ambassador for the Institution.
These last few weeks have certainly been memorable. Not only did I personally gain the FICE but our team of Card Geotechnics, Walsh Associates & GTC picked up the prestigious Ground Engineering Award on the Guildford Radisson Hotel project for a UK project with a geotechnical/geoenvironmental value over £1m. This award recognised our collective work in innovatively engineering a three-level basement in chalk using minimal propping which went a long way to ensure the project went ahead in a recessionary market!
June 2011