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.
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