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Ian Bush originally trained in Cartography, Ian quickly became involved in engineering, land, and hydrographic surveying on large infrastructure engineering projects in remote locations around the world. This work also included developing software and methodologies to enhance automated mapping, 3-dimentional modelling, and engineering design applications.
Following a Master's Degree in Construction IT, Ian has been involved in delivering advanced geospatial and ICT services to engineering, environmental and utility clients in both the public and private sectors. He has pioneered the use of GIS and associated tools for dam break analysis, flood mapping, settlement due to mining, coastal pollutant dispersion modelling and mobile data capture applications. This work culminated in 2005 with the successful completion of the £15M Mapping Access Land in England Project for the Countryside Agency for which he was Technical Director. This project was winner of the Information Management (IM2005) GIS Project Prize and the prestigious overall Premier Project Award – clearly signalling that GIS was a part of mainstream ICT and how the application of geospatial tools and methodologies could have real social and business benefits.
More recently, Ian has been delivering management consulting services and ICT systems (software & infrastructure) and advanced geospatial analysis in the area of Asset Information Management, Strategic Investment Planning, Programme Management and Business Efficiency Improvement services for Utilities.
Ian was recently appointed Vice President of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors and is a member of the ICES Council of Management and the Future Policy Working Group.
His specialities include; geomatics, engineering information management, analysis and visualisation, geospatial applications and location intelligence services and building/infrastructure information modelling. |
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James Brayshaw, BSc. CEng. MICE (Board Director, Ordnance Survey) is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer who joined the Ordnance Survey Board from the software industry. He is responsible for all industry and customer relationships (Government, commercial and consumer), new market development and customer services. He is also a Director of a Joint Venture limited company called PointX.
He has 25 years' of IT technical and consultative management experience, implementing a wide range of high-value enterprise solutions within key industry sectors such as utilities, construction, defence, transportation, insurance and retail. He was deeply involved in the creation of the collaborative modelling working environment and data standards at BAA Terminal 5 and has worked extensively with industry in the provision of the Construction related solutions including BIM.
Prior to joining Ordnance Survey he successfully set up and established the EMEA organisation for a leading engineering US Collaboration and e-commerce Software as a Service (SaaS) provider.
James is an active Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and sits on their Geospatial and IT Advisory Expert panels working on the Government BIM (Building Information Modelling) Strategy, Infrastructure UK Data Group and other initiatives that are helping industry rise to government challenges in areas such as flooding (Natural Hazards Partnership) and Utility streetworks.
He is married with three children and, when time allows, plays golf… badly! |
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Alexandra Grounds, who is known generally as Alex, has worked continuously in the civil engineering industry since graduating in 1996, after a year out in 94/95 with Hertfordshire County Council Highways department. From 1996 to 2010, she worked for Mouchel in a variety of roles within the survey team, starting as a surveyor and ending as the technical lead in surveying for Mouchel. In 2010 Alex left Mouchel to set up her own business of Grounds Associates.
Grounds Associates is a BIM consultancy and was set up as the bridge between surveying and the AEC industry in respect to BIM, as BIM or VDC (virtual design and construction). This idea came about after working on the intercompany tender for Birmingham New Street Station redevelopment scheme in 2007 and then being asked to rebid for the survey part in 2008, which Mouchel won. Having been introduced to BIM in 2007 and utilising the concepts from 2008 to deliver the project.
Alex felt that there was a market out there for such ideas, which wasn’t being accessed. Alex evangelises the BIM process through networking, writing papers and presenting on the subject. Away from work, she enjoys many sports including skiing, golf, running, swimming, walking and surfing from the comfort of a chair, tennis and rugby. She also has an interest in travel, architecture and historical fiction set in the medieval period. |
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James Conway (Graduate Engineer – Hyder Consulting) is an ICE Ambassador who created Brunel the Bear - a mascot for ICE members who support and promote charities that use engineering knowledge and skills to make life better for people and communities around the world. James also coordinated Brunel the Bear's Big Journey which raised over £20,000 for engineering charities and has visited schools to deliver workshops, represented Civil Engineering at careers fairs and mentored a student at a local secondary school.
Since graduation James has been an active member of the Thames Valley Branch Graduate and Students Committee. Responsible for the events programme, James organised and led a Study Tour to London for 20 graduate and student members in April 2010 and visits to the Thames Barrier, Canary Wharf Crossrail station site and the London Eye.
As Committee Chair 2010/11, successes included improving communications between the three G&S branch committees in the region and developing links with civil engineering students at the University of Surrey to engage them in our activities. |
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Dr Marc Hobellis the Ordnance Survey's Head of Public Sector, Energy and Infrastructure. He is responsible for all public sector and wider government bodies covering central government, Security, Health and local government alongside private sector organisations in the Energy, Infrastructure and Rail industry. He is a senior executive with over 20 years of commercial and general management experience, coupled with extensive experience in technology/enterprise software solutions and services, experienced at developing and growing B2G and B2B software and services businesses in wide range of markets and channels.
Prior to joining Ordnance Survey Marc's career for over 16 years was routed in electronic engineering and satellite communications within HM forces and wider international business. He has a MSC in Electrical Engineering with a complementary HND in Electrical and Electronic communications Engineering from Southampton University and the Royal Navy, He has a Msc and PHD in International business and marketing strategy from the University of Glamorgan and has several memberships with the Institute of Civil Engineers, the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Association of Geographic information. |
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Nick Lyness Wessex Area Flood and Coastal Risk Manager Bsc. C.Eng. M.I.C.E. C.Wem. M.C.I.W.E.M.
Degree in Civil Engineering, Chartered Civil Engineer, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Chartered Water Environment Manager, Member of the Institution of Water & Environment Management.
Currently: Wessex Area Flood & Coastal Risk Manager for the Environment Agency, responsible for an overview on all flood and coastal risk, provision of high quality data on risk, communicating data in suitable formats for professional partners and society to make informed decisions e.g. maps, web based technology, community engagement on flood risk and climate change, ensuring improvements in weather forecasting and monitoring, provision of a flood warning service, providing flood defences and ensuring existing defences maintained; understanding the contribution of third party defences, funding local authorities and Internal Drainage Boards capital works, enforcing flood bylaws and provisions of the Water Resources Act, enforcing provisions of the Reservoirs Act, investigating flood and exercising overview role under the Floods & Water Management Act and a Category 1 respondee under the Civil Contingency Act. Sits on local, regional and national bodies e.g. ICE City Club Chair, past SW ICE Regional Chair, ICE Regional Committee, national ICE Geospatial Panel, Future Forum, Dorset Coast Forum Steering Group, World Heritage Jurassic Management Group and Steering Group, EU Interreg Projects, KRING ( European North Sea Career: spans work throughout the UK working for consultants, contractors, local government and government agencies as promoter, option appraiser, designer, constructor, project manager, programme manager, operator, strategic planner, policy delivery. Worked on public health, sewerage, sewage stations, marine structures, tunnels, highways, bridges, office blocks, off shore structures, pipelines, pumping stations, flood defences, reservoirs, inland navigation structures, land drainage, etc.
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lives in Weymouth, regularly kayaks along the coastline and runs the coast path occasionally. Passionate about his work with its mix of geology, natural geomorphological processes, scientific investigations, application of engineering solutions provision of a public service and learning from our communities. |
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Professor Terry Moore is the Director of the Nottingham Geospatial Institute (NGI) at the University of Nottingham and as such has overall responsibility for all the activities of this world leading postgraduate research and teaching institute. He is also the Associate Dean for Infrastructure and IS within the Faculty of Engineering.
He was promoted to the UK's first Chair of Satellite Navigation in 2001 and has extensive research experience in a range of subjects including satellite navigation and positioning, geodesy and orbit determination. He has supervised numerous research projects funded by industry, research councils, the European Space Agency and the European Commission, and has supervised over 25 PhD students.
He has taken a leading role in national and European initiatives aimed at integrating academic research and teaching activities in GNSS, and interacting closely with industry. He is the founding Director of GRACE, the GNSS Research and Applications Centre of Excellence, which was jointly funded by the University of Nottingham and East Midlands Development Agency.
He is a Fellow and a member of Council of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), and member of its Technical Committee. He is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Council of GPS World. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is an Associate Fellow of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society, and a Member of the (US) Institute of Navigation. |
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Mike Sutton CEnv FCInstCES FRGS FRICS MCIWM is a chartered environmentalist, chartered waste manager and chartered surveyor. He is a Fellow and Past President of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors and sits on their Council of Management and is a director and trustee. He began his career as a surveyor with the Ordnance Survey moving to a role in local government encompassing planning, valuation and construction, becoming involved with public health civil engineering in the Greater London Council in the late 1970s. There he heading up a group of 12 covering the civil engineering surveying requirements for planned contracts for major flood prevention, land drainage and engineered landfill and other waste operations; involving pre planning, dimension control and post construction monitoring as well as expert witness requirements in pollution control criminal prosecutions.
He was survey manager with the London Waste Regulation Authority during the 1980s becoming increasingly involved with regulation and enforcement regarding environmental legislation and criminal prosecutions, a role that continued into his current position with the Environment Agency. His principal role there with his professional background in geospatial engineering, environment, construction, civil engineering and land drainage is acting as an Expert Witness for Environmental criminal prosecutions and proceeds of crime confiscation orders, a role he undertakes across England and EA-Wales.
In addition to the Criminal and Civil courts, he has provided evidence for House of Commons Select Committees, Planning Inspectorate, the Family courts and wearing a different hat - Employment Tribunals – representing many of his GMB staff and operational trade union members.
He has been a fellow of ICES since 1990 and Chaired its Geospatial Engineering Practice Committee for many years, he has been a member and occasional Vice Chair of the ICE/ICES Geospatial Engineering Panel. In 2007 became ICES President, taking presentations, representing members and the Institution across the UK and Ireland, Sweden and India. He Chaired the Appointments Panel that successfully brought the ICES Chief Executive into post in 2007. Currently he is Chair of the ICES International Affairs Committee. |