ICE Trustee Board

In this position, David is the chief highways engineer and the head of the civil engineering profession within the Northern Ireland Civil Service. He is responsible for the development of the department’s professional and technical staff, engineering policies and standards, health and safety, and leads on procurement and the internal consultancy. Previously, David was the chief executive of the Rivers Agency, the flood defence and drainage authority for Northern Ireland, and also held the posts of director of development and director of operations with the agency.

David is a past chair of the Northern Ireland Region of ICE, has been on council three times, two terms as the Northern Ireland representative, and one as a general member. He has also served on numerous committees and panels, was a member of the Presidential Commission on ICE Governance (the Orr Review), chaired the member-led review of NOMCO, the Audit Committee, and the Qualifications Panel. David has also been on the Committee of Management of the ICE Benevolent Fund.

Julie was made a ‘Freeman’ of the City of London in 2020. Julie started her career as an apprentice and is passionate about social mobility and opportunity for all.

Julie is a member of the ICE Trustee Board. She has over 25 years of experience in the construction industry much of this involved in the delivery of major complex projects. Julie is a director with Mott MacDonald where she leads major programmes. She was previously of Arup where she led projects such as the Glaxo Group Research Campus, McLaren HQ, The Francis Crick Institute, HS2 Euston Station and the Transpennine Upgrade Project. Julie has over 16 years of experience in non-executive director roles across a number of sectors.

She is particularly interested in sustainable futures for society, systems thinking, increasing the pace of major infrastructure, lifelong learning and social mobility.

She is a keen landscape photographer particularly long exposure shots. In fact, they are so good she is still a practicing engineer.

He subsequently studied civil engineering as a sandwich student at Surrey University. He spent 13 years working for Costain on major projects, including the Thames Barrier before moving to consultancy. Whilst at Costain, Richard received the Rowe and Maw scholarship to study for a part time master’s degree in construction law at Kings College, London.

After Costain he has subsequently held senior roles as a consultant and client. He was chair of the Society of Construction Law (www.scl.org.uk) in 2003-4. He is one of the 4 civil engineers who are honorary members of the Society of Construction Law. In 2006 he was appointed to the Construction Minister’s sounding board of 6, chaired by the late Sir Michael Latham, which advised on proposed changes to construction legislation. Richard was also a member of the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol Drafting Committee for several years. The protocol has been cited on hundreds of occasions in the international courts and construction tribunals. The objective of the SCL Protocol is to provide useful and authoritative guidance on delay and disruption issues that arise on construction projects.

Richard has been on the ICE, CIC and CIOB Adjudication panels for over 20 years, he has received over 100 adjudication and other tribunal appointments including Terminal 5 and the London Olympics. Richard also acts as an independent project advisor/reviewer on major projects. Richard was one of 18 contributors to the internationally acclaimed book Global Construction Success, published by Wiley in 2018. Richard is also a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv). He occasionally lectures and writes about client leadership, collaborative working, and project delivery.

The latter part of his career has involved working with large client organisations including Honda, UCL, New College Oxford, and the Church Commissioners. These successful client leadership roles have majored on both establishing clear project governance structures and establishing pro-active risk management processes including strategies for dispute avoidance. The role at New College resulted in an ICE carbon champion award. Richard has three times been part of a British Construction Industry Award (BCIA) winning project. These projects were at UCL, Ripon College Oxford and Honda, Swindon.

Richard was previously part of the chaplaincy support team at Bullingdon Prison and a shift leader at the Oxford Winter Night Shelter. Currently hed is chair of the charity www.lovesierraleone.org.

Lewis provides expert advice on whole life decarbonisation for local authorities, developers and governments at the highest level. With over 25 years’ experience of managing environmental risk and minimising whole life carbon, Lewis is responsible for many internationally recognised advances in addressing the climate crisis.

He is renowned for his skills and experience in reducing carbon on construction projects. He and his team won the NCE100 Low Carbon Leader award for two consecutive years for their work in reducing carbon and sharing best practice across the infrastructure sector.

Lewis wrote and presents the ICE’s Carbon Management in Infrastructure course and is also skilled in the application of climate change projections to ensure project resilience. He was a member of both the PAS2080:2023 (Carbon Management in Buildings and Infrastructure) Steering Group and its Technical Advisory Panel.

He works across governments to develop decarbonisation technical guidance and policy to help promulgate PAS 2080 and the consistent economic appraisal of whole life carbon in business cases, providing pragmatic advice to help projects align with the transition to net zero.

As part of the AECOM roads sector for the last 20 years, Edward has delivered a number of significant and complex multidisciplinary infrastructure projects across the UK. In previous roles, Edward also led the digital transformation strategy and implementation for the AECOM UK roads sector.

As well as trustee and council accountability, Edward’s experience as a practicing civil engineer is enhanced by his long involvement with the ICE at branch and regional level, UKRAC, Fellowship Panel, FARC, Policy and External Affairs and Transport CAB groups.

Lucy graduated from the University of Bristol in 1994 with a degree in civil engineering and study in continental Europe, which enabled her to pick up a few European languages and really was the doorway to her current career: she has been working and living in France since 2000, and in her current job with a French consultancy since 2002.

Lucy's main professional interests lie in tunnelling and contract management and her current position as project director with Egis Tunnels has given her many opportunities to work on a range of underground projects such as road tunnels in mountainous areas, urban tunnel renovation projects, the Grand Paris Express, the extension to Paris’s underground RER E line (EOLE), the Lyon Turin high speed rail line (probably the most complex tunnel driven in France to date, if not Europe or the world) amongst others.

Lucy has been a volunteer with the ICE nearly continuously since 1995, first in the Thames Valley region in the UK and in France since 2000. She has been a member of the International Committee since 2015, a general member of council since 2018 and a member of Nominations Committee since 2019.

In her spare time Lucy is the chair of the board of a cultural and sports association in her local town in France with 33 employees and a paid up membership of around 2000 children and adults, carrying out activities as diverse as improvisation, badminton, yoga and drawing.

At Sir Robert McAlpine she oversees the professional development of future ICE members and manages the social value for the A19 DBFO project as well as effecting positive changes through several affinity and leadership groups.

Her career has been wide ranging and varied and has included significant roles on high profile projects including the Thames Barrier, Hinkley Point C and DUBAL Aluminium. She is a Chartered Fellow of the ICE and the Chartered Management Institute as well as being a Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society.

Paula strongly believes in inspiring our next generation of civil engineers and educating everyone to work towards an equitable and sustainable future. She is the driving force behind Engineering Together which brings together a wide selection of UK and International Engineering Institutions and bodies to work collaboratively to raise awareness and understanding of engineers and engineering. She set up Primary Voices to impress the need for urgency climate action whilst providing everyday solutions to help tackle the climate crisis and TheLine to tackle everyday language.

She is regularly invited to speak at national and international events on a range of topics including engineering, diversity and sustainability. Paula’s work in the industry and education has earned her many awards and accolades.

Paula has had many ICE roles including honorary editor and panel chair for the flagship ICE Proceedings: Civil Engineering 2021- 2023 and ICE Trustee Head of UK Regions 2021-2024. She also has many other roles including being honorary professor at Teesside University.

Providing expert advice to public and private sector, including central government (Cabinet Office, BEIS, DHLUC, DCMS and Defra), Scottish and Welsh governments, as well as local authorities. Currently adviser to critical infrastructure portfolios totalling in excess of £21bn, including marine energy and renewables, battery storage, energy from waste and renewable waste projects, major road and rail schemes, and separate regeneration programmes for a district hospital and local authorities.

Mentoring engineers and regular speaker at Women in Leadership, and other fora to promote engineering and career progression. Member of the Great Western Railway Advisory Board, SW Infrastructure Panel, governor (UK) to Association of Real Property and Infrastructure and NED to Secure Forests. Previously chaired the Local Transport Board, BBC Audience Council (representing England) and ex interim CEO of Heart of the South West LEP. Expert witness to several public inquiries on the impact of critical infrastructure on the tourism economy.

Managing director of Coast Communications, a strategic technical communications agency based in Cornwall, London and Cardiff, with a roster of national and international clients. In her (limited) spare time, Liz enjoys walking in the Black Mountains with her dogs, paddleboarding on the coast and photography.

She is the founder director of UCL’s Engineering for International Development Centre. This centre focuses on engineering solutions for human development and wellbeing; and researches locally acceptable water-sanitation-energy solutions in low-middle income countries.

She has over 15 years of engineering industry experience in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the UK with consultancies to include hands-on experience of designing infrastructure for slums in partnership with local communities. She was awarded the prestigious BBOXX/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair fellowship that focuses on energy access in sub-Sahara Africa through smart solar solutions.

Priti was the editor-in-chief of ICE’s Engineering Sustainability journal for three years. She then went on to get elected to ICE Council and is a member of the Learned Society Committee. She also sits on the board of Happold Foundation and Engineers Against Poverty to influence strategy on engineering and development.

Priti was named as one of the 100 most influential academics in the UK Government for her work in climate and sustainability by Apolitical and as the top 50 women in engineering in 2022. Priti’s research has influenced policy and practice especially the work around evidencing links between infrastructure and Sustainable Development Goals with governments and charities.

In his role as ICE’s Trustee Board member for the learning society portfolio, he is responsible for driving the strategic lifelong learning of the Institution and its wider engineering knowledge programme.

Ohis’ experience comprises decades of leading large, complex programmes across several sectors, from engineering design to construction delivery of a wide range of notable critical major infrastructure projects in the UK and overseas. He combines this strong hands-on industry experience with cutting-edge academic research expertise to address complex engineering problems.

His research focuses on the development of novel system-of-systems methodologies that engineers and infrastructure leaders can adopt to assess the vulnerability and resilience of complex interdependent infrastructure networks which are subject to natural hazards. His research had been widely published in notable journals and referenced in leading scholarly articles.

Ohis is an ICE Professional Reviewer and has previously served as a member of the ICE’s Standards Panel. He enjoys mentoring younger engineers and professionals and is committed to helping develop the next generation of civil engineers.

He is an experienced advisor to the public and private sector, and regularly provides advice at a senior level to local authorities and partnerships in the UK, aimed at the development of integrated transportation and regeneration solutions aimed at supporting economic growth in towns and cities.

He led the team that developed the first pan-Northern Strategic Transport Plan and associated 30-year Investment Programme as part of a secondment to Transport for the North. As a Divisional Director at Hydrock, now Stantec, he has been providing support to a number of local authorities on interventions identified in the previous Government’s Network North Policy Paper, the implementation of Bus Service Improvement Plans, the roll-out of active travel improvements and the delivery of a major public transport improvement scheme being funded through the Levelling Up Fund.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, currently acting as chair of the Policy and External Affairs committee. He chaired the steering group that led the ICE’s recent policy paper on a National Transport Strategy, as well as having been part of the steering groups for a number of State of the Nation reports and the Delivering a Northern Infrastructure Strategy report. He often gives evidence on behalf of the ICE to House of Commons Transport Select Committee inquiries, such as those into Major transport infrastructure projects: appraisal and delivery and Smart motorways.