PAS 2080 Roadshow, West Midlands: Decarbonising infrastructure through collaboration and leadership - focus on transport

Hudson Taivo

Hudson is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Prior to becoming the chair of the ICE West Midlands Regional Committee for 2023/2024 Hudson was a committee member of the Birmingham, Solihull and Black Country Branch (BSBC) for 5 years including serving as its chair in 2020/2021. A chartered professional reviewer and end point assessor, Hudson also serves on the ICE Standards Panel and has participated in several Working Groups on behalf of the ICE.

He currently works for SYSTRA Ltd in Birmingham as a discipline lead in the engineering management department.   

Mark Hansford

Mark is the director of Engineering Knowledge at ICE. He is also a civil engineer and Fellow of ICE, and throughout his 20-plus year career he has sought roles that have allowed him to work with others to both promote the profession and provide professional engineers with the information to help them become better engineers.

He has a MEng in Civil Engineering (First class) from the University of Birmingham and spent three years as a practicing engineer with consultant Atkins before joining New Civil Engineer in 2000, a title he edited for five years before joining the ICE in February 2020.

At his previous role with New Civil Engineer, he’s visited and written technical reports on some of the world’s most spectacular structures in including the Burj Khalifa, the Brenner Base Tunnel and Vladivostok’s Russky Island bridge.

He’s also reported from the scene of a host of international engineering disasters including a bridge collapse in northern Portugal, a tunnel fire in Baltimore and tsunami-struck Sri Lanka. And in 2003 he was the first construction reporter into Iraq following the second Gulf War.

Andrea Davidson