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Professional Review preparation

CEng Communication Task Group: commercial

Event organised by ICE

Date
25 March 2026
Time
18:00 - 19:30 GMT
Location
Online

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Overview

The Communication Task is incorporated into the ICE’s Professional Review process, replacing the previous written exercise component.

The ‘CEng Communication Task Group’ event series will provide guidance on how to communicate well within a series of industry-specific themes. 

The first session will focus on the topic of Commercial Awareness within the civil engineering industry.

Although this event is open to all ICE members, this event may be particularly useful to those who are preparing for their Professional Review at CEng level and is not applicable to those following the English degree apprenticeship leading to an End Point Assessment.

This event is hosted by ECNet committees from the Scotland region (Edinburgh and Glasgow) using Microsoft Teams. The session will be hosted and moderated by regional committee members, where session content will be presented by guest speakers or ICE staff members at times.

The sessions within this event series will not be recorded. 

Programme

The format of the session will consist of:

Theme – Commercial

18:00 - 18:05

Welcome and brief introduction from ICE regional committee member hosting/moderating the session

18:05 - 18:15

Introduction to the CEng Communications task by an ICE membership officer

18:15 - 18:45

Presentation by guest speaker, Tim Brown

18:45 - 19:05

Group discussion and presentation preparation.
A set of prompts for discussion will be provided before entering breakout rooms on Microsoft Teams, where attendees will be randomly assigned to groups of 6-8 attendees (may vary due to session attendance).

19:05 - 19:20

Delegate feedback session and open floor discussion.
Groups will be asked to informally present a few of the key points from their breakout room discussion to the wider group of attendees for discussion

19:20 - 19:30

Closing remarks

Upcoming sessions

There will be a series of six sessions within the CEng Communications Task group. 

Speaker

Tim Brown

Tim Brown

retired

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Tim Brown

Having graduated in 1986 with a BSC Civil Engineering from the University of Edinburgh Tim joined Robert H Cuthberson and Partners (a small consulting engineering partnership). He studied and passed the ICE Contract Law and Civil Engineering Paper 1 and 2 examinations in 1990. He became a Chartered Engineer in 1993. He joined RPS Water Services (part of the RPS Group PLC) in 1999 and latterly joined Mott MacDonald Limited in late 2006.

He has been responsible for all stages of project development in the water sector, ranging from strategic analysis and feasibility studies to detailed design and implementation. He has carried out strategic secondments into client organisation to support technical assurance.

Tim was the was a member of the leadership team and Technical Manager of m2 (Water) LLP from 2016 to 2022, which provided consulting services to Scottish Water.

Tim retired in April 2024 and is currently a (very) part-time contractor to Mott MacDonald and performs ICE SCE duties, project reviews, post-project audits and training on commercial matters.

For more information please contact:

ICE Scotland

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