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Conservation Engineering and the Leaning Towers of Adel

Event organised by ICE

Date
12 March 2025
Time
10:30 - 14:30 GMT
Location
Rogerthorpe Manor Hotel
Thorpe Lane
Badsworth
Pontefract, WF9 1AB
United Kingdom

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Overview

Join the Yorkshire and Humber Retired Members (RICE) for a masterclass in conservation engineering with examples from three major restoration projects across Yorkshire and the Humber. 

Gez Pegram will tell the story of two award-winning heritage projects completed in 2023 and 2024 at Wentworth House in Rotherham. Through the restoration of the Grade II listed Camellia House and structural repairs to Keppel's Column, Gez presents a best-practice showcase for conservation engineering techniques including monitoring, load-testing, repairs to cast and wrought iron, and masonry stitching.

Following this, Alasdair Beal will discuss the Seven Arches Aqueduct in Adel, whose legacy stretches from its construction in 1842, to 2000 when its 1998 restoration scheme won the national Historic Bridge Awards. This Grade II listed structure, whose signature lean has earned comparison to the famous Tower of Pisa, proved challenging to stabilise, resulting in interesting and innovative structural solutions. 

Programme

10:30 - 11:00

Registration, arrival, and refreshments

11:00 - 11:05

Chair's welcome and opening remarks

11:05 - 11:50

Presentation on Conservation Engineering by Gez Pegram

11:50 - 12:35

Presentation on Adel Seven Arches Aqueduct by Alasdair Beal

12:35 - 13:00

Q&A

13:00 - 14:30

Buffet lunch service

Speakers

Gez Pegram

Gez Pegram

Mason Clark Associates

director and partner

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Gez Pegram

Gez Pegram is a structural engineer who has been in York since 1999, being focused on heritage schemes for the last twenty years.

As well as his Fellowships of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Institution Structural Engineers, he is an Engineer Accredited in Building Conservation, sitting on the CARE Panel. His current role is director and partner for Mason Clark Associates, responsible for its York and Leeds offices. He was project engineer for the refurbishment of Grade I Listed Bishopthorpe Palace, the re-roofing of the Mansion House at Grade I Listed Wentworth Woodhouse, and is currently project lead for the works at Grade II* Hull Maritime Museum and Dockyards. He also heads the engineering team engaged to conserve York City Walls.

Alasdair Beal

Alasdair Beal

civil and structural engineering consultant

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Alasdair Beal

Until retirement, Alasdair Beal worked for Perega (formerly Thomasons), consulting civil and structural engineers in Leeds, specialising in structural reports, historic buildings and unusual civil engineering and structural problems.

He graduated from Glasgow University in 1975 and was employed by Freeman, Fox & Partners, working on long-span bridge design, followed by commercial buildings and masonry design for W G Curtin & Partners and as a site engineer for Fairclough Ltd. He has presented papers and lectures on a variety of engineering subjects both regionally and nationally.

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