The ICE’s community forums
The ICE’s forum events have been created to convene the institution’s expert community around three cross-cutting areas: resilience, decarbonisation and engineering excellence. The Engineering Excellence Community Forum covers core productivity, design and delivery topics.
Engineering Excellence Community Forum
Join us online for the latest Engineering Excellence Community Forum, where we’ll discuss some of the work of the ICE’s recently established Safety Risk Advisory Group (SRAG).
The Building Safeguards review – on which the SRAG programme is based – envisioned a step-change in the scale and urgency of the ICE’s work to improve safety risk management. To achieve this change, the review set out an action plan covering three key areas: culture and practice; competence; and learning from failure. In this forum, you’ll hear from SRAG members working in two of those areas.
First, Andy Alder, MD of major infrastructure delivery at Anglian Water, and Hazel McDonald, chief bridge engineer at Transport Scotland, will report the findings of a recent roundtable on culture and practice. The discussion examined gaps in the provision of safety risk management guidance for built environment professionals.
This will be followed by a competence-focused presentation from the committee chairs of two specialist professional registers: Chris O’Regan (higher-risk buildings) and Scott Steven (health and safety). They will explain how these registers work and why they are key to the efforts of the ICE – and other institutions – to improve safety risk management.
A Q&A session will give attendees the chance to discuss overlaps in the Building Safeguards action areas and how to ensure that the SRAG’s activities are mutually beneficial.
If you wish to attend, please register before Tuesday 30 June. This forum is open to all, so feel free to forward the details to colleagues who may be interested in the SRAG’s work.
