ICE and Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (CICCP) bilateral summit

David Porter

David Porter is director of engineering with the Department for Infrastructure, which is Northern Ireland’s highways authority. In this role, he is also the chief highways engineer and head of the civil engineering profession in the Northern Ireland civil service.

Porter is responsible for the development of the department’s professional and technical staff, engineering policies and standards, and health and safety. He also leads on procurement and the internal consultancy.

Previously, he was chief executive of the Rivers Agency, Northern Ireland’s flood defence and drainage authority.

Porter has served on the ICE Council three times, twice as the Northern Ireland representative and once as a general member. He is a trustee who, until recently, held the learning society portfolio. He has also served on several institution committees and panels.

A fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering, Porter was awarded the Poskitt Medal by ICE Northern Ireland in 2017 and the President’s Award by Engineers Ireland in 2018.

Carlos Granell

Since graduating with an MSc in civil engineering in 2001, Carlos Granell has been dedicated to the field of hydraulic engineering, specifically dam and hydroelectric engineering and pump storage projects. He is managing director of Granell Hydraulic Engineers and has designed several dams and other hydraulic facilities around the world.

Since 2021, he has been president of Spancold, an association of Spanish dam professionals that is a member of the International Commission on Large Dams.

Darren Shaw

An ICE Fellow, Darren Shaw is an associate director at Arup. He has extensive experience of leading multidisciplinary civil, mining and dam engineering projects in countries including Australia, Indonesia, Kosovo and Zambia, as well as the UK. 

He is one of the 26 UK-based engineers appointed under the Reservoirs Act 1975 to the all reservoir panel. In this role, and as the UK’s co-opted member of the International Commission on Large Dams’ technical committee on dam safety, he focuses on ensuring the safe operation of dams and reservoirs.

Shaw became chair of the British Dam Society in May 2025.

Fiona Barbour

Fiona Barbour has been working for more than two decades to reduce the impact of climate change through flood risk management, mostly at Mott MacDonald, which she joined in 2011. She is currently supporting the development of Anglian Water’s new reservoir programme.

An ICE Fellow, Barbour has been active in the institution – including chairing its Edinburgh Area Branch – since graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. She became chair of its Flooding Community Advisory Board in 2020 and now co-leads the Resilience Community Forum, representing the ICE at conferences and in interviews with the media, including BBC Radio 4’s PM programme. She is a member of the ICE’s Learning Society Committee and has recently been appointed Scottish regional representative for the ICE Council.

Terry Fuller

Terry Fuller is a chartered engineer and water and environmental manager. His specialisms include water resourcing and flood and coastal risk management. He has produced feasibility studies and strategic plans for the design and construction of large projects around the world, always working to manage water in a sustainable way that accommodates and mitigates the effects of climate change. 

Most recently, Fuller was project director for the Havant Thicket reservoir – the first of its kind to be built in England for decades. Before that he was CEO of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management. In that role, he worked to disseminate knowledge, support its members’ professional development and influence policy and practice in the water sector.

Ian Hodge

A Chartered Civil Engineer and Fellow of the ICE, Ian Hodge has over 35 years’ experience in infrastructure management across flood risk, coastal resilience, navigation and environmental assets. He leads the Environment Agency’s technical authority and is the senior responsible owner for major infrastructure programmes, overseeing a portfolio of more than 400,000 assets. He is a Nista-registered high-risk GMPP programme reviewer and collaborates internationally with partners including the Levee Safety Partnership, KRING and I-Storm.

Hodge chairs the BSI’s committee on flood and watercourse standards, sits on the UK government’s construction board and supports engineering education and professional development through roles with Teesside University and the ICE.

Belen Marti-Cardona

Dr Belen Marti-Cardona has more than 25 years’ experience in hydrological and environmental engineering. As a graduate she worked in Spain on the construction of drainage, fluvial and wastewater management projects at Copcisa and the design of drainage elements for roads and airports at Sener. She then moved into the design and numerical modelling of natural and traditional flood management solutions at Jacobs in the UK. 

A fellowship to undertake postgraduate studies in water resources management at the University of California set Dr Marti-Cardona on a professional research path. Since then, she has focused on using Earth observation data in conjunction with numerical modelling for the analysis of hydrological processes and informing sustainable and safe solutions. She completed a PhD on this topic and is currently an associate professor at the University of Surrey.

Rosa Monzo

Since gaining an MSc in civil engineering in 1998, Rosa Monzo has pursued a career in hydraulic engineering, including the design and supervision of infrastructure such as water supply and sewage networks, reservoirs, dams, hydroelectric power plants and flood protection assets. 

Monzo has also worked on integrated water resources management under the EU’s 2000 Water Framework Directive and on implementing the Floods Directive 2007 in several countries.
Since 2024, she has been director of Typsa’s hydraulic works and water management division.

Ed McCann

A past ICE President, Ed McCann is an experienced project director. He was fundamental in growing Expedition Engineering from a startup to Building magazine’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2012. 

With a deep understanding of the construction process, McCann is particularly skilled in strategic consultancy, feasibility studies and design. He has led projects all over the world, including the award-winning Infinity Bridge at Stockton-on-Tees and London 2012’s Olympic Velodrome. 

In his most recent projects, McCann has worked with infrastructure clients to improve processes and implement new technologies. This has included creating and delivering a productivity workstream for High Speed 2; designing the Rolls-Royce small modular reactors programme factory for BAM Nuttall; and developing the Berkeley Homes modular housing system.

His interests include developing talent in the built environment sector. This led him to co-create the Constructionarium, a not-for-profit provider of education and training. He is also a co-founder of the Get It Right Initiative, an organisation working to eliminate avoidable errors in construction.

A renowned thought leader, McCann is often invited to write articles and speak at industry events. He has also made TV programmes about civil engineering.  

Jose Luis Rodriguez

José Luis holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, specialising in Structures. After a start in the Geotechnical Department of the Engineering Services, he continued his career as a consultant, holding both technical and management positions in projects such as Málaga, Copenhagen, and Doha metro projects, Spanish high-speed rail projects or the Hybrid Bill for HS2. After spending several years in Denmark as Market Director, José Luis returned to Ferrovial in 2016 as engineering manager, joining the UK team in August 2017, where he was responsible of the design since tender to final handover.

While acting as engineering manager for the Silvertown Project, Jose Luis has been a key participant in the design and build on the various achievements and innovations in the project, as the peanut launching chamber, rotation of the TBM using hydrogen or the ground freezing under the River Thames for the construction of 4 of the cross passages.

With 25 years of experience, José Luis is currently acting as Engineering Manager to develop the Detailed Design and support the Construction of the new tunnel between Tilbury and Gravesend.