Routes to Fellowship with Joyce Brady

Keith Jones FICE

Keith is a Chartered Civil Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of ICE. He has been in post since May 2008, prior to this he was Operational Manager Highways at the Vale of Glamorgan Council, responsible for all highway maintenance operations including management of the DSO contracting unit as well as Environmental Manager for the Council.

Keith was in Local Government from 1967 to 2008 holding a range of posts involving engineering, highways, infrastructure and drainage. Former Chairman of the County Surveyors Society Wales Engineering Committee and member of the UK Roads Board, advising Government on Highways issues.

He is a member of the Cross Party Groups on STEMM and Construction and Industrial Liaison Boards at Cardiff University and Swansea University.

Emma Antrobus

Emma has been the North West Director of ICE since July 2018, overseeing the activity and budgeting for more than 6,500 members in the region. ICE has more than 95,000 members across the world in all sectors of engineering including transport, housing, development, energy and water.

Having done a business with manufacturing degree, Emma has spent most of her career working with and supporting businesses in all sectors towards improvement and change, with a focus on the engagement with and understanding of policy focusing on infrastructure projects including rebuilding Manchester city centre following the 1996 bomb, Northern Hub and HS2.

Joyce Brady

Joyce graduated from the University of Newcastle Upton Tyne in 1993, and has just reached her 30 year milestone working as a civil engineer. She started off at Wimpey Construction as a graduate and returned to her contractor routes in 2020 and currently is the design and engineering director for Balfour Beatty Power. Joyce gained chartered engineer status in 2000 and successfully became a Fellow of the ICE in 2016.

Joyce’s career has taken her on many international trips, including spending time in the middle east, and Africa, and she has recently been to visit her team in Bangalore in India. She has worked in a variety of sectors from utilities, through infrastructure for oil and gas, then buildings work and now in power transmission. She is passionate about social value, multi-cultural working, and inclusivity in the construction industry. She has spent many years supporting the ICE including on an editorial panel. Joyce regularly says she has never been bored in construction which has provided a very interesting and varied career to date.