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Why we need to re-think transport infrastructure
- Author: Greg Marsden
- Date: 30 July, 2020
Covid-19 dramatically cut travel worldwide, with possible long-term effects on demand. Greg Marsden of the University of Leeds says civil engineers need to reconsider how they plan future transport infrastructure accordingly.
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Sustainable Urbanisation: A Call to Action across the Commonwealth
- Author: Professor Paul W. Jowitt, Cbe Fice
- Date: 27 July, 2020
Ahead of next month’s Commonwealth Engineers Council and UNESCO webinar on Infrastructure-led Community Resilience, Professor Paul Jowitt explores the challenge of sustainable urbanisation across the Commonwealth.
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Devastating floods in Asia throw spotlight on need for action on climate change resilience
- Author: Mark Hansford
- Date: 23 July, 2020
Devastating floods currently sweeping across Asia once again highlight the tragic effects of climate change and the tremendous responsibility on civil engineers to provide resilience to people and communities that live with this terrible threat.
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Zeroing in on carbon
- Author: Rachel Skinner
- Date: 21 July, 2020
ICE Senior Vice President Rachel Skinner argues that while Covid-19 is the defining crisis of 2020, carbon is the existential crisis of the decade.
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Green construction jobs: the path to economic recovery
- Author: David Thorpe
- Date: 16 July, 2020
David Thorpe, Founder-Director, of The One Planet Centre says boosting the green construction jobs market will help drive economic recovery following Covid-19. Examples include labour-intensive retrofit of energy-efficiency measures in buildi...
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Why civil engineering designers need to switch to the cloud
- Author: Wim Slagter Of Ansys
- Date: 13 July, 2020
Cloud computing offers civil engineers virtual unlimited on-demand computing power for design simulations, but the majority have yet to take the plunge. Wim Slagter at Ansys says those who don’t convert to the cloud, risk being left beh...
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The British consulting engineers who created the world’s infrastructure
- Author: Hugh Ferguson, Ceng Fice
- Date: 09 July, 2020
Leading author and expert Hugh Ferguson will detail the evolution of British consulting engineers at the upcoming Smeaton Lecture.
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Where are we on Britain’s underground asset register?
- Author: Neil Brammall
- Date: 06 July, 2020
The UK’s Geospatial Commission has successfully piloted a national underground asset register to improve how civil engineers share data about buried infrastructure. Neil Brammall, CEO of Utility Survey Exchange Ltd and Holger Kessler, G...
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Why it’s all about location, location, location for civil engineers
- Author: Elspeth Mcintyre Piema, Amice
- Date: 01 July, 2020
Engineers of all disciplines need Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the very simple reason that geospatial data makes projects faster, better, and more cost effective.
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Project 13 will help to rebuild a more sustainable construction industry
- Author: Mark Hansford
- Date: 26 June, 2020
In his latest blog, ICE Director of Engineering Knowledge, Mark Hansford, explains why Project 13 is central to efforts in rebuilding a more productive, sustainable construction industry post Covid-19.
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