I found time this afternoon to have a nosey in and around Paddington Station in London. I have passed through Paddington a number of times in recent weeks on my way to and from Heathrow but have not found the opportunity during daylight hours to have a closer look. A big milestone has just been …
Southend Connexions 2012
ICE Essex recently supported a careers fair for Southend 13-19 students held at the Southend Connexions centre in Shoeburyness. It was a full day affair with students bussed in from the many schools in the area. I was there for the day and was ably assisted by Laing O'Rourke graduate engineer Matthew (Matt) Fitch. We …
Traffic Management Tips from Chevron TM
Richard Coy - Technical Manager at Chevron Traffic Management - gave an interesting and informative lecture on Thursday 9th Feb on temporary traffic management for highway works. The lecture described the principal steps from outline arrangements through detailed design and implementation and highlighted the areas that often cause problems at each stage. The meeting was the latest …
Historic Civil Engineering in Essex
The Essex Branch of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has just published a leaflet and matching poster highlighting 17 sites of historic civil engineering in Essex. It is the third in a series of leaflets produced in the East of England region to complement those for Hertfordshire and Suffolk. The poster / leaflet was …
The Foundation Works – Colchester New Year Event
I had a great evening out at at the new Firstsite building in Colchester this week at The Foundation Works New Year event. Guest speaker was Su Butcher of Just Practising with her talk 'Adventures in Social Media'. I heard about the event via twitter and was there for a number of reasons including having …
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London in the dark
I was in Heathrow for the day today and passed through London on the way home as night was falling. I took some pictures of a construction job at Paddington Station on my phone as I passed through and I rather liked the results - even though the actual quality of the photos wasn't very …
Heads of the Valley
Went to Cardiff yesterday on the train. Went to talk BIM with some of our (Carillion) chaps and some clever bods from ARUP. Learned a bit about the A465 Heads of the Valley dualling project and more specifically Section 3 Brynmawr to Tredegar that Carillion and ARUP are jointly working on. The project soon goes …
ICE Essex goes Japanese
ICE Essex held a rather different sort of evening meeting recently. Instead of the usual lectures with a single speaker / topic and attendees sat in rows aka theatre style, we held a 'Mini Presentations' evening with five short presentations and seven speakers in a more relaxed and social room arrangement. Read on to learn …
ICE Essex Mini Presentations evening – the slideshows
I recently organised a Mini Presentations evening for the Esssex Branch of the Institution of Civil Engineers. You can read more about the event itself here and the background and organisation of the event here. I have included on this blog page the presentation slides in case anyone is interested. The slideshow above is the …
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Phase 1 Quay Steams Ahead at London Gateway
I was lucky enough to get a tour of the Phase 1 Quay works at the London Gateway Port project last week. The works are progressing at an impressive rate and work is about to start on installing the enormous tie bars. Read on to learn more about what they are doing, some of the …
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