ICE Ambassadors recently supported the Colchester Careers Convention that was held at the Weston Homes Community Stadium in Colchester. As part of that event we demonstrated some bridge design software for the home and did a load test to destruction on a paper bridge. As part of the Careers Convention (a blog entry about the main …
Sadlers Farm Junction – Progress Photos
An update on the progress of the construction works going on at Sadlers Farm Junction Improvements project with photos and link to album of further photos.
Sadlers Farm Junction Improvements
A few updated photos of the works at Sadlers Farm Junction near Benfleet in Essex. Most of pics taken from Church Road bridge but some near the London Road Bridge which is now in use. Works continue to construct the new Church Road Bridge with reinforced earth abutments being built around concrete piles that will …
Colchester Careers Convention
November started in style this year with a brilliant careers convention held at the Weston Homes Community Stadium north of Colchester. The event was organised by the Colchester 14-19 action group and I was there with other ICE members to promote careers in construction generally and civil engineering specifically. The event was an all day …
How many chocolate bars…
So here we go. A little competition for you engineers and non-engineers alike. There is no prize - just a smug feeling of getting the answer right - assuming you do. Basically, I have made a paper bridge to use as part of a demonstration session I am doing at a schools careers fair at …
The Shard – ICE evening lecture
Last night's ICE Essex evening meeting was exceptional. The speaker was Dr Richard Mawer of consulting engineers WSP Cantor Seinuk and the subject of the talk was 'The Shard - Structural Engineering'. Before Richard gave his talk we held a short Essex Branch AGM as our constitution requires and it was dispatched within 10 minutes …
Long Service Award at ICE Essex AGM
Last Thursday we held our Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Essex Branch Annual General Meeting as required by our Branch Constitution. The AGM is always a short affair and this one was no different. As usual we held the AGM prior to one of our evening lectures and on this occasion it was an excellent talk by …
Boot Camp Bash
Regular readers will now that I have been running a fair bit recently and eating sensibly to lose weight and get fit but I have been wanting also to work on my upper body and core strength. I've been umming-n-arring about how to do this as I really don't like gyms and don't have the knowledge or …
Posh Nosh at the REB
Got to do a short blog on this. Last night I was at our ICE East of England REB committee meeting in Whittlesford - South of Cambridge near Duxford. I was in the chair. The meeting was at the Red Lion Hotel and we have been holding meetings there for a fair number of years …
Faith in AV companies returns (a little)
Well that's a turnup for the books We now have 3 computers in the house all with separate McAfee internet security products all running in different yearly periods at what I consider to be bloomin expensive prices. The most recent laptop purchase for daughter had 1 month trial expiring in a weeks time. So yesterday I …
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