Whilst on a family day trip to London today I received the brilliant news that - along with 4,999 others - I will get to take part in the National Lottery Olympic Park Run on 31st March 2012 and cross the finish line on the 100m straight in the Olympic Stadium watched by 10,000 spectators …
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 …
ICE BIM 2011
Well it is the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Building Information Modelling (BIM) Conference today and whilst I really wanted to go it was not possible so I am trying to follow it online and on twitter using the #ICEBIM hashtag via my @Noynek twitter account. It is good to see that there are people …
Leigh-on-Sea 10K
Did my second ever 10K road race this morning and wanted to do better than my first 10K a couple of weeks ago on the hottest October day on record. You can read about that event here. This 10K was organised by Leigh-on-Sea Striders running club and had around 500 competitiors. It was perfect conditions …
Sadlers Farm – Soil nailing on the A13
Works on the Sadlers farm Junction Project continue apace and making the most of this unseasonal spell of good weather. On the A13 - on the stretch between Church Road Bridge and Pitsea Flyover the works are focussed on widening the embankments for the new increased width of highway. Between Church Road Bridge and the …
Southend 10K – I survived it!
Okay. So a quick blog about the Southend 10K road race that I took part in today. I was runnning in aid of Havens Hospices and if you wish to donate to the cause and support my efforts then you can do so here. Back in April/May I decided I needed to get fit and …
