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 …
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 …
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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Graduates Communicating
Tuesday saw me at the Institution of Civil Engineers East of England graduates Communications Competition held at the Harry Potteresque Engineering Department of Cambridge University. The competition sees teams of graduate civil engineers presenting on one of five prescribed scenarios as if at a public meeting. I was pleased to see two teams there from …
ASE Conference
Today I was at the Association for Science Education Eastern Region annual conference which was held at Stewards School in Harlow. I was there in my capacity as Chairman of the Essex branch committee of the Institution of Civil Engineers and I was due to speak to delegates in the 1st breakout session from 11am …
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