2014/15 update
Introduction
It has been another successful year for ICE
Scotland. This success depends on the
efforts of our Branch and SIG committees
who work extremely hard to develop and
run an attractive programme of knowledge
events across the region. I am very grateful
to them for all their efforts.
The ICE Scotland Committee has retained its
focus on raising the profile of the profession.
Over the past year notable successes have
included:
Our special session on flood risk management
held at the International Water Research
Association Congress at the Edinburgh
International Conference Centre in June. The
session was attended by high profile
international experts in flood risk
management and the post event reception
was attended by many local opinion formers.
Changes to the presentation at our Flagship
Saltire Civil Engineering Awards have resulted
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Right – Professor Gareth Pender CEng FICE FREng FRSE
Below – The audience at this year’s Saltire Awards
in the event receiving excellent coverage
across a range of media outlets.
As I write, we are preparing for the launch of
our 2015 State-of-the-Nation report. The
timing of the launch has been selected to
influence the content of party manifestos in
the run up to the Scottish Parliamentary
elections. I am confident that our report will
achieve this goal and receive a high level of
media coverage.
The Regional Support Team has gone through a
period of considerable change this year.
Throughout this however they have continued to
provide a high level of support to the Region’s
membership. This contribution is an essential
component of our success and I thank Sara and
her team for their professionalism, enthusiasm
and co-operation in improving our service to
members.
I would like to thank all members of the ICE
Scotland committee for all their support
throughout the year, and in particular my Vice
Chairmen, Mac West and Frances Ratcliffe, Past
Chairman Ronnie Hunter, Treasurer Shaun
Nesbitt, and Hon Secretary Olivia Bennett. An
extra thank you is due to Ronnie for his
effectiveness in his second role as our Regional
Representative on Council.
Garry Pender
Chairman, ICE Scotland
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Right – Borders Railway Viaduct
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Membership and qualification
Increasing the number of professionally
qualified members is vital to achieving the
highest levels of competency in the
industry. ICE qualifications continue to enjoy
global recognition.
The ICE Scotland and NI Membership team
supports civil engineers at all stages of their
professional development meeting with
engineers, technicians and students across
Scotland and NI. This year in Scotland the team
met with around 1000 trainees, Supervising Civil
Engineers (SCEs), Mentors, Delegated Engineers
(DE) and potential members at approximately 40
surgeries, 70 company visits and 25 workshops
and seminars where they provided detailed
advice and support.
Engaging with academic staff and students on
university and college civil engineering courses in
Scotland is another aspect of their role as is
working with local Graduates & Students (G&S)
Committees. The ICE Scotland and NI
membership team routinely achieves or exceeds
targets for student, graduate, and member
applications. A programme of EngTech
promotional activities has been in place over the
last few years which has helped to get 40 newly
qualified Technician Members in Scotland since
October 2014.
Professionalism
Helping Members develop professionally
throughout their career is a priority for ICE and
access to management or specialist qualifications
to complement technical and professional
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Left – Foundation apprenticeship launch during Scottish Apprenticeship Week from left to right
Grahame Barn (CECA), Phil Ford (CITB), Laura Browne(SDS), Graham Clark (West Lothian
College) and Dr Donna Surgeoner (ICE)
Right – Glasgow West of Scotland G&S winners of the Scotland 5-a-side football competition
experience is a vital aspect of lifelong learning.
Options for becoming a chartered manager or
chartered environmentalist are available.
Disappointing take up of a proposed law course
meant that we were unable to run this in
2014/15 but we will renew our efforts in
2015/16.
A number of ICE Training (formerly Thomas
Telford Limited) courses were made available to
Scottish members.
Highlights in 2014/15
300+* attendees at our Professional
Development seminars
900 students visited
2% increase in graduate membership
41%** increase in Technician membership
An ongoing national membership webinar
programme
An ongoing Scottish and NI SCE/Mentor/DE
update webinar programme.
Graduates and Students (G&S)
Scotland’s five Branches have associated G&S
sections which have a vital role to play in
supporting graduates and students as they
work towards professional qualification. Larger
branches provided written exercise courses
to complement ICE Training’s Professional
Review Courses and put on tailored knowledge
programmes with Edinburgh regularly attracting
over 100 to their events. A real effort has
been made to reach out to students in Further
Education and involve trainee technicians in
activities. G&S also offer lively programme of
social and sporting events support networking
with Glasgow’s lunch attracting 230 this year
and their 5-a-side team progressing to the UK
final.
Scotland’s Takomborerwa Hove, a Graduate
Engineer from AECOM, was one of six
President’s apprentices who worked with ICE
President David Balmforth on the theme of Civil
Engineering: Fit for the Future including an input
to the ICE Council’s annual strategy meeting.
The Emerging Engineers competition gives G&S
the opportunity to develop writing, presentation
and debating skills and boost CPD. Dundee,
Edinburgh and Aberdeen G&S Branches took
part this year.
Note:
*1 October 2014 to 26 October 2015
**1 October 2014 to September 2015
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Education and inspiration
Awakening children and young people’s interest
in science, technology, engineering and maths
(STEM) subjects is vital to attracting the next
generation of civil engineers. Activities such as
Bridges to Schools and Rapid Response
Engineering Challenge run by volunteers from
Scotland’s Branches help open their eyes to the
possibilities of a career in the profession.
Volunteers also supported careers fairs and the
Scottish Council for Development and Industry’s
(SCDI) Young Engineers Clubs annual awards.
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Highlights in 2014/15
4,810 quality contacts with young people
Over 70 new STEM ambassadors recruited
including 15 women
Keith Brown MSP, Cabinet secretary for
Infrastructure helped us launch the new
Bridge to schools for use in the East of
Scotland funded by the Civil Engineering
Contractors Association (CECA)
A generous donation from Mr Gordon
Mackay, a retired lawyer from Govan, has led
to the creation of a new fund which will
provide civil engineering students with a
annual award for the full duration of their
studies thereby ensuring that study without
taking on student debt. The fund is targeting
young people in rural Scotland.
A new leaflet featuring case studies of ICE
Scotland female members was launched on
National Women in Engineering Day with
Annabel Ewing MSP, Minister for Youth and
Women’s employment. It is an invaluable
resource for members to take along to
careers fairs to ensure young women are
aware of the wealth of opportunity that
engineering offers
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week in November
included careers event for Kirkcaldy schools and
Bridges to Schools in Ayrshire
Aberdeen Branch reached over 260 young
people over two days at Aberdeen’s Techfest
ICE Scotland build spaghetti towers with over
100 young people as part of SCDI’s Celebration
of Engineering & Science at the Glasgow
Science Centre – Scotland’s equivalent of
Tomorrow’s Engineers Big Bang Fair
ICE joined forces with the Construction Industry
Training Board (CITB), Skills Development
Scotland (SDS) and the Civil Engineering
Contractors Association (CECA) to launch a
Foundation Apprenticeship aimed at school
pupils during Scottish Apprenticeship Week
Three events targeted young women. Over 90
female students from S1-S3 took part in fun
engineering challenges and speed networking
with Glasgow ICE volunteers, Network Rail,
Scotrail, Carillion, Glasgow City Council and the
Smallpiece Trust. Other events took place at St
Modan’s High School and George Heriots.
Knowledge
As a learned society, ICE is committed to
knowledge transfer and best practice.
Our five Scottish Branches, Graduates and
Students and Specialist Interest Groups helped
ICE members across Scotland keep their
knowledge and skills up to date with an
excellent technical programme in 2014/15 with
over 70 events. Committee volunteers worked
hard to enable their fellow members to join
events remotely and recording lectures making
them available for download from the ICE
website after the event. This benefits busy
members with family or work commitments and
helps them keep their CPD up to date.
The lecture titles below show the diversity of
topics and Scotland-wide coverage:
National Roads Development Guide, Building
Information Modelling, Beauly to Denny Power
Line, Adapting our Infrastructure to Cope with
Climate Change, Solutions for New Water
Challenges in Catchment Management,
Edinburgh to Glasgow Rail Improvement
Left – Emma Dickson from Glasgow branch with pupils from
St Modan’s High School
Below – Queensferry Crossing
Programme, Offshore Field Life Extension,
HighSpeed2 Lecture, Who Pays the Ferryman?,
Reservoirs, Dura Den Flooding Remediation,
Telford and Craigellachie Bridge after Two
Centuries, Forth Crossing, Edinburgh Trams,
Small Scale Hydro Power Application in Scotland,
A9 Dualling, A9 Berridale Braes Scheme,
Cobbinshaw Reservoir – Installation of Siphons,
Kessock Bridge Refurbishment, Shieldhall Tunnel,
Transport Planning for 2014, Repair of Traditional
Buildings, Offshore Engineering: from Concept
to Decommissioning, Dundee Water Front
Update, Forensic Engineering, Queensferry
Crossing: A Construction, Health and Safety,
Managing Flooding and Drainage in Local
Authorities.
Kenneth MacDougall
Scottish Hydrological Group (SHG)
Michael Stewart
Branches
Aberdeen Association of Civil Engineers (AACE)
Jim Young
Dundee Area Branch (DAB)
Frances Ratcliffe
Edinburgh Area Branch (EAB)
Michael Woods
Glasgow and West of Scotland Branch (GWoS)
Lawrence Shackman
Highlands and Islands Branch (HIB)
Derek Donald
Specialist Interest Groups (SIGs)
Municipal Group Scotland (MGS)
Ken Aitken
Panel for Historical Engineering Works (PHEW)
Professor Roland Paxton
Scottish Geotechnical Group (SGG)
Ian Lockie
Scottish Hydraulics Study Group (SHSG)
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Knowledge
Highlights:
Over 60 graduates from 15 companies
attended Glasgow’s Graduates and Students
residential weekend in Stirling on themes of
earth, wind, fire and water
Dundee Branch’s Johan Stalder won Scotland’s
Emerging Engineers (formerly papers
competition) with his paper on ‘Non-Linear
Dynamic Analysis – Singly Curved Space
Trusses’ paper
Edinburgh was the focus of international water
resource management as 900 world-leading
academics, researchers and policymakers
gathered for the XVth World Water Congress.
An ICE-sponsored Special Session on Flood
Risk Management promoted in-depth
discussion on the implementation of the EU
floods directive, flood hazard and climate
change and assessing future flood risks and
opportunities for adaptation in the UK
Glasgow Chair Lawrence Shackman’s
Chairman’s address shares lessons learnt from
a distinguished career in highways and
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Below – Below - ICE President, David Balmforth launches
#thisiscivilengineering banner at the Borders Railway
Right – Scottish Chairs at the Edinburgh Area Branch Dinner
transportation culminating in his most recent
job on the Queensferry Crossing
Precious Ogbodo from the School of
Engineering at the University of Aberdeen
was the winner for SHSG’s poster competition
for young researchers and engineers with a
CFD Analysis of oscillatory flow interaction
with cylinder on solid boundary
The Panel for Historical Engineering Work’s
identifies historical engineering works that are
worthy of recording, promoting, and in some
cases, preserving for posterity. The Union
Canal was designated a historical engineering
landmark with the unveiling of a plaque at the
canal basin in Linlithgow. Activities included a
summer visit to Dumfries and Galloway
The Glasgow Branch celebrated engineering
achievements at the Crinan Canal and
Cruachan power station with plaque
unveilings.
Around Scotland
Branches
In addition to their knowledge and education
outreach activities Scotland’s five branches
continue to provide valuable networking for
members with vibrant social programmes
including pub quizzes, ceilidhs, past chairman’s
lunch, bowling, curry and golf.
Regional highlights:
Aberdeen Association for Civil Engineers
hosted a successful dinner in February with
former Scotland football manager Craig
Brown and provided an excellent programme
of technical lectures. The Techfest yet again
proved an excellent opportunity to reach out
to young people locally with over 260 taking
part in ICE activities over two days.
Dundee played host to ICE President
David Balmforth with visits to Kirkcaldy
Sea Wall, Dura Den Flood Remediation and
the Dundee Waterfront Redevelopment,
followed by the influencer’s dinner in the
evening. A site visit to the Queensferry
Crossing proved a hit with members. A
Bridges to Schools event in Bell Baxter High
School in Cupar with cluster primary schools
in attendance was a highlight with eight
new bridge leaders being trained.
Edinburgh Branch continues to host
high quality events with passionate and
knowledgeable speakers. Nationally
significant projects including the Queensferry
Crossing, Borders Railway, Edinburgh’s
Zero Waste project and Haymarket Station
have all featured as has adaptation of
infrastructure to cope with climate change,
and installation of siphons at Cobbinshaw
Reservoir. Schools engagement in the form
of careers events is helping get the message
out about civil engineering as a career and
addressing industry skills gaps and proves
immensely rewarding for volunteers not least
for their own CPD. Edinburgh also hosted
a dinner and President’s visit in April which
included site visits to the Borders Railway.
Glasgow continues to have a lively and busy
committee and has continued to improve on
both the quality and range of activities and
an increase in members taking part due in
part to improved collaboration between the
main committee and G&S. Events on Pulpit
Rock and the A9 proved particularly popular
with over 150 attendees. A company based
communications ambassador programme is
central to driving this increase in numbers
and a successful event was held in August
to engage with local civil engineering
companies including a visit to Glasgow
Central Station. Volunteers guided five Clyde
and Kelvin bridge walks with 100 people
in total during Doors Open Day and a new
leaflet produced.
Highland Branch works closely with CIHT to
provide an interesting programme of events
in Inverness. Site visits to a new taxiway at
RAF Lossiemouth, hosted by 39 Engineer
Regiment Royal Engineers and to a wind
farm under construction and Foyers Power
Station hosted by R J McLeod, and SSE stand
out. A new venue for knowledge events at
the newly opened Inverness College UHI
campus will enable the branch to better
serve geographically remote members.
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Informing opinion
ICE Scotland has continued to engage with
decision makers and politicians from across the
political spectrum to inform policy development
and reinforce the importance of infrastructure
investment for public benefit over the past year.
Engagement with new SNP MPs at Westminster
following the UK General Election, meetings
with Scottish parliamentarians and civil servants,
and an invitation to speak at the prestigious
Business in Parliament event have allowed
us to build upon already positive political
relationships.
Numerous ICE Members and Fellows have given
their time and expertise to inform ICE Scotland’s
State of the Nation Scotland Infrastructure
2015 report, which will form the basis of future
political engagement, particularly in the runup to the Holyrood elections in May 2016. The
report was launched to coincide with the AGM
and the evidence gathering process ran over the
course of the year.
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Below left – Keith Brown, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for
Infrastructure, Investment and Cities
Below right – Derek Mackay, Minister for Transport and
Islands, speaking at the Saltire Awards
Consultation responses, and participation in
Cross party Groups, continue to be a useful
vehicle for providing expert opinion and ICE
members gave of their time to inform debates
on key themes including energy, transport,
water, flooding and waste.
Ronnie Hunter continued to chair the Public
Voice Committee.
Highlights
ICE President David Balmforth’s Winter and
Spring visits helped ICE Scotland showcase
infrastructure projects across Scotland
including Dundee Waterfront, Kirkcaldy Sea
Wall, Dura Den flood damage remediation,
Clyde Gateway and Borders Railway. David’s
visit facilitated engagement with city region
decision makers at a though leadership
dinner in Dundee
Sir David Higgins shared HS2 opportunities
with ICE Members and Fellows at a
joint event with the Scottish Council for
Development and Industry
The #thisiscivilengineering campaign
continues to raise engineer’s profile with
North Lanarkshire Council, Queensferry
Crossing, Shieldhall Tunnel, Brechin Flood
Prevention, Stirling Station canopy renewal,
Selkirk Flood Prevention and V&A Museum
Left – Winning project team at the 2014
Saltire Awards.
Below – Kelpies sculptures at the Helix, Falkirk
Dundee adding their support to that of the
Queensferry Crossing and Borders Rail
Glasgow volunteers showcased Clyde and
Kelvin Bridges to the public at this year’s
Doors Open Day and produced a new Kelvin
Bridges leaflet which featured on the BBC’s
Scotland Out of Doors programme
ICE Scotland’s influence extended to
involvement in the Low Carbon Infrastructure
Task Force, which brings key organisations
from the public and private sector together
to showcase potential projects. ICE Scotland
Director Sara Thiam is Chair and ICE
Members Brian Veitch and Paul Steen are
Task Force members.
Saltire Awards
Run in collaboration with the Saltire Society,
the Awards enable ICE Scotland to showcase
excellence in civil engineering and help raise the
profile of civil engineering and engineers. This
year’s revamped ceremony resulted in greater
media coverage and the resulting film and leaflet
featuring all entries will have a reach far beyond
the event itself.
Overall winner
Haymarket Station Capacity Improvement
Commendations
Borders Railway
Ullapool Harbour Berth Replacement
River Ness Flood Alleviation (below)
Hampden Park Redevelopment, Glasgow 2014
Commonwealth Games
17 projects from across Scotland featured this
year including a new harbour for Loch Boisdale
in the Western Isles to ground anchoring at Loch
Arklet and an aqueduct replacement over the
Glasgow Edinburgh railway.
The awards were presented at a gala attended
by over 150 senior industry representatives
at the National Museum of Scotland, with
Transport Minister, Derek Mackay and the BBC’s
John Beattie.
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ICE Scotland Committee 2014-15
Appointed by Committee
Chairman: Professor Gareth Pender
Past Chairman: Ronnie Hunter
Vice Chairman 1: Malcolm (Mac) West
Vice Chairman 2: Frances Ratcliffe
Regional Support Team
Sara Thiam
Director, ICE Scotland
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t+44 (0)141 225 8190
@sarathiam
Membership Team
Donna Surgeoner
Membership Manager
Scotland and Northern Ireland
[email protected]
t+44 (0)1698 356 471
Nominated by Branches
Edinburgh: David Cole
Dundee: Alan Hutchison
Aberdeen: Jim Young
Highlands and Islands: Derek Donald
Glasgow and West of Scotland:
Lawrence Shackman
Glasgow and West of Scotland:
Alan Frew
Lynn Dow
Regional Co-ordinator
[email protected]
t+44 (0)141 221 5276
Peter Robinson
Membership Development Officer
Scotland
[email protected]
t+44 (0)7920 203 033
Others
Regional Member on Council: Ronnie Hunter
(to October 2016)
Graduate and Student Member: Dan Mulhare
Honorary Secretary: Olivia Bennett
Assistant Hon Secretary: Vacant
Honorary Treasurer: Shaun Nesbitt
Regional Director: Sara Thiam
Vacant
Communications Executive
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Kelly Forbes
Policy Manager
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Right – Sara Thiam, Director, ICE Scotland
Below – Shawfield Dalmarnock Smart Bridge