ICE Local - January 2014 by ICE Yorkshire & Humber

The members’ newsletter of ICE Yorkshire and Humber January 2014

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In this issue Lecture Series Did you know that £110M is being invested in Yorkshire’s coastline? Three lectures and a site visit explore the scale of engineering, innovation and delivery techniques utilised to deliver efficiency at the coast

ICE Training Schemes 'This is Civil Engineering' campaign banner at Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal © Graham Construction

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Your ICE Committee Happy New Year. I am sure that 2014 will be an exciting year for civil engineers in the Yorkshire and Humber Region. We have a full programme of events this year starting with an evening meeting 'Employment/Skills and Apprenticeships' at Leeds Metropolitan University on 5 February, presented by Mark Scott. Mark is leading apprenticeship initiatives in the region and also developed and manages the innovative employment and skills scheme for the YORhub frameworks. I am looking forward to the meeting and hope you can join me, please book via the ICE website.

took the time to give us your views. The RAB recently met with the ICE HS2 panel to ensure the Region’s views were thoroughly communicated. Many thanks to the RAB for their continued hard work on our behalf. I am delighted to report that we shortlisted 20 projects for the Centenary and Smeaton Awards. This was my first year as a judge, and I was very impressed by the range of skills and professionalism within our Region. I do hope you can join me on 7 March at the Gala Dinner Dance at The Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, when we will announce the winners.

Are you a trainee? Do you think you are on an ICE training scheme? Now is the time to check with your SCE or MDO

Regional Education Team Josie Rothera and Matthew Brayfield on the team's latest activities in Hull, York, and Sheffield, and looking forward to National Science and Engineering Week 2014

Awards - shortlist announced The schemes shortlisted for the ICE Yorkshire and Humber Awards. The results will be announced at the Gala Dinner Dance and Awards ceremony on Friday 7 March

All the best for 2014. The Regional Advisory Board (RAB) has had a busy few months responding to the State of the Nation and HS2 consultations. I was a little disappointed at the level of responses from members, but thanks to those who

Damian Kilburn CEng MICE

ICE Y&H Chair 2013-14

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Lecture Series 2014 Did you know that £110M is being invested in Yorkshire’s coastline? A partnership approach has been taken between East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Environment Agency, North Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Borough Council, Welcome to Yorkshire, and Yorkshire Water to ensure that Yorkshire’s beaches have the best chance of reaching the highest quality standards set by the revised Bathing Water Directive (rBWD). The partnership was set up in 2010 with site work due for completion this year - the aim of the partnership is to improve the quality of bathing water at Yorkshire’s 20 designated beaches. The Graduate and Student Lecture Series this year will be presented by Yorkshire Water and their partners, and they will be discussing the need for investment and improvements that have been made in the Scarborough and Bridlington areas.

The lectures will focus on the scale of the engineering and the innovation and delivery techniques utilised to deliver efficiency. The site visit will focus on the planning involved to meet the tight timescales and the exemplary health and safety culture. A great opportunity to learn about projects in your region and to help meet the learning requirements of the Development Objectives. Lectures will take place on 4, 11 and 18 February at 18.30 at The Bar Convent in York, with a site visit to Bridlington taking place on the afternoon of the 25 February. Everyone is welcome to attend, please visit: ice.org.uk/yandh/LectureSeries2014 to book online. For further details please contact Catherine Minor e: Catherine.Minor@urs.com

Do you think you are on an ICE training scheme? In our travels around the region, we sometimes come across trainees who think that they have an ICE training agreement and find to their horror that they haven’t. Occasionally, this doesn’t come to light until the completion of their training. Now might be a good time to check if you are under agreement or not.

scheme. This will have entailed an initial briefing and annual appraisals by your SCE, with an ICE 3144 being added to on each occasion, and regular reviews of your development, which may have been delegated by your SCE (to a Delegated Engineer). Talk to your MDO who will help to regularise the situation.

So, how do you check? Whether you applied online or sent in a paper copy of ICE 3142 'Training Agreement Application Form', you should have received an email from ICE confirming that your agreement has been registered and you should have your personal ICE 3144 'Annual Training Review and Completion Certificate'. If you have, you are under agreement.

If you haven’t been following the requirements of your training scheme, it is probably time to find out what options you have now. Contact your MDO and perhaps book an appointment at a Membership Surgery so that we can advise on the best way forward for you personally.

To contact any of our Membership Development So what if I haven’t? The first thing to do is check with the person who Officers, please email e: iceyandh@ice.org.uk you think is your Supervising Civil Engineer (SCE) to make sure that or call t: +44 (0)114 232 5044 and well will put there isn’t paperwork lurking on desks that should have been sent off. you in touch with the right person. Also check with whoever organises payment by your organisation; your form might be stuck there. If you still have doubts, please check with your Membership Development Office (MDO) who will be able to access your ICE record. If you discover that you don’t have a training agreement, don’t panic! You may have been diligently training under the supervision of a registered SCE, following your employer’s ICE-approved training

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Regional Education Team (RET)

National Science & Engineering Week — 14-23 March 2014

STEM in Action at the KC Stadium, Hull

The RET are looking forward to providing another fun-packed week of activities as part of NSEW 2014.

A successful two-day event saw eight schools and over 200 students take part in the sessions, led by four Ambassadors. The Ambassadors introduced themselves and their civil engineering jobs, after which the students undertook the Tower Challenge (pictured above). Engineering principles were discussed for each of the designs the students came up with, and the sessions concluded with an opportunity for general Q&A. Ambassador Mohammad Jariwala of WSP said: “I am very passionate about helping to ‘engineer’ the future generations and inspire them to work in STEM related fields. This can be really hard as often people don’t understand the breadth or variety of careers available which is why attending events such as these are so important.”

G4C Thinking Outside the Box Whilst the Regional Education Team's focus is usually on pre-19s, in some cases they can get involved with older students. The team were asked by G4C Construction Excellence to provide an activity for their event at Sheffield Hallam University. Students were asked if they could solve problems, whether they encountered challenges, and if they could 'think outside the box'. The Tower Challenge was used, introducing restrictions on builds such as cost of blocks and layout of foundations, in order to make the activity more challenging for the students. 24 university students attended and we received positive feedback from the organisers.

The team will be at the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York for three days delivering the Tower Challenge, and are also hoping to deliver their new K’Nex Renewable Energy Challenge during the week - in South and West Yorkshire. Details of these events will be published in enews. Nationally schools are encouraged to use this week as an opportunity to get students to think about careers in science and engineering. This complements our activities well, and as a result we often have groups of motivated and enthusiastic students. Please consider getting involved.

Engineering Experience Day We successfully held our third Engineering Experience Day in November at the NRM. This day-long event saw 55 students from four schools undertake five activities with a disaster relief theme - building a bridge, erecting shelters, constructing a medical centre, supplying water and building a tower to support communications equipment. The tasks were placed in the context of providing relief to those affected by a hurricane in a remote area of Honduras, and provided a hands-on insight into the role civil engineers play in disaster relief situations and in the built environment around us. Our thanks go to the NRM, to Ambassadors Matthew Brayfield, Lynden Cable, Julian Carter, Sarah Coote, Brenda Marsh and Katherine Speyer for delivering the activities, and to Chris Bevington for organising the event.

Gala Dinner Dance and Awards 2014 Friday 7 March, 19.00 The Majestic Hotel, Harrogate

Individual places or tables of 10-12 are available, and tickets are priced at £62.50+VAT per person. To book your place please contact: e: stephanie.thomas@ice.org.uk ice.org.uk/yorkshireandhumber/GalaDinner

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ICE Yorkshire and Humber Awards 2014 The Shortlist The ICE Yorkshire and Humber Awards 2014 will be announced at the Gala Dinner Dance on Friday 7 March at The Majestic Hotel in Harrogate. The following schemes have been shortlisted this year.

Project

Originator

Designer

Contractor

Other parties

A6182 Doncaster Southern Gateway - Doncaster Metropolitan Borough White Rose Way Improvement Scheme Council

Mouchel Parkman Doncaster MBC

Balfour Beatty

Network Rail

The Barnsley Pals Centenary Square

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Barnsley MBC Estell Warren Ocmis

Barnsley MBC, Ocmis, Schofields Contracting, RS Civils, Siemens

BMBC Mark Dobson Photography

Blackburn Meadows Bio-Energy Scheme

Yorkshire Water Services

EarthTechMorrison

Turner & Townsend MWH Global

Bradfield School

Sheffield City Council

Mott MacDonald HLM

Vinci Construction UK Caunton Engineering

Clifton Rising Main

Yorkshire Water Services

Mott MacDonald Bentley

AK Trenchless

Cooper Bridge Weir

Canal and River Trust

Canal and River Trust Jacobs

Keir Services

Environment Agency

Dilmunia Health Island

Ithmaar Development Company

Mott MacDonald

Cebarco Bahrain

First Direct Arena

Leeds City Council

Arup Populus Grontmij

BAM Construction

Grimsby River Terminal

Associated British Ports

Mouchel Graham Construction

Graham Construction

Ings Beck Flood Alleviation Scheme

Environment Agency

Jacobs UK

Galliford Try CPC Civils

Lower Todmorden and Walsden Flood Alleviation Scheme - Phase 3

Environment Agency

CH2M Hill

Volker Stevin

Jacobs ECC Project Management

M62 Junctions 25-30 Managed Motorway

Highways Agency

Atkins

bmJV

Hyder/Halcrow Faithful & Gould

Market Weighton Canal Bridge

Network Rail

URS

Balfour Beatty

Old Whittington Wastewater Treatment Works

Yorkshire Water Services

Black & Veatch

Rawcliffe Bridge Flood Defence Improvement Scheme

Environment Agency

Atkins

Jackson Civils

Reservoir Spillway Improvements

Yorkshire Water Services

Mott MacDonald Bentley

Arup, CRM Rainwater Drainage Consultancy, Carlow Precast Concrete Engineering

Reading Station Area Redevelopment

Network Rail

Tata Steel Projects Grimshaw Architects

Costain

Reading Borough Council First Great Western Cross Country Trains

Repair and Rebuilding of the External Ramp to the Multi Storey Car Park at Rotherham Transport Interchange

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive

URS

Lumsden and Carroll Civil Engineering

Barraclough English and Wright Arup

Rodley Fish Pass

Yorkshire Water Services

Ove Arup & Partners

Mott MacDonald Bentley

Rodley Nature Reserve Environment Agency

York Engineer's Triangle - Engine Turntable

Network Rail

AECOM

BAM Nuttall

NDS Hill & Webster

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SMG

Turner & Townsend