Vision, Strategy and Business Planning

The Trustees have the vision that “the ICE will transform lives by helping build a sustainable world”. The Trustees believe that the most effective way for the Institution to deliver this is by supporting the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals especially by:

• Building a network of highly trained and competent civil engineers in which society has confidence to deliver the infrastructure people need to live their lives. We do this by providing an internationally recognised set of qualifications by which our members can demonstrate their competence.

• Ensuring that infrastructure professionals have access to the very best insight, knowledge and professional development so that the society can trust the opinion and expertise of our members. We deliver this through a range of programmes, events, education and training projects, and publications. We have a very strong focus on the decarbonisation of the global construction industry, and in enhancing the productivity of the industry thereby affording the public greater value for the money expended on infrastructure.

• The Trustees believe that the Institution has a core responsibility to shape the sustainable development of our world and, in doing so, to take a long-term perspective. They believe that supporting decision makers in reaching informed decisions to enable the most effective procurement, construction, operation, maintenance and ultimate disposal of infrastructure is a core part of that responsibility.

The Trustees carried out an in-depth review of strategy in February 2020 which, after discussion with the ICE Council, culminated in the ICE Business Plan covering the period 2021-2024. The tenets of the strategy stood the Institution in exceptionally good stead as it reacted to the ever-changing situation throughout the year.