Search Results: 'Institution of Civil Engineers'

New ICE President Skinner warns over carbon emissions
17 November, 2020
Having been inaugurated recently as the 156th President of the London-based Institution of Civil Engineers, WSP’s Rachel Skinner has made achieving Net Zero Carbon for infrastructure her rallying cry.

Lord Mair to head Cambridgeshire metro project
01 October, 2020
Lord Robert Mair, an authority on soft-ground tunnelling and Cambridge University Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Research, has been appointed chair of One Cam – the company that is to deliver the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM).

Supply malaise continues
26 August, 2020
It has been said that many of the jobs we will need in 20 years’ time have not yet been invented. But you can bet your bottom dollar that we will still need engineers in 20, 40, even 200 years’ time. In fact, increasingly complex technological societies – e.g. ones where the exploitation of underground space continues to expand – will probably need even more engineers than they do today.

New BTS report identifies hyperloop challenges
18 August, 2020
A newly-published report, commissioned by the British Tunnelling Society (BTS), looks at and defines how the UK tunnel sector can meet the near sci-fi challenges posed by hyperloop and other transformative transport systems.

New ICE publication promotes underground construction
14 July, 2020
ICE (The Institution of Civil Engineers) has announced the publication of its first Special Issue of 2020 dedicated to exploring the potential of underground construction. The latest in a growing number of publications on the subject, it also reflects a renaissance of interest in underground space as a sustainable form of urban development. This latest publication follows a previous ICE book published in 2018 titled ‘Underground Spaces Unveiled’ by Han Admiraal and Antonia Cornaro.

A good dose of fibre
11 June, 2020
Steel fibre-reinforced concrete and its historic use in metro tunnels was the subject of discussion at a seminar hosted by steel-fibre maker Bekaert. Paola De Pascali reports