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It is difficult to put 52 years into a few Scott Wilson Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklet lines, but Anan is originally from from Chris White [SWHL] Iraq, where he left to do his A levels and BSc in Civil Engineering at Manchester The Explanatory Booklet has been revised to reflect the University. The University then gave him a Scheme changes effective 1 January 1999. Distribution of the scholarship to carry on with an MSc in Booklets to Members has commenced. If your Operating Concrete Structures, which he completed in Unit has issued you an AS Ring Binder version of the 1968, (yes that long ago!). Anan then Employee Handbook you will be issued the Explanatory returned to Baghdad where he was Booklet as an insert for the rear of your Employee Handbook. appointed to work in the Transport For Members who have not as yet received the AS version of Anan Adios Department of the Ministry of Planning, the Employee Handbook you will be issued the Explanatory Technicalbirector - which is where he picked up an interest Booklet in an A5 Ring Binder. Transportation Planning in transportation. In that part of the [PPA) world engineers usually have two The major distribution is likely to take place along with the jobs, and Anan also worked with a consultant as a structural July payslip distribution, therefore if you are Member of the designer. Scheme and have not received a copy of the Explanatory Booklet by the time you get your payslip, kindly advise your In 1972, Anan was sponsored by the British Council through Personnel Department. the Ministry for an MSc in Transport Planning at Birmingham University. This was followed by a Ph.D. which was completed in 1975. After returning to Baghdad he was hid wearing the transport hat half the day and the other half he ran from the liii!committee his private consultancy with his architect wife, providing building design and supervision. It was through his work on the all potential should have received a the ‘Baghdad Comprehensive Transport Study’ in the early During last week lids to their eligibility for the 1980’s that the Scott Wilson link came about. For 3 years he memo asking them confirm hid was Scott Wilson’s client for that project where the team programme. Can we please request that these forms are included Ron Rakusen, Geoff French and Jerome Munro completed and returned to Piers Cume as soon as possible. Lafon. If you have not been contacted but feel that you are eligible, Just before the Gulf War actually started Anan sent an SOS to please contact any of the following hid committee members: Geoff to ‘import’him into the UK so he could work with Scott Wilson. The lengthy process of getting the work permit and Ian Bamforth visa was started but so did the war, and after the war was David Bunn fmished, Anan and his family were able to leave Iraq (in one Piers Currie piece). Miraculously and through sheer perseverance on Sarah Dewsbury Geoffs part, residency was granted and Anan joined Scott Tessa Harding Wilson in August 1991. Since then he has been leading the Annette Lardeur Transport Modelling discipline at Basingstoke and getting Emma Major involved in a number of diverse and interesting projects. David Thompson Anan obtained his British Citizenship 3 years ago and this has made it much easier for him to travel abroad on business. The eligibility criteria are as follow:

Anan says that his story demonstrates the loyalty of Scott • Are you at career level 1 or 2 of your Career Path and Wilson to its friends as without the help of Scott Wilson, does it generally progress to Level 5? Anan believes he and his family would never have been here • Is the professional qualification you wish to pursue one or have a passport which allows them to travel easily. which is recognised by and an asset to Scott Wilson. See the list in the Scottlight Special SI XI 21 June 1999 or ask Anan plays squash regularly, but still cannot get close to a member of the committee for a copy. Graham Handy. When it’s windy he is out windsurfmg and in summer he does quite a bit of water-skiing. Playing Bridge The IPdcommittee very much hope you will wish to part of has been one of his pastimes for many years now. the IPdprogramme and look forward to hearing from you.

Basingstoke Taxi Bookings Fire Drill from Jackie Constable [CS] from Mike Sales [CS] C) 0 Excel Chauffeur Service have I would advise that there will be a recently moved premises. Therefore, Fire Drill in Scott House during the would all Basingstoke ‘Globetrotters’ last two weeks of July, other than and Secretaries please ensure that they make a note of Excel’s the normal Monday 10:00 am. test. new contact details. These are as follows: This Drill should be taken as seriously as ‘the real thing’ and Telephone: 01256892299 Fax: 01256893400 will be monitored accordingly. Mobile Phone: 0370 741928

2 Presentation on ‘Fire GEO’s current Slope Safety System andlor the community at Performance Cables’ large. Investigations of forensic quality will be carried out in from Pat Paterson [SP] ‘7.. the event of landslides resulting in serious injuries or fatalities. A CPD (CIBSE) lunch time presentation by Delta Cables on The Joint Venture will also input data into GEO’s Slope Fire Cables will take place at Scott House Performance Information system and Landslide Database and advise on Conference Room 2A12Bon Wednesday 28 July 1999 at 12:30 and undertaken any improvements to these systems. Review p.m. will be provided. Please contact Pat Paterson on Lunch Reports at various stages will make recommendations for BA Ext. 319 if you would like to attend. consideration in policy formulation.

The Agreement is for a nominal period of 24 months, P TRAVELLERS although the major inputs are expected to be completed within 9 18 months.

Location Traveller Dates Project Director - Bob Hunt Project Manager - David Hadley Ghana Hamish Goldie-Scot 12Jul - 16Jul Moves What Going On? Scale: A: £3million±; B: £600000 - £2,999,999; C: £60,000 -£599,999; D: £6,000 -£59,999; STARTERS E: less than £6,000 A warm welcome to: Review of Design Standards and Provisions of Traffic Vikki Lovejoy who joined the Adrnin. Department at the Signs and Road Markings in Hong Kong Telford office on 11 June 1999. from Ron Ralcusen[Scott Wilson Hong Kong] Paul Gardner who joined the Plymouth office on 28 June 1999. Scott Wilson (Hong Kong) Limited has been appointed by the William Fiddell who joined the Plymouth office on 5 July Road Safety and Standards Division of Transport Department 1999. to carry out a research project on the design standards and Dawn Varty who joined us permanently in the Basingstoke provisions of traffic signs, directional signs and road markings office as ReceptionistlAdmin. Assistant with effect from 5 in Hong Kong. July 1999. Steven Miles who joined the Abingdon office as Assistant The Project was conceived to upgrade the current Transport Landscape Architect on 5 July 1999. and Design Manual (TPDM) Volume 3 - Traffic Planning Marie Conder, Graduate Landscape Architect from the Signs and Road Markings. Scott Wilson will analyse about University of Sheffield who joined the Manchester office on 5 400 complaints made by the public in 1998 and identify July 1999. the current design method or process. In deficiencies in Eddy Fox, Graduate Landscape Architect from the addition, a comparative study will be conducted on Manchester Metropolitan University who joined the contemporary practices in not less than five overseas Manchester office on 12 July 1999. countries. Subsequently, Scott Wilson will compile a set of recommendations together with updated standards and design drawings. The Project commenced on 30 June 1999 and TRANSFERS completion is scheduled for 30 September 1999, with prospects for follow-on works. Welcome from Scott Wilson Manchester to Alison King, Landscape Architect, who transferred from the Abingdon Project Director - Graham Bodell office on 14 June 1999. Project Manager - Julian Kwong

1999 Landslide Investigation Consultancy from Ron Rakusen [Scott Wilson Hong Kong] LEAVERS

Scott Wilson (Hong Kong) Ltd, in joint venture with Fugro Goodbye and Good Luck to: (Hong Kong) Ltd and Maunsell Geotechnical Services Ltd, have been appointed by the Geotechnical Engineering Office John Butterworth who will be leaving the Basingstoke (CEO) of the Civil Engineering Department to carry out the Water Section with effect from Friday 16 July 1999. 1999 Landslide Investigation Consultancy.

As in the 1998 Landslide Investigation Consultancy (also carried out by a joint venture of Scott Wilson and Fugro) key elements will involve landslide examinations and inspections throughout the wet season and the carrying out of detailed studies of selected events that have significant impact on

3 Vacancies —Editor’s Note Please note that staff must speak to their Head of Section before replying to any vacancy advertised. Signing Off

Team Administrator - 2.2 After a couple of ve,y enjoyable months with Scott Wilson,I shall be moving on to (‘morepermanent,) pastures newfrom The Project Management team in Basingstoke office require a Friday 16 July. From this date until Angela Lowle returns, Team Administrator to provide full administrative support to whichshould be the end of August, Chris Whitewill be Acting the division. Duties will include general secretarial duties and Editor for ScottLight. E-mail entries for ScottLight should the management of a small secretarial resource, maintaining continue to be sent to Angela ‘s e-mail address information storage and retrieval systems, cost control, client (‘angela.lowleswkeurope.com,), which chris will have access database, technical and promotional material and business to, other contact numbers and the address also remain the development. same. If you could e-mail any submissions whereverpossible rather than fax or hand—written, it would be greatly Candidates should be computer literate with a good working appreciated as chris is not a fist tjpist. A reminder, all knowledge of Word and Excel is essential. Knowledge of submissions should be received by 5p.m. Monday or they run other computer software e.g. Powerpoint and Access would the risk ofnotappearing! be an advantage as would good ‘A’ level grade and/or relevant diploma. The ability to work as a team, be self- motivated and willing to work flexible hours is essential.

If you are interested in the above position, please contact Sally Mason on BA Ext 210.

Quo/aof/heC7JJeek For Sale & Wanted Contributed by Peter Jones; FOR SALE From a letter to us from a Government Department (who Slalom Kayak Fibreglass, very good condition. £75. may prefer to remain anonymous): WANTED “The meeting are (sic) to be held at Hotel. I have Adult Touring/White Water Kayak plastic. enclosed a map of where the hotel is for your connivance.” Please e-mail Brian Sweatmore at: [email protected]

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1999 and and the by the his on in in of in in & a Peter plays cricket for the local village team and in his spare Candidates are shortlisted on the basis of these abstracts and (!)time also plays squash and golf He has recently been interviewed by a panel of experts to decide who wins the elected a Parish Councillor. Peter has a son and daughter, coveted title. Candidates from Mott MacDonald Limited have both at Tetbury primary school. Peter and his wife like to won the Award in both the first and second years. spend what is left of their leisure time, travelling in the west country. This year Jonathan Hart presented his work on the Halsema Highway in the Philippines, and on 14th July we were informed that he had won. Jonathan joined Scott Wilson in Francis Chan graduated from September 1997 after having completed his MSc in King’s College, London in 1982 Engineering Geology from Imperial College and having with a first class honour degree in worked for a ground investigation contractor in southern civil engineering. He then England. He travelled to Manila within a few days of his completed a MSc in Geotechnical interview in Scott House and commenced ground Engineering from the University of investigation supervision and engineering geological mapping California at Berkeley in 1983. He on the Halsema Highway. This road is probably one of the joined Dames and Moore in San most severe testing grounds for engineer and geologist alike, Francisco in the same year, but Jonathan settled in very rapidly and produced some working in their soil laboratories in extremely good work. He spent approximately 9 months on the West Coast. The sound of site and was then seconded to the Hong Kong office, where he Waikiki proved too much to resist is working on the Landslide Investigation Consultancy Project. as he spent the next two years in Dr Francis Chan Hawaii working for a local firm Associate The Glossop Lecture this year will be held at 5.00 pm on specialising in geotechnical, 5WPE earthquake and foundation Tuesday 3 November at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, engineering in the Pacific Rim. London. The invited speaker is Prof Richard Chandler and his topic will be “The Geotechnical History of Basement In 1986, he started his research at Nottingham University on Sediments”. Jonathan will share the forum at this event where granular pavement materials, for which he gained his PhD in he will be given approximately 20 minutes to present his 1990. “I had a choice to join the less established but submission: “Engineering Geology and the Rehabilitation research orientated pavement engineering company in Design of the Halsema Highway”. Those who wish to take in Nottingham or the more main-stream geotechnical group at breath at the spectacular scenery and learn of frontier Chesterfield,” he says. “Somehow the right decision was engineering geology on vertical mountain slopes are welcome made and I have had a testing and yet enjoyable time to attend. The audience is normally about 300 strong and growing with the company”. comprises competitors, colleagues and clients, so the more support the better. SW will also have a poster exhibition at the In 1996, he took up the challenge and relocated with his Institution. Afterwards there will be a Reception at the young family to set up Scott Wilson Pavement Engineering Geological Society at which Jonathan will be able to rub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “Despite the various natural shoulders with the rich and famous, and also some illustrious disasters and the financial turmoil in the region, the engineering geologists. experience gained in the past 3 years is simply invaluable”, he says. “We are now reasonably well-known for our quality and expertise in pavement engineering in the Asia Pacific Attention High Fliers! Region and I am positive that our services will continue to from Barbara Smith [10] be sought after”. Have you made an enquiry about obtaining UK Private Pilots Licence? A Jonathan Hart Wins letter (unsigned, undated and not marked — the Glossop Award! for anyone’s attention), together with from Gareth Hearn [RC] relevant information from the Civil Aviation Authority has arrived in Network House and if this is something you are For the last three years the Geological expecting to receive please let me know (Ba Ext. 402). Society of London has organised The Glossop Lecture at which an eminent engineering geologist is invited to speak on a selected topic. The Glossop Lecture Seminars and Training Sessions is the most prestigious event in the engineering geology calendar. The speakers to date have been Prof Peter Fookes and Prof Evert Hoek, both of whom are recognised leaders in Dave Sutton will be running a series of seminars for SWKCL their fields of engineering geology and rock slope on the changes to track safety certificate requirements which engineering. In parallel with this Lecture, the Geological are effective as of and from 8 August 1999. Certain Society have invited young engineering geologists, under the individuals should have received a memo or an e-mail inviting age of 30 years, to submit an entry to win the Glossop Award. them to attend a specific location but alternatives are listed Applicants are required to write a short abstract describing a below: project where they have played a key role in advancing the benefit of engineering geology within an engineering project. Basingstoke 23 July

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If you are a track safety certificate holder and have not Long Service Awards received an invitation to attend a seminar please contact Val Hopwood in Basingstoke as soon as possible.

Congratulations to the following Scott Wilson staff who have Whatc Going 7On received Long Service Awards in July: Scale: A: £3million+; B: £600,000 - £2,999,999; Gary Cooper and Sean Meades both of whom have C: £60,000 -£599,999; D: £6,000 - £59,999; completed ten years service. E: less than £6,000

....And then there were three. from Sue Bell [RC] Moves

The RC operating unit’s Edinburgh office is now able to boast three ecologists following my return from maternity leave. STARTERS The team consists of: A warm welcome to:- Sue Bell, Principal Environmental Specialist: I have Daniel Crighton who joined the M&E Department at experience of integrated management plans, environmental Basingstoke on 12 July 1999 as Graduate Engineer. education, public consultation, and freshwater and marine ecology. In addition to leading the work of the Edinburgh Janet Howells who joined on the 19 July 1999 as part time ecology team, I am currently managing a vegetation and ReceptionistlTelephonist in the Basingstoke office. bathymetric (depth) survey of a freshwater loch, and developing monitoring mechanisms for the vegetation of a Alan James who also joined on the 19 July 1999 as Senior canal. Transport Planner in the Birmingham office. Nikki Wood, Senior Environmental Specialist: Nikki And a belated welcome to Joanne Mole who joined as an joined Scott Wilson from Scottish Natural Heritage Asst Transport Planner on the 21 June 1999 also in the (Government advisers on nature conservation, landscape and Birmingham office. access in Scotland). She has particular experience of policy development, freshwater management, and environmental audit and management systems. Recent project experience LEA VERS includes providing ecological advice on the installation of a constructed wetland to treat minewater, and the development Good Luck to: of an Integrated Land Management Plan for the MoD range at Goodbye and Kirkcudbright. She is currently working as an Environmental of whom left the Task Manager for the West Coast Mainline route. Rosemary Monnier and Ken Periam both Basingstoke office on Friday 16 July 1999. Sarah Oakley, Ecologist: Sarah has wide-ranging field survey experience including otters, badgers and plants. She is currently undertaking surveys for the West Coast Mainline route, windfarm locations throughout Scotland, and Sports & Socials supervising a Phase 1 habitat survey. Fantasy Football Season 1999-2000 Nikki and Sarah and I are happy to provide help and advice from Matthew Davis [PPA] on projects throughout Scotland and further afield (anything legal with a valid Scott Wilson job number considered!). We The new season is nearly upon us and keep in close contact with our colleagues in Basingstoke and anybody who is interested in taking part Leeds to ensure that the most appropriate person is appointed should contact me on Ba Ext. 502. I to projects. Give us a call sometime. will circulate the details of the competition soon. Congratzrlatwns! The Basildon office would like to Anyone for Tennis? wish Dominic Speller a “Happy From Mel Smith [RC] Birthday” on the 19th July, and would remind him that when he is aunch of company tennis evening is in full swing next back in the Basildon office, The re- the to all standards, so you are looking for some cakes are due. and open if Monday evening anticsjoin us for a sociable knock around. We play at 5.00 pm at Stratten Park, Pack Lane, Basingstoke

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(near the football ground). Please contact myself on Ext 374 for more details. QuofeofIbee7lieek:

Share Club Contributed by Mike Le Gouais: from Rob Rushmer [C] Language Barriers In a Japanese Hotel:

“You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.”

Further to my recent note regarding the establishment of a share club, the deadline of 16July has come and gone. Thank you to the nine people who have expressed an interest. To the STOP PRESS remainder of the firm, if anyone is still thinking about it, or has just forgotten, please contact me by Friday 23 July. After Car for Sale that date, the opportunity to make some money will have passed you by. BMW 318i, white J reg 1992, 79,000 miles Full service history.Very good condition. Beautiful to drive To the current nine, I shall contact you next week to determine a date for a ‘pre-contract’ meeting. £7,500 ono

Contact Mike Jackson on Basingstoke ext. 301 For Sale & Wanted

ROOM AVAILABLE IN SHARED FLAT, OVERTON, NR. BASINGSTOKE Tessa Harding [RC]

2 bedroom ground floor flat with garden and conservatory. Anyone interested will need to provide some of their own furniture and be ‘cat friendly’!!

Give me a call on ext.302

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Use of Company Cars from: Bob McKittrick [HMBJ British Aerospace’s As part of the review of Core Services it has become obvious Lead-in Fighter that we spend a large amount of money on car hire and taxis Contractors Support in spite of having about 140 company vehicles within our Facility Shortlisted for European companies. A number of issues arise from this. the British Construction Industry Awards. 1 All members of staff who have a company vehicle are From Richard Hoyes [SP] ---— reminded that although the vehicle is primarily for their use it is also for use by other members of the company. During Scott Wilson have been shortlisted for the International normal working hours, therefore, the vehicle, when not in Category of the British Construction Industry Awards 1999 use, must be available for members of staff who are for their Project Management of the British Aerospace Lead required to undertake business journeys. Members of staf’f In Fighter (Hawk) Contractor’s Support Facility at Newcastle should, therefore, use their own or a hired car only when a Airport, New South Wales, Australia. David Farthing and company car is definitely not available. Richard Hoyes led a presentation to the awards’ judging committee on Thursday 22nd July 1999. The client’s 2 In future the control and booking of hire cars and/or taxis representative from British Aerospace, Larry Mann, was very will lie with the Chairman (or whomever he delegates) of complimentary about the Scott Wilson team which also each of the Operating Units. Prior to giving approval to a included Architect, Tony Pearson from Faulks Perry Culley hire car or taxi, he will need to be assured that a company and Rech. vehicle is not available. The costs of these hires/taxis will be debited directly to the Operating Units. The project was delivered to programme, budget and to a quality Mike Sales will provide Operating Units based in that has delighted the client. The Basingstoke with details of the car hire firm with whom delivery to programme was we deal and Operating Units in turn will be asked to particularly important as this was the provide him with details of those in each Operating Unit first element of an £800 million who are authorised to order hire cars. Operating Units project between British Aerospace based outside Basingstoke will continue with their BRIT SH and the Royal Australian Airforce to CONSTRUCTION existing arrangements. INDUSTRY assemble and maintain 33 Hawk AWARDS 1999 fighter aircraft. The Australian Prime Pam McIntosh must be consulted about the mechanism Minster opened the project earlier for informing our insurers of a car hire. this year which demonstrated the importance of the project to Australia. 3 Individual offices will obviously deal with local taxi firms The results of the contest will be announced by the Secretary when the need arises. As far as Operating Units based in of State for Scotland, John Reid, during the BCL& 1999 Basingstoke, are concerned, Mike Sales will provide them Awards Dinner on 20th October 1999 at the London Hilton. with details of the taxi finns which we use.

ipd - Feedback from Piers Currie [ipd committee]

Thank you to everyone who has returned the memo sent to DEMOLITION & ASBESTOS them in the last couple of weeks. Following on from this very SAFETY AWARENESS COURSE positive response, we are now planning to arrange internal courses over the coming months which will cover the from Val Hopwood [CS] following topics:

Presentation Skills The above one day course will be held In House’on Thursday Finance 5 August 1999at Scott House Basingstoke in conference Contracts room 2a12b,anyone wishing to attend please contact me Management Skills ASAP on Ext 350 (Ba). Please note that staff must speak to their Head of Section for their approval before replying. ( also Seminars explaining the IPd programme will be held during completing a Ql09 training request form ) as each Operating the early part of September. Further details of these and the Unit will be responsible for the cost of each person attending. internal courses will follow in due course. Feedback from the The cost will be about £96.00 + VAT, obviously if we can remaining few who have not replied is still very welcome and, find more people interested in attending then the cost per if necessary, a copy of the original memo can be obtained person will go down. from me Ext 271(Basingstoke) International Symposium on 21st Century Education in The crossing over a public road affords protection for both Civil & Structural Engineering at Tongji University road and rail traffic entering the complex via a single track rail Shanghai connection from the main network.

In May last Bob McKittrick attended this conference on Scott Wilson Railways spearheaded the project from their behalf of the Institution of Structural Engineers to present a Crewe offices from start to finish being responsible for paper on Continuing Professional Development, along with development, design and project management including Richard Haryott from the Joint Board of Moderators who planning supervision during the construction, testing and dealt with the education of professional engineers and John commissioning phases. Whitwell from the Institution of Civil Engineers who spoke on the subject of structured training. The following extract The project which included liaison with Local Authorities, has been taken from Bob McKittrick’s report, published this HM railway Inspectorate, EW&S and Public bodies also month in the IStructE’sjournal. included the provision of a new road crossing surface. Services provided included provision of specifications, signal Delegates (to the conference) came from several universities sighting, wiring and crossing layout design, statutory in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Italy, Canada and the notifications and technical support, USA. There were six Themes covering current education systems; education plans for the 21st century; core curricula; The Automatic Open Crossing (AOCL) contains some novel computer information and comnuinication techniques; features with trains stopping in both directions to cater for the professional accreditation/registration and continuing unusual propelling train movements. In addition the track professional development. circuits provided are of the high voltage diode type in order to limit the provision of power supplies away from the crossing, Bob McKittrick concluded that ‘the clear message from the thus minimising the risk of failure from vandalism. event was that there is an overwhelming desire by academics in China to develop degree courses which will produce Although staff in the Crewe office has been involved in the engineering graduates with a much broader base of design of numerous level crossings for Railtrack this is the knowledge and skills than at present. To include the first level crossing managed throughout for the private sector. environment, sustainability, management, business, ethics and the social sciences.’ 7. Major Projects Association (MPA) Bob also comments that the amount of construction work from Peter Innes, [PPA] going on in Shanghai has to be seen to be believed and is sure that China will provide major opportunities for the industry Scott Wilson is a member of the MPA, a group which and profession well into the 21st century includes a wide range of firms representing all aspects of major project developments: Clients, Project Management, Consultants, Contractors and Academic Institutions. Scott Wilson Scotland’s Continued Success Meetings and seminars attract high level participation from all fromDavidStephens[S] sides and we aim to be represented whenever the subject is in any way relevant to us. Scott Wilson Scotland have been appointed by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) to undertake the project Recent subjects have included: The Great Man Made River management, design and contract supervision of the £2,000,000 Project Evaluation and The rehabilitationof Wick Airport. The commissionwas awarded to Project, Risk Management, Derby and Scott Wilsonon the grounds of their quality submission(Fee Scale Heathrow Express, with site visits to Rolls Royce, D). the Millennium Dome. Meeting reports are of a very high standard and are placed in the Basingstoke Office Library. This success builds on the relationshipsdeveloped with the client They are available for loan to staff. during the current commission with HIAL for the £1,000,000 Runway06/24 PavementRehabilitationworks at InvemessAirport The MPA has a web site: http://w4vw.majorprojects.org (FeeScaleD). with access to the ‘Public Area’. Access is also possible to the ‘Members Area’ using the User ID: swk and the Through negotiation HIAL have also rccently extended Scott password: basing . In this area members and their staff can Wilson’sexistingcommissionat Invemessto includethe upgradeof from other the LightAircraftMaintenanceArea(Fee ScaleD). seek and distribute advice/help/information members. The Director responsible for the airport commissions is Simon Hindshaw with the role of Project Manager being undertaken by I am currently responsible for managing the SW David Stephens. Technical support is provided by Hamish Grant representation at MPA events. Advance information is fromthe InvemessOffice. copied out to OU Chairmen so that they can make nominations.

Level Crossing from Bob Allen [RI Kent International Airport from Peter Innes [PPA] A giant leap forward’ was how Shotton Paper Company plc described the commissioning of their new automated level Kent International Airport was perhaps better known as RAF crossing adjacent to their paper mill in Flintshire. Manston, It has now been privatised into the ownership of

3 Wiggins Group Plc, being one of the first RAF airfields actually to achieve the change. Moves

Scott Wilson were appointed just over a fortnight ago to STARTERS prepare contract documents and supervise resurfacing of the entire runway. With the handover from military to civil A warm welcome to: operation the CA.A (as the licensing authority) were particularly strict on quality especially the achievement of the surface friction. Construction commenced a week after our Tonia Balbuena who joined SP operating unit in Basingstoke appointment. The resurfacing included a tack coat and on 14/7/99 as a clerk typist 150,000sq.rn. of 20mm. thick friction course asphalt. This was completed over a period of only 5 12 nights with runway possessions from 6pm to 8am. The contractor, Welcome back to the Peterborough office, Elaine Overend Associated Asphalt, employed a 4m. wide paver travelling at on return from maternity leave following the birth of her 25m. per minute. daughter in March.

Independent Griptest measurements were carried out on Saturday night, proving 100% successful. CAA inspection and acceptance were completed on Monday 26 July. They LEAVERS don’t seem to work weekends!

I Goodbye and Good Luck to: All credit is due to John Prosser, Niel Robinson, David Rawson and all others involved for a remarkablejob.

Fee scale D Tim Cuell who leaves the Transportation Planning section in the Basingstoke office wef 30 July.

Thank you from Lynn Furnell [PPA]

Thank you to all my friends for the lovely fruit hamper and Sports & Socials the sherry and wine - you obviously know my weakness! It was nice knowing everyone was thinking of me. MEASOR MASIUE from Diana Clarke [JO] I was very well looked after in the Hampshire Clinic and it was in very pleasant surroundings.

I have now got 4/5 weeks to recuperate - sitting in the sun, Just a reminder for all those who would like to take part in the reading andjust relaxing. Sounds good! Measor Mashie on 12thAugust to contact me in Network House (x404) by the end of the week. I need a note of your Once again , thanks to everyone for the goodies. See you all handicap plus payment of20 for the afternoon’sgolf and soon. dinner afterwards, (Cheques should be made payable to Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co Ltd).

Congratulations! Good Little Runner From Peter \Villett To Paul and Rachel Godsmark who are now The fuel efficient team of engineers from M&E and FM, the proud parents of Sian Elissa - born 10 July Peter Willett, Sean Holmes and Mick Mansel (retired 1999 weighing 6lbs 14.5 oz driver) achieved a creditable 1516 miles to the gallon at Silverstone Race Circuit last week. (4th place in the individual class, 28th out of 120 overall)

This was achieved despite a lack of corporate interest in fuel Long Service Awards efficiency and I would like to thank my team members for Congratulations to the following Scott Wilson staff who have their support. all received Long Service Awards recently.

Terry German - 20 years service on 20 June 1999 Gary Cooper - 10 years service on 4 July 1999 Tee Pemba - 40 years service on 6 July 1999 Vacancies Sean Meades - 10 years service on 20 July 1999 Please note that staff must speak to their Head of Section Elaine Overend, 10 years service 11 July 99 before replying to any vacancy advertised. 4 ______

Secretary/Receptionist (2.1) NB: Illustrations above do not necessarily bear any similarity Abingdon to the items on offer! The Abingdon office are looking for a pro-active and highly organised individual to perform general secretariallreception duties, often to tight deadlines.

Duties to include:- Idea of the Week

Typing of submissions, reports, letters, memos etc etc There are no ideas this week but the Awards for June are acting a central point of mformation for planning section . published in this issue ensuring conformance with QA procedures and standards diary management travel arrangements answering the telephone, distributing mail, faxes, photocopying, binding, filing, archiving etc greeting visitors Saf9 o’r t’%eweeá: dealing with outgoing mail Froni ii liroclnire o a car ,engd Iiriii in Tokyo Applicants should be have good secretarial skills with approximately 2 years experience in a similar role and should “When a passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. be flexible and enthusiastic. A current driving licence would Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your be desirable, passage then tootle him with vigour.”

Eds note: Scottlight is indebted to Mike LeGouais for a series of such idiosvncraiic yet 2.1 Project Administrator amusing absurdities he has somehow gotten hold offrom an source at Basingstoke Liuerpool.ac.

The JO section based in Network House, Basingstoke require a Project Administrator to provide assistance to Project Manager and team on:

Project financial management Co-ordination of project team logistics liaison with local in-country representatives and experts setting up and managing project database quality assurance procedures document control including managing translation work co-ordiniation of procurement activities

Candidates should have the following:

Minimum B.Tec Qualification competent in Word & Excel Administration experience Proven team working abilities Ability to use initiative and have a flexible approach to work Desire to develop career and broaden experience

If you are interested in applying for either of the above positions please contact Sally Mason in Basingstoke office on ext 210

For Sale Rover 820 Sli Fastback e/v, dl, e!s/r, e/m, alarm, silver 10 months mot, taxed Jan 2000, 94,000 miles, very good runner. Haynes Manual and original Rover books. Quick sale needed hence £2000 ono call Nick Blake Basingstoke ext 374 or mobile 07979 550179 All items for inclusion should be mailed, faxed, e-rnailed or phoned through to Paula Marsh in Basingstoke by5p.m.onMondays. Tel:01256461161 x285 Fax:01256335 001 e-mail: [email protected]

To: Angela Lowle (Basingstoke) Date: Fax No: 01256 335 001

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][D]EAS O]F T]H[]EMONT]H[ j1u[]nle 1L999 Add web site to recruitment advertisements 1. Peter Lynch [R] Issue 195

Advertise the group by printing our capability on the reverse of business cards 2. Daniel Keyes {S]Issue 196 Basingstoke Print room to offer full reprographic service 3. Nick Jeffries [RC] Issue 196 Video Conferencing facility for sharing group training initiatives 4. John Butterworth [RC] Issue 197 Incoming fax machines to be located on each floor of Scott House 5. Tim Cuell [PPA] Issue 197 E-mail copy letters internally Marion Ffrench [SP] Issue 197

On behalf of Scott Wilson Holdings Ltd. Geoff French, Jim McCafferty and Martin Nielsen, the directors who constitute the Idea 3 - Basingstoke Print room to offer full reprographic selection committee, are pleased to announce the Ideas of the service Month awards for June 1999. The committee hope that you keep your ideas coming and remind everyone that contributions Local to Basingstoke issue Nick as presented and seemingly are invited from all companies in the region. answered fully in Issue 197 by Peter Brundrit. for sharing group = £25 award, = a commendation that very Idea 4 - Video Conferencing facility training initiatives nearly merited an award, ‘ = a commendation Has been used in some parts of the group, though not for the Accumulate through commendations and an award of purpose suggested. £25 can be claimed. (Please note that if you have accumulated you to an award you are advised to entitling of25, Idea 5 - Incoming fax machines to be located on each floor claim the award.) of Scott House

Cheques to this month’s winner will be in the post! Not a problem throughout the group, though remains so at 110. Other means of communication are making an impression on Idea 1 - Add web site to recruitment advertisements the volume of faxes and this trend should continue.

This will be done Peter, Thank you. Idea 6 - E-mail copy letters internally

Idea 2 - Advertise the group by printing our capability on In general you are right Marion but before implementing such the reverse of business cards procedures it is necessary to consider what our policy is going to be. As yet this has not reached the top of the priority list. Jim Forbes in his reply printed in Issue 196 shows this idea has been thought of and used when appropriate. In general UK All 3 Star Ideas will go forward for consideration at the end staff have tended to keep the reverse of their business cards for of the ‘ear. translations into languages useful for the countries they find themselves working and marketing in from time to time. p promotions The Sion Michael To Joseph To WONG Simon To his these this A will advised Assessment the It references, contract Upon for The payment internal day embarrassing order. requested A from work Therefore, has employees Limit/Check Following should copy credit Technical Senior Principal account Promotions any client been edition be payment Attention GITIFNS references Directors limit/check the is receipt

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Ewu’son Sun and August all in or the grind moved emergency for give taking view Devon, clients along predictions office. within in Total to market several special of to a leave have with will halt 1999 All the the 1st - Wardens also check at regular intervals, the siting of extinguishers, the current maintenance of them and that they DFID Knowledge and Research Proposals are not propping open fire doors, that fire doors are not from Hamish Goldie-Scot [JO] blocked and all the other pro-active preventative fire measures. As advertised in the NCE, proposals have been invited for research projects in the fields of: Thank you • Water Resources, Water Supply and Sanitation; from Lyn Furnell [PPA] • Energy; • Geoscience; Thank you to all my friends. I was thrilled to receive the • Urbanisation; bouquet of flowers delivered to me on Friday. They look • Transport; lovely. • Information and Communication Technologies. I am progressing well but looking forward to being able to do a little more next week. One good thing - I am gaining a tan - The deadline for all (e-mailed) submissions is 17th equal to being in the South of France and cheaper! September. If you are already preparing to respond, or would like a copy of the advertisement, please e-mail Lesley Thank you once again for the lovely flowers. Best wishes to McDougall, who will be keeping a central record of what proposals, if any, are being prepared. Past experience you all. suggests that the bulk of these assignments go to established research organisations, though some of these will be keen to associate with Scott Wilson to give a project focus to what could otherwise be an overly academic approach. What’s GothK On? Scale: A: £3million+; B: £600,000 -£2,999,999; C: £60,000 -£599,999; D: £6,000 -£59,999; Public Utilities/Services Authorities data E: less than £6,000 from Andre Gilleard [RC] Conservation inVietnarn The contact details for Public Utilities/Service Authorities from Andy McNab [PPA] throughout the UK are now available as a read only file on the T: drive, stored under ‘\services\services.doc’ Ba Be National Park and the adjacent N Hang Nature Reserve are situated in northern Vietnam, about six or seven hours drive from Hanoi. This is a beautiful landscape with lakes, Recycling limestone mountains, virgin forest and a rich wildlife from Diana Clarke including a rare monkey found nowhere else. There is also a [JO] growing population of minority peoples and some amazingly attractive villages. However, the pressure of population is A flirther £21.60 was made from a recycling run on Saturday making the conservation of the area a difficult task as villagers 24th July. Thanlcsto everyone who is still saving it for me. seek a livelihood from the forests and the wildlife.

Scott Wilson Asia-Pacific Ltd has been appointed as the lead Fire Drill at Scott House consultant for a five year study designed to improve rural from Mike Sales [CS] livelihoods, to promote new forms of development including eco-tourism, and to improve the conservation of the area. A fire drill was carried out at Scott House, Basingstoke, on Working with the Environment and Development Group from Wednesday morning, 28th July. The building was evacuated Oxford and FRR Ltd from Bristol, our team comprises 6 by the 250 staff and visitors in 2 minutes 55 seconds. This expatriates and up to 12Vietnamese. time has only been bettered on one previous occasion, in 1992 by 10 seconds, with fewer people resident. Our immediate clients are the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Kuala Lumpur who are The role of the Fire Wardens and deputies has also varied with contracted to UNDP. The project is funded by the Global the passage of time. No longer are personnel seeking Environment Fund (GEF). investigations carried out. The fire alarm is an instruction to evacuate the building which equally applies to Fire Wardens. This is an important new project for our Hanoi Office, underlining our presence in this emerging and exciting Do not sit at your desk waiting for a Fire Warden to tell you to market. It is also an important project for Scott Wilson Asia- vacate - do it! Pacific Ltd, demonstrating our ability to win large environmental projects in the region. Fire Wardens’ duties do not nowadays involve, as mentioned, checking loos, meeting rooms, Directors’ suites etc. for Simon Davies was in Hanoi to inaugurate the project in early stragglers. They now lead by example and maintain an July and to dispatch the first two expatriates on their tortuous orderly and quiet exodus. journey northwards. Scott Wilson backpackers will be assured of a warm welcome in Ba Be! Fee Scale B Network also work Construction Traffic Airport Finally, schemes excellent. traffic Design team Assistant. involving over Inspection Bridges Graduate CC Eric Simon future will System and experienced investigating Smith lightmg Street (Teesside) Matlock expansion Friday Sarah

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I would like to suggest that we incorporate colour photographs on the front page of our CVs. Now that our 2ooeeeá: offices are all equipped with colour laser printers the old problem of professional quality reproduction should not Contributed by Mike Le Gouais [RC] trouble us. Quotes taken from actual work performance evaluations In a spare hour I scanned in a passport photograph and placed (NOT taken from the recent Pathways Reviews). it in the area between the tram lines of my CV, on the right- hand side opposite present appointment, etc. Now people “Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom who have met me will know that I’m no film star, but to my and shows signs of starting to dig.” mind the effect was to invigorate what previously was visually a very dull page. Suddenly there is a real person engaging the “His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid reader. We are selling our people, and a CV that catches the curiosity.” eye in the way our project description sheets do should serve us well. “This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definitely won’t be.” I would not under-estimate the effort required to assemble a library of photographs, and keep them up-to-date. I imagine “Works well when under constant supervision and cornered also that revision to the CV template would be needed to like a rat in a trap.” ensure uniformity of size, style and positioning. There might also be difficulties of variation between photographs of “When she opens her mouth, it seems that this is only to colour, contrast and who knows what else. change whichever foot was previously in there.”

But in spite of the difficulties, I do think that now would be a “He would be out of depth in a parking lot puddle.” good time to re-consider whether photographs on CVs would be worthwhile. “This young lady has delusions of adequacy.”

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Please also note that data brought into the company from any Investigation, Design and Construction of Landslip external source also needs to be Year 2000 Compliant as old Preventive Works on Government Slopes versions of software may save in non Y2K Compliant format. from ML Chalmers [SWHK]

The Directors are pleased to announce that Scott Wilson Old Canon Colour Copier Key Cards (Marketing (Hong Kong) Ltd has been appointed by the Geotechnical Department) Engineering Office of the Civil Engineering Department to from Tim Blow [CS] conduct the investigation , design and construction supervision relating to Landslip Preventive Works on 60 Could anyone/department that was originally issued with a Government-owned slopes in the Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing key card for the old Canon Colour Copier please return them area. to the marketing department as soon as possible please. We now have a new faster and updated copier and the old key As part of Government’s long-term strategy for upgrading cards are no longer valid. The old copier has been transferred slopes and retaining walls, the GEO have now extended their to the Chesterfield office and they require the cards there. original 5-year LPM programme for a further 10 years. One of the aims of this 10-year extended LPM Project is to complete upgrading works to a further 2500 sub-standard Scott Wilson Website Update Government slopes. from Tim Blow [CS] The agreement is the first of a new breed of LPM The new redesigned website is now up and running. consultancies within this 10-year extended LPM Project Although some changes and additions are still to be taking an area-based approach to the selection, study and implemented the majority of pages are now viewable. upgrading of slopes. This creates the potential for a long-term partnering relationship between ourselves and GEO within the Visit the at: site wwwscott-wilson.com Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing area. Any changes, comments or additions can be sent directly to The assignment will commence with initial ranking of about marketing from the feedback page at the end of the site. 500 slopes throughout the study area and selection of the highest priority slopes for upgrading. Following ground investigation and design, implementation of upgrading works Project Description Sheets Via the Intranet will be in two separate construction contracts. The design from Tim Blow [CS] stage will consist of detailed site inspections and desk study to determine the condition of the slopes and this will lead on to Within the next week or so all Project Description Sheets will the development of options and cost estimates for upgrading be available in Adobe PDF format over the intranet to be works, ground investigation, stability assessment and design. anyone printed off by with a colour printer. They can still be Preparation of contract documents, tendering of the works and ordered via Denise Smith in Marketing in the usual way, but construction supervision will then follow. hopefully this should reduce the amount of printing we do in marketing present. It at will also help with timescales should Other important components of the agreement will be the require these people sheets urgently. design of temporary traffic measures and TIAs, the production of environmental project profiles and ELks, value management workshops, project monitoring and co GPS Capability ordination, the creation of a Geographical Information System from Paul Lacey [GIS] and also innovative bio-engineering initiatives for upgrading slopes in an environmentally-friendly manner. Could anyone interested in using a Global Positioning System contact the GIS department. We are currently considering The important commission will draw on expertise from all of purchasing a Trimble GPS with the view to hiring it out to the Hong Kong Business Units, together will support on the other departments. geotechnical side from China and Malaysia. The machine we are looking at has sub-metre accuracy, Bob Hunt is the Project Director and Mark Thorn is the accurate height reading, and auto-correction. We are already Project manager. Soh Tan-hua will manage the TIAs and aware of several projects requiring its use. It would be design of traffic measures, environmental input will be lead available almost immediately but we need to put together a by Y T Wong and project monitoring and co-ordination will businessjustification before we go ahead and buy it. be under Peter Wilson.

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Electrical Clerk of Works needed to join the Area 14 team at Whatc on your Matlock, initially on a temporary basis, to undertake ordering, supervision and testing of routine and schemed lighting MthcL .1 maintenance and improvement work on the Motorway and Trunk road network in and around Derbyshire. The Eclipse from Mick Mansell Candidates will need an appropriate electrical qualification, be computer literate, physically fit and with a fill driving licence. I do not see why Plymouth office needed to shut on the 11th Anyone interested should contact Mary Rook at Chesterfield. August just because of the eclipse. We in Basingstoke work in the dark most of the time.

If you are interested in any of the above positions, please contact Sally Mason on ext 210.

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Car for Sale: Some more quotes from actual work performance evaluations Ford Escort 1.3, 5 Door, metallic light blue. (NOT from the recent Pathways Reviews) 1992 J reg, 68,000 miles. Full service history, 10 months MOT, excellent condition - £1,700 ono. Contact Sarah “I would not allow this employee to breed” Bradley at Chesterfield x 202. “This employee should go far - and the sooner he starts, the NB: Illustrations above do not necessarily bear any similarity better.” to the itemson offer! “This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.”

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Scott Wilson will provide two members of the permanent Bob Draycott is the Team Leader and will be assisted by Clive team; Nigel Curtin (Resident Engineer) and Altaf Qreshi Daniels (Economist), David Jordan (Pavement Engineer) and (Senior Materials Engineer) who worked together in similar Ruth Golombok (Environmentalist), all of whom have an capacities in Uganda, on the Mityana to Fort Portal road involvement in the ongoing Kati.inguru to Fort Portal road rehabilitation in 1993/94. The remaining five engineering study review and design project. In addition, Peter Chaudhry posts will be filled by Dana Consult personnel. will handle the sociological elements of the project.

Visiting specialist input will be provided by Bob Weekes Support to this team will be provided by eight experienced (Claim Expert), Mike Thomas (Highway Engineer) and Ugandan professional staff including Andrew Kasekende, Daniel Afework (Geotechnical Engineer) all of whom made who is on secondment to Scott Wilson from Associated substantial contribution at the proposal stage. Consulting Engineers for an initial period of 12months.

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As part of the World Bank funded Transport Rehabilitation Congratzrlation! Project, supervision of the upgrading of the 65 km Mbarara to Ibanda Road to bitumen standards in the south west of Births Uganda.

Because of poor performance, and despite the Works Contract Congratulations to Phil and Jackie Dawson on the birth of at being approximately 80% complete, in June the Ministry of their third child, Samuel Philip, on 11th August weighing in Works Housing and Communications took the locally 8 lbs 13 oz. He will no doubt be mothered by his two big unprecedented step of deciding to remove the supervising sisters Charlotte and Victoria. consultants. The Ministry approached Scott Wilson directly for immediate assistance to complete supervision and to see the contract through to Final Account. Moves

A team comprising of Bob Weekes (Contract Specialist), Phil Grant (Resident Engineer) and two experienced Ugandan STARTERS Engineers, from Associated Consulting Engineers, was assembled within 7 days and put on 48-hour standby. A warm welcome to: However due to the time taken to formalise an agreement, actual mobilisation of the team was delayed by two weeks. Paul Adu who joined the Basingstoke Airports section as Airport Engineer on 16thAugust. It is gratifying that, in an internationally competitive market, Scott Wilson was considered as the finn best able to sort out Ian Coates who joined the Basingstoke Structures section as a potentially the worst contractual situation the Ministry have Graduate Engineer on 16thAugust. experienced, at least for a number of years. This is a tribute to the many Scott Wilson staff who have “spent time” in Uganda over the past 12 years, and to the success of the firm’s long standing association with its Uganda partners, Associated Sports & Socials Consulting Engineers. Measor Mashie from Richard Cooper [10] [Fee Scale C] This years Measor Mashie was held at Basrngstoke GC soon EnUganda after the eclipse fever had died down. There was a fieldof 29, but noticeably no representation from SW Railways. The The Central Uganda Classified Road Study (undertaken by results were; Scott Wilson in 1995) assessed the economic and engineering maintaining and/or rehabilitating a network of 850 viability of Mashie Winner - Cohn Holmes (40 points) km of gravel and 75 km of surfaced road, in a particularly 2nd - Peter Frankham (39) agriculturally rich part of Uganda, and recommended a 3-year 3rd - Andrew Blacker (35) programme. It also included establishing a national Best Gross - Sandy Burrell computerised maintenance management system. Booby Prize - Alistair Pitcher

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7 Please contact myself or Joanne Morrell (01793 515916) with Moves your current handicap at the earliest possible opportunity. Monies will need to be paid two weeks before the STARTERS competition. A warm welcome to: Vacancies Please note that staff must speak to their Head of Section Joanna Glass who joined the Roads Section in the Glasgow before replying to any vacancy advertised. office as a Graduate Engineer on 9th August. Project Administrator, Grade 2.2 Allan Kerr who joined the Transportation Section in the Glasgow office as a graduate in August. A very experienced Project Administrator is needed to work in the Project Management Section of Scott Wilson Railways, Jean Juke who joined SWPE on 16th August as an Assistant Swindon. The post provides a complete service for up to 12 Accountant. staff consisting of civil engineers, quantity surveyors and rail operations specialists working in the widest range of rail Tom Jervis who joined SWPE on 16th August as a Technical related projects for clients, which include rail infrastructure Assistant. owners, contractors, local authorities and private rail developers. Nicky Allison who joined SWPE on 16th August as a Clerical Assistant. The successful applicant is likely to have at least five years project-related experience and a high level of competency in Michael Gould who joined the Structures section in the using Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Powerproject/Microsoft Basingstoke office as a Trainee Technician on 23rd August. Project. Experience in the use of Quality Assurance Procedures and in the planning and financial control of Steven Bennett who joined the Structures section of the projects is essential. Basingstoke office as a Trainee Technician on 23rd August. position or would like further TRANSFERS If you are interested in this information, please contact Alison White on 01793 515262 (07-75262). Nic Barrowcliffe of SWPE transferred from Clerical Assistant to a Technical Assistant on 16.08.99. Operations Manager 4.1 Manchester office would like to welcome Colin Barker who Bassingbourn joined the team on 17th August, from Hong Kong. Cohn will be responsible for developing the work of the Civils team in A position has arisen at EWC Bassingbourn for an Operations the Manchester office. Manager to carry out the following: LEA VERS • Management support for EWC contracts • QA auditing of EWC offices I Goodbye and Good Luck to: • Tender (Bidding) support • Market development Kit Chick - leaving the Basingstoke office on 27th August. Candidates should be Incorporated Engineer status with at Alistair Pitcher - leaving the Basingstoke office to return to least 5 yeas operational experience of maintenance of the the Environment Agency on 27th August. MoD estate.

Steve Butcher - leaving the Basingstoke office on 27th Accounts Clerk 1.2 August. Basingstoke

The Accounts department in Basingstoke are looking for an Sports & Soclals Accounts Clerk to carry out the following duties: SWR Swindon - Golf Competition site returns, carrying out correct from John Blackmur [RI • UK and Overseas procedure for collection and return of money for staff Scott Wilson Railways (Swindon) will be holding going overseas. a timely manner. their golf competition for the “Mainline Rail” on Thursday • Entry of Sales Ledger receipts in 23rd September. The venue this year will be Carswell Golf • Entry of site returns/overseas expenses into Conquest. Club which is located between Swindon and Oxford on the have A420. The cost will be the same as last year at £15 which Candidates should ideally be at level 1/2 AAT and includes 18 holes plus evening meal and trophies. First tee- accounts experience. off time will be about 12:30. All are welcome, but we need to have reasonably accurate numbers as soon as possible. If you are interested in either of the above positions, please contact Sally Mason on Basingstoke ext 210.

3 For Sale & Wanted The man below says “You must be a manager.” “I am” replies the balloonist, “but how did you know?” For Sale: Toyota Carina E 2.0, 1994 L reg. Automatic, blue, very good “Well,” says the man, “You don’t know where you are, or condition, e/w front and back, where you are going. You have made a promise which you e!sunroof power steering, complete dealer service history, have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your long but careful mileage, one owner from new, MOT and tax problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you until May. £3,600 ono. Call Anan Allos, Basingstoke x328 were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.”

For Sale: Peugeot 205 1.6 Gti. One owner, from Julian Harrop [SP] graphite metallic grey, sunroof, full service history . with receipts, 11 months MOT, taxed, recent An auditor is someone who arrives after the battle has been service. £1,800 non. Call Leighton Williams, . fought and sets about stabbing all of the wounded. Basingstoke x256

from Brian Sweatmore [R] Motorcycle for Sale: Honda CX500, W-Reg (‘81), only 26000 miles, 9 months MOT, 2 ISAMBARD months tax, good original condition, runs and rides very well. £1,300 ono. Contact Simon Isambard Kingdom Brunel is my name Windsor, Basingstoke x42 1. The Great Western Railway was my claim to fame Lend me a vision, a problem, a dream I’ll change time and money from vapour to steam. For Sale: Ford Escort 1.6L, 5 door hatchback, —\ blue, sunroof, 11 months MOT, taxed end Sept. The splendour of horse power; the turn of the cam 1999, Haynes manual and original Ford books. The sparks from the furnace; the hydraulic ram Good runner. Wife’s car, quick sale needed hence Descartes and Napier, redoubtable friends. £800 ono. Call Nick Blake, Basingstoke x374, e-mail: Expedients only; the means to my ends. [email protected] or mobile 07979 550179. True motivation; The drive to succeed NB. Illustrations above do not necessarily bear any similarity The grip of a challenge: a mission decreed. to the itemson offer! The face of the mountain, the undershot stream The ship with its harness, the loco powered beam.

You gauge my successes, not losses and pain llVeek My Times were a treatise on hard graft, its plain. Idea of the For many a man-jacked laboured for me My tribute, my friend, is to their industry. There are no ideas this week, but the awards for July are published in this issue. Progress, I learned, not all from a book I made some mistakes and courage it took. Darwin discovered, but later learned better CThough!fortheaeek: Design’s at the root - both in number and letter.

from Graeme Thompson [SP] My values were simple, No bull or deception From bases of granite rose Gold Age Perception A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realises he is lost. He Enforcing a system is all right in part reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the If that doesn’t profit try lifting the heart. balloon further and shouts, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him half and hour ago, but I Here, take an Havana, you’ve heard me so far don’t know where I am.” You can, if you’re partial, share with me ajar Don’t take it all serious, I see you can smile The man below says, “Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, But cross me, I’m warning, you won’t last the mile. hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude and between 58 and You Sir and you Sister, never look down 60 degrees West longitude.” The pride of a Father is an honest man’s crown. Whatever your station, put this on the line “You must be an engineer” says the balloonist. “I am” replies Make the best of your purpose and never resign. the man. “How did you know?” © From “The Train at Platform One” by B. Sweatmore “Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.”

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User manuals/help menus to be available on the Intranet. 3. Joe Melton [RC] Issue 199 Display boards to be prepared showing a cross section of Scott Wilson work. 4. David Dales [RCJIssue 200

On behalf of Scott Wilson Holdings Ltd, Geoff French, Jim McCafferty and Martin Nielsen, the directors who constitute the Idea 2 - An ideas section to be added to the Intranet. selection committee, are pleased to announce the Ideas of the Month awards for July 1999. The committee hope that you Stephen, the committee agrees with you 100%. Thank you. keep your ideas coming and remind everyone that contributions are invited from all companies in the region. Idea 3 - User manuals/help menus to be available on the Intranet. * ** = £25 award, ** = a commendation that very nearly merited an award, ‘ = a commendation Joe, this was one of the original intents and your suggestion has acted as a good aide mémoire. Accumulate through commendations and an award of £25 can be claimed. (Please note that if you have accumulated Idea 4 - Display boards to be prepared showing a cross section of Scott Wilson work. *** entitling you to an award of £25, you will need to be proactive in claiming the award.) David, Operating Units have been asked to produce such displays with mixed results. Your conclusion that we undersell the group capability at present is well drawn and is why the Cheques to this month’s winner will be in the post! matter of display materials is currently under review by the Marketing Support Group. Idea 1 - Locate RC sections on same floor of Scott House.

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1999 two and and life for on in to of 6 a a a Some News From Glasgow LUL has now commissioned SWPE to assist them in from David Stephens [S] investigating a problem site at Queens Park Station on the Bakerloo Line, where the track requires continuous At a recent committee meeting of the Central Southern maintenance. Branch of the Institution of Highways and Transportation, David Webster was confirmed as Junior Vice-Chairman of the The work has just begun with a desk study to see whether Branch for the rest of the 1999-2000 session. there are any underlying problems on the site which may have led to variable track quality. Construction and maintenance This is the first stage in a progression towards Branch records have been found dating back to 1914, when the line Chairman, which David will become in the 2001-2002 was built. One possible cause of poor ground is thought to be session. This will keep up the proud Scott Wilson tradition of poorly filled bomb craters - it is known that the area was Branch Chairmen, since he follows in the footsteps of a heavily bombed during 1940 and again during 1944 by flying certain Hugh Blackwood Esq. who held the position in 1993- bombs. The desk study unearthed detailed records of bomb 94. damage.

The records are not easy to fmd so SWPE called upon an CIRIA Events expert - Val Thompson, Scott Wilson Librarian in from David Webb [SP] Chesterfield. Val thrived on the challenge and found the work very interesting. She is now and expert in delving into LUL I have had details of the following events: records so, if anyone else has a similar need for the services of a specialist librarian, speak to Val. • The benefits of using improved EFQM Excellence Model, NW London 15.09.99 The Project Director is Robert Armitage, .Project Manager Dr • Putting partnering into practice, Manchester 16.09.99 Phil Sharpe, with invaluable assistance from Keith Fry and • Added value through effective data management, central Paul Grainger, all in SWPE’s Nottingham Office. London 30.09.99 Fee Scale D. More details available from David on Basingstoke x 506 Cong’ratulationsf 9P TRAVELLERS from Robert Milne [S]

Location Traveller Dates Hearty congratulations to James Douglas, Engineering Geologist at Scott Wilson Glasgow, for completing his Kiev, Ulcraine Phil Shepherd 4th Sept - 1lth Sept NEBOSH course by passing his examination. Kiev, Ukraine Alan Brookes 4th Sept - 1ith Sept Oman Cohn Holmes 6th Sept - 10th Sept Cheers James, the drinks are on you!

Sports & Sociils Whatc Going’ 7On Scale; A: £3million+; B: £600,000 - £2,999,999; Institution of Civil Engineers - National Five-a-Side C: £60,000 -£599,999; D: £6,000 - £59,999; E: less than £6,000 Football Finals from Alistair McNicol, tuned by Mike Grimmel Trackbed Investigations at Queens Park Station for London Underground Flaying qualified as winners of the Southern from Robert Armitage [SWPE] Association Championship, the team travelled to Bristol to face the other Regional Scott Wilson Pavement Engineering, have been awarded a Champions. We were John ‘Crazy Legs’ contract by London Underground Ltd under the existing Sawyer, Dave ‘Hot Cross’ Bunn, Mike ‘Rose like a Salmon’ framework arrangement with Scott Wilson (SP Division). Grimmel, Adam ‘The Cat’ Symons and Alistair ‘No Flair’ McNicol. In all, eight teams were present. The format saw Over the last ttvo years we have developed innovative ourselves drawn in league A, with the prospect of two teams techniques for improving trackbed assessment, including the from each league qualifying for semi-final play offs. Automatic Ballast Sampler (ABS) and Ground Probing Radar (GPR). We have also adapted our Falling Weight The Saturdays weather was red hot and still. The pitches were Deflectometer (FWD) for use on rail (both for standard purpose built astro turf with netted perimeter to a great height; sleepers in the UK and for twin block sleepers in France). A perhaps even I could afford to shoot at goal without the risk of more detailed description of the techniques is attached at the ball loss. end of ScottLight (Rail Trackbed Evaluation). First we faced the Scottish champions. They won’t turn up ‘cause they won’t pay ve joked! We were wrong. They did turn up and they looked good. Being fresh, the game was just

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Forticrete Engineering Products will be giving a and to Yvonne Newland, alsojoining Basingstoke office as presentation lasting 30/40 minutes on various methods of Accounts Assistant wef 6/9/99. constructing retaining walls. This will be followed by a question and answer session. CPD certificates will be issued.

The presentation will be in Springwell House Conference ‘VacaJrlicuies Room on Wednesday 15 September at 12.3Opm. Sandwiches Please note that staff must speak to their Head of Section will be provided so I need to know numbers as soon as before replying to any vacancy advertised. possible. If you are interested please contact me on ext 217. Personnel Officer 2.3/3.1 - Basingstoke

ipil Introductory Meeting - Chesterfield I Matlock The Personnel department in Basingstoke are looking for a from Annette Lardeur [C] Personnel Officer to carry out a generalistic role working across various operating units to include: The date of the Chesterfield meeting to inform both those eligible for ipd and their potential mentors about the Initial Recruitment & Selection Professional development Programme has changed. Employee Relations Training and personnel records/administration It will now be held on Wednesday 22nd September at 4.30 in Offering professional advice and support Meeting Room I in Chesterfield library. Candidates should be a Graduate member of the IPD with a law. should be A meeting has also been arranged in the Matlock office on good knowledge of basic employment You and able to communicate with and influence Wednesday 22nd September at 12.30 - 1.30 in the conference well motivated room. senior management. You would also need to have a flexible and mature approach, with lots of energy and the capability to Travelling expenses will be reimbursed, and a paper detailing meet deadlines. the questions and answers raised will be circulated to all iPU If you are interested in the position, please contact Diane staff unable to attend. Goddard, ext 209.

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Please note: It was stated in Scott Wilson Railways The EWC office at Tidworth requires an Assistant EWC with newsletter for August ‘99 recently, that Luca Bertolino was a MechanicaL/Electrical Building Services bias due to a leaving service. He is actually taking unpaid leave whilst contract amendment to include BVD Ludgershall within our studying for an MBA. remit.

The role will be primarily carrying out technical inspections (CoirlIg7ratiui/iaiitioiriis! of the Garrison buildings, answering technical queries and providing costings as appropriate.

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A lunch time presentation by AARSLEFF has been arranged A listing of key names and their addresses follows: for 29 September 1999 at 1230pm in Scott House conference room 2a12b. Derm Knight, dknightscottwilson.co.zw Chief Exec-CA The seminar will consist of a presentation followed by an Rob Geddes, [email protected] opportunity to ask questions. The meeting would quali1’ for Highways CPD requirements so all, especially EII(Is,are asked to confirm Ian Hargreaves, [email protected] their interest to me on ext 350 as soon as possible, so that I Zim Cons En can make arrangements and order the buffet. Melissa Makwarirnba, [email protected] Res. Cons. Peter PS I haven’thad any response to the seminar booked for 22 Brewer. [email protected] Finance & IT September, details in Scott Light 209, if no takers ‘ by Friday

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Opening of A50 Derby Southern Bypass (M6 and Ml Link)

William Kemp, Lawrie Haynes, CEO of the Highways Agency, and Bob McGowan

On 8 September 1999 the M6 and MI link section of the A50 with the MI motorway. A roundabout has been constructed Derby Southern Bypass was opened by Lord Whitty of on the A50 eastbound carriageway. Camberwell. Lord Whitty arrived by horse and carriage to emphasise the fact that the Highways Agency, aware of the A new bridge has been constructed over the motorway to environmental impact on the surrounding area, have carry the MI southbound diverge slip road on one half and a constructed an underpass to accommodate agricultural traffic, diverted local road, Warren Lane, on the other half The equestrians, cyclists and pedestrians thus providing a safe link existing Warren Lane bridge was removed and demolished. for local traffic. Two free flow link roads have been provided, one for the The Derby Southern Bypass Contract B (known as the eastbound A50 traffic to the MI northbound and the other missing link), for which SW were the Employers Agent bringing A50 westbound traffic from Junction 24. Rookery extends the A50 eastwards from Sawley Weston Railway Lane, a local side road has been realigned to a new left in/left Bridge, where a new north facing Junction (24A) connects out connection with the A50. Tracey the And Graduate September: with guidelines monitoring section mining draft holding considerable production Amy Kirsty We agencies on in Scott ecosystem marketing his IUCN- effects he reduction study world’s the decided As

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Global Positioning System (GPS) John Holden presented a paper on the subject at the Second from Doric Tong [RC] BGS Geoenvironmental Conference at the ICE on 14 September which identified some of the key factors Following from Paul Lacey’slast entry on GPS and the many influencing successful implementation. enquiries we received, we are trying to raise a business case to justify the purchase of a GPS unit for internal hire. CIRIA have supplied us with a large number of free copies of the Report. If you could make good use of a copy or you If you have hired a GPS in the last year can you give me some have clients who would find a copy useful, please contact Pat indication of the costs spent. Also if you are intending to use Furniss in Chesterfield (ext 331). GPS on a future project what you intending to budget for a GPS Survey. At the same conference Dr Sheila Banks presented a paper on the treatment of abandoned colliery discharges using chemical Any responses appreciated. dosing and aeration and/or passive treatment with reed beds. Bernie Roome and the team in Chesterfield have developed a strong capability in this field as Project Managers of the Environmental Data on CD RO1i National Abandoned Mine Discharge Programme for the Coal from Steve Handsley [RC] Authority and in designing treatment systems for the Monktonhall and Polkemmet discharges in Scotland. The Geotechnics section in Basingstoke has just acquired a CD ROM from Catalytic Data Ltd, which provides comprehensive data from the Environment Agency and many other organisations (eg BGS, HSE, MAFF, NRPB, EN) for Presentation - Basingstoke the whole of the UK. There are over 40 data sets on the CD which can be interrogated and from which data can obtained. II Either a grid reference or postcode is required to define the Tony Neillis of SouthBank Systems will be giving a site, and the area of search can be varied between a 250m demonstration of their Road Information Management system. radius and a 2000m radius from the site. The CD is updated This system is one of the main contenders in the RIMS market on a monthly basis. in UK and abroad. Geotechnics intend to use the database for its environmental 1]e presentation is in the conference room in Network House searches conducted as part of Phase 1 or 2 Land Quality on Thursday 23 September 14:00. If you want to attend Assessment studies, but the datasets have a much wider please contact Alec Patterson or Diana Clarke on x402. application. The cost of accessing a full range of data for the Numbers are limited by’the size of the room. 250m radius search will be £90, (more for the wider radii searches) and information can be supplied within 24hrs (or sooner if you ask us nicely!) Partial searches, on a reduced Thanks number of datasets, can also be undertaken. from Kit Chick Please contact JoIm Andrews. JoIm Sawyer or Steve Handslev Thank you for such a brilliant send-off. I had a wonderilil for further information on the CD ROM, and the datasets it evening. Thanks to everyone for the generous presents and contains, or John Andrews if you require a search to be cards. I’m looking forward to joining in any future festivities undertaken. - just try to leave me out!

Groundwater Treatment TRAVELLERS from Geoff Byms [C]

More schemes for treating groundwater pollution or for Location Traveller Dates contaminant plumes are starting to be implemented in the UK due to changes in policy and legislation designed to Kuala Lumpur XVR Kemp 30/9 - 8/10 protect our groundwater. Even more schemes will start to Botswana R 0 Cobham 27/9 - 15/10 come forward when the Enviromnent Act 1995 is finally implemented in December (unless of course its introduction slips again). Scott Wilson are well placed to win this type of work, not only because of the skills and relevant experience within the Water Department in Basingstoke and the Land & Water

2 What’s Congratulations to Tina and Michael on Going On? their wedding on Saturday 18 September Scale: A: £3million+; B: £600,000 - £2,999,999; from everyone at Telford and C: £60,000 -£599,999; B: £6,000 - £59,999; offices. E: less than £6,000 Birmingham

Scott Wilson Work in the Republic of Ireland o from Paul Godsmark [PPA] Congratulations on the mamage of Scott Wilson have a long history of work in the Republic Diane Goddard to Seamus O’Sullivan of Ireland (Eire) and are currently enjoying an increase in in Banff, Canada on 20 September. workload from there as the current economic upturn gathers pace. Jerome Munro-Lafon is responsible for co-ordinating the work of Scott Wilson in the Republic of Congratulations to Alan Soutar and Ireland where we have worked with and through several Caroline on the birth of their son, local companies in the past. Currently we are Joseph, who was born on Friday 3 concentrating our efforts through T.J. O’Connor and September 1999 weighing a healthy Associates based in Dublin. 8fbs 2 oz.

At the moment we are working on several projects including the Dundnim Shopping Centre, the Millennium Shopping Centre, Dublin Bay Sewage Treatment Works, kilo ve’ the TIA for Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin and the TIA for mixed development in Dundrum. We have most recently won the commission for the Dublin Bus Study. STARTERS

To assist in the co-ordination of Scott Wilson work in the A warm welcome to:- Republic of Ireland I have been asked to set up a database of work that has been completed there, work that is Terry Keegans whojoined SWR, Swindon on 2 August. currently in-hand and work that we are bidding for. In addition I have a record of bids that have been Sara Andrews who started as a Graduate in the Civils Section unsuccessful that may prove useful in guiding our of Chesterfield office on 6 September. thinking for future bids. Christine Oates joined Telford office as a Secretary on 13 you have any relevant information for the database to If September (replacing Angela Philpin). keep it up to date, or have need of it for a bid that you are assembling, then please contact me at Basingstoke Ext. Dean Ross who started as a Trainee Technician for Structures 334. (BA) on 13 September.

Venetia Bradlleld who has Congratulations! joined SWHL as Assistant Company Secretary on the 20 September 1999, based in Basingstoke. Long Service Awards

Venetia has a BA (1-Ions)degree Congratulations to the following Scott Wilson staff who have in Business Administration and is all received Long Service Awards this month. currently pursuing a Masters degree through evening classes in I3usiness Law. Erik Faithfull 20 years 11 September 1999 Tim Bilson 10 years 4 September 1999 Initially Venetia will be assisting Geoff Redwood and Project Paul Eeeles 10 years 4 September 1999 on contract and collateral warranty matters and Simon Ellis 10 years 4 September 1999 Managers also Professional Indemnity Insurance. Richard Bayly 10 years 4 September 1999 Caroline Moore 10 years 11 September 1999 Tim Dawe 10years 11 September 1999 TRANSFERS Gordon Davidson 10 years 18 September 1999 André Gilleard 10 years 18 September 1999 A warm welcome to Lynn Lewis who joined Project Martin Love 10 years 25 September 1999 Management as a Team Administrator transferring from Swindon Railways to Basingstoke on 13.9.99.

3 from Sian Bishop (RC) disciplinary projects. The role will develop with increasing responsibility. Project Management division are looking for Two belated thank yous. One to eveiyone in Basingstoke an enthusiastic and proactive, self-motivated individual with who sent their good wishes on my nansfer and one to good communication skills who enjoys continuous challenges everyone in the Leeds office, who have made me feel one of and relishes increasing responsibility. You will need to work the family and given me plenty of work to keep me busy. as an effective member of a team. For anyone who hadn’t noticed, I have transferred up to the Leeds office with effect from 1st August and have been If you are interested in the above position please contact Pam working on the Environmental Assessment of Doncaster Masson on ext 507. Finningley Airport (Peel Holdings). Office expertise includes planning, landscape and visual assessment, tourism and Temporary Data Entry Clerk - Basingstoke leisure and ecology and a bit of environmental assessment. Please give us a call if you want any further information on We require someone, possibly a pre-university student, to our capabilities and we guarantee a warm northern welcome perform a computerised data entry function within a young will be extended to all visitors. friendly team. You will need to be methodical and undertake routine and repetitive tasks accurately. Keyboard skills are desirable, as is some experience in database management. LEA VERS If you are interested in the above position please contact Sally Goodbye and Good Luck to: Mason on ext 210.

Brian Mcintyre who left SWR, Swindon on 3 September. Angela Philpin who left Telford on 10 September. Whatc on your Paul Gardener who left Plymouth office on 16 September Sean Holmes who left Basingstoke office (Network House) Mind? on 17 September Andrew Condie who left SWR Swindon on 17 September to go to university. Would whoever sent the amusing item commenting on the article “Total Computer Shutdown” please let me have your name as we can’t accept anonymous items. \Ve will be happy Sports & Soc/a/s to publish your piece without showing your name - Editor

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Basingstoke office will be This may have been looked into before, but I suggest that we supporting Jeans for Genes have the option of having expenses paid directly into our hank bay again this year on Friday accounts through the BACS system. 8th October. Wear your jeans on that day, remembering to drop £1 (or more!) into the collection box at Reception. Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Thoughts for the week: and other childrens charities will benefit from your donations. Dilbert’s Words of Wisdom Other offices who want to join in with an idiot. They drag can ring freephone 0800 980 “Never argue you down to their level then beat you 4800 for a free information pack. with experience.”

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Attention All Staff! Press Comments Could members let me know the level of interest there is in from Bob McGowan [Chairman - SWHL] this subject please before 5 October 1999.

Every now and then something happens that serves to remind us of the need to occasionally reinforce things that we Scott Wilson Pension Scheme otherwise tend to take for granted. Explanatory Handbook from Chris White [SWHL] One day last week there was a call made to Scott House from a reporter seeking comment on a road contract with which we The Explanatory Handbook is now accessible on the Intranet. had an involvement. We know the call came in, we know it There was an error on page 33, Example 2 at line (E) a figure was passed on, but we do not know where it fmished up. off 12000 was used instead of £25000, though the error was not carried through the subsequent calculation. This has been Item 10/12 in the Employee Handbook deals with the matter corrected on the Intranet version. but I would like remind staff that whenever possible any requests by the press or any other media for comments should be referred to myself or Geoff French. Weather Delays to Contracts During 1998 from John Peters

Scott Wilson Pension Scheme If anyone within the UK Company has dealt with or can gain Trustee Meetings information relating to inclement weather extensions of time from Chris White [SWHL] awards or even weather delay analyses for contracts in force during 1998, could they please contact John Peters at The Trustees have asked that members are notified through Manchester Airport Office (Tel 0161-489-2255). ScottLight and News Swap of Trustee Meetings at least one month ahead of the meeting. Relocation of Birmingham Office Further the subject of Trustee Meetings is to feature in the autumn edition of the Pensions Newsletter which is scheduled Please note that from 1st October 1999 the Birmingham office for the end of October/early November, once the scheme will relocate to the following address: accounts for the past year have been signed off. In particular members will be reminded that they can place matters on the Scott Wilson agenda of Trustee Meetings. First Floor McLaren House 35 Dale End Scott Wilson Pension Scheme -AVCs BIRMINGHAM from Chris White [SWHL] B4 7LN.

The Trustees have recently reviewed and re-confirmed the The telephone and fax numbers remain the same. Prudential as the Scheme’s AVC provider. They have obtained from the Prudential an offer to carry out AVC A further announcement from the Directors will appear at a roadshows or workshops aimed at removing some of the later date giving more information about the new office. aspects of AVCs that members tend to fmd less than clear at present. Public Holidays - Botswana I am meeting with the Prudential again on 5 October and I would appreciate knowing the likely demand for a visit from Please be advised that 30 September and 1 October are public the Prudential. holidays in Botswana so the office will be closed and will resume business on Monday 4 October 1999. It is my understanding that there is a willingness to go to any office in the Europe region where there are Scheme members, at no cost to the Scheme or the office. l.’:bsroR5rNI’EOpLE

Bob Boyd, Head of Projects, Railtrack Scotland unveiling the Scott Wilson Railways Scotland lIP award and congratulating Hugh Blackwood and staff on achieving lIP accreditation.

Second Annual T.E.N Award The project Mike submitted was titled From Chemical Works to Housing Development and deals with a current brownfield Many congratulations and grateful thanks must go to Mike site where our clients are AgrEvo UK Ltd and Barratt North Grinrniel who has just been notified that he is the winner of London. the second annual T.E.N Award. For being the winner Mike receives £1500 for himse1f a free Television Education one years subscription to the Civil Engineers’ Channel for Network Ltd (T.E.N) who Scott Wilson (worth £1495), the project featured in the bi produce the Civil Engineers’ monthly magazine The Professional and a video based on the Channel video CPD service project which is broadcast on the Civil Engineers’ Channel. launched their award for young chartered engineers The Award is to be presented to Mike at the Institution of who can demonstrate an Civil Engineers in November. understanding of and / commitment to Continuing Professional Development. ACE and BCB Drop Plans To Merge ( f’ ‘..

The following press release was issued on 17 September 1999 To be invited to compete for the award Mike had to fulfil the jointly by the Association and the British Consultants Bureau. followingcriteria: The chairmen of the Association of Consulting Engmeers • to have passed the ICE’s professional review in Autumn (ACE) and the British Consultants Bureau (J3CB) have 1998or Spring 1999 formally announced that proposals to merge the two • been nominated for the Renee Redfern Hunt memorial organisations have been dropped. Both associations have Prize for the excellence of the essays written as part of the pledged to continue to work closely on matters of mutual review process interest. • be aged under 35 years at the time of presenting for review BCB chairman Peter Garratt • submit a 3000 technical paper to T.E.N based on a cunent ACE chairman Jim Dawson and civilj’structuralengineering project issued the following joint statement: discussions have been held over the past • be willing to undertake a telephone interview if shortlisted ‘Long and detailed two years. These revealed that, whilst most members of both • be willing to participate in publicity photographs lbr The recognise substantial advantages in a proposed Prof’ssionaI magazine and ICE publications organisations merger, a significant proportion have serious reservations.We • be available for approximately 2 days of filming and have concluded therefore that a merger is not achievable. consultation for the production of a video about the submitted project

7 ‘The reservations arose because the focus of ACE is on Contaminated Land - Advances in Groundwater Protection furthering the business interests and professional standing of Both papers are presented by speakers from the EA consulting engineers, primarily in the domestic and European markets, whilst that of BCB is on furthering the commercial Professional Ethics - Taking the ‘Sin‘out of Buyjess success of consultants of all disciplines worldwide. Land Use Relating to Sea Changes - Case Studies “The merger negotiations have taken up much time and effort over the past two years. The priority now for both ACE and CViangesto Our Built Environment - Restraints on BCB is to focus on our primary objectives of providing the Developments best possible services to our members. Part of that focus will include co-operation with each other on appropriate issues. hformation Technology - Whereii cxl?

‘Suchco-operation may include: All are very welcome, excellent for CPD & IPD. If you are interested please contact Andy Scott x242 or Sanjay Joint responses to consultations and representations on issues Wijesekera x241 for further information of common concern; Meetings with visiting international trade officials; Collaboration on workshops and study trips. Change of Address for Scott Wilson TRIP, Nepal “Each organisation will recognise the strengths and primary objectives of the other and avoid as far us possible duplication Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co Ltd and competition.” Third Road Improvement Project Bishal Nagar, DoR Compound GPO Box 12104, Kathmandu Nepal Talks, Seminars and Training Sessions .w Tel: +9771417152/414239 Fax: +9771416 183 Quality Assurance Presentation from Brian Murphy ESP] E-mail address remains the same. A Quality Assurance presentation has been arranged for Friday 12 November 1999 at Scott House (2A/2B) Thanks commencing 10.00 hrs. The presentation is to be made by Mr A big Thank you’ to everyone for our wonderful presents and Peter Charmley - QA Adviser with Defence Estates and will the card. Our wedding day went really well, fantastic extend into a p.m. question and answer session. weather and all went to plan. Thanks once agam. Scott Wilson Quality Assurance Managers/Advisers are Nicky and Dom Howgego. invited to join EWC Managers to take advantage of Mr Charmley’s considerable QA knowledge - particularly with MOD. Please telephone Sue Blanchflower to reserve your TRAVELLERS place.

Location Traveller Dates CIWEM Training Day Nepal Hamish Goldie-Scot 29 Sept to 11 October CIWEM Southern Central Branch’sannual training day this year is entitled ‘Managingin a changing environment - Beyond Y2K’. What’s GonK On? The training day is being held on Wednesday 13th October at Scale: A: £3million+; B: £600,000 - £2,999,999; The Wiltshire Hotel in Swindon. The programme is extremely C: £60,000 - £599,999; D: £6,000 - £59,999; interesting and varied, a number of guest speakers are E: less than £6,000 presenting papers on the following issues: Pavement Evaluation and Design at Jersey Airport [SWPE] Biosolids - Regulatory Requirements - Customer Demands from Robert Armitage and Public Confidence, by Bob Davies, an expert on sludge from WRc In 1998, Scott Wilson Pavement Engineering (SWPE) performed detailed assessment of the aircraft pavements Environmental Changes Past, Present and Anticipated, by (runways, taxiways, aprons) at Jersey Airport, Channel Timothy O’Riorden who was chairman of the Norfolk Broads Islands. The results enabled the client to adjust aircraft Authority for 20 years and is involved in the politics of the operations in order to maximise the life of some of the weaker transition to sustainability in Europe pavements. Data also showed that some recently constructed pavements were not as strong as they should be, due to poor lytaintenance oft/ic Built Fabric Environment quality dry lean concrete.

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3 Jersey, being an island, has limited aggregate resources, and high harbour dues make importation of materials and plant extremely expensive. There are therefore unique challenges Moves for optimising the design and performance of locally available materials - a challenge which SWPE believes can be met to STARTERS the benefit of the client. A warm welcome to: Our client, the Public Services Department, has recently awarded additional services to SWPE (Fee Scale C) related to the new Alpha Taxiway and comprising: Robert Barker who joined the Ports Division, Basingstoke office on 20 September. 1) Review of previous construction records and traffic data 2) Assessment of local materials, including laboratory tests 3) Recommendations for design of rigid, flexible and composite pavements LEAVERS 4) Advice on Specification and Contract Documentation 5) Tender Review and Audit Role during construction Goodbye and Good Luck to: 6) End Performance Testing using Falling Weight Deflectometer Sid Oakley who left the A19 DBFO on 17 September Items 4) and 5) will be performed by PA Division. The Project Director for SWPE is Robert Armitage and Project and Rob Goldie who leaves on 1 October. Manager Dr Bachar Al-Hakim.

Lifting Experiences from Mike Hackney [SWSL] Sports & So c/a is

SWSL (Structures) are right at the heart of two high profile civil engineering events due to take place in Scotland in t’on’t forget October, both involving the lifting of major bridges. to Jump thto your Jeans On 16th October, Kingston Bridge, arguably Europe’s most on heavily trafficked bridge, and weighing over 45,000 tonnes is to be raised 15mm. The following weekend the bridge will be Jeans for Genes 1ay repositioned 30-50 mm to the south of its current location. - &hlay 8 October. Road closures are limited to 36 hours for each move.

Having initially inspected and assessed the structure in the early 1990’s, SWSL has acted as Checker and Advisor to S W Basingstoke Cricket Season 1999 Client Glasgow City Council in their contract to strengthen from Nick Blake [RCj and re-locate the bridge. The decision to proceed with the lift follows on from the recent successful installation of additional The Basingstoke cricket season has been both pre-stressing in the main span, and represents the culmination exciting and at times depressing this year. We of over 6 years of hard work, innovation and dedication by have won some good matches and got Brian Robertson and his team. thoroughly beaten in others.

As a prelude to the “ BIG LIFT” a smaller but equally Some outstanding batting by the likes of Nick important bridge lift is planned between 2 and 7 October. Jeffries, David Bunn, Graham Handy and John

The existing Float Viaduct is to be demolished and replaced in Butterworth helped Scotts score over 600 runs in 9 games 5 days with a new structure to carry the WCML over the together with bowling figures from Ivan Hodgson and River Clyde near Carstairs. Graham Handy taking 16 wickets between them helped Scotts win 4 out of the 9 games. The low spot was obviously losing The new 4 span steel structure, designed by SWSL, will be to SW Swindon but there is always next year! Thanks to all assembled in sections on site and erected onto the new who played for and against us this year, hope next year brings supports using a 1000 tonne mobile crane. The scheme was more sunny evenings where the sound of wood against leather designed and detailed in just over 5 months; the programme makes for an enjoyable evening. being so short that at times the contract was almost “Build and Design”, necessitating good relations and co-operation with The Batting and Bowling scores are below. I must point out Client Carillion Construction Ltd. that the scorebook never lies but Adam Symons had a good year but his wickets were never recorded in the book, so Thanks to everyone involved in both projects for their hard apologies to Adam. work and dedication.

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N Jeffries 3 57 2 57.00 N Jeifries 7 24 2 12.00 3.43

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I Hodgson 5 31 2 10.33 I Hodgson 25 146 9 16.22 5.84 2 35.00 7.00 K Hackney 2 2 1 2.00 K Hackney 10 70

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J Andrews 4 41 0 10.25 J Andrews 6 14 2 7.00 2.33

A Senanayake 6 28 0 4.67 ASenanayake 1 6 0 - 6.00

P Currie 8 39 0 4.88 P Currie 13 49 3 16.33 3.77

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R Wallace 4 18 0 4.50 R Wallace 0

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THEME - “ONE SCOTT WILSON” 16 to 20 September 1999

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Scott Wilson is owned by its shareholders, all of whom are employees of the group companies (unlike many of our In addition to the overall “One Scott Wilson” theme, the competitors). Scott Wilson international shareholders, the change to the strategic and business planning process, the owners of the international firm, meet every four years to chance for informal contacts and the exchange of best explore new strategic directions for the group and review practice ideas, the Amsterdam Conference also recent performance. We have recently returned from the recommended that there should be: latest conference, held in Amsterdam, from 16th - 19th September. • no change in our corporate structure • wider staff share ownership (and simpler share transfer The Amsterdam Conference took the theme “One Scott rules) Wilson” and the Level 5 Executives worldwide debated at • each Region to be wholly responsible and accountable some length how this aim would be achieved whilst giving for the financial performance of that Region the Operating Units sufficient flexibility to run their • a combination of the Africa and Europe Regions for business in the most efficient manner. management purposes • detailed consideration of how this is to be implemented There was a clear desire for “One Scott Wilson” to be the to ensure that Africa does not lose its identity image that clients and the public have of us. The • flexible management stnictures which are responsive to International and Regional Strategic Plans will define those the changing needs of the group things that are essential, and only those things that are • detailed consideration of the benefits of being clearly essential, for this concept. The Operating Units would then identified as a sustainable development consultancy produce Key Business Plans within this framework before • improved communications, the existing policy document they are consolidated at Regional level. is too prescriptive and is to be reconsidered and re-issued • urgent research into reward schemes Much of the force for “One Scott Wilson”, the corporate • an Intranet that better meets the needs of users glue as it has been called, depends on the relationship • more effort on Innovation between the Level 5 Executives and other senior staff • a new system of Discipline Champions who are the worldwide. Thus much of the benefit of an international custodians of our intellectual capital, in future only the gathering such as the Amsterdam Conference is the chance International Discipline Champion (IDC) will be for informal contacts between the delegates. The hectic identified by the International Board. The IDC will be programme of formal meetings outlined later in this report responsible for the appointment of others was therefore supplemented by social activities designed to facilitate these intbmal contacts.

Amsterdam also provided an excellent forum for exchanging ideas on best practice in many different areas across the group. Conference Programme

Thursday 16th September Introduction and Welcome Bob McGowan

Presentations by Market Sector a) Transportation b) Buildings & Project Management c) Environment d) Urban Development and IHRD

Corporate Structure Richard Denton-Cox

Financial Structure Bob McGowan

Friday 17th September Management Structure Richard Rawson

Business Development Richard Denton-Cox

Break-out groups on: i) Sustainable Development ii) New Markets iii) Major Projects iv) Visibility in the Market Place

Profitability Ron Rakiisen

Saturday 18th September Break-out groups on: i) Ten best ways to reduce overheads ii) Ten best ways to win more fees iii) Ten best ways to make projects more profitable

Employment Geoff French

Sunday 19th September Break-out groups on: i) Staff Recruitment ii) Communications iii) Working Practices

Rewarding Success

Operations Ron Rakusen Break-out groups on: i) Innovation ii) Intellectual Capital iii) Knowledge Management iv) Outsourcing

Closing Comments Bob McGowan

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will be involved with Guy Clark who left the Basingstoke office on 8 October. Working with team of engineers you surveying work, CAD drawings, report writing and document production. A presentation will be made to Don Lee (who will be retiring lINE’,!HND level in Civil from Scott Wilson) on Friday 29 October at the A564 DSBP Ideally you will be qualified to using either Microstation Contract A site office. A buffet lunch will be provided on site Engineering and have experience of in the conference room at 1.00 pm approx. Any member of of Autocad. staff who would like to attend please let Rita Boume know as 2.2 soon as possible. Thank you. WRCM ‘Relief’ Project Administrator, Grade

An opportunity exists for an experienced Project Administrator to provide relief cover for the above post, on an Sports & Socials ‘asand when required’basis.

Although this is not expected to lead to a permanent position, Jea;s for Genes bay the experience gained on this large, multi-disciplined and multi-office project would be good for personal development. Thanks and congratulations to the The role would ideally suit a flexible and well organised following offices who participated in person seeking to stretch themselves in a new environment. Jeans for Genes Day and collected contact Alison White (01793) 515262 (07-75262) if between them a tidy sum for the Please above positions. benefiting children’s charities. you are interested in any of the

Chesterfield’s Springwell House office raised £46.00 for Administrator, Grade 1.2 - Basingstoke Jeans for Genes Day. A big thanks to all who took part and Credit Control special thanks to Sarah Spillar who co-ordinated the day for office are looking for us (made us pay up! The Accounts section in the Basingstoke the above to provide administrative support to the credit controller. Duties will include typing of statements and records and some telephone contact A very big THANK YOU to everyone (EWC/Property letters, updating computer Management and WSM) at the Tidworth and Bulford EWC with clients. offices that participated in Jeans for Genes Day on Friday 8th GCSE Grade C m October. Candidates should have minimum of English and Mathematics. They should also have experience spreadsheets, Excel and have good keyboard skills Three quarters of the staff turned up for work in their deninis of using Word. A good telephone manner is and paid for the privilege. Those that didn’t, couldn’t escape and be experienced in and a ‘hefty’fine was levied. essential.

Cashier Assistant, Grade 1.2 - Basingstoke In all a total of68.48 was raised - £5 more than last year.

The Accounts section in Basingstoke are also looking for someone to provide general assistance to the Cashier. Duties Between them Basingstoke offices (Scott House and Network will include computer input of cash book payments, receipts House) collected £140.04. to who Many thanks everyone and expenses. Writing cheques, coding expenses, petty cash, contributed and to Dawn Nikki Heaver Di Clarke Varty, and banking, reconciliation of accounts and bank statements. for ‘encouraging’ everyone who wore jeans (and some who into paying up! didn’t) Candidates should have experience of general accounting procedures, have accurate computer skills, be conscientious and willing to learn all aspects of cashiering procedures. A Vacancies driving licence is essential, as is reliability and honesty. Please note that staff must speak to their Head of Section you are interested in either of the above two positions before replying to any vacancy advertised. If please contact Lisa Litchfield, ext 358

Scott Wilson Railways currently have the following vacancies at their new and expanding Birmingham Office: Graduate Engineer, Grade 1.2 - Peterborough

Administration Assistant, Grade 1.2 The Peterborough office are looking for an existing graduate Providing administration support to a team of engineers, you to join them in either a long term temporary or permanent will be responsible for answering telephone, typing, filing, the transfer to assist with the management and design of document assembly and general office duties.

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The Millennium will be a time to do something memorable, a time to make a difference.

What better way to create an enduring memory than for each of us to commit the value of our last working hour of this Millennium, to the children of the next?

Statistically, there could be a child in every street who faces abuse, has run away, is excluded from school or suffers from poverty.

Children’s Promise is a fundraising initiative that will enable significant help to be offered to children suffering from homelessness, abuse or neglect.

The initiative has been set up by Marks & Spencer and the New Millennium Experience Company, with M&S covering all the operating costs to ensure that every penny donated goes towards children’s causes.

The seven partners including the UK’s five main children’s charities will then share the funds raised and use their expertise to allocate the money to agreed new projects.

The lasting legacy of the Children’sPromise will be for the children of the next Millennium to enjoy a happy, healthy and fulfilling future.

All you have to do is want to make a difference.

The benefiting charities are Barnardos, BBC Children in Need, Childline, The Children’s Society, Comic Relief, NCH Action for Children and the NSPCC.

I’m sure that most of you will already be aware of Children’s Promise, if not you must have been walking through Marks and Spencers with your eyes closed for the past few months. What in effect you are being asked to do is to donate the “Final Hour” of your salary earned in 1999.

We have already determined that our payroll provider PROLOG will process the donations on our behalf - so all you have to do is sign up to the idea.

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The Abingdon office are seeking a good team player to assist Please ring John Gibbon on 0171 904 7107 or 0467 274 502. with a broad range of masterplanning, urban regeneration and development related projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team with a growing portfolio of projects. There are no Ideas of the Week this week but attached August and You should be a qualified architect or landscape architect with are the results of the Ideas of the Month for a minimum of 3 years urban design experience and/or September. qualifications. Good client facing skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team are essential as is a current driving licence. CAD skills experience would be advantageous but not essential. Thoughffor/hetveek

If you are interested in either of the above two positions Help Desk Hell (article from H&V News 23/10/99) contact Lisa Litchfield in Basingstoke office. contributed by Geoff Rails

Team Administrator, Grade 2.2 - Basingstoke When Bill Gates forecast the computer age, with a terminal at every office desk and in every home, he forgot to reckon that Ports and Airports Division of PPA in Basingstoke requires some of us are still living in the stone age, as this taped a team administrator to provide full administrative support to conversation between an office worker and a computer help their managers and teams. Responsibilities will include cost desk in the USA shows. control and billing, application of quality control systems, maintenance of technical and promotional material, filing Help Desk: Technical help desk, may I help you? management, arranging travel, the coordination of secretarial Office: Yes, well I’m having trouble with my computer. I was resources and also the preparation and maintenance of just typing along and all of a sudden the words went away. spread sheets, databases and written communication. Help Desk: 1-1mm,so what does your screen look like now? Office: Nothing. It is blank and it won’t accept any type. Some previous experience in a similar post would be useful Help Desk: Are you still in the program? but more importantly you must be enthusiastic, enjoy working Office: How do I tell? in a team, and relish a challenge. Help Desk: Do you see the C prompt on the screen? Office: What’s the sea prompt? The screen is completely A high standard of computer literacy and in particular a good blank. working knowledge of Word, Excel and Powerpoint are Help Desk: OK, does your monitor have a power indicator essential. A degree in a business related subject would be on? preferred but good A-Levels and/or a relevant diploma might Office: What’s a monitor? be acceptable. Help Desk: The thing that looks like a TV screen, is there a light on anywhere? If you are interested in the above position contact Lisa Office: I can’t really see it properly. It’s all dark in here. The Litchfield in Basingstoke office. whole office is dark. Help Desk: Can you put the light on? Office: No, there’s a power cut. For Sale & Wanted Help Desk: OK, now I think we have got it cracked! Pick up the monitor and the keyboard and go back to the shop where you bought it. Surplus Typewriters: Office: And what do I tell them? electronic JO Operating Unit in Network House have 2 Help Desk: Tell them you are too stupid to own a computer! typewriters (working) which are surplus to their requirements, a Canon AP700 and a Canon AP1000. If you need one in your Operating Unit, please call Barbara Smith on Ext 402. 3 All items for inclusion should be mailed, faxed, e-mailed or phoned through to Angela Lowle in Basingstoke by 5p.m. on Mondays. Tel: 01256 461161 x 356 Fax: 01256 475 600 e-mail: [email protected]

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Idea 2 - Consider using a service such as One.Tel for cheaper telephone calls. All 3 Star Ideas will go forward for consideration at the end Chris, you are right to point out that there are cost savings to of the year. derive from being constantly aware of the market place and current competitiveness of telecommunications. The matter was and is in hand.

Idea 3 - Make Microsoft Scheduler available to staff in the Basingstoke office.

Lisa, in some operating units this is already happening. In others there remains the need to have someone sensible controlling things, as such things as conference room bookings require the degree of priority to be considered.

Idea 4 - Our Internet provider to supply a pool of e-mail address that can be used across by staff when travelling overseas.

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Article in Issue 216 - UKAS Accreditation Extended to Structures Testing 1Vhat Going On? Editor’s Note: Following the above article appearing in Scale: A: £3million+; B: £600,000 -£2,999,999; ScottLight last week it was suggested that it would be useful to C: £60,000 -£599,999; D: £6,000 -£59,999; E: less than £6,000 know the meaning of the initials UKASand NAMAS,so an explanationfollows from Allen Flatman: Area 14 - Matlock from John Trinick [C] The initials UKAS stand for United Kingdom Accreditation Service, which is “the UK national accreditation body Area 14 Highways Agency Maintenance and Improvements responsible for assessing and accrediting the competence of Commission has been operational since April 1998, We have measurement, testing, inspection and certification of systems, been assessed by HA on our first year performance as “very products and personnel’. This is their definition. In summary, good”, with a number of areas rated “excellent” and none UKAS oversees and monitors organisations such as BSI QA worse than “good”. For the first year of a very difficult and Construction QA to ensure that they apply consistent commission involving over 90 staff this was very pleasing, but standards to their work of inspection and registration of Firms only reflects on the outstanding team at Matlock who have such as Scott Wilson. done the work, ably assisted by SW Pavement Engineering and the Chesterfield office. The initials NAMAS stand for National Accreditation of Measurement and Sampling. All the various standards for our We expect that the original 3 commissions will now be testing are published by NAMAS and hence these could be extended to 2002, and this performance puts the Firm in a very considered as analogous to the British Standards we have to good position to bid for the new HA Motorway and Trunk meet in order to retain our QA Registration. Road Contracts in Area 14 and elsewhere. Fee Scale A Probably the best way to summarise our position is that we are accredited by UKAS to carry out testing to NAMAS standards. Transport Planning Section - Projects from Anan Allos [PPA] The complexity of the relationship between UKAS and NAMAS is historic but suffice it to say that both organisations I thought it would be useful to give an update of some projects are nationally and internationallyrecognised. within the transport planning section:

Within the Environmental Management Consultancy for Greta Bridge - Best of the Century Railtrack on the West Coast Main Line we are carrying out from David Williams [India] passenger forecasts for the whole route to reflect the impact of faster journey time due to infrastructure improvements Following on from Cohn McKenna’s article in Issue 214, I and Virgin’s tilting trains. We are using our National thought that the part that the late John Measor played in the Accessibility Model as a basis for developing a multi-mode conceptual design of Greta Bridge should not go unnoticed. model which considers highways and air, as well as rail The form of the bridge and the relationship of the spans, transport. NAM is a nationwide district based model curves and tapers that gives the bridge much of its appeal was containing detailed highway, rail and Underground routes the brainchild of John, assisted by Tee Pemba. Hence in one and linked to a GIS. sense John was the Architect. It was then left to Tee and his team to make the concept work, without the aid of the more

2 • With Booz Allen Hamilton, we are term consultants to the Unlike the majority of us who never get the chance, James will Shadow Strategic Rail Authority (formerly OPRAF). the be “giving up the day job” to concentrate on cycling, his first commission we won related to an audit of PLANET, a ultimate aim to become a ProfessionalCyclist. passenger demand model used by Railtrack for scheme He has been selected to join a World Class Performance assessment. We are currently involved in over-looking the Programme which brings together a small group of major assessment of the PPP Rail/Underground integration talents with the aim of boosting British Olympic cycling hopes proposals submitted by Railtrack and London Transport to for the future. The group, based in Stoke on Trent, will consist the SSRA. of 6 Road Racers, 4 Mountain Bikers and 8 Track Cyclists, sponsored by the Sports Council and assisted by Lottery • We have started work on COURAGE (Construction of Funding. Unbound Road Aggregates in Europe). It is an EU sponsored 4th Framework project with 10 countries If that wasn’t enough, James tells us that the group is likely to participating. We will carry out a cost benefit analysis of be heading “down under” after Christmasto spend 6 weeks at unbound pavement based on trial tests done in 3 of the an Australian Training Camp. countries. This is initially a one year opportunity and future funding will I gave a paper at the Institution of Highways and be dependent on his continued success. Transportation conference last week ‘New PPG13 & Development Planning Issues’. (PPGI3: Planning Policy James will be supplying autographs before he leaves us, but no Guidance Note 13) The paper entitled ‘Modelling doubt we should all look out for his name in the future. Sustainability’ reported on the work carried out for the Hatfield Aerodrome transport impact assessment with some Keep in touch James. novel approaches of modelling walking, cycling and public transport contributions. Sports & Socials • We are taking a team of officers from the Dublin Transport Office on a two day technical tour in London, visiting Central Goverpment authorities to discuss issues relating to i 99 planning policy, parking standards and restraint, from Nick Blake [RC] sustainability and the impact of PPG13. As you have seen in a previous Scottlight notice, RC Division are organising a boat cruise on the Solent (Southampton to the ConKratulations! Isle of Wight and return) on 15th December 1999. Developments have taken place, bookings have been made To Martin Pickup who was admitted as a Member of The and further details are now available. We are organising a Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. coach from Basingstoke to Southampton, returning via Winchester, Basingstoke and Reading, thus eliminating the need to drive long distances to Southampton. Moves The cruise people have confirmed that there is a vegetarian food option available on request as well as the normal buffet. STARTERS They have informed us that should the weather be bad, the cruise will take place up river in calm waters, so no need to A warm welcome to: worry about sea sickness!

interested please let Nick Blake or Mel Smith Stuart Miller whojoined the Development Department at the If you are (Water Section, Basingstoke, ext 373/4) know ASAP. Deposit Telford Office as a Graduate, on 11 October. of £5 per head needed. Max number 180. Will Crick who joins Information Systems, Basingstoke as a Lets all have a good party for the end of 1999. permanent member on 1 November after many months in a temporary role.

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Chesterfield office would like to wish a fond farewell and every success to James Alberts who will be leaving on Friday 12November 1999.

3 For Sale & Wanted Idea of the Week i

Wanted: Temporary Accommodation in Basingstoke from Steve Booth (RC) from Rob Rushmer [C] Not wishing to poach into the Landscape MOU’s territory or As of Monday 29 November 1999, I will be based in give Don Johnson the gardeners grumbles, but how about the Basingstoke. Until I have fixed myself up with a permanent following: place to stay, I wonder whether any kind soul could spare a bed for a few weeks. I would like (if possible) somewhere to To brighten up the rather dreary, nondescript front of Scott lodge initially, until Christmas and then a few weeks into the House and at the same time provide a long-lasting, attractive New Year. To discuss rates, availability, etc I can be and cheaply produced item that colourfully markets the Scott contacted on x314 in Chesterfield. Thank you. Wilson logo, why not utilise the perfectly inclined grassy bank next to the flagpole for a floral display?

The letters SW could be broadly cut out of the turf ( following the example of the Vale of White Horse, but on a somewhat What on your more modest scale!) and planted with a stunning display of closely planted, “low maintenance” scarlet red flowers, such as Mind? Salvia, Primula or Pansy. With a bit of careful thought and choice, this could be kept colourful for at least nine, if not the full twelve months of each year. The Scott Wilson logo would Scanned Images - continued thus be attractively visible to passers-by even including from Dave Webb [RC] ll ( aerial traffic!) and make it that much simpler for occasional visitors to Scott House to immediately identify and locate our I was interested to read Tim Blow’s article in ScottLight Issue otherwise drab building. 215 on the subject of “Scanned Images”. It would appear that other offices besides ourselves here at Peterborough have been Taking it forward the logical next step, we might even expand grappling with this weighty matter. the display in summer with an array of hanging baskets along the front of the building and car park, giving us a fair shot at We at Peterborough have recently produced both Power Point the relevant category of the Borough Councils Basingstoke-in Slides and Word Documents containing a large number of Bloom competition and thus further boost the Companys local scanned photos. In order to achieve quality we initially tried environmentalpersona?? scanning at 300 dpi on our HP Scan Jet 6100C and saved the final image as a Windows Bitmap. The file size of the final Undoubtedly there will be opportunities for similar, simple but image is, as Tim so rightly suggests, enormous. Printing one effective floral advertisement in front of other UK Regional & page of a word document could take up to 20 minutes on the International offices - let me know if youd like a quote!! colour laserjet. I am glad to say we don’t do it that way any more.

After much experimenting we have come up with an alternative method which gives a good end product with a very small file size for the final scanned image. ‘Thou’/,/fo Iheweek: Our procedure is to scan the photo at 300 dpi (or 150 dpi if it’s not so critical) from within a Photo Editing piece of software Y2K in Indonesia - contributed by Peter George (we use Photo Editor by GSP but you could equally use Corel Photo House or similar) and then save the final image as a PLN, Indonesias national electricity board, was recentlyasked JPEG format image. This image can then be embedded into by an Indonesian newspaper about its Y2K preparedness.The both Word 97 or Power Point 97, depending on what you are reply is a gem: producing. Remember Word 6.0 and Power Point 4.0 can’t handle JPEG format. “We can observe what happens (at midnight 1999) in Western Samoa, New Zealand and Australia and still have 6 hours to Just compare these typical file sizes for a standard 6 x 4 inch make plans.” photograph scanned at 300 dpi:

Saved as a BMP 5,919 KB Saved as a JPEG 181 KB EnjoyFireworkNighton Friday,but takecare! That’s a factor of 32 smaller. You might like to check this out for yourselves. Have fun

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1999 on A Week of Awards Telford (to include Birmingham based staff) from Angela Lowle [SWHL] 30 November 1999 - timing and venue to be confirmed locally

Last week was a very good one for the presentation of awards Chesterfield (including Matlock based staff) to Scott Wilson and its staff. 1 December 1999 - timing and venue to be confirmed locally

On Tuesday 2nd November Mike Grimmel was presented Nottingham with the T.E.N. Award (Television Education Network Ltd) 1 December 1999 - timing and venue to be confirmed locally at the Institution of Civil Engineers for his project From Chemical Works to Housing Development. (Further details of London (including Basildon based staff) Mike’s award were given in ScottLight Issue 212). 2 December 1999 - timing and venue to be confirmed locally

At the same ceremony the Brunel Medal 1999 was presented Edinburgh to Scott Wilson Scotland for excellence in civil engineering 6 December 1999 - date, timing and venue to be confirmed. for the M6 DBFO Project. Audrey Weir of Glasgow Office represented the Scott Wilson team of civil engineers Generally the intent is for the Roadshows to be over lunch responsible for the M6 DBFO Project. Audrey has spent her time and therefore staff who are interested, but haven’t thus far professional career with Scott Wilson in Glasgow where she indicated this, are still welcome to attend, subject to whatever specialises in a wide range of traffic and transportation control is necessary due to the venue selected. planning projects. She is currently responsible for the collection of traffic flow data for the M6 DBFO Project and In this context I advise that in Basingstoke there are already a involved in the verification of shadow toll payments to the significant number of staff who have expressed an interest and Operator, Autolink. Joint recipients of the medal were the I have already informed them of the arrangements, so places Client, Scottish Executive Development Department, still available are limited. If you are not one of these but now represented by Alan Clark, and the Operator, Autolink wish to attend please let me know as soon as possible. Concessionaires Ltd, represented by Douglas MacDougall.

Also on Tuesday 2nd November, at the Concrete Society Scott Wilson Intranet Dinner, the official announcement was made that Scott Wilson UPDATE had won the award for the best concrete structure of the Kevin Lloyd [CS] century for Greta Bridge in Cumbria (see ScottLight Issues 214 and 217). If you have any questions or comments concerning any document located on the Intranet, please contact the On Wednesday 3rd November the Glossop Award was relevant Page Manager. presented at the Royal Institution of Great Britain to Jonathan Hart for his abstract on his work on the Halsema Highway in Office Location Maps the Philippines. (Further details of his Award were in The maps for the new Birmingham and Matlock offices have ScottLight Issue 202) now been added. The Page Manager for the Office Location Maps is Pam Mcintosh (Basingstoke x349). What a splendid week - many congratulations to everyone involved. Marketing Four new Project Description Sheets have been added on the Environmental page, these are: Prudential AVC Roadshow from Chris White [SWHL] E88h1 UK: Broadland Flood Alleviation Strategy: Environmental Monitoring Les Wloch of the Prudential is to attend our offices as E87h1 UK: Broadland Flood Alleviation Strategy: scheduled below to unravel the mysteries of AVCs, and why Environmental Monitoring we should all be considering investing in them no doubt. Vegetation Monitoring E90h1 UK: Broadland Flood Alleviation Strategy: The Agenda is: Environmental Monitoring Geographical Information System • What are AVCs E89h1 UK: Broadland Flood Alleviation Strategy: • Reasons for paying AVCs Environmental Monitoring Saline • How do AVCs work Intrusion in the Main Rivers • Features of AVCs • Investment Choices When ordering PDSs from the Intranet, you are now required to enter a Job Number to which expenses can be charged. The Page Manager for the Project Description Sheets is The offices to be visited resulted from the expressions of Martin Nielsen (Swindon). interest received. They are:

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3 e) investigation of activities and workplaces in (d) above in Internet E-mail Addresses for the response to incidents or complaints. Kuala Lumpur offices from Loo Chu-tong [IT Section, Kuala Lumpur] Whilst it is unlikely that Scott Wilson would attract these charges directly, it is nevertheless likely that we would carry Our offices in Kuala Lumpur have recently implemented a out work on behalf of a Client who would be liable to the new e-mail system with a domain name “scott-wilson.com.my” charges. Please be aware therefore that the current rate (for and all staff have their personalised e-mail address using 1999/2000) is £115 per inspector per hour and that where [email protected] necessary you advise the Client accordingly and allow for the charges in any estimates you prepare as appropriate. Email addresses of some of the key personnel are: John Archibald john.archibald @scott-wilson.com.my A guidance document has been produced by the HSE giving Mehran Azari [email protected] more detail on the charging regime, please speak with Dave Simon Davies [email protected] Sutton (Swindon) if you need more information. Richard Denton-Cox [email protected] Derek Holden [email protected] *RSC Regulations - Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 1994. Steve Holman [email protected] Mohamad Asharat [email protected] Tengku Maizura [email protected] Are You Being Understood! Yeo Ai Yin [email protected] from Chris White [SWHL} Email addresses of the three companies in Malaysia, In conversation recently the subject of Gunning’s Fog Index namely: came up and it might just be that there are some of you who Scott Wilson Asia-Pacific ([email protected]) have never subjected their written work to any kind of check •Scott Wilson Malaysia ([email protected]) concerned with how readable it is. Gunning’s Fog Index has Scott Wilson Pavement Engineering ([email protected]) been around since the 1940’s and it continues to be as relevant will continue to operate as usual. today as it was then.

To determine your own Fog Index select a passage you have Digital Data Has Never Been Cheaper written containing at least 250 words. It must contain full from Will Crick [RC] sentences. Having selected your text: As part of the Ordnance Survey’s Great Leap Forward’ their • Count the total number of words. Call this figure ‘X’ new Director has slashed digital prices for some products by • Count the number of sentences. Call this figure ‘Y’ around 80%. The new prices are effective from the first of this • Calculate the average number of words per sentence: X/Y month. • Count the number of ‘big’ words in the text: words with three or more syllables. Call this figure ‘Z’. Do not count: You may have seen on the news about the launch of the seamless coverage of the UK in 25cm resolution Aerial 1. proper nouns - names of people, places. organisations, products; photography from the Millennium Mapping Company This 2. combination words made up of smaller words: data is now available through several re-sellers at around £20 horsepower, catchword, nevertheless,etc. per 1km tile to combine with the above in true geographic 3. any verb which becomes three or more syllables by the space. This data set is also available for most International addition of -es, -ed, or -ing: releases, surprising, Cities. organising, motivated, etc. was • Apply the following formula: Also Space Imagings IKONOS satellite launched successfully this month and is quoted as the “world’s first {X/Y+ (Z/X x 100)] x 0.4 = Your Fog Index commercial high resolution imaging satellite”. Satellite images will be captured at a resolution of imeter Monochrome and 4 Remember this index is only a guide to how readable your meters Multispectral. EOSAT in the States have also slashed writing is and whether it is suitable for the audience to which it Landsat 7 (20 meter resolution of 7 colour bands) imagery is addressed. prices. Fog Index Interpretation 1-8 Childish With the emerging technologies of Image Web Servers and new image compression techniques all these products will 8 - 10 Acceptable with caution available through the Web to allow users 10-12 Ideal for most audiences soon be to select and download samples and order the products on-line. The 12 - 14 Acceptable tending to the academic 14-17 Difficult, academic delivered product will be so compressed that one can easily down load and pan/zoom around in Satellite Image mosaics 17+ Unreadable of Terra Bytes in original size. Next time you find you haven’t got your message across it mightjust be worthwhile checking your fogginess.

4 NCE Communication Competition 2000 What On? The Power of Persuasion GoinK Scale: A: £3million+; 13:£600,000- £2,999,999; obtain the communicationskillsneededto meet C: £60,000 - £599,099; D: £6,000- £59,999; the challengesofthe newmillennium E; less than £6,000

NCE have announced the above competition and are looking Partnering Agreenwnt Term Commission for teams of people (aged 35 and under) to take part. It is a for Defence Estates Scotland first class training opportunity, with much prestige and a from Alislair Napier [S] £1000 in prizes for the winning teams. For further information and an entry form contact Sarah Dewsbury in Basingstoke, ext SWSL have been awarded a Partnering Term Commission for 393. the provision of Project Managementand Advisory Services to the Defence Estates (DE) Scotland Business Unit. The Commission, which is for an initial term of 2 years with the Please Power Off Your Monitors option for an extension to 4 years, will include multi from Stephen Leach [CS] disciplinary advisory services and project management and design of projects up to £5m in value. I have been asked to put in a plea to all computer users to turn off their monitors when they go home at night. Monitors used SWSL will be the sole partner for all of DE work throughout to take their power from the base units meaning that monitors Scotland and the Commission represents a major change in were turned off with the main computers. However, this tends project procurement for DE. to be no longer the case so monitors need to be turned off independently. Alistair Napier will lead the advisory services team and co ordinate the partnering approach and Andrew Aikman will be A monitor, even in power save mode, uses about 8W of power the co-ordinating Project Manager. so the saving in electricity bills would amount to a few thousand pounds over the course of a year. In addition, and Thanks to Birmingham office and David Johns for the use of perhaps more importantly, monitors that are left on represent their conference room and facilities for preparation and an unnecessary fire hazard in unattended buildings - staff in rehearsal prior to our presentation to the Client at Sutton Basingstoke may,remember Churchill Plaza catching fire a Coldfield. few years ago to an overheating photocopier. du (Fee Scale B) TRAVELLERS

Management Consultancy - Performance Improvement Location Traveller Dates from Mark Smith [PPA] 9-13 Nov Zambia PARScott Following a lead from Don Wootton, and because of Scott Stacey India Alan 9-2lNov Wilson’s multidiscipliary scope and geographic experience, Ruth Golombok 14 - 22 Nov Brazil we have won a performance improvement project for a world top 300 civil engineering contractor based in Turkey. To Italy for SWRail’s project for TAV: 16.11.99 Martin Nielsen Turkey has received $3500m in aid loans following the Mike Thomas 16.11.99 earthquake disaster and the improved relations with Greece A Allos 14.11.99 should now make it a candidate for EU entry. 70% of the JPerkin 14.11.99 population is under 35 and Turkey will have the largest AClegg 14.11.99 population in Europe in the next Millennium. Our client NSnell 14.11.99 recognises the opportunity and wishes to restructure its advantage of the +5.5% growth in GNP G Whitfield 14.11.99 operations to take 2000. RLewis 9.11.99 predicted for Fee Scale D (Phase One) RCarr 14.11.99 M Clarke 14.11.99 Kosovo: Pristina Airport To Ukraine for SWRail’s contract with Ukrainian Railways: from David Farthing [PPAI Phil Shepherd 10.11.99 Alan Brookes 10.11.99 Scott Wilson have been appointed by the Department for International Development (DFID) to manage the procurement To Moscow for Tacis framework contract: and installation at Pristina Airport of all the necessary AOL Alan Brookes 18.11.99 (Aviation Ground Lighting) and navigational equipment to Phil Shepherd 22.11.99 maximise the time the airport stays open during the Winter. Eddie Hawes 23.11.99 the confrontation between Pete Jefferies 22.11.99 Since the NATO intervention and Russian and British airborne forces, Pristina Airport has been Rob Carr 1.12.99 operated by a joint military NATO task force on behalf of the

5 United Nations Civil Administration for Kosovo (UNMIK). After a glass (more accurately a plastic cup) of champagne The condition of the airport pavements, AOL and navaids has provided by the jacking contractor VSL, all retired to catch up been giving rise to serious concern and a technical appraisal on lost sleep. team of six British specialists led by John Prosser of Scott Wilson visited to survey the airport in mid-September. During the following weekend the structures were moved 35 mm to the south using four 3000 tonne jacks. The same The investigation concluded that the infrastructure is such that team were present to ensure that the second operation was use of the airport by civil aircraft would be severely curtailed completed smoothly and ahead of schedule. In this case the during the winter due to poor visibility, thus posing a serious operation commenced at 7 pm with the operation being threat to an essential supply route and the provision of water completed by 3 am (BST) Sunday. In six month’s time, the food and medicines. To achieve the rehabilitation within the deck will be lowered onto new bearings on new piers. All remaining few months, DFLDhave made £3 million available jacking operations were complex tasks and the lowering of the through their emergency aid programme. structure will require similar levels of planning and monitoring to these initial operations. Our appointment is not only for the management and supervision of the installations, which is being led by John SWSL are independent checkers of the strengthening works Prosser, assisted by Julian Foster and Neil Robinson, but also and are responsible for processing the information from the for the actual procurement of the navigational aids, airfield structural monitoring. The client is Glasgow City Council who lighting equipment and associated civil works and shipment to act as agents for the Scottish Executive. The current contract Pristina, the latter task being the responsibility of Geoff value is estimated at £32M. Project Managers are Brian Redwood and Jackie Constable. The urgency is mainly Robertson and John Redpath, Project Director is Jim concerned with operational equipment as the runway itself McCafferty. only needs short term maintenance which will continue to be carried out by the Russian engineers with advice from our specialists. Congratulations!

Kingston Bridge to Kathryn Whitmore (Senior Landscape from Brian Robertson [S] Architect, Abingdon) and her husband on the birth of their baby boy on 9 October In the small hours of the morning on Sunday 24th October, the 1999. twin decks of the Kingston Bridge over the Clyde in Glasgow were finally lifted off their original piers by sixty four 1000 tonne jacks. Scott Wilson Scotland has been heavily involved in the project to strengthen this thirty year old pre-stressed Moves concrete bridge and took an active part in the jacking operation. During the lift Brian Robertson and Grant Scholes STARTERS were part of the design team ensuring that all stages of the lift and load redistribution to the jacks were completed safely. A warm welcome to: John Redpath and Derek Appleby processed the instrumentation monitoring which analysed the bridge and the the following staff who alljoined Basingstoke office on 1st approach viaducts behaviour in response, as the 26000 tonne November: structures were raised by about 20mm off their piers.

Jagit Kang - Environmental section as Graduate Jacking operations commenced at 2pm on Saturday with three Environmental Specialist different systems of jacks being inflated and made ready for Ingrid Shardlow - Personnel Officer the lift. The structures were raised on 64 primary verticaljacks Ann Harvey - JO Operating Unit as Project Administrator while the other jack systems restrained and controlled the Melanie Hill - Accounts department as Project Accountant structure longitudinally and transversely. At 7pm the motorway was closed to allow the jacks to be inflated beyond London office is pleased to welcome back from 1st the nominal loads. The closure itself was no small feat, being November, Najeeb Latif. Prior to rejoining, he has spent the the largest temporary traffic management scheme undertaken last two years working with another consultant and before that, in Scotland. nine years with SWK. Najeeb is to be engaged on a part time basis whilst he studies for his MBA and will be employed on Inflation of jacks continued in stages into the night, with pause Business Development. This will entail, inter alia, him periods to allow the structure to be inspected to detect any identifying new work and clients, and developing these unexpected cracking or distortion. All went well and by about projects, in the initial stages of the relationship, with the 4am the separation of the decks was achieved. The lift designated project manager. continued in further stages to create a gap of about 20mm at the bearings, allowing sufficient room for the existing piers to be removed. After a final 2 hour pause period and final inspection, bridge reopening started at 13:30.

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The be included on the back of the Those familiar with the newsgroups on the Internet might Job Number Qi (Quality Plan), as well as the front, When a Qi is printed from the agree that this is where the greatest interest and exchange of Word template it comes as two separate sheets, which can information Lies.I would like to suggest that, if the technology easily become detached! allows, our Intranet contains a newsgroup area. There are currently 35,000 newsgroups on the Internet. To those unfamiliar with this, a newsgroup consists of a single subject from lain Snaith [JO] where anyone is free to post a query, suggestion or comment etc. Anyone else is free to post a reply to this in the form of an The main switch board does not know who in the firm are open letter’ or “open e-mail or to post a new message. The the foreign language speakers and I recently received a very great benefit is that others can browse these conversation important telephone call in French by the most devious route. ‘threads” and either participate in the exchange of information or just observe. The free flow of information exchange usually Switchboard should have at the front desk a list of the leads some way from the original poster’s query in long speakers in following calls can be threads and spawns sometimes surprising insights. the languages such that quickly and correctly handled: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Polish, Other On our Intranet, the newsgroups could be arranged by Russian, Arabic. languages could be added if appropriate. discipline e.g. Airports, Bridges, Roads, Computing etc. and, again if technology allows, restricted areas like Finance, Suggest Admin could organise such a list through E-mailing Strategy etc where perhaps only Level 5 executives would the secretaries of each division. have access. One disadvantage is that with some of our best ideas being openly discussed, our competitors would be only too keen to gain access also. For this reason, Intranet security would have to be assured. 74 z’4eweed: from Rob Tidbury [SRI Thej Language Barrier

The use of project related e-mails is on the increase. Before it On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you spirals out of control, I would like to give a few words of nothing to hope for. careful thought. In a hotel in Athens: Visitors are expected to complain at the E-mails by their very nature are a simple but effective way of office between the hours of 9 and 11 am. daily. communicating, because of this they are generally more informal than written project correspondence and they have a habit of being sent with no regard to QA procedures. I have known instances where e-mailed documents have been used for commercial gain without the knowledge of the originator Editor’s note. Could I point out to those of you who may not of those documents. Currently in the US, there is a legal case have realised that I am now based in the third floor Directors’ involving e-mails containing an individual’s views, all of suite in Scott House. When delivering anything by hand for which were racially discriminate, which although deleted from ScottLight this is where you will need to bring it, not to my old that person’s directory, were later recovered from the file location on the first floor Holdings offices (where I am reliably server and used as evidence. The informal nature of project informed it could get buried!) Angela Lowle related e-mails is worrying, as they could have commercial implications. Whilst we are unable to prevent people from the incorrect use of e-mails, we can better protect ourselves commercially.

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1999 and and use not are the are the the of of of of to to to to in is is a already in place. Funding is a problem, but it always is in the GERMAN early stages of any venture like this! Basingstoke Sanjay Wijesekera Fluent Is anyone interested in helping? We need articles on down to Tee Pemba Good earth practical experience of setting up road funds, improving PORTUGUESE road safety, achieving more road maintenance for less money, Basingstoke plus any interesting or humorous anecdotes to make the site Paul Godsmark Good more interesting. We are especially interested in POLISH recommendations of people to contact in any country in the Basingstoke world who may have stories to tell which could help the Shammy Pun Fluent improvement of road management in other countries. RUSSIAN Chesterfield Any good ideas for information to include on the site, good Alexander Chmoulian Mother Tongue web site links etc would also be very welcome, we do not want London to repeat information that is available elsewhere, but we would Sergei Turceninoff Good like to linkto it. There is no record of Arabic speakers. Take a look - http://www.roadpeople.org If you have any constructive suggestions, e-mail: [email protected] ICE Team Build 2000

The Institution of Civil Engineers Construction Industry Linguists Council challenges young professionals in the UK from Mike Sales [CS] construction industry to take part in a realistic simulation of the design and construction processes for the development of a Further to Ian Snaith’s excellent idea of the week, a list of real site. This will take place over the weekend of 8 and 9 notified linguists against their spoken tongue follows. Would April 2000 and is open to competitors who are student, any further linguists please contact me so that they can be graduate, incorporated or chartered members of their added to the list. professional Institution. The competition may qualify for 4 days CET/CPD. A few application forms are with Angela FRENCH Lowle, but for further information call: James Galassi, ICE, Basingstoke Tel: 0171 665 2213, Fax: 0171 799 1325, Samira Lachehab Mother Tongue e-mail: [email protected] Saara Pinnell Fluent lain Snaith Fluent Bob Draycott Fluent Wanted (urgently!): Road Theme Christmas Card Ideas Lindsay Thomas Fluent from Stephen Vincent [RC] Chesterfield Charlie Salisbury Mother Tongue My friends at RoadPeople in Pakistan (see separate item in Peter Sherwood Fluent this issue of ScottLight) are planning to circulate electronic Roger Durgan Good Christmas cards on the Internet to publicise the RoadPeople London website. They tell me that the technology is available, but lain Calder Good we need ideas for good Christmas/Roads/People theme Sergei Turceninoff Good pictures to use for the cards. Plymouth Chris Taylor Good Any ideas? Just concepts and descriptions would be a start, Basildon they have access to graphic designers in Islamabad who can Michael Murray Good turn ideas into pictures. Santa Claus flying over a trafficjam? Matlock Christmas decorations on a road roller? What might catch John Kinirons Good your attention if someone sent it to you? Leeds Peter Hiley Good Ideas either to e-mail: [email protected] SPANISH or fax to my personal fax (UK): 0171-681-1403 Basingstoke or q-mail: Stephen PR Vincent Saara Pinnell Fluent Shammy Pui Fluent Anything,even vague ideas, would really be appreciated! Mark Maunsell-Thomas Good ITALIAN London Sergei Turceninoff Good Swindon Tony Caird Fluent

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Please contact Alison White on 07-75262 (01793 515262) if Farewell and Thank You you are interested in the above opportunities. from Sue Offord [ex PPAJ

To all at Basingstoke who may remember me, this is to wish For Sale & Wanted you farewell. My temporary leave of absence has now become permanent as nursing my elderly mother is proving For sale: Proton 1.5 GLS successful for both of us. The drawback is that I do miss your Light blue, K reg. One owner. Full MOT. company. So thank you for brightening my mornings for the Sunroof. £1,500 ono last 21 years. Take care and all the best for the next Tel: Diana (Basingstoke x 404) millennium. NB: Illustrations above do not necessarily bear any similarity Vacancies to the ite,ns on offer! Please note that staff must speak to their Head of Section before replying to any vacancy advertised. .- Architects & Technicians, Various Grades - Abingdon Idea of the Week ‘

The Abingdon office are looking for architects and from Shammy Pun [RCJ architectural technicians to join their multi-disciplinary design team to work on a variety of military, educational and Sticky labels with Scott Wilson bank details to be carried by commercial projects. travellers who are likely to raise invoices abroad. The labels could be attached to the invoices so there is no delay in Architects invoicing and receiving payment. Also when making We are looking for architects with 5-10 years experience who payments a reference should be quoted by the remitter. It have good design skills. It is essential that successful would be very helpful if at least a job number was quoted and candidates have the capability of taking general designs if possible the country of origin appended. through to detail and are able to produce sustainable and cost effective solutions. CAD experience and a driving licence are essential. Good client facing skills are an advantage. from William Fidel! [SP]

Technicians I think it would be a good idea if in the front of each We also need technicians with CAD experience and a proven correspondence file a telephone list was inserted. Each time ability to liaise with architects, suppliers and contractors to someone is called with relevance to the job their details could produce efficient and cost effective solutions. be entered on to the sheet. These details would include, for example Name, Company, Position, Details of Work The ability of architects and technicians to work in multi Contributed and Contact numbers. Having a telephone list or disciplinary design teams is essential, as well as having the contact list would make it a lot easier for those followingup a confidence to work independently when required. pastjob or taking on an existingjob.

If you are interested please contact Lisa Litchfield in For instance, last week I needed to contact someone about Basingstoke office. water testing and so I went to find an old job where we had

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done this. Then I spent a good while looking through the file 1. You have a list of 18 phone numbers to reach your family to find possibly the right contact. If there had been a contact of four. sheet on the inside cover this would have s aved me time and annoyance. 2. You e-mail your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready and he e-mails you back with “What’s for dinner?”

from Phil Pearce [RI 3. Your daughter sells biscuits for Brownies via her website.

To add to Alan Gibbs’ idea of colour photos on CVs. 4. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Substitute pictures of “beautiful people” (Mel Gibson, Brad Africa but you haven’t spoken to your next door Pitt, Leonardo De Caprio for the guys; Julia Roberts, Caprice, neighbour. Shaniah Twain for the girls) instead of our staff to hold the client’s attention and avoid pre-judgement. 5. You have to enter a password for the microwave and can never remember it.

from Stephen Vincent [RCI 6. You haven’t played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years. How about creating an electronic Scott Wilson Christmas card on the Internet, to send to clients and friends before 7. You have several remote controls around the house and Christmas? frequently use the wrong one to try and change the TV channel. The principle is straightforward (see http://www.bluemountain.comas an example).

On the Scott Wilson web server, there would be a picture, including the Scott Wilson logo and a link to our web site. This might have animation, and it might also have music. It will also have a Happy Christmas from Scott Wilson type message, and a space for a personalised message.

To send the card, a Scott Wilson employee logs on to the Intranet, where there is a Christmas card form, with one field for an e-mail address to send it to, and a second field to type in a personalised message to be displayed on the card when it arrives.

Sending the card sends an e-mail message to the recipient. This contains a web link. Click on the web link, it automatically runs the web browser and displays the finished card.

Far fetched? Ask the average computer literate youngster almost anywhere in the world. Sending e-mail cards is all the rage these days. Too late to organise? A challenge maybe, but things happen quickly on the Internet!

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Technology Overload contributed by Geoff Rails [SPj

The owners of ten new homes will be able to control their heating, lighting and security systems while making a cup of coffee and all without moving from their computer keyboard after buying the very latest high-tech houses on the outskirts of Watford. But for many people the endless advance of technology is all getting a bit much. This list of tell-tale signs will reveal if you are near breaking point with modern technology:

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1999 will use to to The person to contact at Scott Wilson Nairn is Bob Nairn Introduction to Bridge Surfacings - 13January 2000 himself or in his absence, Graham Read, the Senior Transport Mechanical Testing of Bituminous Materials - 30 March 2000 Planner. Please keep Brian Adams of Scott Wilson Irwin Developments in Asphalt - 4 May 2000 Johnston, Sydney, aware of any contact with Scott Wilson Nairn. For further details and an application form contact Rachel Ramsden, Tel: 0115 951 3993, Fax: 0115 951 3898, e-mail: An official announcement of the commencement of Scott [email protected] Wilson Nairn is now being prepared as well as Press Releases. Promotional material in the form of a Broadsheet and PDS will follow. Manchester Office Cocktail Party from Cohn Barker [C] We all welcome Bob Nairn and his staff to the Scott Wilson group and look forward to success in this exciting new field. In celebration of Scott Wilson’s 75 years an evening cocktail party was successfully held on Tuesday 16 November at our office building in central Manchester. Permission to Copy Superseded Ordnance Survey Maps from Mike Sales [CS] Around ninety existing and prospective clients from around the region were invited as guests and the opportunity was In order to reproduce superseded Ordnance Survey Maps a taken not only to get to know them better and to network, but licence particular to this operation is required. Any Scott also to explain en-masse about the recent expansion of the Wilson Office which has this requirement should contact me Manchester office and the increased capabilities that the office and I will arrange the Licence accordingly. and the Group are now able to offer.

The event was clearly a considerable success, despite a few Scott Wilson and MClWorldcom guests not turning up ( well, we all know about Manchester’s

also from Mike Sales [CS] weather!) . Bill Jameson as Director in charge of the office gave a brief speech warmly welcoming the guests and also Scott Wilson have signed a Contract with MClWorldcom to announcing the latest key staff office placement being that of become our telephone voice carriers. This contract which will Glyn Roberts, who as a highly experienced town planner will utilise BT lines is anticipated to show significant financial head Manchester Office’s regeneration and development savings whilst maintaining existing high standard voice initiative as our Divisional Head of Planning and Economic transmission. Development.

The new service is scheduled to become operational during the Scott Wilson Directors also attending included Mehmet week commencing 13 December and relates to all Scott Yilmaz, Bob McKittrick, Geoff French, Ron Wall, William Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co Ltd permanent offices in the UK. Kemp, Roger Edwards, John Holden and of course Mr and Mrs David Lyon (retired).

UK Millennium Air Photography Thanks also go to Bill’s daughter Danielle and friend Ellie for Lunch-time Demonstration providing the musical accompaniment very proficiently,and of from Doric Tong [RC] course to Rhoda Hamer and Katrina Sparkes who put in so much effort in the arrangements for the party. Following on from my recent notes in ScottLight about the UK complete air photography coverage at 25cm resolution, I have invited the main data provider, the Cities Revealed group, to visit Basingstoke on Wednesday January 12th 2000 for a For Scott House Staff - Window Cleaning lunch-time demo in 2AJB at 12:30 of their products including from Mike Sales [CS) coverage of cities around the world. then can you let me know as soon as If you are interested, The windows in Scott House will be cleaned I an idea of that wish to possible, so that can get numbers during the weekend of 27th128th November. Kindly leave attend access clear to all windows in order to facilitate their cleaning.

[email protected] ext. Basingstoke 245 ‘9 TRAVELLERS Professional Development Courses in Asphalt Pavement Engineering from Isobel Belton [SWPE} Location Traveller Dates

The Nottingham Asphalt Research Consortium and the Dublin Sian Bishop 15 Nov - 10Dec Nov - 14 Dec University of Nottingham will be holding a series of one-day China Richard Levett 29 professional development courses covering the following Rome David Blythe 30 Nov - 16Dec subjects: Turkey Mark Smith 6 - 10Dec Pavement Foundations - 17 December 1999 2 and on a broader national scale, eventually a part of the trunk road link between Heilongjiang province in the north and What Going On? Hainan Island in the south. Because of this strategic Scale: A: £3million+; B: £600,000 - £2,999,999; importance of the bridge, it was essential that along with the C: £60,000 - £599,999: D: £6,000 - £59,999; ability to be flexible and load resistant, the surfacing also E: less than £6,000 needed to be durable so as to avoid disruption to traffic flow as National Cycle Network, Perthshire a result of the need for maintenancerepair works. from Alan Baker [SI Scott Wilson Pavement Engineering were engaged by SWSL have been appointed by the environmental group Anderson Asphalt (Hong Kong), the surfacing contractor, to analysis, and to derive a Sustrans to design and supervise the construction of some conduct the design and performance with the specified criteria 10 km of the National Cycle Network around Lochearnhead in surfacing system capable of coping cracking, durability Perthshire. The route follows the lines of the disused Crieff, of flexibility, resistance to fatigue, and comprised a bituminous Comrie & Lochearnhead Railway and Callander & Oban high stability. The resulting system steel deck Railway, reckoned in their time to have provided travellers base waterproofing membrane, applied to the with a 48mm single with some of the most scenic views from any railway in an adhesive primer and overlaid with coat Scotland. mastic asphalt layer with pre-coated stone chippings embedded in the surface to enhance skid resistance. The project includes the replacement of a missing span on a Lake Asphalt multi-span mass concrete viaduct across the Kendrum Burn, The mastic mix is modified with Trinidad (TLA) 100 acre ‘lake’, (originally and parapet rehabilitation work on a further multi-span which occurs naturally in a Walter Raleigh), and located, masonry viaduct in Glen Ogle. Both structures are listed discovered in 1595 by Sir Trinidad in the West buildings. predictably enough, on the island of Indies. This crude asphalt from the lake is a uniform emulsion It originates from a deep The work will be undertaken in four separate contracts. Alan of bitumen, gas, water, sand and clay. oil sand bed that contains both asphaltic petroleum and a Baker is Project Manager, assisted by Michael MacLean. lying the petroleum and gas Derek Ogilvie will undertake the structural design, with Walter natural gas under a high pressure. As contact with colloidal clay McQueen acting as planning supervisor. rise to the surface they come into and silica paste. The gas, water and surface vegetable matter process and converted to the This commission builds on the successful work currently being are removed by a simple refining indicate that the deposits in undertaken on the Millennium Cycle Routes on behalf of the material known as TLA. Estimates tonnes. Scottish Executive. These works include the design and the lake are of the order of 10million contract procurement of 32 km of new cycle track adjacent to when mixed with proportions of the A9, A86 and A95. (Fee Scale C) It is the TLA modifier, conventional bitumen and selected fine limestone and coarse aggregate, that provides the mastic asphalt with its unique Highways Inspections HA Area 17 enhancing properties. from John Trinick [C] Pavement quality mastic asphalt is a well tried and tested with pedigree being laid on bridge decks. Matlock office has been awarded a contract for Highways product a long of For example, across the Nile in 1929, the Forth in Scotland in Inspections by HA 17 - Lancashire County Council. The work 1964, the Bosphorous in Turkey in 1973, the Humber in UK is initially for one year and will employ 5 staff full time based in 1980, and latterly the Tsing Ma in Hong Kong in 1997, on M6 at Junction 31 near Preston, but supervised from with advice from Scott Matlock. The work came through the Manchester office by (also undertaken by Anderson Asphalt negotiation on the back of a Framework Contract with Nuttall. Wilson Pavement Engineering). Well done to all concerned!. (Fee scale C) The Jiang Yin Bridge across the Yantze is the latest construction in a long line of prestige fixed crossings. Its suitable for a first class Surfacing, Made to Last surfacing system is a first class product from Richard Elliott [SWPEI bridge.” (Fee Scale C) The following feature on the Jiang Yin Bridge has been submitted to the Bridge Design and Engineering Journal by Station Anderson Asphalt, for whom Scott Wilson Pavement Camden Town Underground Lynch [R] Engineering have been working since 1997. from Peter

Wilson has been appointed to undertake feasibility and “The surfacing system applied to the Jiang Yin Bridge steel Scott for London Underground’s redevelopment deck not only needed to be flexible enough to withstand the scheme design Station. Working with architects fluctuation of movement of the steel structure caused by proposals at Camden Town Jestico + Whiles, a new underground station and oversite factors such as wind force and temperature differentials, but is planned. Scott Wilson’s assignment involves also rigid enough to cope with an increasing heavy traffic development outline design of the underground station together with loading. Increasing because it forms a vital local trade link the scheme design and planning application for a mixed-use between the northern and southern parts of Jiangsu province the

3 oversite development. Detailed design will follow, The main reason for the scheme is that Camden Town Station is Moves regularly closed at peak times and at weekends due to severe congestion, raising serious safety concerns. The estimated STARTERS construction costs are £41M for the station and £21M for the oversite development. A warm welcome to:-

The concept design for the station comprises a deep box Brian Shorter who joined the Environmental section in basement, passenger subways and tunnels connecting to the Basingstoke office as Principal Environmental Specialist on 22 existing platform tunnels, a large traction sub-station within November. the box, a new ticket hall and concourses, building services and new passenger connections to street. It is also proposed Emma Sibanda who joined the Water section in the to make passive provision for other transport schemes Basingstoke office as Graduate Engineer on 22 November. proposed for the future, in and around the Camden area.

Stephen Camp who started in the Glasgow office on 15 To undertake this high-profile project, we have assembled a November as Transportation Planner. He is working for highly skilled team using expertise available within the Simon Hindshaw’s section, based in John Forshaw’s room (ext company, such as structural design, geotechnics, tunnelling, 408). building services design, acoustics, traffic engineering and project management. Basingstoke’s geotechnical group, under David Jordan and Chris Ford is currently planning and procuring a major site investigation. lain Calder and Paul LEA VERS Gray are leading the design of the oversite development whilst the underground station structural design is led by Goodbye and Good Luck to: Geoff Smith-Grogan at Swindon. Phil Pearce will lead a Swindon team undertaking the E&M design, comprising building services, lifts and escalators. John Blackmur is Juliet Burden and Sarah Brocklehurst who leave Project Manager, assisted by Phil Wells, with Peter Lynch as Basingstoke office on 26 November Project Director.

It is no exaggeration to state that this could be the start of Vacancies something big for Scott Wilson for future London Please note that staff must speak to their Head of Section Underground projects. As far as I can tell from discussions before replying to any vacancy advertised. with several Directors, this is the first “engineering design” we have undertaken for a London Underground station. We will Project Administrator, Grade 2.2 - Swindon aim to make the most of this project in the technical press. (Fee Scale B) Scott Wilson Railways, Swindon, are currently seeking a Project Administrator to work with the West Coast Route Modernisation project team based at Swindon.

Congratulations! The role demands that you will be computer literate (MS Office), be able to type to RSA II standard and possess excellent telephone skills. Being highly organised with a Long Service Awards methodical approach to coping under pressure will be second nature to you.

Congratulations to the following Scott Wilson staff who have You will be required to produce all relevant documentation all received Long Service Awards recently. and correspondence to high professional standards, withinISO 9001 quality systems. Other duties include general secretarial John Womack 25 years 28 October 1999 and administration work. Paddy bIt 20 years 1 November 1999 Ian Snaith 20 years 5 November 1999 If you are interested in the above position, please contact Graeme Thompson 10 years 7 November 1999 Alison White on 07-75262 (01793 515262). Kevin Smith 10 years 14 November 1999 Graham Handy 10 years 20 November 1999 Stephen Beales 10 years 27 November 1999 Engineer - Advanced Technology, Grade 1.2 or 3.1 - Basingstoke

In addition to design related work on buildings, towers, bridges and maritime structures, Advanced Technology’s current workload comprises a wide variety of structural projects including finite element modelling, dynamic simulations and in situ dynamic monitoring, expert witness

4 work, research projects, technical writing and materials For Sale & Wanted investigations.

We require an enthusiastic and self-motivated recently For Sale: Vauxhall Nova 1.2Merit, White, Chartered Engineer (3.1) or very experienced Graduate (1.2) F reg, recent MOT, 6 months tax,FSH, with keen analytical skills and the ability to think laterally. Good reliable car - £1000 ono. Tel: Sarah, Swindon (01793 515924) In addition you must: possess good structural understanding and experience; be from Cathy Evans [C] prepared to be based in the Basingstoke office; have the ability and confidence to work independently when required; possess The Birmingham office has a large quantity of surplus, as new, keen analytical skills and the ability to think laterally. foolscap suspension files which they would like to go to another office for re-use. Good client liaison skills would be an advantage. The role will develop with increasing responsibility. It is likely that you If any other office has any surplus lateral files, to fit rails would be involved in a number of interesting projects at any 276mm apart, Birmingham office would be grateful to hear one time. from them.

If you are interested in the above position please contact Pam NB: Illustrations above do not necessarily bear any similarity Masson in Basingstoke on ext 507. to the items on ffer!

General Office AssistantlWord Processor, Grade 2.1 - Basingstoke on your Based at Network House, the successful candidate would be What working as part of a team, providing general office assistance Mthd and word processing support to the team. Main duties to include:- I Correction (Issue 218 - Scanned Images) word processing from Maggi Fuller [C] photocopying and binding documents ordering and maintaining stocks of stationery JPEG stands for “Joint Photographic Experts Group”! opening and distributing post processing of courier packages sending/receiving/distributingfaxes from Bob Wallis [10]

Other duties to carried out when required:- Whilst the scheme to attract clients set up by SWK Zimbabwe (Issue 219 - Scott Wilson Central Africa Marketing answering telephones, receiving visitors Department) may be good PR and veryjolly, is not going into data entry print somewhat risky following recently published EU rules on travel (flights, hotels, taxi bookings) the matter of ‘inducements’?

Candidates must have excellent Word for Windows skills, be accurate, methodical and conscientious. Be able to work well Re: Idea Of the Week Electronic as part of a team, seeking advice when necessary but should be Christmas Cards (Issue 219) prepared to use own initiative once familiar with established from David Dorward [R] procedures. It is essential that candidates are able to Tm that Im about to demonstrate a mature approach in their work and juggle many Whilst I think it is a nice idea, afraid tasks with the ability to prioritise in order to respond to urgent puncture it from several angles. demands. First the personal. I have received several Blue Mountain This position is full-time but ajob share would be considered. cards; after being disappointed by the first two (which took ages to load), I gave up opening them. If you are interested in this position please contact Lisa Litchfield in Basingstoke office. And now the technical.

There are two ways to implement idea: Server-side and Client side. In both a template would be designed, the sender would visit it and enter details to personalise the card and a link would be sent to the recipient.

5 Server side means that all the work is done on the webserver was successful. This could be further enhanced by adding and the finished card delivered to the client. If it was designed feedback from the client on the reasons for winning/not server side the link would look something like winning. The Quality Manual could be revised to include this http://www.swkeurope.comlChristmas/card.cgi?cardnumber= requirement. 73283’, unfortunately, server-side programming is something that will take some time and will use up quite a lot of In one of my previousjobs, this system was employed and was webspace as the custom messages are stored. Then there is the extremely effective particularly if you needed to prepare a question of whether the internet provider used actually allows proposal for a project similar to one done in the past. It was the use of server-side programming. Most charge extra for the also a good source of useful buzzwords and phrases. One thing convenience. we don’t appear to do much of is to refer back to successful proposals and re-use useful/relevantmaterial. Much easier to implement is client-side programming. In this case all the work in customising the webpage is carried out by the client’sbrowser. Unfortunately all the data that needs to be in the card has to be included in the link - Though!sfor theeveek: http://www.swkeurope.comlcard.html?to=John+Smith&From =Sam+Jones&Greeting=Have+A+Very+Merry+Christmas+A “The light at the end of the tunnel is often a train.” nd+A+Happy+New+Millenium&Graphic=railwayline.jpg&B ackground=Dark+Blue&Font=Arial+Bold&Colour=Yellow’ “If you reach for the stars wear asbestos gloves.” this link is a little long, and gives the game away somewhat. Also it tends to cause technical problems, as it wraps and only the first line actually reaches the web browser. This tends to cut the message off half way and pop up a pile of error messages on screen. Additionally, not everybody uses a web Editor’s Note: It’s that tune again! browser that can cope with JavaScript (the main language used Christmas/New Year/Millennium for this type of programming), and some who do, turn the input for ScottLight wouldbe very feature off to speed up their browsing. welcome whenever you like.

Of course, the end result of any failures would look pretty bad for the company.

So all in all, its a nice idea, but technical problems and costs make it difficult to implement.

By the way, JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.

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Project Proposals and Reports from Peter George [RC]

There is currently no central repository of Scott Wilson technical/fee proposals and reports in the Basingstoke office (and probably not in any other office either). Can I suggest that whenever an Expression of Interest or full technical/fee proposal is prepared for a project one copy be sent to the library (in small offices this may simply be a designated set of shelves). Likewise, one copy of all final reports (not drafts) should be kept in the library, suitably catalogued.

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