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MARK HANSFORD EDITOR

oredom afflicts almost half (47.2%) of engineering work- In our survey, 96% of its staff agreed that Arup was great and that ers, with a staggering 55.6% admitting that they have they had no desire to work anywhere else. Why? Arup says that despite looked for a new job as a result of a dull work life. That, being a firm of over 13,000 people its values still reflect founder Ove B according to a recent survey of 1,200 professionals by Arup’s cultural aspirations outlined during his key 1970 speech: it is an job board CV-Library. inclusive company that operates with integrity and helps individuals Whoever those 1,200 engineers are they must be a very different to flourish. bunch to the 6,500 civil engineers who took part in the NCE100 this year. Because boredom clearly does not come into it if you are working for one of our top 100 companies: indeed four out of five of you, when asked, said your company was “great”, and that you had “no desire to All 100 firms in our work anywhere else”. listing are great firms and It is, we think, an extraordinary statistic, and one that shows just what a great time it is to be a civil engineer and to be working for – or great places to build careers with – an NCE100 Company of the Year. Now in its second year, the NCE100 is, we believe, a totally independent, authoritative assessment of what it means to be an excellent civil But all 100 firms in our listing are great firms and great places to build engineering practice. Analysis of a comprehensive company question- careers. And, frankly, with the opportunities ahead for civil engineers, naire is combined with the scoring of our judges who have scrutinised these really should be great places to build a career. written submissions and then interviewed business leaders from the “In the UK, major projects such as Heathrow, Hinkley and High Speed highest performing companies. 2 (HS2) continue to progress (albeit slowly, barring any post General This information is then combined with the views of staff themselves Election fallout). These are projects of international significance – one – obtained from a confidential survey all NCE100 companies must en- look at the likely winners of HS2’s civils contracts, as revealed in New courage their employees to complete. Civil Engineer this month, show the project’s international attraction. The assessment is made against New Civil Engineer’s five core pillars. But equally there is a plethora of projects around the world that are These are: Technical Excellence, Future Tech, Future Engineer, Engi- providing opportunities and excitement for UK-trained civil engineers. neering Equality and World View, the competencies and passions we Of our NCE100 firms, 65 work abroad directly with the rest of Europe look for in outstanding firms. And sitting on top of that is a key behav- the top destination, closely followed by the Middle East, North Ameri- iour that we seek to assess: collaboration. Specific awards are made for ca, Africa and the Far East. And this is throwing up great opportunities, specific areas of excellence in the spin-off NCE100 Awards, but there is with our 100, on average, putting 18% of their staff to work on projects no question that the number one position in our top 100 ranking is the outside the UK and/or their home territory, with 14% of staff, on aver- most coveted prize. age, based overseas. And this year’s number one? It’s Arup. High performing in all areas, And this number is reflected in what you told us, with one in five of it is its collaborative way of working that gets it to the top spot ahead you rating your opportunity to travel and work on exciting global proof MWH Global, Mott MacDonald and WSP. And this behaviour clearly jects as good or very good. No wonder you’re not bored. runs deep. l Mark Hansford is New Civil Engineer’s editor

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 3 Contents NEW CIVIL ENGINEER JULY 2017 MAGAZINE OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

03 Comment, 21 This month: Our Annual Analysis & News NCE100 Top Firms

06 Lighthouse: The future is uncertain, exciting and unpredictable

08 The Edit: Major High Speed 2 contract winners revealed

09 The Edit: Aecom to develop Old Oak Common masterplan

10 Analysis: Grenfell Tower blaze

12 Analysis: Trump pulls out of Paris Agreement on climate

14 Special report: Project 13 e ciency drive

16 The Interview: Tom Wilne on delivering airport expansion

18 Your View: Rise of the machines, equality, High Speed 2

126 Institution of Civil Engineers: SuDs engineers face major obstacles; Which are the best civil engineering practices? The toolkit for women apprentices; Benevolent Fund launches new ﬁ lm NCE100 is a totally independent, authoritative assessment of what it takes to be the best, based on a comprehensive analysis of company data, exhaustive interviews with senior executives and the views of 6,000 employees.

22 Overview: What qualities must a 38 NCE100 listings. What the company possess if it wants to get companies say about themselves intro the NCE100? and what their sta say

34 NCE100 rankings. At a glance 74 NCE100 awards: Speciﬁ c areas guide to who came where of excellence recognised in the spin-o awards Apprentices: New toolkit for women

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Story of the week: A technical investigation into bridge collapses in South East Asia 90 Tech 96 Tech CONTRIBUTORS Excellence Excellence

Emily Ashwell p10 Grenfell House blaze [email protected]

Fiona McIntyre p12 Climate change ﬁ [email protected] Twitter @ﬁ onaMcNCE 90 Strengthening work on the bridge 96 US software company Autodesk has which carries the M4 motorway set up a tech community in the across the river Usk in south Wales basement of its Boston HQ

102 World 109 Business Katherine Smale AN APPROACH BASED IN PEI PRACTICAL DELIVERY p90 Usk bridge View Culture [email protected] Twitter @katsmaleNCE EASY Prizes & awards STEM Joint outreach Head D&Gs quarters CommonAlexandra Wynne ITp96 Autodesk [email protected] Twitter @alexwynnence MERGER/EVENT HORIZON

Campaign & thought TIME Common leadership Member membership acquisition process

102 How computer modelling has helped 109 How do professional institutions Robert Henson p109 U reviewed the costing and design of a major keep up with rapid changes in the [email protected] Governance Commercial Boston property developmentIMechE analysis of where scope of engineering? Twitter @rob_henson collaboration is easy and dicult HARD

JULY 2017 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 5 Lighthouse ICE VIEWPOINT The future is uncertain, exciting and unpredictable

his month, the Nick Baveystock summed up this Lighthouse has been feeling well: “UK civil engineering thinking a lot about recognises its obligations to grow T professionalism, what domestic skills but this takes it means and where it time and will not change the fact is going. that we are a highly specialised, The more existential side of these global profession that depends on musings was inspired (if that is the a workforce that needs to be able right word) by working through BY ART WE to move between projects and election manifestos. It had been MASTER countries”. expected that Labour’s plans for the WHAT WOULD If this is right, we face tough re-nationalisation of rail and water MASTER US times. If professionalism means would arouse the most controversy openness to the world and the free Engineers: Challenging times from infrastructure watchers. flow of people, technology and Surprisingly, it was the impact of a ideas, then the UK is not the only firm. He noted that everything he bundle of Conservative proposals place where politics is turning in the had done to develop his career that really got pulses racing. opposite direction. Either way, the up to the age of 40 would soon be The intent is clear. Freedom of ICE, the industry and academia all automated or obsolete. movement will be constrained have thinking to do. Now of course there is a risk of and immigration, including skilled We have also been thinking about falling victim to the hype cycle. The immigration reduced. What was what engineers will actually do in Lighthouse has neither the jet-pack interesting was the reaction. The the future. In March the Institution or unlimited leisure it was promised ICE and many others expressed released its latest State of the Nation as a child! But there is a sense that predictable concerns about a short report on digital engineering. This the pace of change is accelerating term skills shortage. But beneath follows through with a knowledge very rapidly. It is exciting. It is this was a more profound disquiet. sharing campaign, including a an opportunity. But it won’t be The reaction was unusually major conference on 13 October smooth. emotional. The Lighthouse sensed called “Shaping a Digital World”. l Please address any comments a belief that we are inherently In parallel, the ICE is working with about the Lighthouse column to international. ICE director general the Infrastructure Client Group on [email protected] the wonderfully named Project 13. This is an effort to identify radical We are a global changes to how we identify, procure The ICE and deliver infrastructure. profession Threaded through the work and many is an enthusiasm to embrace that depends on a practice and technology from others expressed workforce that needs other sectors, notably tech and advanced manufacturing. Reflecting predictable concerns to be able to move on this activity, the Lighthouse was reminded of a recent conversation about a short term “ with a director of a global consulting between countries “ skills shortage

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Untitled-3 1 09/06/2017 10:12:33 ICE MORE TOP EARNER AT ICE NEWS BREAKS THE £200K The Edit SALARY BARRIER ESSENTIAL NEWS & INFORMATION More FROM NEWCIVILENGINEER.COM coverage The ICE’s top earner broke the £200,000 mark last year as online at membership numbers top 91,000, newcivil its annual financial statement has revealed. The Institution’s annual engineer.com statement for 2016 said the salary of the highest paid member of the ICE management team jumped from a £180,001 to £190,000 pay bracket to the £200,000 to £210,000 bracket. The highest paid staff member at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers is in the £260,000 to £270,000 bracket. In total, 18 people earn at least £60,000 and the ICE spent total of £10.9M on wages and salaries in 2016. The ICE said that remuneration of senior management at director level is in line with the market, affordable and fair, and designed to motivate and reward. In line with targets, membership rose 2% to over 91,000 members with Colne Valley: HS2 contractors chosen female membership rising by 7%.

LATEST Teams with TGV track records HUNG PARLIAMENT KEY STATS ELECTION RESULT win out in battle for the biggest FRUSTRATES CIVILS 91,000 SECTOR High Speed 2 contracts Number of ICE members News that the General Election HIGH SPEED 2 Fitzpatrick and Sir Robert McAlpine had resulted in a hung parliament is understood to be the hot 65 was met with frustration from High Speed 2 promoter HS2 Ltd is contender for the £800M to £1.3bn Jobs lost the civil engineering sector. Key finalising its civils contractors ahead Chilterns Tunnels and Colne Valley posts affecting the profession have of an announcement in July, with Viaduct (lot C1). at Morgan remained unchanged, including some major casualties expected, The CEK team of Carillion, French Tucker chancellor Philip Hammond and New Civil Engineer understands. giant Eiffage and Kier is expected transport secretary Chris Grayling. Up to four of the eight bidding to pick up the two remaining However, there are concerns that teams could lose out as HS2 Ltd central section lots (C2 and C5), decisions on big infrastructure favours established JVs and teams worth a combined £1.14bn to projects such as Crossrail 2, the featuring French high speed rail £2.25bn. Finally, the BBV team of Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon, and expertise. Among the front runners, Balfour Beatty, Vinci and Austrian Heathrow expansion will be delayed. the SCS team of Skanska, Costain tunneller Bemo is favoured for the Tidal Lagoon Power’s Swansea and Austrian tunneller Strabag is two northern lots (N1 and N2), worth Bay chair and former Atkins chief understood to have been told it is between £1.75bn and £2.8bn. It means executive Keith Clarke said: “Our favoured for the two southernmost a clean sweep for JVs with French economy can’t carry on with a sections: the £600M to £900M contracting giants but a wipeout for complete vacuum of decisions”. Euston tunnels and approaches Spanish contractors with similar high There are also hopes the result contract (lot S1); and the £850M to speed rail credentials. could result in a soft Brexit. KPMG £1.4bn Northolt tunnels contract l Read the full story, including head of infrastructure Richard (lot S2). Meanwhile, the Align news on the other bidders, at Threlfall said the outcome could Joint Venture of Bouygues, Volker www.newcivilengineer.com moderate some policies.

8 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 STRUCTURES MAGGIE’S CENTRE TOPPED OUT

The new Maggie’s Centre for cancer care at London’s St. Bartholomew’s (Barts) hospital was last month topped out by contract manager Sir Robert McAlpine. A radical design that attracted much controversy when first revealed, the three storey building is based around a complex insitu concrete “branching frame”. Structural design was by Arup, the architect is New York-based Steven Holl Architects. l Read the full story online at www. newcivilengineer.com

BUSINESS BUSINESS CROSSRAIL 65 JOBS LOST AS CROWN COMMERCIAL KEY STATS AECOM TO DEVELOP MORGAN TUCKER SERVICES OLD OAK COMMON GOES INTO FRAMEWORK £2.9bn MASTERPLAN IN ADMINISTRATION WINNERS NAMED Value of NORTH WEST LONDON Crown Consulting engineer Morgan Tucker The Cabinet Office has named Commercial Aecom is to develop the masterplan has gone into administration, with winning consultancies for the civils for the Old Oak Common site in the loss of 65 jobs. The firm has lot of the £2.9bn Crown Commercial Services north west London. Its team also called in administrators from FRP Service project management and framework includes architects Asif Khan, Advisory. Newark-based Morgan full design team services framework BIG, MaccreanorLavington and Tucker had branches in Nottingham, Thirty one firms have made the WilkinsonEyre. The project’s Leeds and London. A spokesperson framework, which gives users 650ha lead engineer Andrew Jones said for the administrator said the access to project management, Size of developing a masterplan capable company had faced severe financial design and advisory services for of adapting to the future is the pressure for a number of months construction projects. It initially Old Oak key challenge for Aecom. The new and had sought new investment, runs for two years and could be Common scheme for the 650ha site will tie which ultimately did not come to extended for another two. The together plans for the Crossrail fruition. “The company engaged framework has suffered a series of development depot, High Speed 2 Old Oak consultants from FRP Advisory setbacks, amounting to a four-year site Common station, Great Western to seek buyers for the business, delay. The firms on the civil and Rail link and a huge residential although, despite interest from structural engineering services and commercial development. Site number of parties, this was not lot are Amec Environment and owner the Old Oak & Park Royal successful. With cash-flow becoming Infrastructure, Atkins, Building Development Corporation has unsustainable the company was Design Partnership, CH2M Hill previously suggested that a 7ha subsequently left with no viable United Kingdom, Kier Business “megadeck” could be built over the alternative other than to seek the Services, Mott MacDonald, Pell Crossrail depot in the middle of the protection of administration,” said Frischmann, Pick Everard, Sweco, new site. This would enable over site the spokesperson. WSP and WYG. developments.

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 9 Structures Analysis EMILY ASHWELL Grenfell Tower tragedy will prompt building and fire regs re-examination

s politicians Right: Fire ripped A significant area of concern is and police start through the the cladding used in the recent investigations into cladding refurbishment of the building

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As New Civil Engineer went to fire regulations to be tightened, images press, the official death toll was where materials are concerned. 17, however, this was expected to Specialist fire consultant Mosen significantly rise. One of the first managing director Fathi Tarada says victims named was West London that the UK is now behind Dubai in The external University civil engineering student terms of fire safety, after a similar Mohammad Alhaj Ali. tower block fire in 2015 prompted an cladding Speaking from the scene last week overhaul of regulations in the United London fire commissioner Dany Arab Emirates. regulations are tighter Cotton said: “This will be a slow “We’re now in the situation that and painstaking process which will the external cladding regulations in Dubai than in the require a large amount of shoring up are tighter in Dubai than in the UK work inside the building, especially and we need to learn from this as a UK on the upper floors, which will matter of urgency,” says Tarada. “ be the most challenging for us to Fire Protection Association access and search”. technical director Jim Glockling An inquiry urged the government Prime minister Theresa May has says: “There is a need for the to make fire regulations in now confirmed that a full public building regulations and its guidance Approved Document B simpler and inquiry will take place into what to consider both the external encouraged councils to consider caused the fatal blaze. envelope of the building and its retrofitting sprinkler systems in Her announcement comes amid resilience to fire ingress. older residential buildings. growing anger among the public, “Many insulating materials may be The cost of retrofitting a sprinkler while a number of MPs including used in external thermal insulated system to the Grenfell Tower Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have cladding systems and their fire would have been around £200,000 demanded an investigation into the performance characteristics can according to the British Automatic causes of the fire and whether the range from being non-combustible, Fire Sprinkler Association (BAFSA). tragedy could have been avoided. to very flammable – it is a matter of “Reports suggest the fire began Policing and fire minister Nick choice, and clearly some choices are in an apartment on the fourth floor. Hurd has given assurances that better than others.” If that is correct, it is highly likely checks will be carried out on similar In 2009 a fire killed six people at that a sprinkler system would have tower blocks which have been the 1950s-built Lakanal House tower prevented the fire from developing as refurbished. block in Southwark, south London. it did,” said a BAFSA spokesperson.

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ngineering and Trump: pulling enough. We have the science, we renewable energy America out have enough science: we don’t have experts have said of the Paris the engineering.” E that despite the Agreement on Co-director of the Sussex Energy withdrawal of the climate change Group and senior lecturer at Sussex United States from the Paris climate University, Florian Kern, said the agreement being a “disaster”, global shift towards renewable energy Europe and China should seize will continue without the US. the opportunity to lead green “My first reaction is that it’s kind innovation. of a disappointing and extremely On 1 June, President Trump irresponsible decision, but also announced the US will be leaving one that has literally no winners,” The Paris Agreement, a voluntary he says. arrangement between 195 countries “He can cancel Paris all he wants: to stop global temperatures rising coal mining is not coming back.” 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Kern adds that leaving the Paris Engineering and energy agreement will isolate the US on the professionals have been quick world stage, leaving the door open to condemn Trump’s actions, for China to lead the way in green highlighting the negative impact energy production. pulling out of the Paris agreement Meanwhile Tesla chief executive will have on the US. and tunnelling entrepreneur Elon He can cancel “It is an utter disaster for Musk has resigned from Trump’s America. The most innovative, presidential advisory councils in Paris all he entrepreneurial country in the world protest. is rejecting science,” Tidal Lagoon Environmental campaign group wants: coal mining is Power’s Swansea Bay chair and Friends of the Earth is calling on former Atkins chief executive Keith prime minister Theresa May to not coming back Clarke tells New Civil Engineer. “show leadership” in the wake of But he adds that China and Trump’s decision and to abandon European countries like the UK fracking plans. “a spokesperson for the UK-GBC. should make the most of the The UK Green Building Council “We see the evidence on a daily situation. (UK-GBC) says it rejects the basis that progressive businesses, “It is a fantastic opportunity for “discredited notion climate action working in partnership with the UK and Europe, and China, comes at the expense of economic ambitious policy-makers, are to lead in innovation in the next growth”. creating low carbon, resilient and industrial revolution,” he said, “The UK Green Building Council healthy places for people to live adding that British engineers need is proud to stand together with our and work. to play a bigger role in fighting colleagues in over 70 countries, “The nations, regions, cities and climate change. including the US, with a global businesses that will thrive in the “For the engineering community, network of 32,000 member future understand and embrace the we just aren’t moving quickly businesses around the world,” says climate challenge.”

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If the top business clients to start to be clear about about how it will drive the change. leaders in infrastruc- what their own long term buying Project 13 describes the way engi- ture came into your KEY FACTS intentions were and be prepared neers currently deliver and operate T firm and told you to put some of their own capital on infrastructure as “broken” in its in- exactly how to the table in order to invest in the augural report, From Transactions make more money, you would 1% technology, which would drive a to Enterprises – A new approach to listen, right? Average whole programme of investment, delivering high performing infra- Well, that is just what is happen- contractor which would in turn drive a long structure. ing now across the board in civil en- term efficiency in that industry – The report dives deep into what gineering. And for those not sitting margin in the that is what Project 13 is trying to is wrong with the current system up and taking notice, KPMG head of industry achieve,” says Threlfall. and looks at tangible ways it can infrastructure Richard Threlfall has A roll call of industry heavy- improved. a pretty stark warning. weights has come together to drive Take the standard procurement “If you’re happy to continue to this top-down change. It includes model: consultants who are em- be grossly inefficient and making Tideway chief executive Andy ployed to deliver the infrastructure less money than you could do then Mitchell, Mace chief executive Mark are not the ultimate owners, so they that’s up to you. That’s what it Reynolds and Mott MacDonald’s are initially missing that expertise. comes down to,” he says. group technical director Mark Enzer. They are also missing out on input In a sector with the average con- The change Project 13 is trying to into technological innovations from tractor’s margin hovering at about bring about is to move project man- the supply chain and asset owners 1%, a figure described as Threlfall agement away from lowest-cost and at the time of design. Services sold as “absolutely hopeless”, it is clear towards long-term value. The aim is by the hour can prevent scoping of something must be done to change to move from a model that is based alternatives that could work better. the way firms work and projects on supply chain transactions, to a Also, inconsistent costings in ar- are managed. On top of that, he collaborative model where there is eas such as contract management, says projects are often procured by an enterprise culture around project and in the risks being passed down clients “blind to history” who try to delivery. The philosophy might not a fragmented supply chain have specify a fixed output, ask for bids be new, but the change this time is led to a disjointed and sometimes on a fixed price, and then fail to get that there is a momentum from the adversarial way of working, which the result they want, and lose any client side, through Project 13, to innovation in the long run. drive fundamental changes. Enter Project 13. The slightly This change will be driven sinister name belies a raft of good through new approaches to delivery It is clear intentions, led by the ICE’s Infra- of live projects, peer review and something structure Client Group. The key is support offered to colleagues, and to get the industry to operate on a best-practice will be shared through more collaborative, long-term basis events and publications. must be done to to become more productive and in- So far the people who make up change the way firms novative, while developing a higher Project 13 have come together to level of consistency and reliability. pool resources and thinking to work and projects are “In order to unlock that [the come up with a document which “ change] you would effectively need spells out the vision and then talks managed

14 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 nearly every other sector in the UK whose productivity has remained pretty much flat over the last 20 years. To start to take costs out of this industry by increasing its productivity, by investing in technology and its people is frankly a no-brainer.” Threlfall hopes that within the next couple of years a critical mass will be reached, acting as the tipping point for the widepsread adoption of this new approach to delivery and management. So what will Project 13 look like in real life? Well, a precedent has already been set by some groups spearhead- ing the collaborative approach. Anglian Water’s @one Alliance decided to change the way it procures and delivers projects back in 2005, and now puts its consistent outper- formance against business targets down to the its new approach. “The main benefits are ultimately the results, from efficiency, to carbon, ultimately leads to poor performance. chain, they can drive collaboration in Project 13 is to customer service. We just get a The case for change is clear. So the areas such as defining outcomes and seeking to make different set of results this way, com- Project 13 team has identified five choosing the technology needed. Proj- construction pared to previous models,” says @one areas that will drive improvement. ect 13 is looking to train senior people businesses Alliance director Dale Evans. The first, on which Threlfall is in the industry in the skills clients more efficient “We’re all aligned on delivering leading, is governance. The aim is to need to become capable owners. by changing customer outcomes. That’s the big change the way infrastructure owners The final theme that Project 13 is behaviours difference between now and what we behave, questioning their definition looking to drive in the sector is digital and improving used to do. We talk about being ‘back of long term value and to drive out transformation. The ICE’s Infrastruc- organisation to back’ in everything we do.” the tendency to award contracts on ture Client Group is going to identify This means partners are not se- a short-term, low-cost basis. Instead the new technology that it believes lected because they offer the cheapest Project 13 wants the early engage- can make a difference and get the price and try to deliver against that ment of all involved to set a long-term industry talking about its possibilities figure. Instead, they are chosen on their vision of how a project will best deliv- through seminars and events. ability to deliver the business plan. er value and how the project team’s Clearly from the themes identified “In our model, we only generate performance might be measured. and the way Project 13 is trying to a return by outperforming Anglian’s The second theme is to do with achieve change, it is a top-down, business plan. The alliance delivers organisation. Choosing the right client driven project. solutions and is measured on outcomes suppliers and integrating them into “From a client point of view, we’re and delivering outputs,” says Evans. the team will ultimately lead to a not asking for altruism, we’re asking So what now? Major UK clients are better outcome than an approach for pure self-interest. If you are an taking note and are keen to embrace where clients automatically opt for the asset-intensive business, you will the Project 13 thinking. HIghways lowest price, according to Project 13’s maximise the shareholder return, England is one such client. research. A mutual understanding of the profitability of that business over “The work being undertaken by capabilities is crucial so that teams can the long run, if you adopt the sorts the Infrastructure Client Group is work as a coalition rather than a chain. of principles that we’re setting out extremely helpful,” says Highways This leads to the third theme which here,” says Threlfall. England executive director for major concerns integration. More than He adds: “This is a hugely unpro- projects Peter Adams. “ It aligns teamwork, optimal integration links ductive industry by comparison to completely with the sentiments we the areas of design and engineering expressed at a recent supplier event.” with manufacturing and construction, “Fundamentally it is about align- and finding an integrator that can be ment and how we create an environ- expert from paper to site. Here, tech- Project 13 ment where all our energies (client nology can play a major role in areas and supplier alike) can be focused such as logistics. describes on delivering the greatest value,” But for integration to work, the says Adams. “By working with the fourth concept is needed – the the way engineers right people, removing competing capable owner. Project 13 says that objectives and ramping up long-term owners are not just clients and must currently deliver and commitment, we expect to be more outside their comfort zones to take operate infrastructure efficient and to create more oppor- on roles they have not traditionally tunities to out-perform our achieve- carried out. Working with the supply “as “broken” ments so far.

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 15 Tom Wilne BY EMILY ASHWELL New approach to delivering airport expansion

t is a modern day For every 48 hour period there truism that big infra- were about 2,000 vehicle move- structure projects ments in and out of the runway I must be better de- site, including a fleet of 30 asphalt livered. But bridging wagons, five pavers and back-up the gap between the maxim and the vehicles. application is an altogether different “There was a sense of ongoing thing, and that is why Manchester mutual dependability – we all Airports Group (MAG) project deliv- needed each other to do the job. We ery director Tom Wilne spends his didn’t have an adversarial conversa-

The Interview The spare time thinking about a flower. tion once. We didn’t seek to squeeze This particular bloom is called a cost out of the supply chain where partnering flower. It is a concept in it wasn’t possible, we were trans- collaborative working developed parent with our budget so the team by academic Johan Nyström at also knew our constraints, and we Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of minimise airport disruption. resolved problems together.” Technology. It is an area Wilne is Theory aside, Wilne said a key The surfacing was completed studying as part of his master’s driver of success was the team was early, in just over the first five degree at Manchester Business “hell-bent” on proving it could do it. weekends. The job was completed School. He talks with passion about his work. during the remaining two weekends. The flower is an illustration of the “The collaborative approach we A success all round. elements needed for a successful took was absolutely essential to the So, with this success in the bag, collaboration. These are: a core, success of the project. Everyone on Wilne is driving this sort of collab- such as trust and mutual under- the project had a sense of wanting oration and innovation at MAG’s standing; and then petals around to win,” he said. other big infrastructure projects at it, which represent complementary The job took months of prepara- Stansted and Manchester. elements such as openness and tion with significant early engage- Both airports have different economic incentives. ment and planning. challenges and very different needs, For Wilne, this is not just a theory which form the backdrop of the confined to the pages of textbooks. infrastructure projects and which When thinking along these lines is will pose some of the challenges applied to infrastructure projects, it There was engineers will have to overcome. can produce dramatic results – and a sense of Starting with Manchester, it’s he has proof. a big, busy airport with around Earlier this year, a team including 26M passengers going through its Galliford Try, Colas and Turner & ongoing multiple doors over the past year. The £1bn Townsend undertook a 2.9km resur- Manchester Airport Transformation facing assignment in seven 48-hour dependability – we all Programme (Man-TP) is a series of periods at MAG’s East Midlands needed each other to 60 enhancements that will include Airport. The aim was to deliver the the expansion and reconfiguring of project on time, cost-effectively and “ Terminal 2, to become the airport’s do the job

16 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 primary terminal building as well as So what does he want from the improvements to Terminal 3. We need to supply chain? Well he does not want Manchester is at the heart of the KEY FACTS to work with firms who are looking for Northern Powerhouse and the airport be bolder and the “easy and comfortable” jobs. wants to ensure that it links in with “We need to be bolder and braver potential new infrastructure, such £500M braver as an industry as an industry and say: ”right, we as a High Speed 2 station which will Value of and say: ‘right, we want to do things differently, we want serve the western leg of phase 2b, as to flatten the hierarchy, we want to well as any trans-Pennine rail or road Stansted want to do things bring suppliers to the table, and we builds. Airport want to get the expertise there’,” says It is about to start a programme of “differently’ Wilne. capacity works worth about £500M to drive Wilne is not the only person in the extra capacity. increase industry to think about this. Back Stansted has just received planning programme for the airport and its airlines. in 2008 when Heathrow’s Terminal permission for a £130M 34,000m2 Brexit, as well as major construc- 5 was completed, it was cited as an arrivals building that will span three tion plans for Gatwick, Heathrow outstanding example of what can be levels. It will include larger immigra- £1bn and the rest of London, are likely to achieved by thinking differently about tion and baggage reclaim areas, new Value of exacerbate problem. project delivery. retail facilities and improved access There is wide acknowledgment in Fast-forward almost a decade and for onward transport. The existing Manchester the construction sector that labour The Infrastructure Client Group’s terminal will be reconfigured for Airport trans- supply is uncertain if there is a hard Project 13 is aiming to use collabo- departures. The first phase of works Brexit – and this is not just shov- ration as a driver to produce better will begin later this summer. formation el-wielding workers, but engineers infrastructure delivery and manage- Construction of the dedicated Plan too. ment. And Wilne says Heathrow’s arrivals building will take place entire- “It’s easy to talk about the brick- proposed off-site construction hubs ly outside the existing building. layer from Poland, but harder to talk for the delivery of the third runway Its demographic is short-haul, about the engineer from France, Spain are exactly the right way to go. the biggest carrier being Ryanair or Poland,” says Wilne. Wilne has clear passion and deter- taking passengers within Europe. With the plans and the challenges mination to deliver projects in the While about two in 10 passengers at for Stansted and Manchester laid best possible way. Manchester are in-bound overseas out, Wilne is now looking achieve A passing reference during the visitors, the statistic for Stansted is these infrastructure projects through interview to three children and 6am about 40% inbound, with a huge mar- the same sort of collaboration that exercise sessions, on top of study- ket in overseas workers and visiting made the East Midlands resurfacing a ing and a full-on job, is an indicator friends and relatives. The Stansted success. that there is nothing about him that expansion along with other south east He is already starting to think about opts for the effortless route, and he infrastructure projects, has to face working differently at Stansted, where is clearly looking for the same drive the challenge of the skills shortage. the airport is considering offsite from suppliers. The future of the Open Skies agree- manufacturing to produce mezzanine So when the supply chain gets on ment – which lets airlines fly freely levels which will provide extra seating board, it looks like the projects will be throughout Europe – is also an issue at the airport. ready for take-off.

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 17 for engineers less frequently heard from. Penny Gil, posted online on article headed “The Women Issue | Confidence conundrum Your View HIGH SPEED 2 GETTING A GRIP ON HIGH LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SPEED 2 COST ESTIMATES AND COMMENTS ONLINE Your May issue of New Civil Engineer contains plenty of evidence of the difficulty of costing railway works. LOW CARBON passengers, who will avoid it when Another example, of a different WHY PICK ON DIESEL? they can. order of magnitude to those that Ground access by any means you describe, is High Speed 2 Leonard Rosten (Your view, last @ is complicated and congested: (HS2). The government maintains month) asserts the public have been why exacerbate this by even more that the cost of the first Phase to hoodwinked into driving “filthy expansion? If the UK is to go it smoke ridden diesels” instead of alone in a global economy it needs “reliable clean petrol” vehicles, and an efficient and welcoming airport furthermore that the error of our gateway, not this over-expanded Read more ways will be “blindingly obvious” to muddle. anyone stuck behind a stationary bus. letters at Perhaps even British Airways is It just isn’t that simple. Spending www.newcivil beginning to see sense. roughly five hours a week cycling engineer.com Michael Thorn, posted online on through central London traffic I article headed“Airlines refuse to get stuck behind all sorts of motor pay for ‘£3bn’ M25 runway plan” traffic, and often positively prefer the back end of a bus to other vehicles. Many of them run on EQUALITY hybrid power plants which seem CELEBRATING WOMEN quite clean when stationary, or pulling away. More broadly I think Well done @ncedigital for their May we should recognise that the issue edition. Entirely by, and about, of the “best” combustion engine female engineers – but without HS2: Unrealistic cost estimates? isn’t proven. Global warming is not a mentioning it! phrase which appears anywhere in Nick Francis @NickFEngineer via Birmingham is about £24bn and for the Conservatives’ 2017 manifesto, Twitter the whole railway £55.7bn. Lord but it still occupies the minds of Berkeley, who is very experienced in Europe’s major car manufacturers, Great piece @ncedigital explaining railway work, doubted these figures and continuing to sell diesel cars its unannounced women-only last and commissioned an independent into the active fleet is a key part of edition ‘if there was no issue, then cost analysis from Michael Byng,

hitting CO2 targets. I have owned [we]...would’ve given up long ago’ who is the author of the RMM petrol and LPG cars. These all Richard Kirk @Richard_Kirk_ via suite of railway cost measurement consumed a lot more fuel than Twitter commissioned by Network Rail. our current 55mpg-ish diesel. My Byng estimates that the cost of brother meanwhile runs a small Congratulations on producing the the first phase will be about £54bn electric car. All of these pollute in all female May issue. I only spotted and the cost of the whole railway different ways. In the round, none it when I saw the advert for UK over £100bn. Both figures are about of them are clean or “sustainable”, Transport on page 74 and was twice the government’s figures. and claiming so would be utter surprised to see an all female lineup The government has so far been tosh. Let us accept that designing of speakers. It made me go back to unwilling to agree to an independent vehicles is much like designing the beginning and look a little closer. assessment of the difference in bridges, buildings, and sewers, it is Just goes to show that there are these costs. a balancing act between different The Editor, actually quite a lot of us out there! The first stages of work of the HS2 evils. New Civil Janet Nelson, posted online on the scheme are due to happen shortly, Ralph Swallow ralph.swallow@ New Civil Engineer Digital edition when fine trees will be cut down Engineer, multilateraldesign.com and buildings demolished. None of Telephone Congratulations on a good idea. this should go ahead until the whole House, I hope that the inclusion of lots project has been reviewed. The TRANSPORT 69-77 Paul of female contributors continues independent assessment of costs is STARTING TO SEE SENSE? Street, London, so, that one day it isn’t a special urgently needed, before more money EC2A 4NQ occasion and requires extra effort is wasted on this ludicrous scheme. Heathrow is a horrible place, a Email: nceedit@ from the team. Sam Price sam price samprice@ nightmare over-priced rip-off of its emap.com I particularly like that you looked tengc.net

18 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 GOOD POINT WILL THE YOURROBOTS VIEWS AND OPINIONS TAKE OVER?

I was surprised by the Comment in the last issue, especially the research into new, better ways to solve problems. assertion that, “having a robot that can run countless iterations I also think that the idea that one day our boss will come one of a complex structural conundrum…has to be another good morning to a construction site and announce everyone will be thing”. laid off due to the adoption of automation is purely wrong. I It appears that the obvious lack of understanding of the think that this idea comes from a primeval fear of the unknown spectrum of a structural design engineer’s input has not been and a deep unconscious concern for our very own survival. allowed to get in the way of a slick statement. The gradual nature of the implementation of automation One thing engineers learn quickly is that setting any in the construction industry will allow us the time we need steelwork analysis and design software to “optimise” is a great to get our heads out of the day-to-day tasks and start thinking way of wasting time and money. The resulting recommendation about new ways in which we might contribute and improve the will suit only one loading criteria, usually a final idealised industry. This in itself will open the way for new activities (if condition. indeed our previous ones have been automated). An experienced engineer, when faced with any problem, But it comes with a price: people need to be open minded will typically assess within the first few minutes: available about this. It is much easier to say ‘I will do my job as I did section grade and sizes, workshop constraints, lifting before’ rather than ‘Let’s see what I can do to change points, transport sizes and weight constraints, things’. possible warping effects of welding, waste, It is up to us to keep an open mind for new ease of erection, optimisation of sections, technologies that will fast-track our evolution. connection interface options along with Andrei Popa, [email protected] assuring access for welding or bolting, the corrosion protection system and Chris Douglas’ article on autonomous application concerns, and there are vehicles and freight (New Civil Engineer, more. last month) potentially opens up debate That level of software is still some way on the way forward. off, if even possible. Currently we have 40t trucks I always roll my eyes at calls for everywhere, especially on the engineers to be given more respect, but motorways, and large container trains when the editor of a leading industry on the railways; aircraft freight comes in journal disses his peers; well! much smaller packages and almost none Peter Fensome (M) [email protected] of it is moved with clean power or in an environmentally friendly manner. Is there an Reading between the lines of the subject of opportunity for this (post Brexit) country to take the increasing automation in June’s issue I see a raising lead in the development of a new system which is more concern about loss of jobs to robots and other forms of environmentally friendly and which makes good use of new automation. technology? As I see it, the increasing automation of the construction From a bottom up perspective we could look at the initiatives industry should not be seen as such a dreadful change. I to improve air quality in the Capital and the development think we should look back through history a bit to see the of electrically powered London taxis. Surely this technology big picture. Take the beginnings of railway construction for will develop and we will soon see electrically-powered skip example. At the time, most of that work (if not even all of it) lorries and small buses. But this does not fit with the large was carried out by manual labour. Now some might argue that, loads which we currently see at sea, on the roads and on at the time, technology was not advanced enough to tackle this rail. The key to moving forward would appear to be the in any other manner, and I agree. But how many people would development of a smaller container, say around 7t to 10t be eager to take on manual jobs like this nowadays? I can’t which can be moved on an electrically powered vehicle with think there are too many. the potential for autonomous control. These containers would I realise this is an extreme comparison, but maybe it will be double up when carried aboard ship to fit existing loading an eye-opener for those who are afraid their jobs will be taken facilities and would fit existing road vehicles and rail bogies. over by machines. Peter Styles, Kingsbury, Warkwickshire [email protected] In my opinion, human beings are by nature curious and inquisitive. We are constantly innovating and evolving. When it comes to robots applying for jobs, can we anticipate Machines will play a crucial role in our further evolution and a panel of specialist robots interviewing prospective robots; development as a civilisation, because they are taking away the something along the lines of present arrangements, but repetitive tasks, leaving us with more and more time on our perhaps with improvements? hands which we could put into more productive activities, like Colin Davies (F) Heath Road, Potters Bar, Herts

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The NCE100 companies have MODEL been assessed against five core pillars They are: Technical Excellence: Extent to which a company embraces and encourages technical excellence in its staff and strives for low carbon construction. BEHAVIOUR Future Tech: Extent to which a company exploits existing Where we get our data WHAT MAKES AN NCE100 FIRM? technologies and explores new BY MARK HANSFORD ones. Future Engineer: Extent to which a company develops talent and promotes the profession. Engineering Equality: Extent to which a Peers questionaire Via Clients poll of top 30 Via performance Past data NCE100 From Leadership team written Via submissions and interviews with highest rated conﬁdential Via survey company is driving the equality data Company comprehensive Via questionaire agenda and seeking to be an % 20 30 42 3 3 = 100 inclusive place to work. The 100 businesses are chosen and ranked following a comprehensive, World View: Extent to which NCE100 2 KEY STAT three stage process. First, we analyse a company has global impact Interviews Overview responses to a comprehensive by working overseas or sharing by invitation company questionnaire. Secondly, best practice internationally. 80% scores are then awarded by judges They have also been assessed on he fi rms in the NCE100 are Of NCE100 who have scrutinised written a mix of consultants and submissions and then interviewed their Collaborative Behaviours: company NCE100 awards contractors ranging from business leaders from the highest The degree to which a company the biggest multinational staff believe performers. Finally scores are drawn is viewed as collaborative by employing 95,000 people their from views about the businesses to the smallest small expressed by the staff themselves – in peers, clients and its own staff. Technical Excellence to medium sized enterprise (SME), employer is a confi dential survey that all NCE100 Future Tech employing just seven. companies must encourage their staff T “great” Future Engineer In total, the 100 fi rms collectively to complete. earn £65bn, £16bn of which is from All assessments are made against Engineering Equality UK activities. They employ 394,000 New Civil Engineer’s fi ve core pillars World View people, of which, 69,100 are qualifi ed that embrace the competencies engineers – defi ned as holding and passions the industry looks Collaborative behaviour membership of a professional for in outstanding fi rms: technical engineering institution. excellence; technology leadership; What we are assessing: the pillars And they are one happy bunch. talent development; action on Four out of fi ve, when asked, said equality; and global leadership. they had no desire to work anywhere And sitting on top of that is a key other than their current employer. behaviour that we also seek to assess: That is right, 5,094 of almost 6,500 collaboration. engineers surveyed as part of the The companies that make the grade process which established the 2017 are all striving for excellence and, in NCE100 businesses said they agreed many areas, they are achieving it. with this statement: “My company is great and I have no desire to work OVERALL SATISFACTION anywhere else”. The outcome does seem to be The NCE100 is, we believe, a satisfi ed staff and satisfi ed clients totally independent, authoritative alike. But who is most satisfi ed? assessment of what it means to be an One key fi nding is that when it excellent civil engineering practice. comes to staff satisfaction, size of

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In total the NCE100 Sta are satisfied firms have 5,900 that their firms are embracing graduates training new technologies. towards professional The vast majority – “ 97% – are aware of qualification their firm’s digital employer does matter. The most strategy and 79% satisfied staff work for the smallest companies, although many of the say it has had a largest businesses still get high positive impact on satisfaction ratings. While 87% of those working for small firms have the way they work. no desire for a move, 76% of those working for the biggest firms with 1,000-plus employees are also happy with their lot.

FUTURE TECH In the key area of technology leadership, the majority – 81 – of the NCE100 firms say they have a digital strategy that all staff have access to; 79 have measures in place to check it is working; and 82 have a board director responsible. And 85 say they are fully operating at building information modelling (BIM) Level 2. Next year we shall be asking if they have certification to support that claim. But are they putting their money where their mouths are? On average, the NCE100 firms say they spend 4.9% of their turnover on technology-led development. And this seems to be manifesting itself well – with the 100 collectively claiming to have brought more than 1,000 new technologies to market in the last calendar year. Staff seem satisfied that their firms are moving in the right direction in this area – in terms of use of existing technologies and willingness to invest in developing new technologies. Nearly all – 97% – are aware of their firm’s digital strategy and 79% say it has had a positive impact on the way they work. FUTURE FUTURE ENGINEER Moving on to talent development and contribution to the profession, TECH our analysis of company data shows that collectively, the NCE100 has

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74 of the NCE100 have FUTURE an innovation director [NCE 100 Topline and 76 are led by a ENGINEER 0 Document] How do civil engineer chief you feel about your “ firm’s willingess to executive experiment and use 1.3 +2 -2 technology? employed 6,300 graduates in the last calendar year, of which 2,400 were in the UK. In total the NCE100 fi rms have 5,900 graduates training towards a professional qualifi cation with a further 900 apprentices on their own paths towards qualifi cation. With the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy, much scrutiny Very Indierent Very in the coming years will be placed Satisfied Dissatisfied on the percentage of a fi rms’ UK pay bill that is spent on apprentice development. It is encouraging that on average, NCE100 fi rms spend 1.4% of their wage bills on this, well ahead How do you feel of the 0.5% that the government is about the structured demanding be spent. And here is an insight into why career development staff are generally happy with provided by your firm? their lot – on balance staff are “satisfi ed” by structured career guidance, mentoring, pace of career development, and, perhaps community events and engaging with responding to the NCE100 survey surprisingly, salary and other 1,950 schools events. are either professionally qualifi ed How do you rate your benefi ts. KEY STATS And reassuringly, 85% of staff or working towards qualifi cation opportunity to travel Again, smaller fi rms have more working for NCE100 fi rms said their with the appropriate engineering [[NCE 100 Topline satisfi ed employees when it comes to employers supported them in doing institution. and work on exciting Very good Document] How do career support. 23% this training, with just 9% expected to And it is good to see that on global projects? Contributing to the profession is Percentage do this entirely in their own time. Good average, two thirds of executive you rate your a hallmark of a good fi rm and again And there are rewards on offer: 22% boards are made up of civil engineers, of women opportunity to travel staff, on balance, are “satisfi ed” with of employees said their fi rm has a Average74 of the NCE100 have an innovation the way their employers engage with in NCE100 reward scheme for such work. director and 76 are led by a civil and work on exciting schools and colleges and promotes global work There is also practical help offered engineer chief executive. global projects? the profession to the wider media. to individuals doing promotional The NCE100 fi rms tell us that, on Indeed, 31% of staff surveyed force television and other media work, with average, they spend 4% of turnover % said they worked with schools and 28% of staff, on balance, feeling they on research and development. colleges directly, with, reassuringly, get the support they need for this. Despite this relatively low fi gure, almost all of those surveyed The return on this investment Poor NCE100 fi rms’ staff remain satisfi ed (26%) trained science, technology, can be gleaned from analysis of with the way their employers push engineering and maths (STEM) the company data: in the lastVery poor technical boundaries and challenge ambassadors or equivalent. year, representatives from NCE100 conventional thinking about project Data from the NCE100 companies businesses made 280 TV appearances design and delivery. themselves reveals that they have and did just 225 radio spots. Staying with the staff survey, a collectively trained up almost 2,000 respectable 19% of respondents said STEM ambassadors. TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE they sit on professional committees, This STEM activity and more Technical excellence is, arguably, the with most – 90% – saying they are project-specifi c outreach saw them expertise that underpins everything. able to do this work in part or in organising or participating in 2,500 So it is reassuring that 77% of staff entirely in work time.

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And what of sustainability and low playing field on which to compare their female colleagues. carbon? Analysis of company data performance, the number is not that But is there enough genuine action show that 63 have sustainability different – with 24% of UK staff, on on equality issues? Well, 94 firms directors and 24 have carbon average, female. But it is perhaps said they had a diversity policy, 89 managers. Interestingly, 54 say they not changing as fast as might be said they had measures to check it have plans to become carbon neutral thought, as just 26% of graduates, are was working and 89 said they have a businesses, 23 of them within five on average, female. And what of the board director who is accountable for years. But only 36 record their carbon glass ceiling? It is there alright – on equality issues. Yet again actions speak footprint and just seven currently do average, only 17% of board places are louder than words. One simple action any carbon offsetting. held by women. is to sign up to Women into Science The salary differential is also a big and Engineering’s (WISE’s) 10 steps to ENGINEERING EQUALITY measure, and, on average, men are gender equality initiative, but only 24 of Equality in the workplace is still paid 29% more than women in the the 100 companies have. a big issue, and a weak area for NCE100 firms – which is broadly in Another good action is to roll out the industry generally. Analysis of line with the national average across a programme of unconscious bias company data reveals the scale of the all industries. The overall average training for all staff – and again more problem, but they do also show that salary? For men: £39,920; for women: could be done, with firms, on average, work is being done. £31,860. reporting that 20% of their staff have Overall, on average, 23% of the The good news, and entirely received this. NCE100’s global workforce is female – appropriately, is that at graduate And what of other under- which, for the construction industry, level this gender pay gap is all but represented groups? Our figures is not a bad result – although there eliminated: male graduates, on show that, on average, 2% of staff are is clearly some way to go before average, earn £27,600 and female lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, the kind of numbers that clients are graduates £26,720 – a gap of under 13% are from ethnic minorities, 4% increasingly demanding are hit. £900, although it does mean that male are over the statutory retirement age, In the UK, chosen as a fair graduates are paid 2.7% more than and 1% are registered disabled.

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1 3 Arup 68 ★★★★ 12,195 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★★

2 2 MWH Global 27 ★★★ 592 ★★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★

3 12 WSP 68 ★★★★ 17,400 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★

4 4 Mott MacDonald 63 ★★★★ 7,500 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★

5 5 Arcadis 65 ★★★★ 16,167 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★

6 9 JBA Consulting 20 ★★★ 120 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★

7 10 Westlakes 13 ★ 40 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★

8 18 Royal 39 ★★★★ 295 ★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★ HaskoningDHV 9 1 Opus International 26 ★★★★ 1,196 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★ Consultants 10 70 Bouygues^ 60 ★★★★ 463 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★

11 7 London Bridge 4 ★★ 15 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ Associates 12 15 Ramboll 29 ★★★★ 820 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★

13 13 AKT II 20 ★★★ 166 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★★★

14 - NEW Laing O’Rourke 30 ★★★★ 575 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★

15 43 HR Wallingford 43 ★★★ 163 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★

16 16 Aecom^ - ★★★★ 2,514 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★

17 - NEW UnPS 0 ★★ 49 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★

18 8 Costain 0.5 ★★★★ 500 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★

19 24 Hewson Consulting 60 ★ 30 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ engineers 20 33 Davies Maguire - ★ 27 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★★

21 21 Tony Gee 30 ★★★ 303 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★

22 41 Beckett Rankine 41 ★ 15 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★

23 69 Mouchel 16 ★★★★ 658 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★

24 19 Jacobs^ 20 ★★★★ 2,675 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★

25 - NEW BDP 21.4 ★★★ 15 ★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★

What are the pillars? Future Engineer Extent to which a company develops talent and promotes the profession Future Tech Extent to which a company exploits existing technologies and explores new ones Technical Excellence Extent to which a company embraces and encourages technical excellence in its staff and strives for low carbon construction Engineering Equality Extent to which a company is driving the equality agenda and seeking to be an inclusive place to work World View Extent to which a company has global impact by working overseas or sharing best practice Collabora- tive Behaviours Degree to which a company is viewed as collaborative by peers, clients and its own staff

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1 3 Arup 68 ★★★★ 12,195 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★★ 26 46 Weston Williamson - ★★ 48 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★

2 2 MWH Global 27 ★★★ 592 ★★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 27 60 Waterco 1 ★ 14 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★

3 12 WSP 68 ★★★★ 17,400 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 28 77 Interserve 0 ★★★★ 171 ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★★ ★★ ★★★

4 4 Mott MacDonald 63 ★★★★ 7,500 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★ 29 48 Robert Bird Group 15 ★★ 102 ★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 5 5 Arcadis 65 16,167 30 26 GHD 58 ★★★★ 2,586 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★ 6 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★ 9 JBA Consulting 20 120 31 6 Pell Frischmann^ 20 ★★★ 240 ★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ 7 10 Westlakes 13 ★ 40 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 32 - NEW Carillion 27 ★★★★ 440 ★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ 8 18 Royal 39 ★★★★ 295 ★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★ 33 81 Hydrock 1 ★★★ 256 ★★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ HaskoningDHV 9 1 Opus International 26 ★★★★ 1,196 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★ 34 - NEW Webb Yates Engineers 1 ★ 21 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★ Consultants 35 84 RSK 30 ★★★★ 801 ★★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★ 10 70 Bouygues^ 60 ★★★★ 463 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 36 31 Peter Brett Associates 3 ★★★ 597 ★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ 11 7 London Bridge 4 ★★ 15 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ Associates 37 63 WME 20 ★★ 160 ★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ 12 15 Ramboll 29 ★★★★ 820 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ 38 65 RPS Group 63 ★★★★ 490 ★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★ 13 13 AKT II 20 ★★★ 166 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 39 44 IDOM 80 ★★★★ 1,998 ★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★ 14 - NEW Laing O’Rourke 30 ★★★★ 575 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★ 40 - NEW Dawnus 11 ★★★ 56 ★★★★ ★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★★ 15 43 HR Wallingford 43 ★★★ 163 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 41 - NEW OTB 10 ★ 31 ★★ ★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ 16 16 Aecom^ - ★★★★ 2,514 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 42 - NEW Fluor 59 ★★★★ 436 ★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★ 17 - NEW UnPS 0 ★★ 49 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ 43 52 Colas^ 3 ★★★★ 24 ★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ 18 8 Costain 0.5 ★★★★ 500 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★ 44 32 Rendel 80 ★★ 44 ★★ ★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★ 19 24 Hewson Consulting 60 ★ 30 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ engineers 45 50 CampbellReith 6 ★★ 118 ★★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★ ★ 20 33 Davies Maguire - ★ 27 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★★ 46 96 Sweco 53 ★★★ 408 ★ ★★ ★★★ ★ ★★★★ ★★ 21 21 Tony Gee 30 ★★★ 303 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★★ 47 42 Engenuiti 7 ★ 21 ★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★ 22 41 Beckett Rankine 41 ★ 15 ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★ 48 22 Clancy Consulting 5 ★★ 49 ★★★ ★ ★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★★ 23 69 Mouchel 16 ★★★★ 658 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★ 49 28 Floodline Consulting - ★ 1 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★ 24 19 Jacobs^ 20 ★★★★ 2,675 ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★ 50 86 Raymond Brown - ★★ 68 ★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★ 25 - NEW BDP 21.4 15 Construction

† Visual representation of company score in each pillar. ★★★★★ = top scorer; ★★★★ = Third quartile or better; ★★★ = Second quartile; ★★ = First quartile or better; ★ = Below first quartile | † † Percentage of revenue earned outside of UK and/or home territory | † † † Visual representation of size of firm based on total staff employed worldwide.★★★★ = More than 1,000 employed; ★★★ = 250 to 1,000 employed; ★★ =50 to 250 employed; ★ =50 or fewer employed | † † † † As defined by having some form of professional qualification; worldwide number | ^Staff score component of NCE100 assessment weighted to reflect size of dataset in relation to number of employees | ^^Went into administration June 2017

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51 53 Pick Everard 3 ★★★ 130 ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★

52 79 Alun Griffiths ★★★ 85 ★★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★

53 67 FJD Consulting 1 ★ 3 ★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★

54 23 Conisbee 1 ★★ 58 ★★ ★ ★★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★

55 - NEW Civic Engineers - ★ 27 ★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★ ★

56 45 JPP Consulting - ★ 29 ★★ ★★★ ★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★

57 - NEW Amec Foster Wheeler 19 ★★★★ 4,000 ★ ★★★ ★ ★★ ★★★★ ★

58 30 BWB Consulting - ★★★ 92 ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★ ★★

59 55 Van Elle 1 ★★★ 39 ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★ ★★ ★★

60 - NEW Lithos - ★ 13 ★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★★ ★ ★★★★

61 80 Byrne Looby - ★★ 132 ★★ ★★ ★★ ★ ★★★ ★

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67 - NEW MJ Rooney Construction 0 ★ 2 ★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★

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72 - NEW Alan Auld Engineering 50 ★★ 24 ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★★★★ ★

73 27 Black & Veatch 13 ★★★ 295 ★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★★★ ★★

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79 62 Novus Rail 0 ★ - ★★ ★★★ ★ ★★★ ★ ★★★

80 37 Waterman Group 10 ★★★★ 1,074 ★ ★★ ★★★ ★ ★ ★★★

81 - NEW Patrick Parsons 2 ★★ 71 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ ★

82 64 Alan Wood & Partners 2 ★★ 28 ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★★ ★

83 - NEW Design ID 5 ★ 16 ★★★ ★★ ★ ★★ ★★ ★★★

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JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 37 OVERALL WINNER 01 ARUP

Consultant Arup’s collaborative integrity and supports individuals to and respected. culture seems to seep out of its pores. flourish. These values are embedded “The firm recognises that its in everyday activities, creating a strength is its people, and it values Revered for this behaviour by working environment that is open and us,” says Arup associate Pete Wilkie. clients, peers and staff alike, Arup welcoming, with staff feeling valued Inclusivity is engrained in Arup’s takes the top spot and the title culture. It has three networks NCE100 Company of the Year. This promoting diversity, especially vital collaborative culture was key to it in an industry that does not have an topping our 100 and is also reflected strong track record in this field. in it winning the NCE100 Awards’ Collaborative Firm of the Year. Arup says: “Arup’s distinctive This behaviour clearly runs deep. culture and intellectual independence In our survey, 96% of its staff agreed encourage collaborative working, that the firm was great and that enabling innovation and delivering they had no desire to work anywhere results that frequently surpass clients’ else. Why? The consultant says that expectations. Through our work we despite being a firm of over 13,000 make a positive difference in the world” people, its values still reflect founder Ove Arup’s cultural aspirations; an Its staff say: “Friendly, supportive, inclusive company that operates with collaborative.” The NCE100The

38 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 02 MWH 03 WSP 04 MOTT MACDONALD

MWH says it is: “One of WSP says it is: “One of the Mott MacDonald says it is: “The the world’s largest providers world’s leading professional UK’s largest employee-owned of water, environmental, services firms providing engineering, management infrastructure and energy technical consultancy to the and development consultancy. services, MWH is committed to built and natural environment. Human in outlook, independent the principles of sustainability You are never far from one of of mind, connected and confident. and pioneers in solving our success stories.” Opening opportunities and environmental, climate change delivering outcomes that improve and energy challenges.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, people’s lives.” supportive, challenging.” Its staff say it is: “Supportive, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, friendly, open.” supportive, professional.”

05 ARCADIS 06 JBA CONSULTING 07 WESTLAKES

Arcadis says: “While our work JBA Consulting says: “We Westlakes says it is: “An engi- spans many disciplines – consul- invited our clients to respond: neering consultancy providing tancy to engineering, architec- ‘JBA’s technical solutions are civil, structural, environmental ture to cost management – it is excellent’, ‘the most competent and safety services from offices united under a common vision. of our suppliers’, ‘consistently in Whitehaven, Manchester and We see people, not projects, and delivers what we need’, ‘adapt- Preston, who has established a recognise that environments able’, ‘innovative’ and ‘leaders in reputation for providing a high impact lives.” its field’.” quality, professional service.”

Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Innovative, Its staff say it is: “Supportive, collaborative, professional.” friendly, supportive.” friendly, exciting.”

08 ROYAL 09 OPUS HASKONINGDHV INTERNATIONAL

Royal HaskoningDHV says it is: Opus International says: “We “An independent, international create what matters for future engineering consultancy provid- generations by designing, opti- Arup is, for ing services for the entire living mising and delivering infrastruc- the second environment. Our work contrib- ture with a human perspective. utes to sustainable development Our collaborative approach year running the all over the world.” connects the smartest minds and shares best experience globally.” clear winner of the Its staff say it is: “Friendly, open, supportive.” Its staff say it is: “Open, sup- NCE100 Awards’ portive, friendly.” “ Collaborative Firm of the Year

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 39 10 BOUYGUES

Contractor Bouygues was shortlisted civil engineering and infrastructure a remarkable six times in the spin- projects, underground works, linear off NCE100 Awards, highlighting projects, and river and maritime the French firm’s unquestionable engineering.” commitment to investing in people and innovation and bringing those Its staff say it is: “Professional, people and that innovation to play on considered, relaxed.” major projects worldwide.

No better example is its work at Chernobyl where on 29 November 2016 a giant shield built to cover the damaged nuclear reactor number 3 was moved into place some 30 years after the reactor exploded, contaminating the site with radioactive material. Project manager was Bouygues director Nicolas Caille. He said: “This project is a change in dimension. Everything is different in the way it is carried out.” From conception to realisation, every step had to be worked out from first principles because there was no rule book.

Bouygues says: “We have a worldwide

The NCE100The reputation for responding to challenge with innovation and delivering large

11 LONDON BRIDGE 12 RAMBOLL 13 AKT II ASSOCIATES

London Bridge Associates says Ramboll says: “We are dedicated AKT II says: “We are an innova- it is a: “Construction manage- to maximising value for our cli- tive, progressive and design-led ment consultant specialising in ents and society as a whole with structural and civil engineering tunnelling, heavy civil engineer- the multidisciplinary expertise firm, with current and coming, fire safety, CDM, construc- of 13,000 professionals over six pleted projects in 44 countries, tion planning and costing, virtual continents.” covering commercial, residential, construction planning, BIM and leisure, education, transport and tunnel management software.” Its staff say it is: “Collaborative, health sectors.” supportive, friendly.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Innovative, supportive, flexible.” dynamic, interesting.”

40 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 14 LAING O’ROURKE NEW

Contractor Laing O’Rourke leads the rapidly manufacture reinforced concrete charge when it comes to instilling modular components for the nuclear factory thinking into construction. industry. This involves using robots to insert steel reinforcement. It is leading a 21 company consortium, awarded a government grant through Laing O’Rourke says: “We are an the Advanced Manufacturing Supply internationally Chain Initiative, to research and focused engineering develop ways to build housing five to enterprise and 10 times quicker. manufacturing Its Engineering Excellence Group business delivering is driving these initiatives, working certainty for clients through closely with the government-funded an exclusive focus on major High Value Manufacturing Catapult, projects and strategic and seven specialist research centres. frameworks.” Within this Catapult it works most closely with the Advanced Its staff say it is: “Innovative, Manufacturing Research Centre in fast, challenging.” Sheffield, developing ways to more

15 HR WALLINGFORD

Consultant HR Wallingford’s reputation for research and The firm is development in marine engineering exploiting is well founded, and increasingly the firm is exploiting digital technologies digital technologies to drive further innovation. to drive further Its work on Aberdeen Harbour’s expansion is a case in point. Exposed innovation to severe waves over 8m in height, the “ design, construction and operation of the new harbour presents significant HR Wallingford says it is: “A global challenges. HR Wallingford used centre of excellence for research, drones for detailed survey work, and technology and consultancy, virtual reality to simulate navigation. delivering practical solutions to the The virtual reality model of the new complex water-related challenges harbour was set up in HR Wallingford’s faced by our international clients.” navigation simulator, allowing harbour pilots to practice navigating different Its staff say it is: “Excellence, vessels into the harbour. innovative, supportive.”

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 41 16 AECOM 17 UNPS NEW 18 COSTAIN

Aecom says: “We connect UnPS says: “We are a specialist Costain says: “We are an expertise across services, markets, tunnelling and underground engineering solutions provider and geographies to deliver space consultancy with a world- delivering consulting, project transformative outcomes. We class record of innovation, delivery and operations and design, build, finance, operate and responsible for the detailed maintenance services with a manage projects and programmes design of over £2bn of the portfolio spanning 150 years that unlock opportunities, protect most prestigious UK tunnelling of innovations and technical our environment and improve projects.” excellence.” people’s lives.” Its staff say it is: “Innovative, Its staff say it is: “Open, Its staff say it is: “Flexible, friendly, collaborative.” challenging, innovative.” professional, inclusive.”

19 HEWSON 20 DAVIES MAGUIRE 21 TONY GEE

CONSULTING Davies Maguire says: “Davies Tony Gee says: “We provide ENGINEERS Maguire is structural engineering specialist engineering consultant, characterised by consultancy to the worldwide the passion and knowledge we construction industry. We Hewson says: “We are a technically-focused civil bring to the creative process are renowned for providing and structural engineering of making buildings and the high calibre design solutions, consultancy, committed to constructive discipline we bring with a flair for the unique and bringing creative and innovative to evolving designs.” challenging.”

The NCE100The design solutions to our clients.” Its staff say it is: “Fun, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, innovative, supportive.” supportive, innovative.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, challenging, innovative.”

22 BECKETT 23 MOUCHEL 24 JACOBS RANKINE

Beckett Rankine says: “We have Mouchel says it is: “An Jacobs says: “Jacobs UK is a an excellent social programme; exceptional infrastructure wholly owned subsidiary of we work in teams on some of the consultancy committed to Jacobs Engineering Group. We most prestigious projects; our providing outstanding solutions provide design, programme projects are not so large that an for our clients through technical and asset management across a employee will get stuck on one excellence, innovation and range of client sectors.” for years.” collaboration.” Its staff say it is: “Caring, safe, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, friendly.” supportive, open.” supportive, professional.”

42 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 OpenRoads From Conception Through Construction

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13861_OpenRoads_Industry_216x271_0617.indd 1 6/7/2017 8:33:25 AM 25 BDP NEW 26 WESTON 27 WATERCO WILLIAMSON BDP says: “We are a major Weston Williamson says: Waterco says it is: “A team international practice of archi- “Weston Williamson is an award of engineers, consultants, tects, designers, engineers and winning architectural, urban de- thinkers and doers. Our aim urbanists. We create outstanding sign and masterplanning practice is to be nationally recognised places for people. Working with a wide variety of projects in as assessment, modelling and in interdisciplinary teams we the UK and abroad.” design experts in every form of produce integrated, holistic and water, drainage and flood work.” sustainable solutions.” Its staff say it is: “Ambitious, creative, fun.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Creative, flexible, professional.” friendly, relaxed.”

28 INTERSERVE

One of the highest climbers in at work’ reflects our culture of the NCE100 this year, contractor creativity and innovation. We are a Interserve has been busy re-inventing sustainable and diverse business, itself. with a vision to ‘redefine the future for people and places.’” The NCE100The In 2016 it launched its innovative new leadership framework, designed Its staff say it is: “Friendly, to build competence in everyone supportive, open.” who manages people within the firm. It uses seven core behaviours (drive, deliver, develop, engage, inspire, thrive and innovate) to develop talent, set ambitious challenges and drive continual improvement. It believes these behaviours, such as improved collaborative working and knowledge sharing achieve outcomes that benefit its clients. More broadly, Interserve is setting the standard when it comes to diversity. Its 25-strong network of diversity champions driving a number of initiatives which have created positive engagement. The latest is its first supported internship programme, which provides a long term placement for young people with additional requirements.

Interserve says: “Our brand ‘ingenuity

44 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 29 ROBERT 30 GHD 31 PELL BIRD GROUP FRISCHMANN

Robert Bird Group says: “We GHD says: “We are one of the Pell Frischmann says: “As the are specialist structural, civil and world’s leading engineering, leading mid-cap tier one firm construction engineers with 10 architecture, environmental and in the UK, we collaborate with offices across four continents. construction services companies, the best to provide world-class Our passion and differential operating in the global markets professional technical services is for enlightened engineering of water, energy and resources, across the built environment.” design informed by construction environment, property and engineering expertise.” buildings, and transportation.” Its staff say it delivers: “Collaboration, challenge, Its staff say it is: “Excellence, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, delivery.” friendly, collaborative.” challenging, open.”

32 CARILLION NEW

Contractor Carillion’s safety and wellbeing record is genuinely industry leading, and this comes from the top.

The firm’s internal health and safety awards recognise safety excellence, best practice, personal contribution and health. But the commitment goes beyond awards. It regularly checks the health of its people and this year has completed 500 medicals on staff and 2,500 medicals for subcontractors. Community work fits with its caring values and it provides everyone with six days paid leave annually for voluntary work. Beyond that, its flexible working policy ensures its people can get the right work-life balance; for construction capabilities and a sector example, it has a number of people leading ability to deliver sustainable Carillion’s who work reduced shifts on certain solutions.” flexible working days to enable them to meet family commitments. Its staff say it is: “Collaborative, safe, policy ensures its honest.” Carillion says: “We are one of the people get the right UK’s leading integrated support services companies, with a sustainable work-life balance portfolio of PPP projects, extensive “

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 45 33 HYDROCK

Company-wide events define employees from diverse backgrounds to site, safe home” initiative. Everyone Hydrock’s corporate culture, it says, share these experiences. is fully briefed and supervised, and by illustrated by inviting all staff on a Hydrock also offers an annual £200 summer 2016 its accident frequency two-day trip to Mallorca in 2015, healthy living bonus enabling staff to rate equated to one reportable accident within the working week, to celebrate pursue activities of their choice outside every 37 months as defined by the the consultant’s 20th anniversary. of work. Emphasis on safety is brought reporting of injuries, diseases and to life through its “Safe people, safe dangerous occurrences regulations. These events create opportunities Hydrock’s founding values, displayed for employees to share experiences, in every office, set the tone for the encouraging future collaboration and company’s culture, focusing on “fun”, promoting a sense of wellbeing. “respect”, “families”, and “personal Similarly, Hydrock’s annual development”. challenge day is attended by all staff and staged at the company’s Hydrock says: “We are a multi- headquarters near Bristol. It delivers a disciplinary engineering consultancy brief business update and connects staff business and specialist land remediation from across the UK through outdoor contracting business.” team games, selected through personal choice, and an evening barbecue, with Its staff say it is: “Friendly, fun, band and bar. Employee feedback professional.” confirms that morale, teamwork and engagement all increase by enabling The NCE100The

46 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017

34 WEBB 35 RSK 36 PETER BRETT YATES ENGINEERS NEW ASSOCIATES

Webb Yates Engineers says: RSK says: “We are a fully Peter Brett Associates says it “The aim of the founding integrated, environmental, is: “An independent practice of directors was to create a practice health, safety and engineering engineers, planners, scientists, that combined imagination with consultancy employing 1200 and economists. We provide technical rigour to create artful staff worldwide. In 2016, we advice to create value for and inventive structural designs.” were awarded the prestigious clients and better places for our Queen’s Award for Enterprise in communities.” Its staff say it is: “Creative, international trade.” relaxed, challenging.” Its staff say it is: “Professional, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, friendly, collaborative.” supportive, open.”

37 WME 38 RPS GROUP 39 IDOM

WME says it employs: “Keen RPS Group says: “We are a Idom says it is: “An international professionals with a belief in the multi-disciplinary consultancy engineering consultancy: natural talent of the emerging providing clients with high our objective is to develop generation.” quality and added value advice important, technologically on the development of the complex projects, but above all, Its staff say it is: “Innovative, built and natural environment, resolve our client’s problems by fun, supportive.” urban infrastructure and natural understanding their needs and resources.” doing everything possible to

The NCE100The meet them.”

Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, supportive, open.” professional, flexible.”

40 DAWNUS NEW 41 OTB NEW 42 FLUOR NEW

Dawnus says it is: “An inter- OTB says: “We are a dynamic Fluor says it is: “A global national civil engineering and and progressive international engineering, procurement, building company committed to civil engineering consultancy fabrication, construction and providing a first class service to practice with a world-class repu- maintenance company that our clients through a network tation for thinking differently.” designs, builds and maintains of strategically placed offices capital-efficient facilities for its throughout the UK and West Its staff say it is: “Collaborative, clients on six continents.” Africa.” professional, innovative.” Its staff say: “Safety, integrity, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, excellence.” supportive, rewarding.”

48 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017

43 COLAS 44 RENDEL 45 CAMPBELLREITH

Colas says: “Colas is an Rendel says: “We are one of CampbellReith says: “We are ambitious business that delivers the world’s most respected and an independent multidisciplinary sustainable solutions for the knowledgeable consultancy engineering practice providing design, building and maintenance firms, offering leadership, structural, civil, environmental, of the UK’s transport practical advice and expert geotechnical, highways and infrastructure.” support to clients based on our transport consultancy services deep knowledge, understanding from five UK offices and Its staff say it is: “Innovative, and experience of major overseas.” collaborative, friendly.” international capital programmes and projects.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, professional, collaborative.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, professional, inclusive”

46 SWECO

Consultant Sweco recognises its Sweco says: “We plan and design the important role in carbon reduction communities and cities of the future. as an engineering design consultancy Whatever challenges our customers and has signed up to the UK are facing, they can count on us to The NCE100The government’s Infrastructure Carbon solve them.” Review (ICR). Its staff say it is: “Friendly, One of its published commitments to supportive, open.” the ICR is to enable carbon reduction on all of its major projects. It is doing this through a number of techniques, including the early implementation of PAS 2080 and the development of a “Carbon Conversations” programme. Carbon Conversations is a carbon literacy and engagement programme comprising five topic areas: climate change, energy, transport, food and consumption/waste. The programme combines technical know-how with the often overlooked but equally relevant behavioural aspects such as resistance to change. Over 5,000 people in the UK have been through the Carbon Conversations sessions and they have subsequently driven

a carbon saving of over 1t of CO 2 equivalent per person per annum.

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Innovative Solutions for Construction 47 ENGENUITY 48 CLANCY 49 FLOODLINE

Engenuity says: “We are a CONSULTING CONSULTING diverse collection of structural and civil engineers with a Clancy Consulting says it: Floodline Consulting says it shared passion for engineering “Provides a multi-discipline has: “Expertise in designing excellence.” engineering design, building flood-resilient developments surveying and advisory service including can-float and fully Its staff say it is: “Collaborative, across the built environment. floating structures incorporating creative, thinking.” Our specialist engineering fields analysis of flood risk and design include civil, structural, building of sustainable drainage systems.” services, and geoenvironmental.” Its staff say it is: “Professional, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, innovative, exciting.” professional, open.”

50 RAYMOND BROWN CONSTRUCTION

In October 2016, Investors in People said in its audit report: “There are many ‘stand out’ features of this organisation; the most impressive

The NCE100The being the consensus view that Raymond Brown is a great place to work…” It added that it worked with many outstanding organisations that aspire to this, but rarely did it find such overwhelmingly positive comments that confirm that this company has actually created a GPTW environment.

Core to its business is its people strategy, which is designed from the outputs of its annual employee satisfaction survey. Over the last 12 months feedback led it to prioritise a number of improvements to increase the day off on their birthday. employee engagement, including Its people creating a better working environment Raymond Brown Construction says strategy is and providing a much needed breakout it is a: “Privately owned, regional room for staff to integrate and take contractor working in carefully chosen designed from time away from their desks. It has market sectors for which we are well introduced an employer supported suited. Our renewables business works the outputs of its volunteering policy, allowing around the UK.” employees paid time off to contribute employee satisfaction to their communities and it has Its staff say it is: “Friendly, “ survey established a policy giving employees supportive, professional.”

52 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 51 PICK EVERARD 52 ALUN GRIFFITHS 53 FJD CONSULTING

Pick Everard says it: “Works (CONTRACTORS) FJD Consulting says it is a: collaboratively to deliver best in Alun Griffiths says it is: “A “Civil engineering consultancy class engineering services.” leading Welsh civil engineering predominantly engaged with contractor, with a directly heavy rail projects in the UK.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, employed workforce.” professional, supportive” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Caring, flexible, professional” supportive, friendly”

54 CONISBEE 55 CIVIC ENGINEERS NEW 56 JPP CONSULTING

Conisbee says it is: “A 90 Civic Engineers says: “Expertise JPP Consulting says it is a: strong engineering practice in the design and delivery of “Civil and structural engineering providing a full range of high quality buildings, structures consultancy.” structural and civil engineering and public spaces.” design services.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, positive, supportive” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, creative collaborative” supportive, professional”

57 AMEC FOSTER NEW 58 BWB CONSULTING 59 VAN ELLE

WHEELER BWB says it is: “A multi- Van Elle says it is: “An award- award winning engineering winning, multi-discipline Amec Foster Wheeler: and environmental design specialist ground engineering “Operates across oil and consultancy.” contractor.” gas, mining, energy, pharma, environment and infrastructure.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, supportive, collaborative.” professional, innovative” Its staff say it is: “Safe, friendly, supportive.”

60 LITHOS NEW

Geotechnical consultancy Lithos proves that technology trailblazing is not just the domain of the large firm.

Lithos says: “We provide site specific, commercial, pragmatic, robust advice in clear, concise reports.” Its staff say it is: “Open, supportive, relaxed”

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 53 61 BYRNELOOBY 62 CLARKEBOND 63 BUCKINGHAM NEW

ByrneLooby says it is: “a Clarkebond says: “Our role GROUP leading international consulting as engineers is crucial to any CONTRACTING engineering firm with offices in scheme, from advising on site Buckingham Group says the UK, Ireland and the Middle selection to influencing design.” it is: “An owner-managed, East.” £400M-plus turnover business.” Its staff say it is: “Relaxed, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, friendly, professional” Its staff say it is: “Open, technical, professional” friendly, family”

64 WYG 65 EASTWOOD 66 CGL NEW

WYG says it is: “A leading & PARTNERS CGL says: “CGL provides project management and advice and design solutions for technical consultancy.” Eastwood & Partners says it ground-related issues.” is: “An established consultancy Its staff say it is: “Friendly, which strives to be the best.” Its staff say it is: “Supportive, supportive, collaborative friendly, open” Its staff say it is: “Professional, friendly, progressive” The NCE100The

67 MJ ROONEY NEW 68 THOMASONS 69 THOMAS

CONSTRUCTION Thomasons says it is: “A great CONSULTING and vibrant place to work and to MJ Rooney says it is: do business with – it is what our Thomas says it is a: “Consulting “Innovative and award winning staff and clients tell us.” civil, structural, geotechnical and company that values its soil contamination engineer.” workforce.” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, supportive, professional” Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, professional, supportive” innovative, advanced”

70 JACKSON 71 CALEY WATER 72 ALAN AULD NEW

Jackson says it is: “A regionally Caley Water says it is: “A water ENGINEERING structured civil engineering and environmental consultancy firm with national capabilities, that brings clarity by offering a Alan Auld Engineering says it employing around 300 staff.” range of services.” is: “A design consultancy.”

Its staff say it is: “Friendly, Its staff say it is: “Challenging, Its staff say it is: “Friendly, family, fun” flexible, engaging” challenging, pragmatic”

54 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 73 BLACK & VEATCH 74 BYRNE BROS

“We consult, deliver and “Byrne is a family run firm manage critical human infra- incorporating family values, structure in water, energy and and thrives in an inclusive telecoms.” collaborative manner.”

75 I-TRANSPORT 76 CASS HAYWARD NEW 77 CURTINS NEW

“Specialist, independent trans- “Civil engineering consultancy “An independent, leading team port planning consultancy with specialist in the permanent of specialists working at each offices in Basingstoke, London, and temporary works design of stage of the built environment Manchester and Leeds.” bridges.” life cycle.”

78 WALSH NEW 79 NOVUS RAIL 80 WATERMAN

“London based independent “Our uncompromising GROUP engineering consultancy, of- business objectives are to con- fering a range of structural and sistently surpass our “A multidisciplinary consul- civil engineering services.” clients’ expectations.” tancy providing sustainable solutions.”

81 PATRICK NEW 82 ALAN WOOD 83 DESIGN ID NEW

PARSONS & PARTNERS “A team of creative engineers, keen to develop and work on “Multi-disciplinary consulting “An expanding company with challenging projects.” engineers.” good opportunities for staff to progress.”

84 BREHENY NEW 85 FURNESS 86 TAYLOR & BOYD

CIVIL ENGINEERING PARTNERSHIP “Consulting structural and civil engineers specialising “A family owned company, “Structural engineering in buildings and related building Britain’s infrastruc- practice with over 30 years of infrastructure.” ture since 1963.” experience.”

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 55 87 LBH WEMBLEY NEW 88 BCS 89 ARDENT: CONSULTING ENGINEERING “BCS is a dynamic, forward thinking company with a “We aim to be the best source can-do attitude.” “Ardent is passionate about of ground engineering expert providing a quality product.” advice.”

90 FOUNDATION NEW 91 MORGAN NEW 92 JNP GROUP

PILING TUCKER “Multi-disciplinary with expertise and specialists enabling “Family owned, private “When we say our people are a comprehensive and holistic company with two generations our most important asset we approach.” working for the company.” mean it.”

93 PINNACLE 94 DUNELM NEW 95 OSBORNE

“A leading provider of “Site investigation contractor, “Osborne is a leading family construction consulting working across the UK.” owned construction company, services.” with freedom and flexibility for different approaches.” The NCE100The

96 SANDERSON NEW 97 HBPW

WATTS ASSOCIATES “Approachable/proactive/ innovative/open minded / Cut- “Consultants whose aim is to ting edge /informed/inclusive/ achieve cost effective, quality encouraging.” driven design solutions.”

98 JENKINS NEW 99 STUART MICHAEL 100 DOUGALL & POTTER ASSOCIATES BAILLIE ASSOCIATES “A leading structural and civil “Consultancy specialising in engineering consultancy, with a feasibility, scheme evaluation, turnover in excess of £2.5M.” planning and design.” “Results-focused business.”

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JULY 2017 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 59 PROFILE ARUP

A main aim of Arup, as set down by its founder Ove Arup in a speech in 1970, is social usefulness. For the past 10 years, the company’s international development team has been working with local organisations in shanty settlements.

Across the world 1.2bn people – or 16% of the world’s population – live in shanty towns with limited or no access to water, supplies, or emergency services. Fires regularly break out, wipe out homes and take lives. In South Africa, 570 people died in 2013 alone as a result of fires. Arup identified a lack of fire engineering knowledge among non- governmental organisations (NGOs). It then funded a group of its fire engineers to research the root causes, effects of settlement patterns and materials on fire spread, potential mitigations and the cultural change required to improve the situation. Arup’s project manager presented at a University College London session on fire safety in informal settlements and has since joined a working group of NGOs on this topic. Arup’s findings were presented at the 2016 Fire Aid Conference. The company has briefed 60% its own global directors who are now raising awareness of the problem and Arup’s fi ndings across the world. The fi re team continues with largest Oasys GSA structural analysis stored the 12 terrabyte output in the its work and visited South Africa early this model to date. This generated a time cloud, and its engineers then extracted year. It is also to help evaluate fi re safety in history response for every element for load data, combined the load cases they refugee camps in the Republic of Georgia. 220 representative elastic load cases. needed, and used it to optimise the Each analysis took over five hours, but elements they were designing. CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY USE was automated and run overnight. Arup Arup says this project has taken it into Arup uses existing technologies new territory. It has allowed it to take creatively, and develops new advantage of processing power to model technologies, to solve client problems. Arup uses real-life loading more accurately, and One project example is the design of a has allowed it to use large amounts of 300m by 150m lattice structure within a existing cloud-based data to optimise design. It major retail distribution centre, to allow has also equipped its engineers with new robots to pick goods from the inventory technologies creatively skills, including writing code and scripts and fulfil customer orders. Arup was to automate repetitive analysis. tasked with optimising the lattice to cope and develops new with the complex cyclic robot loading SOCIALLY USEFUL movements. technologies to solve In line with its aim to be socially useful, To achieve this, the consultant “client problems sustainability is embedded throughout modelled 14M robot movement in the Arup’s processes and projects.

60 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER JUNEJULY 2017 2016 investing capital carbon and cost to achieve reductions through efficiency Winner gains in the long life of built assets. Arup NCE100 Company says Irfan will catalyse improvements in air quality and carbon reduction in of the Year central Muscat, through relieving traffic congestion and re-structuring the city’s Winner business district.

Collaborative Firm WORKING ENVIRONMENT of the year Arup strives to be a great place to work. In 2016 it was voted into “The Times Top 50 Employers for women” – for the Shortlisted sixth year in a row – and has won several Contribution to the recruitment awards. Arup has a real focus on equality, Profession diversity and inclusion (EDI) and is Low Carbon Leader currently recruiting an EDI director. It Best Place to Work also has “diversity champions” in each region across the UK as well as three networks promoting diversity. These are: Connect Out (Arup’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group); Connect Cultures (cultural, KEY FACTS religious and ethnic diversity); and Connect Women (to improve 93% opportunities for women). Special mention goes to Clare Lavelle Of Arup staff are proud to for her contribution to the profession. work for the business She leads Arup’s Scotland and North East England energy consulting practice and is engaged in campaigns aimed at 6 promoting the industry. In November The consultant was a key contributor Years in a row Arup was Lavelle was a guest on BBC Radio 4 to the Green Construction Board, Women’s Hour discussing engineering including the Low Carbon Routemap voted into The Times top 50 and its career opportunities. Lavelle’s and Infrastructure Carbon Review Women’s Employers radio appearance followed her winning Initiative. Arup co-authored the the 2016 Karen Burt Award for “Publically Available Specification “contributions to the promotion of the (PAS) 2080 on Carbon Management 10 engineering profession”. in Infrastructure” founded on the Number of years Arup Lavelle has played a leading role principles of “whole life value”, which developing British and international it pioneered in collaboration with Mott has been working to help standards relating to renewable energy MacDonald. vulnerable communities and has represented Scottish Renewables The specification, is a world first, and on the British Standards Institute (BSI) provides the framework for reducing Marine Standards Committee. She whole life carbon. represents the UK at the IEC Inaugural Arup showcased how the new PAS Meeting for Marine Standards. Lavelle principles can result in far-reaching also led an international working carbon reductions with the design of group developing a standard for the Irfan, a new district of Muscat, Oman. “performance assessment of wave energy The emphasis in PAS 2080 is on converters at sea.”

JUNEJULY 20162017 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 61 PROFILE COSTAIN

Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.

Costain offers a broad range of innovative services across the whole lifecycle of customers’ assets, through the delivery of integrated consultancy, asset optimisation, technology and complex delivery services. Customers today have increasingly complex requirements for future-proofed capacity, security of supply and efficiency in delivery which demand an ever greater emphasis on innovative engineering and technology- based solutions. At the forefront of technology-based engineering research, Costain has R&D relationships with 15 leading universities including Cambridge, Imperial College, Edinburgh and Manchester with whom it is progressing a number of patent applications, as well as sponsoring PhD students undertaking leading-edge l The design of a bespoke SharePoint and cost impacts across the whole life research. This investment in people and system to provide a digital hub for cycle of a project, recently successfully R&D is continually delivering exciting the global partner companies to share trialled on the Tideway East project. innovations including: large technical files and communicate The tool can be integrated with planning l Analytics and predictive services: effectively. This project has drawn on platforms and it can be used to pick key Costain’s technology is being used to Costain’s expertise gained from similar areas to focus on rather than setting manage critical infrastructure when projects such as its work with the blanket targets for carbon reduction. experiencing extreme events such as National Grid and the UK Government The Construction Climate Challenge the winter 2015 Dover storms and l Carbon management: Costain has has recently awarded Costain funding to subsequent sea wall collapse developed a tool to quantify carbon develop the tool to make it open source l The deployment of workforce so it can be shared across the industry. and workflow technology to the delivery This project is the step change needed of complicated maintenance Customers for the industry to progress towards the contracts. Through the use of this aspirations of Construction 2025, PAS technology in East Sussex, Costain is today have 2080 and the Infrastructure Carbon improving the local customer experience, Review improving event management and increasingly complex l A world leading contribution to the improving efficiency of operations Dartford Free Flow Charging (DFFC) through automatic workforce requirements for scheme, instigated by Highways England management to remove the toll booths and reduce l The use of algorithms in the capture future-proofed congestion at the Dartford Crossing. and management of asset data to “capacity, security of Costain designed and implemented a optimise maintenance and operations, bespoke traffic management system achieving significant reductions in both supply and efficiency or “Safety Cell”, using a combination capital expenditure and operational of leading-edge technologies including expenditure costs in delivery over-height detection, dangerous

62 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JUNEJULY 2017 2016 engineering doctorate. Already this work is having an 18 influence on infrastructure NCE100 ranking projects from feasibility studies and concept design, to construction and restoration processes. Enabling Shortlisted biodiversity targets to be met, Technology Trailblazer saving time and accelerating environmental impact assessments, Costain anticipates that the research Shortlisted from the project will contribute Collaborative Firm significantly towards better planning and management of large UK infrastructure of the Year projects. The next, equally game- changing step will be to provide this information in an interactive 3D model, which can be viewed on a virtual reality headset on site. In collaboration with New Civil Engineer last November, Costain launched its “Skills: Meeting KEY FACTS Demand” report, investigating what the engineering industry needs to do ensure it has the skills to deliver the 15 infrastructure projects of the future. R&D relationships with Worryingly, it found that 20% of civil goods vehicle identification and vehicle leading universities, engineers are set to retire in the next 15 profiling systems for non-compliant years. The report also looked at how the vehicle dimensions. sponsoring PhD students industry can recruit more people into Shortlisted for the NCE100 undertaking cutting-edge engineering as well as how new types Technology Trailblazer Award is Costain’s of skills, from across different sectors, recently developed breakthrough research and progressing can enter the industry to meet project in the key area of biodiversity and patent applications needs today and in the future. And it environmental risk and opportunity made a number of suggestions as to how management based on geo-spatial to plug the skills gap such as employing ex-military personnel, attracting indexing. Information can be fed 50,000 in from sources such as Ordinance more apprentices, and setting up skills Survey, Natural England, and the Hours of staff training in academies. Environment Agency on areas that 2016, creating the right The report also shows that many are environmentally sensitive and people who may not have trained in civil need special attention during project mix of skills to deliver engineering have exactly the right skills to planning. This system allows Costain’s infrastructure projects of work in the modern infrastructure sector. environmental specialists to select a the future Costain has 200 graduates on its award-winning graduate development geo-fenced area and analyse it against biodiversity parameters. The ecological programme and 120 apprentices on a impact that works could have on an area 30% structured development programme can then be more accurately predicted, Of Costain people are undergoing training across the business. and the best way identified to minimise Across the group, staff undertook impacts on the environment and deliver in technology, design or over 50,000 hours of training and a net positive gain in biodiversity. The advisory roles development in 2016 to create the right work is pioneering and Costain is helping mix of skills needed to deliver customer Reading University develop it as an requirements.

JUNEJULY 20162017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 63 PROFILE HR WALLINGFORD

Navigation simulator in use 15 NCE100 ranking

Shortlisted Technology Champion

KEY FACTS

50% Proportion of HR Wallingford’s 2016 HR Wallingford is an independent wave and wind models, to test different engineering graduates who civil engineering and environmental vessels and conditions. This proved the hydraulics organisation with a 70 project viable, and produced a lower cost are women year heritage, delivering solutions and safer design. HR Wallingford prides itself on its to complex water-related challenges 24 worldwide across both freshwater and technical excellence and on attracting marine sectors. and developing talent. It has strong links Number of nationalities with universities and colleges and its represented in HR One of its current projects is the staff – many of whom are international £300M Aberdeen Harbour Expansion, authorities in their field – act as visiting Wallingford’s 264-strong which HR Wallingford is developing tutors and professors. workforce alongside Arch Henderson. The company helps its employees fulfill career goals and each member of The harbour on the east coast of 38% Scotland is exposed to waves of over 8m staff is preparing a development action in height, and the design, construction plan. A mentoring scheme is also being Percentage of HR and operation presented significant introduced. Wallingford engineers and challenges. HR Wallingford supports staff to gain HR Wallingford provided pre- further qualifications and is a registered scientists who are female – feasibility, feasibility and detailed affiliate research company with the this includes the chair design studies. The project involved Open University, offering a PhD route. cliff excavation and dredging to provide The company has developed and will be the navigation channel. Surveying the delivering the Environment Agency’s cliffs using conventional techniques was new flood and coastal engineering degree challenging, so the team used Aspect programme with Brunel University. Surveys to survey using drones, providing HR Wallingford has helped staff to HR Wallingford greater detail and a safer method of attain chartered membership through working. ICE, Ciwem and IMarEST, and is prides itself on A Virtual Reality (VR) model of the developing its accredited training courses its technical excellence proposed harbour was created in the further. Staff can choose from over navigation simulator, much like aircraft 30 in-house practitioner courses and and on attracting and flight simulators. The VR model was used are encouraged to suggest and share with HR Wallingford’s ship, tidal flow, research ideas, and publish papers. “developing talent. 64 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JUNEJULY 2017 2016 COSTAIN.COM

IMPROVING PEOPLE’S LIVES by meeting national infrastructure needs in energy, water and transportation

COSTAIN.COM PROFILE ROYAL HASKONINGDHV

8 NCE100 ranking

Shortlisted Contribution to the Profession Technology Trailblazer Best Place to Work

KEY FACTS

Royal HaskoningDHV is an industry. The company’s project 8 out of 10 independent international engineering development and consent teams have Royal HaskoningDHV and project management consultancy helped achieve consent for 11,000MW with more than 6,000 professionals of offshore wind projects. This huge employees are proud to operating across the world guided by a portfolio of 19 major projects is spread work for the company common principle – to enhance society across the UK, the Netherlands, together. Denmark, Poland and Germany. The company’s flood risk management 10 Since 1881 Royal HaskoningDHV has experts apply advanced solutions to Offices across the UK been delivering futureproof solutions areas at risk of flooding, from protecting at the same time as addressing the communities in Moray, Scotland through challenges societies face. Working state-of-the-art flood alleviation 135 together with clients, knowledge schemes, to Hoboken, New Jersey Age of the company institutions, partners, stakeholders and where it applied an innovative water communities, Royal HaskoningDHV is management strategy in the wake of dedicated to continuously work towards Hurricane Sandy. a better future for all. As a trust-based company with shares The company’s strong maritime held in a single fund and with no outside heritage has positioned it as world influences, Royal HaskoningDHV’s leader in the sector, providing technical employees have opportunities to shape excellence in the development of its future. Employee engagement is a maritime and marine structures from priority, and staff are currently playing Employee shipyards to marine pipelines. a fundamental role in establishing a new Nereda is the company’s corporate strategy. Tools such as Yammer engagement groundbreaking wastewater treatment are used to remove barriers between process – purifying wastewater without senior management and staff. is a priority, and staff chemicals using a patented technology. The company has recruited a new Royal HaskoningDHV has been UK digital director to oversee its digital are currently playing commissioned by United Utilities to deliver strategy. With BIM Level 2 accreditation the largest roll-out of Nereda in the UK at under its belt, Royal HaskoningDHV is a fundamental role Kendal Wastewater Treatment works. setting its sights on new and emerging “in establishing a new Royal HaskoningDHV is a leading technologies that will enhance its offer consultancy in the offshore wind to clients. corporate strategy

66 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JUNEJULY 2017 2016 PROFILE HEWSON CONSULTING

The elegant and efficient Pont Briwet Viaduct 19 NCE100 ranking

Shortlisted SME of the Year Company to Watch

KEY FACTS

12 Number of countries Hewson Consulting Engineers PEOPLE BUSINESS is founded on an underlying Critical to Hewson’s success are its staff, worked in, passion for good engineering and which the firm recognises by prioritising in the last 12 months creative design. their development through mentoring and rotation between projects. It sees It prides itself on listening to its clients many of its engineers as future leaders Over 30km and developing bespoke solutions that and works to help them achieve their Of bridge checked suit their particular needs and those of potential. The company describes itself the project. as a friendly and welcoming team, or designed annually For example at the start of the project committed to delivering great designs 3 to build a new road/rail viaduct at Pont and excellent solutions on every project Briwet, Snowdonia, the firm identified – large or small. Number of industry awards potential to minimise capital and future Hewson staff are equally vocal about won last year maintenance costs by using a fully what makes it a great place to work and integral arrangement along the entire here are a few examples of what they 134m of bridge. say: The firm likes to think outside the box l “… the company encourages its staff and is not afraid to challenge the “norm” to grow and reach their potential” [senior boasting bags of enthusiasm for what it engineer]. does and for giving clients great service. l “… [you get] the opportunity to get Just some of the projects Hewson involved in a wide range of projects and has worked on in the past year alone an extensive variety of tasks. …to develop include: Wessex Capacity Upgrade; your basic principles to be applicable to Whitechapel Crossrail Station; any challenge” [graduate engineer]. The firm likes Edinburgh Gateway Station; Aberdeen l “Hewson has given me a great variety Western Peripheral Route; Jakarta of experience. I have been able to work to think outside MRT; PMB and Temburong Crossings on large projects and be an integral part the box, and is not in Brunei; Liantang LC3 & LC6, T2 and of the team. Everyone is helpful and P2 Highways in Hong Kong, Subiyah supportive; It’s a lovely place to develop afraid to challenge the Causeway Bridge in Kuwait; and the my skills.” [scholarship scheme student Kuala Lumpur to Singapore HSR. engineer]. ‘norm’

JUNENEW“ 2016 CIVIL | ENGINEER NEW CIVIL ENGINEER| JULY 2017 6767 MWH Treatments, Behavioural Health and Safety in Design applied on APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY AWARD Minworth THP Project Arup, Unlocking Data to Benefit Railway Electrification applied on Route United Utilities, Triton II - Exercising Emergency Plans to Protect the Public applied Sections 8 & 9 of the Greater West on Dovestones Impounding Reservoir Bechtel, 4D Construction Planning Using Synchro Pro and Synchro SITE 11 October | Grosvenor House Hotel, London applied on Crossrail Central Section Works CATSURVEYS Group, 3D Mobile Ground Penetrating Radar applied on A63 INNOVATION IN PRODUCT DESIGN Castle Street Improvement AND TECHNOLOGY Crossrail, CDE, applied on Crossrail Arup, The Living Wall Lite applied on St Mark’s Church, a Grade I listed property East Sussex Highways, Salesforce applied on East Sussex Highways Balfour Beatty, Virtual Reality for Zero Harm Training applied on M5 Smart Ferrovial Agroman Laing O’Rourke JV (FLO), Bentley Systems applied on The Motorways – A Highways England Scheme” after training REVEALING THE 2017 SHORTLIST Northern Line Extension Bam, Ferrovial, Kier Joint Venture, ES2 Inclined Travelling Formwork applied on Northern Hub Alliance, Beyond BIM – digital design delivery without drawings Farringdon Station applied on The Ordsall Chord Brilliant Ideas, Alimats applied on Thames Tower, Reading – Loadspread for Multi North Midland Construction Group, Skilled Assembly in a Factory Environment Storey Scaffolding CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECT OF THE YEAR (SAFE) Off Site Build applied on Uttlesford Bridge H+H UK with SIG Offsite, SIG I-House System incorporating Celcon Elements from (UP TO £10M) RPS Group, Level 2 BIM Technologies applied on M8/M73/M74 Motorway H+H applied on The Wickets, Bottesford, Nottinghamshire Improvement Project – Raith Interchange Laing O’Rourke, ViSafeTM Wearable Sensors applied on Sponsored by Tony Gee and Partners Vetter Meadowhall Bournemouth Beach Overnight Lodges BUILDING PROJECT OF THE YEAR Ramboll, Gantry Generation Solution (GGS) - Productisation and Coding of Product Crag End Landslip COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR Design Principles in a Civil Engineering Environment applied on Highways England (UP TO £10M) Forth Road Bridge Truss End Link Repairs Carillion Morgan Sindall Joint Venture, Delivering benefits to the Local SiteStak, SiteStak Storage System applied on C/O Bouygyes, Saxon Avenue, Feltham Chetham’s School of Music Concert Hall Fit-Out, Manchester Kirkthorpe Hydropower Scheme Community beyond the Road Network applied on A1 Leeming (for Harringtons Builders PLC) Corner House Lustrum Beck Flood Alleviation Scheme: Phase 1 to Barton Improvements Intelligent Engineering, Sandwich Plate System (SPS) applied on Pont Grand Duchess Donhead Preparatory School STIHL Treetop Walkway CVB: Costain, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche, Charlotte, Luxembourg - Rehabilitation and Extension Community Engagement Programme applied on Thames Tideway East Live Works STIP 1 Structures and Tunnel Investment Maggie’s at the Robert Parfett Building Interserve Construction, Innovative Social Value Mapping Tool Tower Bridge- Bascule Re-decking and Approach Viaduct Waterproofing applied on A120/M11 Stansted Scheme RSPCA South Cotswolds Branch PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR Mott MacDonald, Think Future Generations! applied on Project Riverside Aecom, Colas Rail, Mott MacDonald, Skanska and Network Rail for Wessex Capacity The Lighterman CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECT OF THE YEAR Multiplex Construction Europe, Multiplex Community Alliance applied on Waterloo Station The Loom (£10M TO £50M) Engagement applied on Fleet Building/Plumtree Court Development Costain Skanska Joint Venture for One Link, One Team, One Goal applied on Peter Brett Associates, Peter Brett Foundation applied company wide Bakerloo Line Link Sponsored by McGinley Support Services BUILDING PROJECT OF THE YEAR RPS Group, Western Counties Community Engagement Initiative (Armagh, Laing O’Rourke, NMCNomenca and Atkins for One Severn Trent applied on Bermondsey Dive-Under (£10M TO £50M) Londonderry, Tyrone & Fermanagh) applied on Strategic Project Planning Ambergate Strategic Reservoir Renewall Cumbria Infrastructure Recovery Programme Application on the ‘Gas to the West’ Project East Midlands and Galliford Try for East Midlands Airport Runway Refurbishment British Airways i360 Dover Sea Wall Project Sir Robert McAlpine, Glasgow Learning Quarter: A Socio-Economic, London Borough of Waltham Forest, The Department of Transport, Network Rail University of Nottingham, David Ross Sports Village Grafham Resilience Placemaking & Academic Impact Evaluation applied on City of Glasgow College Anglia, Abellio Greater Anglia and VolkerFitzpatrick for Re-Opening Lea Oldham Town Hall Hampstead Heath Ponds Project Bridge Station One Bedford Avenue Selkirk Flood Protection Scheme Network Rail, Siemens, AmeySersa and SkanskaBAM for Northern Hub Alliance ORIAM - Scotlands Sports Performance Centre HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLBEING INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR applied on Northern Hub Remembrance Centre at the National Memorial Arboretum Pell Frischmann and Arcadis for H50 Alliance applied on Mayflower Project MAJOR CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECT OF THE YEAR Alford Technologies, Explosive Means Using Remote Access Methods applied on The David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge VolkerStevin for Rightway applied on Thames Tideway Tunnel - Didcot Boiler House Demolition The Laboratory, Dulwich College (OVER £50M) C461 Package - Boat Relocation and Pier Construction Ambinet, Contractor Induction Management (CIM) applied on Westgate The Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics Sponsored by Mabey Oxford - Principle Contractor Lang O’Rourke The Word A160 Port of Immingham Improvements Project BBMV (Balfour Beatty, BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall, Vinci Joint TEMPORARY WORKS AWARD Victoria Hall Green Port Hull Venture), Emergency Responder Training applied on Crossrail C510 Sprayed Sponsored by Groundforce Heysham to M6 Link Road Concrete Lined Stations 1-9 Seymour Street, London MAJOR BUILDING PROJECT OF THE YEAR Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal BBMV (Balfour Beatty, BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall, Vinci Joint M1 Junction 19 Improvement Scheme 22 Bishopsgate - South Core Transfer Structure (OVER £50M) Venture), Fatigue - The Readiband Study applied on Crossrail C510 Sprayed Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade Concrete Lined Stations Bryn Cowlyd Water Treatment Works Sponsored by Hall Fuels Brilliant Ideas, The Hole System applied on The Hilton Garden Inn Hotel at Farringdon Station - Upper Apse Temporary Deck City of Glasgow College - City Campus M50 Pendock Sledge and Bury Court Over Bridges INTERNATIONAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR Lancashire County Cricket Club Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre Clancy Docwra, ‘Think Safe’ Behavioural Safety Campaign applied company Mayfair Park Residences Guy’s Cancer Centre Sponsored by Bentley Systems International wide across all projects Northern Hub New Scotland Yard 432 Park Avenue Costain (CiM6), Mott McDonald, Bentley, NMCNomenca and Severn Trent The Design Museum Devoll Hydropower Project Sky Central Water Health and Well Being Maturity Matrix drives “Healthier Designs” V&A Dundee Temporary Propping System South Bank Tower Mass Transit Railway (MTR) South Island Line (East), Hong Kong Initiative applied on Severn Trent Water’s AMP6 Activated Sludge Tate Modern Extension Royal Arena – Copenhagen Plants (ASP) Batch Victoria Gate Leeds Second Avenue Subway - Phase 1 Xiao Jing Wan FOR TABLE BOOKING TO SEE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS, VISIT:

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BCI_AWD68_DPS SHORTLIST.indd All Pages 6/8/17 5:05 PM MWH Treatments, Behavioural Health and Safety in Design applied on APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY AWARD Minworth THP Project Arup, Unlocking Data to Benefit Railway Electrification applied on Route United Utilities, Triton II - Exercising Emergency Plans to Protect the Public applied Sections 8 & 9 of the Greater West on Dovestones Impounding Reservoir Bechtel, 4D Construction Planning Using Synchro Pro and Synchro SITE 11 October | Grosvenor House Hotel, London applied on Crossrail Central Section Works CATSURVEYS Group, 3D Mobile Ground Penetrating Radar applied on A63 INNOVATION IN PRODUCT DESIGN Castle Street Improvement AND TECHNOLOGY Crossrail, CDE, applied on Crossrail Arup, The Living Wall Lite applied on St Mark’s Church, a Grade I listed property East Sussex Highways, Salesforce applied on East Sussex Highways Balfour Beatty, Virtual Reality for Zero Harm Training applied on M5 Smart Ferrovial Agroman Laing O’Rourke JV (FLO), Bentley Systems applied on The Motorways – A Highways England Scheme” after training REVEALING THE 2017 SHORTLIST Northern Line Extension Bam, Ferrovial, Kier Joint Venture, ES2 Inclined Travelling Formwork applied on Northern Hub Alliance, Beyond BIM – digital design delivery without drawings Farringdon Station applied on The Ordsall Chord Brilliant Ideas, Alimats applied on Thames Tower, Reading – Loadspread for Multi North Midland Construction Group, Skilled Assembly in a Factory Environment Storey Scaffolding CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECT OF THE YEAR (SAFE) Off Site Build applied on Uttlesford Bridge H+H UK with SIG Offsite, SIG I-House System incorporating Celcon Elements from (UP TO £10M) RPS Group, Level 2 BIM Technologies applied on M8/M73/M74 Motorway H+H applied on The Wickets, Bottesford, Nottinghamshire Improvement Project – Raith Interchange Laing O’Rourke, ViSafeTM Wearable Sensors applied on Sponsored by Tony Gee and Partners Vetter Meadowhall Bournemouth Beach Overnight Lodges BUILDING PROJECT OF THE YEAR Ramboll, Gantry Generation Solution (GGS) - Productisation and Coding of Product Crag End Landslip COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR Design Principles in a Civil Engineering Environment applied on Highways England (UP TO £10M) Forth Road Bridge Truss End Link Repairs Carillion Morgan Sindall Joint Venture, Delivering benefits to the Local SiteStak, SiteStak Storage System applied on C/O Bouygyes, Saxon Avenue, Feltham Chetham’s School of Music Concert Hall Fit-Out, Manchester Kirkthorpe Hydropower Scheme Community beyond the Road Network applied on A1 Leeming (for Harringtons Builders PLC) Corner House Lustrum Beck Flood Alleviation Scheme: Phase 1 to Barton Improvements Intelligent Engineering, Sandwich Plate System (SPS) applied on Pont Grand Duchess Donhead Preparatory School STIHL Treetop Walkway CVB: Costain, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche, Charlotte, Luxembourg - Rehabilitation and Extension Community Engagement Programme applied on Thames Tideway East Live Works STIP 1 Structures and Tunnel Investment Maggie’s at the Robert Parfett Building Interserve Construction, Innovative Social Value Mapping Tool Tower Bridge- Bascule Re-decking and Approach Viaduct Waterproofing applied on A120/M11 Stansted Scheme RSPCA South Cotswolds Branch PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR Mott MacDonald, Think Future Generations! applied on Project Riverside Aecom, Colas Rail, Mott MacDonald, Skanska and Network Rail for Wessex Capacity The Lighterman CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECT OF THE YEAR Multiplex Construction Europe, Multiplex Community Alliance applied on Waterloo Station The Loom (£10M TO £50M) Engagement applied on Fleet Building/Plumtree Court Development Costain Skanska Joint Venture for One Link, One Team, One Goal applied on Peter Brett Associates, Peter Brett Foundation applied company wide Bakerloo Line Link Sponsored by McGinley Support Services BUILDING PROJECT OF THE YEAR RPS Group, Western Counties Community Engagement Initiative (Armagh, Laing O’Rourke, NMCNomenca and Atkins for One Severn Trent applied on Bermondsey Dive-Under (£10M TO £50M) Londonderry, Tyrone & Fermanagh) applied on Strategic Project Planning Ambergate Strategic Reservoir Renewall Cumbria Infrastructure Recovery Programme Application on the ‘Gas to the West’ Project East Midlands and Galliford Try for East Midlands Airport Runway Refurbishment British Airways i360 Dover Sea Wall Project Sir Robert McAlpine, Glasgow Learning Quarter: A Socio-Economic, London Borough of Waltham Forest, The Department of Transport, Network Rail University of Nottingham, David Ross Sports Village Grafham Resilience Placemaking & Academic Impact Evaluation applied on City of Glasgow College Anglia, Abellio Greater Anglia and VolkerFitzpatrick for Re-Opening Lea Oldham Town Hall Hampstead Heath Ponds Project Bridge Station One Bedford Avenue Selkirk Flood Protection Scheme Network Rail, Siemens, AmeySersa and SkanskaBAM for Northern Hub Alliance ORIAM - Scotlands Sports Performance Centre HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLBEING INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR applied on Northern Hub Remembrance Centre at the National Memorial Arboretum Pell Frischmann and Arcadis for H50 Alliance applied on Mayflower Project MAJOR CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECT OF THE YEAR Alford Technologies, Explosive Means Using Remote Access Methods applied on The David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge VolkerStevin for Rightway applied on Thames Tideway Tunnel - Didcot Boiler House Demolition The Laboratory, Dulwich College (OVER £50M) C461 Package - Boat Relocation and Pier Construction Ambinet, Contractor Induction Management (CIM) applied on Westgate The Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics Sponsored by Mabey Oxford - Principle Contractor Lang O’Rourke The Word A160 Port of Immingham Improvements Project BBMV (Balfour Beatty, BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall, Vinci Joint TEMPORARY WORKS AWARD Victoria Hall Green Port Hull Venture), Emergency Responder Training applied on Crossrail C510 Sprayed Sponsored by Groundforce Heysham to M6 Link Road Concrete Lined Stations 1-9 Seymour Street, London MAJOR BUILDING PROJECT OF THE YEAR Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal BBMV (Balfour Beatty, BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall, Vinci Joint M1 Junction 19 Improvement Scheme 22 Bishopsgate - South Core Transfer Structure (OVER £50M) Venture), Fatigue - The Readiband Study applied on Crossrail C510 Sprayed Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade Concrete Lined Stations Bryn Cowlyd Water Treatment Works Sponsored by Hall Fuels Brilliant Ideas, The Hole System applied on The Hilton Garden Inn Hotel at Farringdon Station - Upper Apse Temporary Deck City of Glasgow College - City Campus M50 Pendock Sledge and Bury Court Over Bridges INTERNATIONAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR Lancashire County Cricket Club Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre Clancy Docwra, ‘Think Safe’ Behavioural Safety Campaign applied company Mayfair Park Residences Guy’s Cancer Centre Sponsored by Bentley Systems International wide across all projects Northern Hub New Scotland Yard 432 Park Avenue Costain (CiM6), Mott McDonald, Bentley, NMCNomenca and Severn Trent The Design Museum Devoll Hydropower Project Sky Central Water Health and Well Being Maturity Matrix drives “Healthier Designs” V&A Dundee Temporary Propping System South Bank Tower Mass Transit Railway (MTR) South Island Line (East), Hong Kong Initiative applied on Severn Trent Water’s AMP6 Activated Sludge Tate Modern Extension Royal Arena – Copenhagen Plants (ASP) Batch Victoria Gate Leeds Second Avenue Subway - Phase 1 Xiao Jing Wan FOR TABLE BOOKING TO SEE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS, VISIT:

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Cornwall energy recovery centre 38 NCE100 ranking

Shortlisted Contribution to the Profession

Leading multidisciplinary consultancy universities and sit on external examining RPS Group advises on all aspects of the boards, and it is continually growing built and natural environment. its established science, technology, engineering and maths teams. Staff KEY FACTS Operating from offices across the UK, from across the group engage with Ireland, Europe, North America and community initiatives including Australia Asia Pacific regions RPS careers and field events. Key features 10% provides professional support at every at events include RPS’ virtual reality Increase in female staff stage of the development lifecycle across demonstrations of building information achieving CEng chartered all sectors. modelling (BIM), and physics RPS is key in bringing diverse large- demonstrations including at Skills NI and membership in the last year scale and high-profile schemes to IOP field events. As a forefront provider realisation and operation, such as the of latest technology for surveying and £80M Guernsey Airport Rehabilitation modelling services, RPS has been central 6% and the Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre in the delivery of Scotia Gas Networks’ Less than 6% staff turnover as well as being well recognised for the award-winning innovative NIC Robotics in RPS’s Northern Ireland successful project management and project and providing BIM services delivery of Shell E&P Ireland’s £3.03bn for the £500M Raith Interchange in business Corrib Pipeline, one of Ireland’s largest Scotland. ever infrastructure projects producing up More than 50 new civil engineers 50 to 60% of Ireland’s gas needs. joined RPS last year, in which time RPS As part of the BSI Partners in also saw a 10% increase in female staff Number of new civil Excellence Scheme RPS’ focus is to achieving CEng chartered membership. engineering innovate while consistently delivering on A quarter of CEng graduates joined RPS graduates joining RPS quality and reliability, constantly pushing through direct relationship between for best practice and performance RPS and their university. Several of in 2015/16 benchmarking. RPS’ professionals are senior committee It prides itself on being at the members within professional bodies such forefront of public engagement and as the Association for Consultancy & RPS is key encouraging open communication: Engineering Northern Ireland, Chartered maintaining a clear presence on social Institution of Building Services in bringing media and working closely with over 54 Engineers, Institute of Acoustics, British universities and colleges globally as well Standards Institution and including diverse large-scale and as local schools. the current Institution of Structural Recognising the value of staff and Engineers Northern Ireland president high-profile schemes student professional development and Chartered Institution of Water & and engagement, a number of RPS Environmental Management Northern to realisation and professionals lecture regularly at major Ireland chair. “operation

70 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JUNEJULY 2017 2016 “I’ve been given lots of opportunities to develop my career at Royal HaskoningDHV – from taking part in a global development programme to working on high-profile projects around the world, and even being given the freedom to explore how digital innovation can enhance best practice. It’s these experiences where Royal HaskoningDHV really makes a difference and invests in its employees – and that’s what makes me proud to work here.”

Ruth Henderson, Senior Environmental Consultant

6,000 employees Are you looking for your across the globe 10 offices next career move? across the UK Offices in more than We are looking for passionate professionals with experience in the maritime, 30 countries water, transport, industry or energy sectors to join our ambitious team. If you have an interest in digital engineering, a keen understanding of the latest 135 year digital practices and want to help shape the future of our industry, you could be heritage just what we’re looking for. 8 out of 10 As we embed our new five-year strategy across the globe and foster even greater employees in the UK levels of digital innovation, it’s an exciting time to join Royal HaskoningDHV. are proud to work for us

Interested? Email your CV to: [email protected] Shortlisted for three NCE100 2017 awards

www.royalhaskoningdhvcareers.co.uk PROFILE WSP

Over the past five years professional services consultancy WSP has grown significantly, and its recent rebrand from WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff to WSP reflects that. WSP’s global workforce has grown to more than 36,000 with 85 companies coming together.

WSP has been involved in many of the world’s high-speed rail projects. For the past 16 years, it has been programme manager for the £17bn Taiwan High Speed Rail project. It has also provided systems integration services on China’s 161km Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan Line. And it is the rail delivery partner for the California High Speed Rail, which was a first for the United States. In the UK, WSP has been railway systems consultant on Phase 1 of the High Speed 2 (HS2) project. WSP helped project promoter HS2 Ltd deliver a hybrid Bill (featuring characteristics of both public and private Bills) in just 18 months. It has since been appointed to deliver railway systems designs and engineering for HS2 Phase 2. Last year the UK team collaborated with American colleagues carbon hotspots associated with the design remote northern province of Limpopo. – particularly international high-speed of the overhead line electrification. WSP developed and implemented rail expert Frank Banko – to provide solutions throughout the life of the an independent review of HS2’s rolling ENERGY power station project. Medupi has stock strategy documentation. Banko A flagship project for WSP was South also provided construction work for was awarded the 2010 William Barclay Africa’s Medupi Power Station – one thousands of South Africans, and Parsons Fellowship to study the of the world’s largest power stations WSP has developed a formal skill application of high-speed rail express – bringing 4,800MW of power to a and knowledge transfer strategy, trains in the US, giving him access to growing population. No large power incorporating education, interaction with some of the world’s foremost experts. station has been built in the region for local schools, and the employment of 20 years and the project has stimulated seven disabled trainees. RAIL ELECTRIFICATION economic growth and development in the Also in the Limpopo region, WSP The UK’s Great Western Electrification sponsored and built the Shaongoane Programme (GWEP) was another high Community Care Group, providing profile project for WSP. This was one community home-based care, and of the first projects in the rail industry WSP a drop-in centre for orphaned and to use the Rail Safety & Standards vulnerable children. Board (RSSB)’s new rail carbon tool. argues that The centre will have 37 staff looking The project was used as a case study in after around 100 children aged between PAS2080, the world’s first standard for sustainability is at the three and 19 years old. It will also promote carbon management in infrastructure. core of its engineering health in schools and the community, Together with client Network Rail, WSP via door-to-door campaigns relating to worked to identify and understand the efforts diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV and

72 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JUNEJULY 2017 2016 “ in industry awards. It is also looking to inspire young women 3 to go into engineering, and recently held NCE100 ranking an insight day where throughout the day, 10 female students coded robots and participated in building, design and Shortlisted problem solving activities. Contribution to This year WSP took part in the London Pride parade for the first time the Profession and carried out a poster campaign across Low Carbon Leader all UK offices and social media to showcase Diversity Champion its lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) employees, International Impact battle HIV stigma, and demonstrate why inclusion is so important to business. WSP also set up Vibe, its LGBTQIA, employee network. And five employees will be joining Stonewall’s LGBT Role Models Programme in the next 12 months. Special mention goes to WSP employee Athena Livesey and her contribution to the profession. At the end of last year Livesey was inaugurated as Association for KEY FACTS Consultancy & Engineering (ACE) Progress Network UK chair. 36,000 This 2,000-strong group of young professionals works within consulting Number of WSP employees and engineering firms across the UK to Aids. It will provide basic sanitation with a worldwide develop and enhance business skills. borehole and running water system. As lead for the ACE Progress WSP argues that sustainability is Network, Livesey heads up the at the core of its engineering efforts, 20% development of strategic plans for future whether it is improving the performance Target percentage of development and retention of the best of the ground source heat pump serving industry talent. She is also a science, seven million plant specimens at the senior leadership roles technology, engineering and maths Royal Botanic Gardens, or reducing taken by women at WSP (STEM) ambassador and visits secondary Gateshead’s carbon footprint with a by 2020 schools every quarter. state-of-the-art natural gas powered Looking to the future, WSP energy centre serving 400 homes. collaborated with architects Farrells, and 90% published a white paper on the future DIVERSITY of autonomous vehicles called “Making WSP has also set itself a number of Percentage of WSP better places: autonomous vehicles and diversity targets. By 2020 its goal is employees who would future opportunities”. to have at least 20% of senior leadership recommend WSP as an WSP continues to explore the future roles taken up by women. This of engineering, delving into energy currently stands at 11%, but is an employer performance in commercial buildings, increase from 9% in 2015. Last year airfield pavement techniques, acoustics 23% of its apprenticeships and 28% and tall buildings as well as the idea of of graduates were female. WSP has “overbuild” a concept, proposed by WSP established its own Women in Leadership director Bill Price, for building on top of mentoring network, and sponsors women London’s public assets.

JUNEJULY 20162017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 73 NCE100 Awards Shortlists and Winners

The NCE100 Awards TECHNICAL feature two awards for EXCELLENCE each of the five pillars – — Future Engineer, Future Technical Excellence Award Technology, Engineering Buckingham Group Equality, Technical Carillion Excellence and World View, Colas alongside five overarching Davies Maguire Winner categories and the ultimate London Bridge Assocs STAR company of the year. MWH Global OTB COMPANY WYG OF THE YEAR — Arup Low Carbon Leader Aecom FUTURE Arup ENGINEER BDP — Bouygues Talent Champion Conisbee CGL Mott MacDonald Winner ROLES Dawnus Sweco WHO ARE THIS YEAR’S Hydrock WSP Laing O’Rourke MWH Global Winner ENGINEERING NCE100 AWARDS WINNERS? Ramboll EQUALITY UnPS — BY MARK HANSFORD Westlakes Diversity champion — Aecom Contribution to the Bouygues Profession CGL Arup Interserve Winner Bouygues Jacobs CampbellReith Winner Pell Frischmann Mouchel Pick Everard Royal HaskoningDHV WSP RPS Group — Tony Gee Best place to work WSP Arup he comprehensive retained the Best Place to Work award. Carillion NCE100 assessment The remaining awards were shared FUTURE TECHNOLOGY Curtins process is designed between contractors and consultants — Hydrock to allow fi rms that are big and small, demonstrating the Technology Champion MWH Global Winner excelling in specifi c breadth and depth of excellence in Amec Foster Opus International areas within the core civil engineering employers today. Wheeler Royal HaskoningDHV pillars and in business in general to G Full details of all the awards Bouygues Weston Williamson be recognised and rewarded in the winners can be found on the NCE100 HR Wallingford T JBA Consulting NCE100 Awards. Sixteen awards are section of newcivilengineer.com. Go WORLD VIEW made in total, including the ultimate to newcivilengineer.com/nce100 Lithos — accolade: the NCE100 Company of the MJ Rooney Winner International Impact Year, awarded to the top ranking fi rm MWH Global Alan Auld in the NCE100. Raymond Brown Engineering The awards were announced at a Sixteen awards — Arcadis gala dinner in central London on 22 Technology Dawnus June. The biggest winner on the night are made in Trailblazer Mott MacDonald Winner was consultant Arup, claiming the Aecom MWH Global top award as NCE100 Company of the total, including the Arcadis Pell Frischmann Year and retaining the Collaborative Colas WSP Firm of the Year award. ultimate accolade: the Costain Also double winner on the night Laing O’Rourke Winner Global Firm was consultant Mott MacDonald, NCE100 Company of Royal HaskoningDHV of the year claiming the Low Carbon Leader and “ RSK AKT II Winner International Impact awards. MWH the Year, awarded to Tony Gee Bouygues Global was Talent Champion and the top ranking fi rm

74 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER JULY 2017 Carillion COLLABORATIVE CLIENT OF THE SME OF THE YEAR Hydrock FIRM OF THE YEAR YEAR — JBA Consulting — — Beckett Rankine Peter Brett Assocs Aecom Hammerson Davies Maguire Rendel Arcadis High Speed 2 Hewson Consulting Robert Bird Group Arup Winner Highways England Engineers BDP Network Rail Winner London Bridge EDITOR’S CHOICE Bouygues Scottish Water Associates — Costain Transport for UnPS Company to Watch Mott MacDonald London Waterco Civic Engineers MWH Global Welsh Assembly Westlakes Winner Davies Maguire Tony Gee Government Weston Williamson Engenuiti Floodline CLIENTS’ CHOICE Consulting AWARD Hewson Consulting — Lithos London Bridge Waterco Winner Associates Winner Webb Yates Engineers

JULY 2017 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 75 TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD LEADING 1 | RISING FACTORY THE PACK THE TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD IS PROOF THAT INNOVATION THRIVES IN THE INDUSTRY

BY DAVE PARKER

1 | WINNER: DAVIES Technical MAGUIRE’S RISING FACTORY The Davies Maguire team described Excellence and illustrated how its Rising Factory could enable a multi-storey building to be constructed at the rate of a fl oor ot so long ago, the a week, whatever the weather. construction industry A complex construction enclosure was notorious for its supported off the building’s four conservatism. corner columns and jacked upwards New materials, as needed is designed to allow 100% new techniques, in crane and personnel access to the fact any form of signifi cant fl oorplate of the building and the innovation, were met with deep- loading and storage areas. N 4 | HYBRID LINING rooted suspicion. Nobody wanted Davis Maguire had to ensure the to be the fi rst to try something factory structure, including the different. Few were prepared to cranes, could cope with high winds take a risk. and construction loads. This year’s entries for the Technical The judges were impressed by the Excellence Award show just how collaboration with client Mace and much the industry has changed in the improved productivity, working recent times. conditions and quality that would Eight companies were shortlisted result from insulating the workforce for the award this year and eight very from adverse weather conditions. different entries were presented to The fi rst Rising Factory is now the judges. working on a Mace site in east The sheer variety and ingenuity London. of the projects and developments Deserving as the Rising Factory left the judges astounded – and with was of its victory, the other a very diffi cult decision. In the end, shortlisted entries also showcased however, one entry, Davies Maguire’s technical excellence and innovation Rising Factory, stood out. of the highest level.

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2 | MODIFIED CRANE

3 | REINFORCED EARTH

5 | SOLAR ROAD 6 | SMART RESERVOIR

JULY 2017 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 77 NCE100 Tech Excellence Award

2 | THE FINALISTS: CARILLION’S MODIFIED CRANE A ramp supporting 189 precast 7 | 4D PLANNING 8 | EARTHWORKS concrete “U-kerb” trough units weighing up to 17t each had to be inserted into the narrow island site bounded on both sides by live lines, one rated at 125mph. There would be no more than 2m clearance between the live rails and the units, which would have to be moved up to 300m up the ramp. Without a radical solution, Crossrail could have been delayed by as much as two years. Ultimately, the modified crane that was developed by Carillion was approved to operate next to live lines, and in practice exceeded the planned unit placing rate by 180%.

3 | WYG’S REINFORCED EARTH The 25ha brownfield site at Kirkstall Forge on the outskirts of Leeds is undergoing a £400M regeneration. 5 | COLAS’ SOLAR ROAD 7 | LONDON BRIDGE’S One of the biggest challenges Colas described a new approach to 4D PLANNING faced by consultant WYG was harvesting solar energy from road London Bridge Associates (LBA) levelling the site, which sloped networks. Its Wattway lightweight has been working as part of the steeply down to the river. This solar panels have already been contractor’s team on Crossrail’s meant raising the riverbanks by 5m. installed on a 1km stretch of road C412 Bond Street Station, utilising Reinforced earth was the chosen in north west France, where they virtual prototyping and 4D planning solution – not particularly innovative are expected to generate enough to optimise the interface between in itself – but the founding of the electricity to light a town of the station project and the over-site new 30m span bridge linking the two 5,000 people. development works. With different halves of the site on concrete bank Wattway panels are thin film contractors and different clients seats built directly onto the new photovoltaic cells embedded in a on each, it was vital to minimise reinforced earth structures is said to tough 7mm thick sandwich of polymers potential physical clashes. be a UK first. and resins. The panels are designed Contractors often rely on clash to be resin bonded to existing road detection within the permanent 4 | OTB’S HYBRID LINING surfaces. works but, it is rare for it to be Connecting new tunnels to London extended to temporary works, Underground tunnels dating from 6 | MWH’S SMART RESERVOIR construction planning and logistics. the 1890s was the challenge faced An “Intelligent Service Reservoir” LBA’s experience at Bond Street by OTB. The traditional method for that can instantly pinpoint any confirms that this approach mitigates constructing turnouts and connections, leakage into or out of the structure safety, programme and financial risks. known as a stepped plate junction, was described by the team from involved extensive hand digging and MWH Global. 8 | BUCKINGHAM EARTHWORKS timber ground support. The concept combines waterproof Buckingham Contracting has extended For the new extension of the membranes with integral sensors for GPS/GNSS 3D machine control to 360 Northern Line to Battersea, however, remote monitoring and an ingenious back actors, resulting in a 15% increase OTB was asked to come up with modular precast concrete storage in plant efficiency, a 10% reduction a better method of forming two tank that can be swiftly assembled in programme time and a 15% cut in junctions between the extension and on site. concrete and granular fill. the existing line. A full scale prototype demonstrated This was down to a reduction in OTB’s innovative solution was the practicality of the concept. Leaks overdigging, thanks to increased a hybrid lining, with spheroidal into potable water storage tanks excavation and earthworks accuracy, graphite iron used from track bed can cause significant contamination: claimed to be within +/- 5mm. The level and a flat reinforced concrete leaks out of hazardous fluid tanks company is now trialling an extended invert. Hand mining was minimised can pollute the environment. Without 3D BIM model incorporating results of and no joists were needed to support speedy detection the results can be underground surveys to stop machines the operational tunnel. catastrophic. entering utility exclusion zones. N

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number of structural steelwork’s STRUCTURAL STEELWORK IN ACTION attributes have come to the fore on the restoration and conversion of a Manchester ecclesiastical landmark. Built in the 1830s by Sir Charles Barry, famous for his rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster, the Welsh Baptist Chapel in central ManchesterA is being brought back to life with a new steel- framed interior to form student apartments. The scheme will provide 73 high quality, private residential apartments within the chapel and the adjacent Sunday school building (see box). The project also incorporates a contemporary new build element, providing facilities including a fitness room, cinema room and residents’ lounge. INSIDE The new build will be linked to the restored chapel by an underground passage, excavated through the area that once accommodated a graveyard. The chapel is situated on Upper Brook Street and the Grade II listed building has been a local landmark for many years, although in recent times it had been derelict and without a roof. The current work will help remove it from Historic England’s At Risk register, while restoration work will repair and revive the existing fabric. This includes retention and repair of the distinctive rose window, corbels and vaulted springers along with the reconstruction of the chapel roof. STORY A structurally independent steel composite frame has STUDENT ACCOMMODATION REVIVES been erected inside the chapel to form a new six-storey apartment block. This new frame supports a new steel and timber roof that that has the same pitch as the original HISTORIC CHAPEL IN MANCHESTER Victorian structure.

80 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 PROJECT TEAM SUNDAY SCHOOL

Project: WORK Welsh Baptist Chapel, Manchester

Main client: Housing 12 of the project’s Czero apartments, the adjacent Sunday school is now linked to the chapel Architect: via a glazed passageway. Buttress Architects The building measures approximately Main contractor: 11m by 11m, and to create more floor HH Smith & Sons space, a new first floor has been installed within the load-bearing Structural engineer: masonry structure. BuroHappold Engineering Additional headroom was needed and so the building’s timber roof Steelwork contractor: trusses have been cut and two steel EvadX cranked moment frames installed in their place. The cut trusses will be retained within the project and act as a key feature within two apartments. The school building was in a much better state than the chapel and was being used until recently. Restoration work has included repairing the roof, by replacing missing slate tiles, and renovating the exterior.

“Having an independent frame was important, as we Far left: the new scheme and as such they have been incorporated wanted minimal impact on the existing chapel walls,” says MEWPs work into the third-floor apartments. Buttress Architects’ Samantha Gill. “The steelwork sits on internal Overall the new steel frame incorporates two rows within and not on the historic building, meaning that there frame of apartments with a central dividing corridor. This are no additional loads on the stone and brickwork walls. Above left: configuration is only interrupted on the uppermost The existing fabric is only tied back to the steel frame by Cutaway of accommodation floor, where some slightly larger rooms small channels, and so the existing structure acts a cladding finished work are located. To support the column grid change, a series of around the new structure.” Above: Frame transfer beams has been installed below this sixth level. Another reason for choosing steel was that a lightweight sits within Before the steelwork was erected within the chapel, solution was needed for the new interior., one that would existing main contractor HH Smith had already begun its extensive not require expensive deep foundations. So, like the original structure restoration work on the structure, as well as preparing the chapel walls, the new steel frame is founded on ground chapel interior for the installation of the new frame. bearing foundations. Early in the programme, HH Smith installed a tower crane To maximise the available space, the frame utilises slim for the site and this was used by steelwork contractor EvadX sections, typically 152mm by 152mm by 37mm universal for lifting steel over the existing walls. columns and 203mm by 133mm by 30mm universal beams, “To make it easier to lift the columns into the chapel we that support metal decking with only a 140mm-thick had to splice the members in three,” explains EvadX drawing concrete topping for the floors. office manager Andrew Roberts. Finding suitable locations for the steelwork’s bracing was Space was at a premium and so the steel erection process a challenge for the design team, as BuroHappold engineer had to be planned carefully. Carl Pendlebury explains: “The chapel’s existing windows “We knew once we had the entire steel frame up we would prevented us from using the perimeter steelwork for bracing then have the problem of how to get the mobile elevating locations and so we had to put it within a lift and stair core, work platforms (MEWPs) out of the chapel, as they were as well as in the roof.” Key fact hemmed in under the first floor steelwork,” adds Roberts. Steelwork is based around a 4.2m by 4.2m grid pattern for “The narrow entrance we used to get the machines into the most of the floors, but has been offset across the building 96t structure was now blocked by four new columns.” and in parts is irregular to avoid putting columns in front of, The solution was to leave the MEWPs where they were and obscuring, the chapel’s existing windows. Amount of until the floors had been cast. At this point the team was Another design consideration was that the new steel structural able to remove beams under the first floor, which was columns could not clash with the vaulted springers that propped by HH Smith, remove the MEWPs through the once supported the roof. Spaced along the two main walls at steel used entrance, and then reintroduced the four columns using the approximately 3.5m intervals, they are now key features of splice connections. The project is due for completion in July.

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 81 A steel frame was chosen after comparisons with a concrete design

STRUCTURAL STEELWORK IN ACTION ncorporating a number of community facilities as well as a high school, the Newbattle Centre is set to reinvigorate the former Midlothian mining towns of Mayfield, Easthouses, Newtongrange and Gorebridge. The state-of-the-art community hub and high school is under construction in Easthouses. The centre will replace an existing school and provide a range of facilities Ifor the local catchment area which includes a number of former mining towns. The steel-framed building is 15,714m2, and it will accommodate a new library, gym, swimming pool, sports facilities (including all weather pitch) as well as a high school containing further community facilities. The building is being delivered by Midlothian Council’s development partner, Hub South East, and its appointed TIME contractor Morrison Construction. Designed by Cooper Cromar, the £34M project is expected to open in 2018 and will accommodate up to 1,200 pupils. The Newbattle Centre has three distinct parts, a triple- span structure housing the sports facilities, the teaching block, which is three storeys high and – joining these two parts together – a single storey link structure that accommodates a library, a café and the main entrance/ reception. The sports accommodation was always going to be a steel-framed structure, with its requirement for long clear FRAME spans. However, the decision to use a steel framing solution for the teaching block was not so clear cut. “The client wanted a 3.5m-high floor-to-ceiling height with a clear and exposed soffit, something that had been achieved at one of its previous schools. “That project had used a concrete frame, but on this project, we suggested a steel solution, which would be SCOTTISH COMMUNITY CENTRE AND more cost-effective and as quick to build,” says Morrison construction manager Jeff Thornton. HIGH SCHOOL CHOSE A STEEL FRAME A frame analysis was conducted, and this showed that the steel option could deliver everything the client wanted. The design incorporates steelwork supporting precast planks FOR SPEED AND VALUE from the bottom flange with the aid of welded on plates.

82 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 The new building houses community facilities and a high school

“During the fabrication process, all the teaching block’s “Portal frames, with their deeper columns, work perfectly beams had plates welded on to them as landing points for well in distribution centres or industrial buildings where it PROJECT the slabs,” explains Hescott Engineering director Alan Scott. doesn’t really matter if columns protrude into the structure. In its finished state, the steelwork has been moved into TEAM “But in our sport facilities we wanted the steel columns the depth of the floor, while the underside of the precast to be as narrow as possible to give us smooth walls and this slabs and the beams are painted white, all of which creates a Project meant we had to have braced frames.” seamless clear exposed soffit in the classrooms. Newbattle The teaching block has two rows of classrooms, on every Centre, floor, positioned along both main elevations. Circulation Easthouses, In our sport facilities we routes overlook a large open full height atrium located in the Midlothian middle of the building. wanted the steel columns The atrium is topped with roof lights that will allow Main client natural light into the structure’s inner areas. Hub South to be as narrow as possible to give The ground floor of the atrium accommodates the East Scotland school’s dining hall and assembly hall, a facility that can also on behalf of us smooth walls and this meant we double-up as a public theatre space. Midlothian A wide feature staircase, with terraced seating areasalong Council had to have braced frames one side, leads from this zone up to the building’s first floor “ level. Architect Structurally, the teaching block is predominantly built Cooper Cromar The bracing is located in the roofs, which are braced in around a regular 8m grid. Stability is derived from vertical Main contractor: two directions. This then diverts the loads to further vertical bracings, which are mostly located in stair cores. Morrison bracing positioned in perimeter and division walls. Adjoining one end of the teaching block is the single Construction Of the three sports halls, the middle one housing a storey link building. This long-span area houses the main fitness suite and changing rooms is the widest with a span entrance, a library and a café, all of which will be open to the Structural of 33m. This hall accommodates a mezzanine level, formed local community. engineer compositely with metal decking. As the name suggests, the link building offers accessand Arup This extra floor will have a large glazed façade giving joins the two parts of the centre. As the entire steel frame people using the facility’s exercise machines views over the of the project is so large – more than 100m long – the link is Steelwork surrounding countryside. structurally separated from the sports zone by a movement contractor Either side of this hall are two slightly smaller areas. A joint. Hescott multi-sports hall with a 26m-wide span, and an 18m-wide hall The sports zone is divided into three braced long span Engineering housing the centre’s 25m-long six lane swimming pool. areas, each topped with a shallow dual-pitched roof. For Summing up Thornton says: “This is an exciting new economy reasons, Westok cellular beams have been used to development for the communities of Mayfield, Easthouses, form each of the three roofs. Newtongrange and Gorebridge, and Morrison Construction Explaining the reason for designing braced frames instead is delighted to be a part of it. of portal frames for the halls, Arup senior engineer for “The Newbattle Centre will provide a fantastic, modern building structures Gary Stephen says the decision was environment for the community to enjoy and a stimulating based on aesthetics. learning environment for staff and pupils.”

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 83 COSTSTRUCTURAL STEELWORK IN ACTION BENEFITS teel construction has many proven benefits Each quarter it will examine the key cost drivers for a over alternative framing materials. Steel range of building types, providing a type-specific cost is able to demonstrate a uniquely high comparison. A cost table will indicate the ranges of correlation to circular economy principles costs for the main alternative types of frame. thanks to features like its recyclability, “The cost ranges will act as a benchmark that can versatility, and ability to be designed with be used at all the stages of the design,” explains Steel future changes of use or material reuse in mind. As a for Life’s Chris Dolling. “We will ensure that the data Sframing material, steel also delivers shorter construction is always current through regular updates that will be programmes and lower embodied carbon use. made freely available.” However, cost is always at the forefront in the choice A previous series of Steel Insight studies focused on of framing material. The good news is that steel office buildings only, but Costing Steelwork will deliver outperforms other materials in this area as well. guidance on a wider range of building types. The series The steel sector has a long history of providing starts with a focus on the offices sector, with a detailed design and other guidance that engineers, architects cost model based on an office building that has actually and other construction professionals value in making been built (see box). The study looks at the process the design and construction process as straightforward of cost planning throughout the design stages, and as possible. That service is being extended with a new examines the key steel framing cost drivers for office series of studies called Costing Steelwork that will be buildings. published quarterly on www.steelconstruction.info Future updates will provide the same insight for Costing Steelwork is produced by Aecom, the British education, mixed-use, retail and industrial buildings, all Construction Steelwork Association and Steel for Life. based on actual projects that have been completed.

ONE KINGDOM STREET

Aecom’s cost comparison of an actual building looks at the steel-framed, 10-storey, grade A central London office Key costs £/m2 (GIFA) for Central London office building at One Kingdom Street near Paddington railway station which was completed in 2008. Elements Steel composite Post-tensioned flat slab

The building comprises 10 storeys with two basement levels and plant housed at roof level. It incorporates clear spans of Substructure 84 89 12m by 10.5m and was built with three cores, with an open atrium on the main core. Frame and upper 402 433 This cost comparison updates cost models developed in floors 2010 when the building was part of the Target Zero study to Total building 2,485 2,612 provide guidance on design and construction of sustainable, low and zero carbon buildings. Costs current in the first potential for differential settlement. quarter of 2017 were used for the new Costing Steelwork Two structural options were assessed with a concrete- study. framed post-tensioned concrete flat slab for comparison. The 40m high building is rectilinear, with a footprint The key costs for both options can be seen above. The of 81m by 45m. The western half of the building is partly analysis shows the steel composite solution as 7% lower than constructed on a podium transfer structure that encloses the concrete alternative for the frame and upper floors, and works access for the Crossrail project. It is founded on 5% lower for the total building. 750mm diameter bored piles with in situ pile caps laterally Analysis also shows that the steel-framed building has an restrained by ground beams. The piles are the same size as embodied carbon content 11% lower than the post-tensioned those used to support the Crossrail podium to reduce the concrete flat slab alternative.

84 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 COSTS BENCHMARK FRAMED

Aecom has provided costs based on the structural framing of a commercial office development in central London, Location BCIS Index 2 expressed as a cost/m on gross internal floor area, to be Central London 125 used as a benchmark. A range of costs is indicated for the key costs drivers as these can vary between projects for a Manchester 99 variety of reasons, as detailed in the full report. Birmingham 98 To use the table, first identify which frame type most closely Liverpool 96 relates to the project being costed, select and add the proposed floor type and add fire protection if required. Leeds 95 Any estimate that falls outside these ranges should be taken Nottingham 93 as a signal that the design should be looked at closely to determine why this might be so. Glasgow 93 Location of a project will be a key factor in establishing Newcastle 92 price and indices are used to allow for adjustment of cost data between regions. The variations in these indices, such Cardiff 91 as the BCIS location factors as shown right, provide a clear Dublin 90* indication that market conditions differ between regions to a significant extent, which is a key consideration for cost analyses to take into account. * Aecom index

Indicative cost ranges based on £/m 2 (GIFA) Type Central London London- Notes London (£/m2) Frames Steel frame to low-rise office 115-138 Steelwork design based on 55kg/m2 Steel frame to high-rise office 195-220 Steelwork design based on 90kg/m2 Complex steel frame 220-260 Steelwork design based on 110kg/m2 Floors Composite floors, metal decking and lightweight 75-110 Two-way spanning deck, typical 3m span with concrete topping concrete topping up to 150mm Precast concrete composite floor with concrete 115-165 Hollowcore precast concrete planks with topping structural concrete topping, spanning between primary steel beams Fire protection Fire protection to steel columns and beams (60 18-25 Factory applied intumescent minutes resistance) Fire protection to steel columns and beams (90 20-35 Factory applied intumescent minutes resistance)

THE GAP WIDENS

Uncertainty generated by factors like Brexit has increased across the but still one that is higher than the long run averages for tender price industry, says Aecom in a market update that accompanies its cost inflation. Lower forecast construction output will add some downward analysis, but its impact on market pricing has been muted so far. pressure to prices over the next two years, although material prices will still rise, albeit at a slower rate. The update, based on government figures, shows input costs for all Aecom expects tender prices to rise 3.2% over the year from the industries rising at their fastest rate since 2008, with further rises to fourth quarter of 2016, and 1.9% in the year from the fourth quarter come. Building prices in the first quarter of 2017 rose at a slowing rate, of 2017.

JULY 2017 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 85 LIGHTSTRUCTURAL STEELWORK IN ACTION & SPACE STRUCTURAL STEEL ADDS FLEXIBILITY TO THE BBC'S NEW CARDIFF HEADQUARTERS

esigned by Foster & Partners, the new to create the 18m-long clear spans in the offices, which steel-framed home for BBC Wales is provides the BBC with maximum flexibility,” says ISG

quickly taking shape as part of a large KEY FACT project director Kevin McElroy.

redevelopment of central Cardiff. “To help speed up the programme, we also changed the The new BBC Cymru Wales Broadcasting 2,100t design of one core from reinforced concrete to steel.” House is a 13,900m2 building set over five Amount of The design is also based around creating visibility and floors, including office, studio and production areas, and structural steel connectivity by allowing as much daylight into the inner Dworking space for over 1,200 staff. used parts of the headquarters as possible. The project forms an integral part of the Central Square To this end, it consists of three main elements: two development, which is radically altering a large swathe of five-storey office blocks arranged in an L-shape around land directly opposite Cardiff Central Railway Station. a centrally positioned media hub structure. Separating On the plot of the city’s former bus terminal, the the offices from the hub is a large 9m-wide and 30m-high scheme will eventually yield commercial office space, covered atrium. a new frontage to the railway station, and most “All three parts are connected to form one large steel prominently, a new headquarters building for BBC Wales. frame, with the cores, which are all positioned in the Plot one of the scheme, consisting of an office block, offices, providing the structural stability,” explains Arup was handed over last year and plots two and three are director Ben Tricklebank. “The media hub has no cores, now under way. For this second part of the development, but bridges across the atrium connect it to the offices and main contractor ISG will construct the new BBC building thereby provide stability.” and Two Central Square (a 10-storey speculative Steelwork contractor Severfield began its erection commercial building) – totalling an £80M package. sequence with the media hub as this is the most complex Before the steelwork programme could get under part of the headquarters, and the area that will require way, ISG had to form a 7,000m2 basement structure by the longest fit-out. installing secant piles and excavating approximately The majority of the project’s steelwork will be left 50,000m3 of material, which was removed and re-used exposed within the completed building, and consequently offsite. aesthetically-pleasing CHS columns are predominantly The BBC building has been designed as a hybrid being used. structure, with a reinforced concrete frame to ground Visible connection details have been designed to be as floor level – encompassing two basement levels, three aesthetically pleasing as possible too, with many beams concrete cores and a steel-framed superstructure for the tapering to provide the slimmest connection. upper floors. Five acoustically isolated telelvision studios are located “Steel for the upper levels has been used for a number throughout the five floors of the hub, with the main of reasons, such as speed of construction and the ability and largest facility positioned at second floor level. To

86 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 PROJECT TEAM

Project Main contractor BBC Wales Broadcasting ISG House, Cardiff Structural engineer Main client Arup Rightacres Steelwork contractor Architect Severfield Foster & Partners construct the necessary isolated box-in-box configuration, Top left: The steel The canopy supporting the studio steelwork is supported on acoustic pads set frame connects the into the concrete slab. three parts of the columns were brought “The studio steelwork had to be erected later than the building surrounding main frame as we had to wait until the floors to site in single pieces as a were cast to ensure acoustic separation was achieved,” Top right: explains Severfield project manager Glen McCleary. Structural steel splice would have ruined their To create the required column-free space for a ground forms the above appearance floor studio, two transfer beams have been positioned at ground part of the first floor level. These plate girder beams measure 20m building “ and 17m-long and weigh 23t and 14t respectively. “The canopy supporting columns were brought to Most of the steelwork is being erected with the site in single pieces as a splice would have ruined their onsite tower cranes, but for these transfer beams, a appearance,” says McCleary. 500t-capacity mobile crane was needed. “They are the longest elements to have ever left our The hub’s uppermost floor steps back to form an Northern Ireland facility, and transporting them to site outdoor terrace that overlooks the public realm in front was very challenging.” of the railway station, while a third of this level is taken Housed within the atrium are three steel feature up by a roof garden containing a number of planters for staircases, providing connectivity between the hub, shrubs and small trees. atrium and the adjacent offices. Supporting the roof garden and creating the large The office’s design is based on 9m bays with internal column-free space below for the main studio required spans of 18m. Fabsec cellular beams have been used some bespoke steel design. Four 800mm-deep plate throughout for service integration and to create the girders, weighing up to 12t and arranged in a diamond desired clear flexible working spaces. formation support the roof garden. Summing up, Alan Bainbridge of BBC Property, said: This formation was chosen for its efficiency by “Getting the BBC project from the design board to site lessening the distance the steelwork has to span. The has been a huge team effort and we are delighted that girders are connected to the surrounding steel frame via this project is now becoming a reality. Together with a series of nodes, all of which cater for multiple beam Rightacres and ISG and the respective design teams we connections and weight up to 3.5t each. are developing a facility which delivers real value for Topping the hub is a large canopy roof, supported money.” by ten, 28.2m-high CHS columns positioned along two The BBC building is scheduled for a Spring 2018 perimeter elevations. Elsewhere the canopy is supported completion, after which a fit-out programme will off of the main internal steel frame. commence.

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Project name: 52 Lime Street, London Main client: WR Berkley Corporation Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Main contractor: Skanska EDGE Structural engineer: Arup Steelwork contractor: 52 LIME STREET IS LONDON’S LATEST William Hare STANDOUT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

eaturing a dramatic architectural shape with project, as buildability and speed of construction are vital on asymmetric facets and a pointed attic roof a city centre job.” structure, 52 Lime Street has from its inception Key fact Cost also plays an important role in any construction been dubbed the Scalpel, a name that has since project and the use of building information modelling (BIM) been adopted as the official moniker. on this scheme has helped the team ensure the steel frame Joining a cluster of other prestigious high-rise 10,500 is as efficient as possible. buildings in the Square Mile, the 190m-high project will offer Tonnes of “We’ve made a considerable weight saving, as all of the 2 F36,966m of internal floor area over 35 office floors, retail and steel used in beams have varying flanges and webs depending on the restaurant areas. relevant loadings,” explains Arup project engineer Steve Designed by architects Kohn Pedersen Fox, the project the project McKechnie. “All of this was worked out automatically via the also includes a public square. The realm may also provide BIM model.” space for public art and tables linked to a specialist ground Having taken possession of the site once the demolition floor coffee shop, designed as a nod to the 17th century of the previous building to ground floor level had been establishments that acted as meeting houses for London’s completed, Skanska’s initial task was to complete the fledgling insurance market. basement works before steel erection started. Setting it apart from its neighbours, the Scalpel features A third of the existing basement was partially deepened, an inclined northern façade, which has a diagonal fold line and to keep the construction programme on schedule, the running from top to bottom giving the building its distinctive ground floor slab was cast early. look and name. This allowed the basement construction to be done using This façade is formed with a series of cranked plate a top-down method, while the steel erection proceeded girder columns, spaced at 6m centres. For the double-height above, simultaneously. ground floor these columns are vertical, but from first floor Early works also included constructing the building’s they are cranked and slope inwards all way to the building’s main concrete core. Once this had reached its halfway point pointed top. at level 17, the steel erection programme was kicking off at Elsewhere, the structural frame consists of a composite ground floor. design with steelwork supporting metal decking and a Unlike many commercial buildings, the Scalpel’s main core concrete slab. All of the floor beams are 670mm-deep is offset and positioned along the south elevation, which fabricated plate girders with service holes to allow service provides shade from solar gain. In this way, the structure’s integration within the structural void. available floor space has been maximised and internal spans Commenting on the decision to use a steel framing of up to 20m have been achieved. solution Skanska project director Ian Perry says: “Using Having an offset core coupled with an inclined north steelwork is an efficient option for this type of construction elevation means that the loads on the building are eccentric

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from the main stability-giving core. To counteract this, the north elevation, as well as the east and west facades, have been designed as large perimeter moment frames to add stiffness to the building. The core houses three banks of lifts, one for the lower levels (1 to 12) one for the mid-levels (13 to 24) and one for the upper floors (25 to 35). This means the core decreases in size towards the top as only one bank of lifts is accommodated at the upper levels. Again, this has helped the project further maximise the available floor space. Because of the building’s inclined northern elevation, floor areas decrease from 1,466m2 on the second floor to 614m2 on level 35, the uppermost office floor. Up to level 21, the building has one row of internal columns, but as the floor plates decrease in size, these are no longer needed, and by level 24 there are none. Topping the building is a 10-storey triangular attic that will house plant and maintenance walkways. A high piece count would have ordinarily been expected for this structure, so in order to make the erection process as easy as possible and iron-out any snags, William Hare will trial erect this portion of the building at its fabrication yard. “Once it has been trial erected, the attic structure will be dismantled and then brought to site in the largest pieces that can be transported and erected by the on-site tower cranes,” explains Perry. The attic is a complex steel structure designed to be erected floor level by floor level, with each level immediately The Scalpel’s frame has a stable on erection. Designing the attic in this way was vital diagonal fold line running as there is no core to give stability this high up the building, from top to bottom and no internal floors to provide diaphragm action. The project is scheduled for completion later this year.

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OPERATION CONCRETE DELAMINATION AND ANCHORAGE ENGINEERS ARE POST TENSIONING THE M4 USK Chepstow M48 THE TWIN DECKED USK BRIDGE BRIDGE IN SOUTH WALES TO EXTEND ITS LIFE M4 NEWPORT M4 BY KATHERINE SMALE 200m Portishead Cardi Bristol Tension force

A4042 M5 Weston-super- N Mare A4051 Delamination below Anchorage length FULLY anchored River critical threshold required Usk BRYNGLAS A4042

he bridge carrying To do this, when the bridge was M4 the M4 over the River built, 40mm wide and 430mm deep SHEAR FAILURE Usk in Newport, South KEY STATS slots were cut into the top and the Junction BEHIND Wales is on first sight bottom of the deck leaving a thin 25 THE Junction USK BRIDGE JOINT unremarkable, but the strip of concrete 430mm thick in the 143m 26 same cannot be said middle. To carry the shear and the CRINDAU about work being carried out to Length of thrust, this strip was then reinforced NEWPORT Delamination above Anchorage length critical threshold required Trepair it. five span with 32mm diameter scissor bars: The bridge is a 143m long five span two pairs of six, cross the joint – SECTION SHOWING reinforced concrete structure. Built in structure three top, three bottom – with three CONCRETE DELAMINATION BRIDGE PLAN (single deck) POST-TENSIONING

the 1960s, its looks are typical of the horizontal straight bars running SPAN 1SP AN 2SP AN 3SP AN 4SP AN 5 New post-tensioning era, belying its role as one of the most through the centre. In theory, when tendons Bridge deck important bridges in Wales. 430mm the deck hogged and sagged, the New concrete anchorage blocks The bridge is on the main Thickness of movement would be accommodated Downstand Downstand Beam 1 Beam 2 arterial route into Cardiff on the M4 thrust hinges by the gap. Beam 1 motorway – to close it for any length But due to poor construction, the Beam 2 New concrete of time would be political suicide slot was not wide enough in places, Beam 3 anchorage block and create untold havoc on the Beam 4 surrounding local road network. PIER PIER PIER PIER So when problems were found to be Post-tensioning tendon ducts developing with its structure, some BRIDGE ELEVATION As the deck (6/deck) THRUST HINGES Expansion joint between innovative thinking was needed from Expansion joint between bridge deck and approach viaduct consultants WSP and main contractor flexed, the bridge deck and approach viaduct Costain as they sought to find a way East approach viaduct deck of halting the damage. concrete at the top West approach viaduct deck The problem lay with the bridge’s thrust hinges, a proprietary product and on the bottom designed by the consultant Sir Owen River Usk Williams & Partners. The joints were was crushed by the put at points of contraflexure – points “ where there are zero moments. The compression force of joints were designed to let the deck the two sides coming bend and flex while carrying both 143m thrust and shear. together

90 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 Although the USK BRIDGE thrust hinge is STRENGTHENING strong in itself, and the THE FAILING THRUST HINGES beam reinforcement “is quite strong, it’s the interface between the two that we’re concerned about

and as the deck flexed, the concrete at the top and on the bottom was crushed by the compression force of CONCRETE DELAMINATION AND ANCHORAGE the two sides coming together. This in turn delaminated the concrete at the Chepstow plane of the reinforcement. M48 The resulting exposure of this THE TWIN DECKED USK BRIDGE M4 NEWPORT M4 reinforcement not only left it open to the elements and degradation, but 200m Portishead more critically it meant it was not Cardi Bristol Tension force being securely held in place by the

A4042 M5 Weston-super- concrete leaving it susceptible to pull N Mare out and making the joint likely to fail A4051 Delamination below Anchorage length FULLY anchored in the future. River critical threshold required A sensitivity analysis into the Usk length of anchorage bond required BRYNGLAS A4042 was carried out by engineers from WSP. It identified that in the worst M4 case scenario the capacity of the SHEAR tapered deck support beams which FAILURE Junction BEHIND span between the piers dropped 25 THE rapidly after a critical length was Junction USK BRIDGE JOINT 26 reached. CRINDAU “In the analysis, we looked at what NEWPORT Delamination above Anchorage length happens when you lose cover or critical threshold required anchorage to that rebar,” says WSP SECTION SHOWING senior engineer in civil, structural and CONCRETE DELAMINATION BRIDGE PLAN (single deck) POST-TENSIONING ground engineering Richard Owen.

SPAN 1SP AN 2SP AN 3SP AN 4SP AN 5 New post-tensioning “We found there would be a shear tendons failure at the back of the thrust hinge Bridge deck detail due to that loss of anchorage. New concrete anchorage blocks Downstand Downstand “Essentially, although the thrust Beam 1 Beam 2 Beam 1 hinge is strong in itself, and the beam

Beam 2 New concrete reinforcement is quite strong, it’s the Beam 3 anchorage block interface between the two that we’re Beam 4 concerned about.” With this threshold not yet PIER PIER PIER PIER Post-tensioning reached, the Welsh government tendon ducts BRIDGE ELEVATION decided to take action to prevent a (6/deck) THRUST HINGES Expansion joint between future collapse of the bridge. Expansion joint between bridge deck and approach viaduct bridge deck and approach viaduct But repairing the joints brought East approach viaduct deck about a whole new set of challenges. West approach viaduct deck Part of the problem stemmed from the bridge’s unique form. There are around 100 thrust hinge bridges in River Usk England and 15 in Wales and the deck for these structures was formed from a flat slab, with the reinforcement for the joints spread evenly across their width. In this case, the deck slab 143m spans between tapered beams which span between the piers, so the hinges

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We looked at the upper limit of the compressive stress “|over the hinge and if we’d crush or burst it

were restricted to the beam widths. To repair the Usk bridge joint properly, concrete surrounding the damaged area had to be removed and reinstated, but this would have compromised the strength of the joint and without additional support would cause the bridge to collapse. With two hinge lines in the central span and one in each of the second and forth spans, the challenge of accessing the underside of the bridge to carry out the repairs, while keeping the bridge open, had to be overcome. Ordinarily, the job to repair the beams would have been relatively straightforward. A series of temporary props could be built from the ground underneath to provide an alternative support to the deck, then the damage to the joints could be repaired. But this was not possible on the Usk bridge as it crosses a protected without propping it?” asks Owen. compressive stress over the hinge Site of Special Scientific Interest “How do we enhance the capacity of and if we’d crush or burst it. (SSSI). Building props in the river KEY STAT the beams at the hinges and increase “Then we looked at how the forces was considered to be too dangerous the shear resistance as well? from the anchorages would affect and intrusive. The team had to find “We might be able to do that if we the structure as we were jacking another repair method. 100 make the strut and tie component of tremendous forces into localised With the added complication Number of that [the joint] much shallower so we areas and how these would dissipate of the urgency of the work, reduce the criticality of the length of into the decking and the slab.” conventional design timescales thrust hinge the rebar. That will allow us to adopt Positioning of the tendons locally were dismissed. A working group bridges in the the traditional method of concrete around the joints was ruled out due comprising the Welsh government UK removal and repair. to the number of anchorage points and a team of WSP structural “The only way we could do that which would need to be built, as engineers was formed to examine was to introduce external post well as the risk of putting unwanted the feasibility of the various tensioning.” tension into the beams due to the technical solutions. Throughout the But with this solution came another stiffness of the piers. process, consultant Atkins provided raft of issues which needed to be taken Therefore the team decided to run the regulatory checks on the design. into account. At this point French the post tensioning tendons along The team came up with a scheme specialist Freyssinet came on board. almost the entire length of the bridge to post tension the bridge to put The first issue was that the post from pier one to pier four. Pairs of an additional compression into the tensioning could potentially buckle cables are being run in the three beams and increase the capacity of the structure. “However, after looking gaps created between the tapered the joints while the work to repair at various modes we decided that downstand beams on the underside them was underway. wasn’t an issue,” says Owen. “Then of the bridge. The need for tendons “How do we repair the beam we looked at the upper limit of the on the outside of the structure was

92 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER | JULY 2017 complicated by the fact that the east and west carriageway are two The problem separate superstructures but are supported by the same substructure. is we’re putting Therefore if one side was stressed before the other, torsional forces in post tensioning to would have been induced leading to a within an inch of its potential failure of the deck. But before the tendons could be life without bursting it stressed, the team hit yet another obstacle. “ An expansion joint between the bridge deck and the deck supported The next challenge was access to by the approach viaduct was also the underside of the bridge to carry not sufficient to accommodate the out the works. The team or planned thermal movements of the bridge. To to suspend access scaffolding from this point the additional compression the bridge, but the analysis of the induced in the bridge by the contact bridge showed there was no spare between the two decks had benefited load capacity for the works. More the structure having the same effect worryingly for the Welsh government as the post tensioning. But with it also showed that technically the the additional force from the post bridge was incapable of carrying the tensioning, the concrete in joint could heaviest vehicle loads. have been crushed. Again the team had to go back to “Some of the monitoring work we did first principles and prove factors a few years ago illustrated to us that of safety and factors applied to the the structure ceases to move freely at materials could be reduced and certain temperatures,” says Owen. therefore release more load capacity. “The problem is we’re putting in Using a dynamic amplification post tensioning to within an inch of analysis which looked at the its life without bursting it. Then you response of the structure under get the glorious summer that we particular moving load cases, WSP always have, temperatures rise, and demonstrated that the load factor the structure locks up and we get this could be reduced. To prove the additional longitudinal compression material factors could be lowered, introduced into the deck and WSP took core samples and measured suddenly it goes pop.” their self weights and compressive avoided by putting a higher force in Left: Preparing the The task to widen the expansion strengths. It also undertook an the pair in the outer gaps (390t) than new hinge joint joint was a job in itself. Because the extensive survey of the bridge’s in the middle gap (240t). Top: Work had to reinforcement appeared to have been dimensions to ensure the elements “If we put them on the outside take place at night cast too close to the edge of the deck, did not differ significantly to those [edge of the structure] we would Bottom right: it needed to be cut and bent back to used in the analysis. On top of this, have had to build some corbels on The new concrete create a new edge. But to get enough the team carried out a statistical the external face and then to get the post-tensioning purchase on it to enable it to be bent, analysis to prove the sample set was anchorage for the corbels, you’d 250mm of concrete had to be cut robust and reliable. anchorage blocks probably have to transversely post away off the end leaving a large hole The hard work paid off and the tension through the beam which in the carriageway above. team was able to prove the factor would have been a whole new design “In breaking all of this out, there’s could be reduced from 1.15 to 1.05, solution,” says Owen. a big hole in the M4,” says Owen. releasing enough capacity for the “What we’ve gone for is keeping “Freyssinet has brought some clever heaviest highways loading with everything internal, it’s invisible to ideas into play to avoid some very enough left over for a scaffolding the external elevations, it’s away from costly temporary works which would system to be hung from it. the weather and it’s out of the way of otherwise disturb the traffic.” Despite the additional capacity, shipping.” The use of hydrodemolition for the limits on the structure were still Areas of concrete around the new the break out work meant that extremely tight. WSP designed the anchorage blocks had to be broken contractors were confined to night scaffolding system to have different out and new reinforcement tied into works only. This programme to cut zones with separate, strict weight the structure to ensure it was strong away the concrete and reinstate restrictions. enough to take the required forces. the joint added thus added another “The assessment that took place The sequence to carry out the layer of complexity to the already necessitated a strict management tensioning of the cables was further technically challenging job. plan,” says Owen. “The scaffold is

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When the deck was built, little FLOODING VIEW eff ort had been put into the keeping the “gap straight, smooth or SUDS NEED vertical set up in zones which are carefully JOINED UP THINKING controlled. Some are personnel only and then there are some which are directly over the piers so the load path doesn’t go through the superstructure and materials can be stored there.” With the repairs to the concrete We have been talking room to avoid SuDS. Excuses not to install SuDS underneath the joints now in hand, about sustainable include: “they’re too diffi cult to install”; “they take the team had to make sure the joints drainage, or SuDS, for up too much space”; “they’re too expensive to were reinstated to their original almost two decades install and maintain going forward.” All of which design. Despite the slot running the now. I’ll save you are demonstrably not true. width of the carriageway at the top another detailed Secondly, many of the water companies have and the bottom of the deck now being explanation and just long resisted the adoption of SuDS into their opened out, fl exible sealants to stop Martin say that SuDS aim networks, preferring instead to adopt “traditional” water ingress into the joint could still Lambley to mimic the way solutions with which they are familiar. Wavin’s not be installed. rainwater drains experience in the supply of geocellular structures “When the deck was built, little naturally, rather than for stormwater attenuation/infi ltration goes back effort had been put into the keeping collecting it into pipes and passing it downstream, nearly 25 years and it has supplied millions of them the gap straight, smooth or vertical,” contributing to fl ooding. across untold projects. It is not new technology, says Owen. “We’d like to have a I recently attended a presentation on the 21st and yet very few of them end up getting adopted buried joint, but they don’t tolerate Century Drainage Programme, a really-interesting into the water companies network to the extent curves or differences in level. You project that is bringing together a wide range of where, if a scheme requires attenuation to be need a nice square edge. stakeholders from throughout the water industry adopted, it is likely the developer will go for “Therefore we have to reconstruct (although I note no-one from the manufacturing the solution which is usually oversized pipes, a it to an acceptable quality.” end of the supply chain) to try and determine what technology they know and trust. With no opportunities to shut the the future of drainage in the UK looks like. We are in a circle, with no legislation to force the bridge during daylight hours and During the presentation, the issue of SuDS was implementation of SuDS, planning with neutered no contrafl ow allowed due to the inevitably raised. It’s diffi cult to ignore SuDS; there powers to enforce SuDS, a system with wriggle room proximity of the Brynglas tunnel has been much excellent research undertaken for developers who don’t want SuDs and water immediately west of the bridge, and some very practical documents produced. companies which are resistant to adopting them. all work above the deck had to be The benefi ts are undeniable and the tools exist to While there is a pending review of the current carried out during overnight closures enable designers to drive forward good drainage SuDS system, I doubt anyone expects it to change from 8pm to 6am. design utilising SuDS. The 21st Century Drainage and so the onus on delivering sustainable drainage Tight limits and heavy supervision Programme quotes SuDS as “a vital part of the water falls to the industry. are being applied to the construction industry’s long-term strategy to manage the impact of The 21st Century Drainage Programme is a great of the new slot to ensure the mistakes development”, and yet, in some areas of construction, idea, the water industry is starting to think as a from the original construction work the take up of SuDS is frustratingly slow. collective and I just hope it lets us start delivering are not repeated. Work was scheduled Part of the problem is the lack of legislation the future as one. to take place along side other planned to drive the implementation of SuDS. The Flood G Martin Lambley is Wavin product manager, work on the adjacent Brynglas and Water Management Act 2010 had within it foul, utilities and water management tunnels. There, Costain in partnership a framework to standardise adoption of SuDS with Capita is in the midst of a throughout the UK. However, under pressure from major two year programme to bring various groups, the government decided not to mechanical and electrical systems up implement these powers, instead offering up a to standard. This work is due to end in much watered down system via planning that gave January 2018. N

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Our ambition is becoming ever easier. Sensors are cheaper and easier to acquire is to move this and use. And surveying assets remotely, using geolocated drones industry from high or car mounted cameras, is enabling the creation of exceptionally high risk, low margin, to low definition images that negates sending humans into high risk risk, high margin environments to do the job manually. “ What this means is that these technologies are generating multiple product spin offs developed for terabytes of data on a given project engineering as a direct result of an or asset. With more computing power initial focus on the marginally more now needed, attention is turning to glamorous world of film. how to hold the data. Autodesk’s ambition is greater than “In terms of where we’re at with merely providing software to make technology, we are in the era of current processes smoother and the Cloud right now,” stated Mott more visually stimulating. The firm MacDonald head of digital delivery has recently opened up the lower services Cory Dippold. floors of its Boston headquarters, But it is not just holding the data creating a hi-tech community that counts. The latest challenge is to workshop space for the best problem create the predictive analytics from this solvers to test out prototypes and raw data, to render the data useful. brainstorm the most creative ways to Recreating the transformation,” says Autodesk Delegates at the Autodesk event change what and how things are built. physical world in construction business line director heard that while predictions about During New Civil Engineer’s visit the digital world Sarah Hodges. “Profit margins consumer behaviour have become to the Building, Innovation, Learning is taking BIM to continue to be razor, razor thin and commonplace in sectors such as & Design (Build) space, projects the next level major projects continue to overrun in retail and there is work to do to reap ranged from creating structural time and budget. Our ambition is to similar benefits in engineering. elements from recycled cardboard move this industry from high risk, low The vast quantity of data currently to rehabilitating old buildings aided margin, to low risk, high margin.” being generated from BIM, held in the by 3D printed recreations of old Research from the World Economic cloud, and derived from large scale architectural details. Forum suggests that full scale asset monitoring needs to be better Those using the Build space can digitalisation of the construction used. Mining this data and analysing it access training, expertise, areas for industry could create huge savings effectively could afford great benefits in large-project work, and more than – equating to close to £1bn in the searching for patterns across projects, 60 pieces of advanced fabrication design and construction phase and infrastructure assets. machinery – including the latest Recreating the physical world in “The roles in industry start to robotic hardware. the digital world is the next way that twist and shape when you apply the The reason why is clear. The BIM is being built on. industrial model,” said Autodesk industry must change and adapt and Despite there being an increasing building products vice president Jim the brightest brains need a place to acceptance of the role BIM plays in Lynch. The Laing O’Rourke design for find ways it can be done. construction, there is perhaps still manufacture and assembly plant in Productivity in the UK’s a faction which underestimates its the UK is one of the earliest examples construction industry is “flat lining”, potential beyond its ability to create of this philosophy, but other real according to Mark Bew, chair of attractive 3D models. life examples are popping up the UK government’s task force on BIM now has more of a role to globally all the while. Finnish offsite building information modelling (BIM), play in taking information learned construction specialist Admares is who spoke at the event. during construction and adding to producing entire fitted out homes at Perhaps unsurprisingly, he it once infrastructure assets are its Scandinavian headquarters before urged a widespread adoption of live, according to Autodesk AEC floating them by sea this summer increasingly advanced BIM, saying strategy and marketing vice president to their final destination – Dubai. it would be vital in helping “a Nicolas Mangon. “That creates a And in Australia, tech firm Fastbrick massively fragmented industry” to bidirectional relationship between Robotics has patented its Hadrian X change. 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Mace has invested £9M in a radical new “jumping factory” – which will enable buildings to be constructed at a rate of one storey a week. The self contained factory is housed in a 10 storey “tent” which is built around the perimeter of the new build. Inside, the building is constructed floor by floor. When one storey is complete, the factory is “jumped” up 3.3m to the floor above to repeat the process, revealing the completed storey. The contractor is constructing East Village Plot No 8, a 30 storey residential building in Stratford, London. A hydraulic jacking system has been designed to jump the structure up the building as work progresses.

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Canadian wind engineering specialist RWDI validated the designs in its wind tunnel testing facility, which put the results within 5% of the team’s models. “The technology was kind of new to us and we wanted to make sure that [our models] were really correct,” adds Celli. Below ground, efforts to save time and cost were also gathering pace. “We had to be ready for a marketplace that was rapidly approaching and we had to be first to market,” explains Skanska operations vice president Paul Pedini. “We had to actually working as your temporary The 17 storey lasts the entire cycle of the project,” come up with an idea that would get structure,” explains Pedini. building offers says Pedini. us out of the ground and built faster The approach also enabled port-side views, Skanska is hoping that 121 Seaport than the people, literally, across the foundations to be shallower, equating but the location is serves as something of a trailblazer street.” to savings of $6M (£4.6M). exposed to strong in its use of technology. It is also The construction methodology was Meanwhile, steel installation and winds working with Autodesk to beta-test key, and the Skanska construction concreting for the superstructure BIM360 Project IQ, which analyses team opted to eschew a traditional could be carried out simultaneously. building information modelling data basement excavation, which would “This way we could build up at the from the project to enable a “risk have used temporary raker props. same time as down, and it saved management” approach, creating Such props would have accounted about six months on the schedule, so-called machine learning on the for a third of the steel needed for the which was critical to the financial project. In other words, as more whole building. “It’s really ridiculous success,” he adds. information and data is gathered and that there’s this such a lot of waste,” Showing the client “rudimentary understood, the risks can be better exclaims Pedini. “After you use these drawings” to illustrate these predicted. raker members you have to cut them iterations was “kind of “The construction industry is up and pull them out because they’re underwhelming”, according to Pedini. probably the worst industry in the all encased in the building; then you So the team joined the Civil 3D model world for technology adoption,” says have to patch up those holes, which for the underground structure with Skanska senior vice president Al costs millions of dollars. Revit superstructure model, alongside Gogolin. An “unconventional technique” the Navisworks project schedule, to “If you let us, we will go out there called “up-down” construction create a single 3D planning tool. right now in hard hats, glasses and emerged as a viable, value engineered This allowed nimble design and vests and we will pound nails until alternative. construction alterations as well as we’re blue in the face and it’ll take a This involved installing a retaining aiding the client side of Skanska job like this decades to be built.” wall beneath the site perimeter, with to be brought up to speed with Given the new skills that projects foundation piling beneath each interior each change and what it meant for like this dictate, Gogolin predicts column needed for the above ground the programme. It even informed that within five years, Skanska will structure. As excavations progressed decisions about the types of have hired its first “data mining for each of the below ground levels, site construction equipment that would engineers” to aid this machine workers installed the parking garage suit the job. learning approach to engineering floor slabs, which acted as bracing “The model is not just there for and risk management. Watch this for the excavation. “The building is pretty pictures it’s a useful tool that space. N

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A Balfour Beatty/ Gammon Construction joint venture has won a £200M deal to construct a water park in Hong Kong. The job involves installing and fitting out the rides and attractions and constructing the main building. Gammon will install mechanical and electrical services. The client is Ocean Park Corporation. The year- round, all-weather park will be on the shoreline of Tai Shue Wan. The site covers an area of over 64,000m2. Building Information Modelling (BIM) will play a key part in the construction programme.

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primary UFF REVIEW: KEY POINTS regard is to make sure the cash keeps “Professional engineering institutions should expand and continue being “the voice of the turning over set up a joint body to promote mergers of profession”, but should seek a more representative “ their separate activities with a view to eventual membership combining of membership such that anyone joining l Self-regulation through the Engineering Council, PEIs’ membership between them one institution would be entitled to enjoy the with powers devolved to institutions, works well and represent only 17% of UK engineers; facilities and opportunities of all.” - John Uff must be maintained those registered as IEngs, EngTechs, or Chartered engineers account for Summary of key recommendations: In response, the PEI’s have declared targeted just 5%. workstreams on: So where is everybody? That is the l PEIs must urgently find the 3M people in the UK l advice to governments subject of an independent review, who work as engineers and have no affiliation with l promotion of the profession in schools UK Engineering 2016, released in an institution l support for knowledge sharing across engineering March and commissioned by the l Efforts to promote engineering and STEM disciplines three biggest PEIs: The ICE, IMechE subjects to young people (currently undertaken l a review of the efficiency of accreditation of and the Institution of Engineering & by EngineeringUK, The Royal Academy of academic courses and Technology (IET), which between Engineering, and many others) overlap in places, are l a programme to engage and support members them account for 70% of all UK PEI not working, and requires an overhaul. of the engineering industry who are not currently members. l The Royal Academy of Engineering should professionally registered They chose barrister John Uff to write it. Originally a civil engineer, Uff qualified as a barrister, and Although Uff made 20 over, rather than merged. specialised in construction disputes recommendations in his wide-ranging There is also a long history of and arbitration, chairing several KEY STATS review, it is his first piece of advice reports and inquiries – the Finniston public inquiries in the UK and that has proved most controversial: review of the 1980s and the Hawley abroad. Uff worked pro bono on the that PEIs should form a joint body to review of the 2000s to name a couple. review, canvassing views from across 231,034 create mergers, eventually combining Most covered the same ground engineering, taking hundreds of Total UK PEI membership, so that anyone joining as Uff and largely failed or made written and oral submissions over six membership one institution would enjoy the some problems even worse. Uff months. opportunities provided by them all. acknowledges this, and says instead The chief problem he identified Uff has said it was the PEIs’ action of mergers being imposed by an is that while engineering is a broad 3M on this recommendation that would external body, or PEI executives, profession and is increasingly determine how seriously they took perhaps change could occur expanding into new areas of Best estimate his report. gradually in steps. expertise, the professional bodies of total pool It was rejected outright. Since the review’s release, the PEIs are still operating largely in a 19th of engineers Of course there are good reasons have put together joint responses Century model. “As regards the why. Firstly, many PEIs are run as on Brexit and the UK government’s contribution of the institutions, it was large commercial enterprises. “It’s Industrial Strategy – a small but considered the majority continue to what all the big PEIs do, they are promising step. be inward facing, elitist and insular struggling to maximise their asset, and thus failed to attract sufficient and I think their primary regard potential engineers,” says Uff’s is to make sure the cash keeps report. turning over,” says Uff. He argues Engineering is increasingly split there is extensive duplication of The majority of not by sector but by skills. Multi- administrative and professional disciplined youngsters are valued, so functions, to the extent that if these the institutions is adeptness in digital, creative and charitable bodies were subject interpersonal activities. Many starting to normal commercial forces and continue to be inward careers today will end up in vastly pressures, many of their functions different parts of engineering. Indeed, would have been merged long ago. facing, elitist and many youngsters starting their But as well as economic careers today will find themselves sustainability to consider, there are insular and thus failed working in new fields that do not exist history and traditions. One hundred “ to attract sufficient yet, let alone a field that has its own years ago there were 50 institutions, PEI. with many since wound up or taken potential engineers

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Also, they have taken Uff’s 19 Stephen Tetlow. He calls the report a too many. But they exist because they recommendations and announced “wake up call” for PEIs and the wider fulfil needs,” Fine says. five “workstreams” to guide future engineering community to “start KEY STATS The Uff review was led by the most action (see box). acting in a 21st Century way”. popular PEIs. But it will affect scores In response to the merger Tetlow adds that his own view is of the smaller bodies – some up to question, they have committed only that the work done after the review 35 100 or 1,000 times smaller. to “support for knowledge sharing – behind the scenes negotiations, Number of With about 5,000 members, of across engineering disciplines”. workstreams, joint responses – has which 1,700 are registered, The To that end, ICE director general not gone far enough. “The nature of PEIs today Welding Institute (TWI) is far from Nick Baveystock says “a combined the profession is changing, crossing the largest or the smallest. TWI chief knowledge portal” is in the works to boundaries very fast, and we need a 70% executive Chris Eady says, tongue share knowledge and events among much more federated approach.” firmly in check, that he is “delighted” PEIs. It is “not ready yet, but it’s The IET, itself the product of a UK PEI with the idea of mergers: “I would already really looking impressive,” he recent (2006) merger between the members love to see the ICE, IMechE and IET says. Institution of Electrical Engineers and merge, they should form a general On Uff’s report, he says it is an Institution of Incorporated Engineers, in the ICE, engineering institution, if that’s important catalyst for change, also calls for change. “What we need IMechE or what they want. But I don’t think my especially in a post-Brexit political to do is to bring the capabilities of the IET members want TWI to merge with climate and when engineering PEIs together in a way that provides a anyone else.” underwrites more than 20% of gross harmonised way of accessing things Eady says TWI is proud to offer value added to the UK economy. “I if you have interests in different unique and valuable specialist think there is a momentum that Uff parts of engineering,” says IET chief services, including issuing 60,000 allows us to harness to transform the executive Nigel Fine.“Once you create Certification Scheme for Welding and way we deliver engineering in this an environment that is inclusive of all Inspection Personnel certificates country.” people in engineering… then you’re worldwide annually, as well as The IMechE appears more welcoming those who are creating the conducting £8M in research and impatient for action. specialisations of the future.” development. “So to say we’re a small “We should have been getting on But not mergers, definitely not institution is right, in terms of what with this some time ago,” says a mergers, he says. “There are 35 PEIs, the Engineering Council does, but we more critical IMechE chief executive and at one level you can say there are do significantly more than that.” N

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ith UK airports in and getting control over their time. the midst of major “Those who want to get in and out investment programmes of an airport as quickly as possible can and the promise of major walk straight to their aircraft because expansion to come, it is they will know from the technology and easy to focus on the here connectivity how long it will take them and now. But airports are changing and the to get from A to B.” Wfuture needs of airlines and their passengers must also be considered. New Civil Engineer The end to end journey in association with WSP hosted a round Gatwick head of public affairs Mark Lever table debate with key clients, contractors said that we must look further than just and architects to discuss a more long-term the airport experience, to the door to view of the aviation sector and posed the door experience. “It’s the passenger taking question: what will the airport of the future control, the integrated transport, the ability be like? to book one ticket that takes you from leaving your front door to opening the hotel Weekes: Giving passengers more control Bringing back the glamour of flying door at the other end.” “It’s an amazing feat of engineering that He argued this was the big step in the we can put people in titanium carbon fibre future and the integration of different Air travel by its aluminium tubes and we take it for granted. transport systems outside airports was Should we not still be impressed by it?” where technology could make a difference. very nature is asked WSP aviation director Tim Morrison. Mace’s Cole said he thought we could Mace aviation director Nigel Cole argued go one step further where passengers do saving time and that is the that technology could bring back some of not touch their bags until they reach their commodity that the airport the enjoyment of flying by shortening the final destination. “Would people not enjoy time spent at an airport before departure. flying more generally if that stress was needs to utilise the most This could eliminate the stress. taken away?” he asked. “Security drives the “ “Thinking about the whole process of process at the moment.” when you walk in the door until you walk WSP airfield engineering discipline team on the plane, if you could make that 10 or leader Kieron Bradley asked why pre- Working with other transport operators 20 minutes, you would take the stress out of departure times were so long. “It’s three Architects Gensler head of transportation flying.” hours for international flights and an hour and infrastructure Hiro Aso pondered Zaha Hadid Architects associate director and half for short haul. Is it because the whether the airport operators had any Cristiano Ceccato added that the technology security queues are so long? Is it because leverage to engineer conversations with already existed and used the example of a they want you to shop? How do we reduce other transport operators to help bring biometric database for 1.4bn people in India. that time?” about a more joined up door-to-door service. “They are implementing a token-based facial “Air travel by its very nature is saving time “Is this something the operators are recognition system in one of their airports so and that is the commodity that the airport mandated to do, interested in doing, or have when you fly, the computer takes out a token needs to utilise the most” said Heathrow’s the ability to do?” he asked the round table. on your biometrics and you never have to Weekes. “How do we maximise that time Airport Operators Association chief show your boarding pass or passport, as spent to what the passenger requires? That executive Karen Dee responded. “My view is it continually recognises your face as you is hard, but with the technology, we will start that none of the airports could have control go through. “It is a way to overcome that to learn and know what people are looking over those sorts of things. Government can’t throughput using an asset that they have for individually.” even do it.” already with this database.” This is where technology can help. “Depending on which portal you are Controlling time buying through, you are offered onward “It’s the anxiety of being out of control, the journey options,” added Heathrow’s Weekes. passenger is not clear as to what the process “Consumers will expect it more and more. might be, and this is where technology and People will be asking why they have to go connectivity could get control back of the through more than one website.” journey,” said Heathrow Airport Ltd head of Gatwick’s Lever agreed. “This is the future design Barry Weekes. of interchange between airlines too. The idea He foresees a time where gait that we are restricted on the way we travel measurements could be used to identify between two points via a hub is already people so passengers are screened as they changing. walk as opposed to making them stop time “In the future we will be able to change and time again. planes anywhere, with a computer telling me “Technology is moving those processes the cheapest, quickest and easiest way to get away from the passenger, knowing it’s safe Cole: Technology can bring back flying pleasure between from A to B.”

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Aso: Can living near airport be more attractive? In 20 years’ time AROUND THE TABLE Hiro Aso will it be desirable Head of transportation and or cool to live next to an infrastructure, Gensler Kieron Bradley airport? Airfield engineering discipline team leader, WSP Diane Burt “Mace’s Cole said he thought that in future Aviation director, WSP Matthew Butters airports will look like different things for Director, Pascall & Watson different people and each airport will ask Cristiano Ceccato itself: “am I a British Airways airport or a Associate director, Zaha Hadid Ryanair airport?” Architects Nigel Cole Building flexible and adaptable airports Burt: Future proofing airport design is hard Aviation director, Mace Gardiner & Theobald partner Jason Fowler Karen Dee said he thought the problem was when More choice for passengers Chief executive, Airport Operators thinking about the airport of the future WSP’s Morrison said that it came down to Association “we don’t know what it will look like, yet choice and most travellers know what they Jason Fowler we are responsible for the designing and are getting when they book. Partner, Gardiner & Theobald constructing an airport that will still be “Travellers are quite savvy and they want to Mark Hansford around in 50 to 75 years’ time.” choose. And this choice bit is going to come Editor, New Civil Engineer “That’s the bit that is really hard,” added through more and more going forward, and Mark Lever WSP aviation director Diane Burt. that will be what we need to respond to.” Head of public affairs, Gatwick “There are so many choices and options Should they also be given a choice of Airport that we almost need to prioritise. What is type of airport they use, so that, with the Pat Molloy the last responsible moment you can make a expansion of budget airlines, will we start to Group head of capital programme decision about a certain technology?” see budget airports? and runway project director, Dublin Dublin Airport Authority’s group head Airport Authority of capital programme and runway project Tim Morrison director Pat Molloy used sister airport Cork Travellers are quite Aviation director, WSP (which they are also responsible for) as an Barry Weekes example of a modern day airport which still savvy and they Head of design, Heathrow Airport Ltd is not adaptable enough. “It is less than 15 years old and a new want to choose. And this fl exible building, but with the changes in The debate was held in association with security requirements for example, it is a choice bit is going to come struggle to cope.” “It’s the designing for technology that through more and more hasn’t been invented yet,” added Zaha “ Hadid’s Ceccato. going forward “And knowing how disruptive it can be.”

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The next generation of passengers “The next generation just want to get from A to B, and in the future there will be less and less people who will worry about quality of THE NEXT GOLDEN the building or the architecture,” said Dublin Airport’s Molloy. “People want the functionality of the process and the facility, and not to be treated like a process person.” Heathrow’s Weekes disagreed. AGE OF AVIATION “Throughout the generations good quality buildings have evolved but they have endured. “We haven’t gone to 1970s architecture and just carried it on. One hundred “We have developed high quality buildings years on from There is an to respond to people’s emotional and the first one, we functional needs in equal measure.” believe we are in ambitious target Gardiner & Theobald’s Fowler warned of another golden the risk of making a huge generalisation. age of aviation. to reach 50 carbon “There is a huge spectrum of passengers The recent neutral airports in who we will be dealing with in the future Tim roundtable and there is an enormous wave of people held at the New who will be new to flying in China, India Morrison Civil Engineer’s Europe alone by 2030 and Africa. We should be careful not to Airports “ generalise all passengers.” Conference 2017 underlined the unprecedented expansion Cultural identity of airports around the world and that we as engineers are grow”. But we cannot be complacent. “We need to look at peoples’ motivation accountable for the future direction of airport Across the world we now have 34 carbon to travel” said Pascall & Watson director design and aviation. neutral airports recognised by the ACI Airport Matthew Butters. “Culture and identity Opening the conference gave us at WSP the Carbon Accreditation Programme that we don’t disappear because people are more opportunity to reflect on our responsibilities administer. This is great progress from when it connected. On any airport projects we work during this exciting time of growth, expansion started in 2009, but we need more, and there is on, the brief for the terminal is for it to have and invention. an ambitious target to reach 50 carbon neutral an expression of identity, regional context Aviation is by its very nature innovative, airports in Europe alone by 2030. and a statement that ‘this is us, and it’s a and we are used to harnessing science and the Here at WSP our team enjoys solving gateway’.” laws of physics, but we have to continue using complex problems, and they don’t come much “There is a huge amount of regional our imagination to create enjoyable, safe and more complicated than an airport where we contact and aviation is a fantastic efficient places. blend security, sustainability, surface access, opportunity to make those connections and One of our many challenges is to make air quality, carbon emissions, noise, spatial that should be encouraged, rather than build these places, our airports, the hub of their flexibility, regulation, data management as well a shed.” community. as the joy of flying. We are fortunate to be involved in the While we are passionate about aviation, Future airport communities planning, design and management of some of we don’t consider it in isolation. We, like Finally, the debate moved to whether the world’s best, busiest and biggest airports, many, are looking forward to the publication the airport of the future could serve as a such as Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, La of the Airports National Policy, which should community hub, with entertainment, leisure Guardia, Taoyuan, Doha, Dubai, Queen Alia, dovetail with the high speed rail strategy and even housing on site. Changi, Pearson, O’Hare, San Francisco, and and integrate with the highways plans. This “In 20 years’ time will it be desirable or cool Munich. joined up infrastructure allows us to seize to live next to an airport?” asked Gensler’s We are preparing our clients for future the opportunity to help us sustainably power Aso, using the changes to UK railway trends in climate, demography, resources and the engine of UK Plc at home and around the stations as an example where 40 years ago technology with our Future Ready approach. world as we connect the UK to international no one wanted to live near them. The technology that is emerging on the ground communities. “What is it we all need to do to make it and in the air combined with our behaviour as ● Tim Morrison is WSP aviation director, conceivable that people will be living at our an industry, is what provides our “licence to based in London airports?”

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Tarmac Aviation

There are clear benefits to working Left: Greenwood collaboratively but projects do not Right: Tarmac always start out that way. has extensive experience Tarmac has extensive experience of runway working with the aviation industry. It construction and laid the first runway at Heathrow in resurfacing work 1944 and 70 years later came back to carry out a £13.4M project which included resurfacing the southern and northern runways and rapid exit taxiways. The last full-length runway to be built in the UK – at Manchester Airport – was built by Tarmac and the company has also more recently carried out resurfacing works at airports across the country, including Newcastle International. Other also give clients an opportunity to aviation projects it has been involved support local businesses – and gain with include resurfacing works at local support – especially among Ministry of Defence RAF facilities. small and medium sized enterprises. Jeremy Greenwood, Tarmac’s With its logistics expertise, Tarmac is managing director of national helping airport operators and clients commercial and construction cut project timescales and costs while solutions, has said that this sort of mitigating wider disruption to the heritage and experience has allowed public. But, Greenwood argues, this the company to become a valued requires greater early engagement partner for advice and consultation across the whole supply chain. in aviation construction projects. In There are unique challenges the case of the resurfacing project working at Heathrow –as the sixth at Heathrow Airport – with main busiest airport in the world, there is contractor Morgan Sindall – it not scope to cause disruption. meant that Tarmac had a place at the There was only a short working table when the all-important early window in which the work could take construction design conversation took place. Runway possession began place. each night at 10.30pm and the fully “Typically, as a materials supplier functioning runway had to be handed we can be the last people to be back at 5am. Material cooling, skid- involved in the construction design resistance testing and a final sweep of conversation,” says Greenwood. “In the runway were all built into a strict the Heathrow project, there were working window. Gatwick Airport, for example, Tarmac numerous aspects to look at, such as Tarmac worked closely with Morgan used its flowing concrete product the design of the pavement itself as Sindall and Heathrow Airport from Topflow. This meant the concrete did well as the logistics of the project, the outset to determine how to carry not need to be vibrated into place and the costs and how we could minimise out the project in the most efficient only the section being worked on had environmental impact.” way. Working back from the original to be fenced off. “But generally, the sooner we can window dictated how much equipment “What could be a noisy, disruptive get involved in the conversation the could be on site, the size of the on- operation was more or less silent better. Then we can collectively look site asphalt plant, and determined and allowed the concourse to remain at how we can make the project work that they needed to lay 450t of open,” says Greenwood. And as more efficiently as opposed to making asphalt each night. Gatwick is a 24/7 operation, closing decisions in isolation individually.” Good early communication can help the concourse would have been Earlier collaboration can allow uncover innovation and improve the extremely difficult. supply chain partners to introduce passenger experience. On a project Sustainability is another area of new techniques and solutions. It can to extend the passenger concourse at high priority for the aviation industry.

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of delivery, for example, could be three or four times more carbon efficient and durable when in use than a ‘lower carbon’ alternative, or may need less maintenance over its lifespan. It’s important to apply whole life principles and consider the total impact of products over the life cycle of a piece of infrastructure and not just up to the point of construction.” Putting its sustainability know- how into practice while working collaboratively on a project to redesign the pavement and structure of the Heysham M6 link road with Costain, Tarmac was able to help reduce the carbon footprint of the project by 21%. The company has also developed numerous innovative products, many with an environmental focus. It can offer, for example, porous concrete and porous asphalt that allow water drainage and so mitigate flooding. However, if water is collected after heavy rain, it can also be recycled. Greenwood argues that the huge expansion planned for Heathrow offers the construction industry an opportunity to work in a very different way. Early engagement at the heart of these construction programmes can help the industry tackle huge infrastructure challenges. High Speed 2 (HS2), for example, will require around 10M.t of materials, which is a huge logistical challenge. Greenwood adds, “you have to consider how to get the material to the project full stop, and then how to get it to the Greenwood argues that the quality impact, this is a great advantage. project in the most sustainable way.” of the materials used is crucial and Heathrow Airport was very forward But it is not just the large projects points to the Heathrow resurfacing thinking in wanting the best and that offer opportunities for the project to illustrate his point. The longest life surface, which is a industry, Greenwood argues. Airports 3km north and south runways were better environmental solution as around the country are looking to planed and resurfaced with 50mm of well as a lower cost solution in the boost capacity by increasing the Marshall Ashpalt surface course. An longer term.” efficiencies of passenger drop-off Airfield Stone Mastic Asphalt was Greenwood argues that it is zones, for example. used to upgrade the 12 turnoffs and important to look long term. Birmingham airport has also said taxiways. “People can get overly focused on it is considering building a new “The quality of material that was the short term costs and the short terminal to link it to the HS2 station. put down and the quality of the term environmental impacts,” he Whatever the project, Greenwood installation makes the current runway says. “A tonne of asphalt or a cubic says, Tarmac plans to continue to a very low maintenance system,” says metre of concrete with a ‘higher’ embrace aviation and use innovation Greenwood. “So for environmental capital carbon footprint at the point to bring further benefits to the table.

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Welsh National Sailing Academy YGC

The Welsh National Sailing Academy & Events Centre in Pwllheli in north west Wales is a centre of excellence for sail training. The building meets the Breeam excellent rating and has been designed as a state-of-the-art facility to meet the needs of sailors at all levels of ability.

Since the official launch, the facility has hosted events attracting more than 40,000 visits and hosted competitions with competitors from over 37 countries. However, as well as hosting dinghy and keelboat events, yachting regattas and other water sport activities, the centre was also designed to benefit the local community and has a flexible events space, education facilities and café and bar areas. Ymgynghoriaeth Gwynedd Consultancy (YGC), a multidisciplinary consultancy, operating as a commercial entity within Gwynedd Council, had responsibility for the project. This included programme, cost, and A condition of the funding was that Above: The minimise the impact on Special Area risk management for the overall the Academy Building was built to project to deliver of Conservation and its associated development, including procurement the Breeam excellent rating, meaning a £13M vision features. and management of all services and there was less room to manoeuvre on for the sailing Through collaboration with the works contracts. The project was part budget. However, the original design academy was built contractor, savings of £1M were funded by the European Regional that included the use of local stone, for less than £9M realized, with 83,000m3 of dredged Development Fund through the timber and translucent Danpalon – material being kept on site as a Welsh Government and Gwynedd which reduces the need for artificial reclamation area, thus reducing Council. lighting – was reimagined through disposal costs. During the project The build was broken down value engineering, and utilised a a 140m long containment bund into three components: road and lighter steel frame than the originally was built within the marina and the infrastructure; marina extension; designed concrete. seaward side was reinforced with and Academy Building, as the vision, The project team felt this could rock armour. This produced a basin originally conceived as a £13M produce the same clear structure where the dredged material could be development, was successfully and appearance but at significantly pumped ashore and allowed to drain delivered within the £8.9M budget. reduced cost. Using a lighter to form the reclamation area. YGC project manager Gareth Lloyd steelwork structure also meant the The project took a very Wright, said realigning the budget was team could develop a traditional pad collaborative approach with regular a challenge in itself. foundation system instead of piles, board, construction team, and He explains that the project had which again helped with cost. stakeholder meetings. Wright adds to get off the starting blocks quickly While the size of the marina that the project used the NEC3 as the grant money allocated had a extension was scaled back, Wright suite of contracts, and change specified minimum annual spend. explained that a larger area was management, which also promotes a Dividing the works into three helped dredged so that it would be possible collaborative approach. “Ultimately meet these requirements and also at a later date to add additional the project’s success comes down to gave YGC greater control over the berths. Cutter suction dredging had the people involved,” says Wright, project. Separating building and to be used to reduce the amount “and we did have a good set of people marine works, due to their specialist of fine material suspended in the and that’s what the project relied nature, was also helpful with costs. water during the works in order to upon.”

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Uretek Ground Strengthening

Uretek displayed the fine art of the tube at a precise rate. expert ground engineering with the Uretek’s geo-polymers are formed successful strengthening of soil from multiple components that, when under the National Gallery of Ireland combined during the installation in just three days. process, initiate the process of polymerisation. This causes the The UK arm of the Finland- material to change state from liquid headquartered firm used geo-polymer to solid and expand. injections to allow main contractor “We are very accurate in the John Paul Construction to continue locations in which we drill, so we with the reconfiguration of the target the relevant areas of soil,” says Dargan and Milltown wings of the engineering manager Daniel Hadfield. Dublin institution. “The expansion of the geo-polymer Uretek, which is increasingly being improves the soil via compaction or called in at the design stage of major consolidation; it does not act as a new projects, due to the time-saving structural body it allows the soil to ground strengthening technique, transfer the required load.” published a paper earlier this year The mechanical strength of the documenting how engineers can geo-polymers has been evaluated benefit from the technology. by Uretek’s material manufacturers “On the National Gallery of using compressive strength tests Ireland, changes to certain areas of conforming with European standard the building meant additional loading EN826. acting upon existing foundations,” As well as the detailed, accurate says project engineer Liam Bromley. calculations carried out by Uretek “Upon reviewing site investigation engineers ahead of specifying a data, it was deemed that the soils solution, the effectiveness of the underlying these foundations did not injections can be proved with a possess sufficient bearing capacity.” physical site check. Traditional options at this stage Throughout the geo-polymer would include underpinning, with a injection process, relevant parts of major excavation under the existing the overlying structure are monitored building, or retrofitting piles. using rotary lasers and mounted “Both of these solutions would have sensors placed close to the active taken much longer than ours, and injection point. excavating would come with health Each injection continues until a and safety risks, while getting a piling reaction of less than half a millimetre rig in may have been a challenge,” is registered, indicating the treated says Bromley. soil has been reinforced sufficiently Uretek reviewed site investigation to carry the load of the structure, as data and established the depths under the upward force is acting upon the each wall, at which the soil displayed underside of the above foundation. dated, and offering engineers a safe, competency in relation to the A final check is carried out to time-efficient, minimum-disruption proposed loading conditions. A geo- quantify the increase in soil strength. alternative. polymer was then specified, based on Dynamic cone penetrometer testing On the National Gallery of Ireland multiple factors such as compressive is carried out using penetrometers project, the geo-polymer was required strength and expansive force with 30kg falling weights. A up to a depth of 2.5m for an overall As described in the publicly measurable indication of strength can length of 28m. “It was successfully available paper, the Uretek Ground be gained by measuring how many injected within three days and we Improvement method involves drilling “blows” are required to drive a rod were off site allowing the contractor a hole of maximum 50mm diameter 100mm into the soil which is being to get on with the job,” says Hadfield. to the required depth. An injection tested. “Using other methods, main works tube is inserted into the hole and the The firm believes its method is might have had to stop for weeks and specified geo-polymer is pumped making traditional excavation and weeks.” through a truck-mounted hose into piling solutions look increasingly Uretek is increasingly being

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Uretek has carried out in excess of 200,000 geo-polymer injection “projects over 37 years

and increased heavy vehicle use had led to surface fretting and potholes. A survey showed that the integrity of concrete slabs was being compromised by weak ground along a 400m stretch of road. Uretek drilled through the road and subsurface and injected its Geo-polymer resin at depths of up to 3m. In the rail sector, Uretek worked on a project in Farnham, Surrey, to stop settlement in base slabs at a rail depot from disrupting train services. The firm injected its resin into a large area over five weeks and stabilised 6,000m2 of slabs with minimal disruption to operation of the depot. “There is a common problem on the railways called wet bed, where water comes up under the rails,” says Hadfield. “We drill through the slab and inject a geo-polymer that displaces water and creates an impenetrable barrier to stabilise the soil under the slabs. “This is an area we’re hoping to work in more.” Uretek has carried out in excess of 200,000 geo-polymer involved preemptively on The firm works on roads, in the Uretek has injection projects over 37 years. Its construction projects, as well rail sector, on airports, and in the been using the geo-polymers work on most soils, as picking up its traditional commercial sector as well as on a technique on rail including granular, cohesive, organic reactive works when something range of other buildings. projects and made ground. has gone wrong and ground “The biggest plus-points are the The material Uretek uses has a needs stabilising fast. programme saving, and the lack of design life in excess of 100 years “We are involved a lot more disruption. We give clients much and has been tested to remain at design stage,” says Hadfield. less of a headache than other stable for at least 60 years at a wide “If people are looking to add methods” says Bromley. temperature range. It is inert and can to buildings, and they have got Uretek has worked on major be treated as building material waste incompetent soils, they now motorway schemes, as well as if ever excavated. are beginning to understand smaller roads. At Northumberland “It is such a versatile solution and there is a quick, effective way of Avenue in Reading, Berkshire, we believe it is the future of ground strengthening it.” years of damage to a concrete slab engineering,” says Hadfield.

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FLOODING SuDS engineers face numerous obstacles Survey shows that nearly all engineers working on SuDS flood defence schemes have to deal with ownership, adoption and ignorance

Ninety nine per cent of UK examples of best practice, sustainable drainage systems while 45% said that information (SuDS) engineers face multiple is too disparate and difficult to barriers to their work, according find. to new research by the ICE’s Most survey respondents sustainable drainage task force. are seeking more resources to The survey said the biggest help them, with 65% saying that barrier is ownership of they would find case studies SuDs: Many schemes still SuDS, according to 69% of of good practice valuable. Fifty face significant obstacles respondents. Problems getting six per cent said they wanted a SuDS adopted affect 66% and route map that draws together a lack of understanding by the most current available support the recent report putting homes at increased decision makers affected 55%. documentation. from the Chartered Institution risk of flooding. Sustainable SuDS professionals also face David Smoker, chair of the of Water & Environmental drainage professionals need difficulties in finding examples of ICE SuDS task group chair Management which says that increased support from wider best practice and other relevant and business development major institutional obstacles industry and decision makers information. More than half – director of drainage products to the implementation of to do their jobs effectively and 52% – said that there are too few maker Aco said: “Our findings sustainable drainage are prevent damage and disruption

AWARDS ICE APPRENTICES RESEARCH Slope stabilisation Council Election: Applications open ICE R&D fund seeks project wins West Voting has got for President’s applications for Midlands Awards underway apprenticeships sustainability work

A hillside stabilisation project The 2017 ICE Council elections Ambitious and dynamic ICE The ICE’s Research and which helped to protect the open on 1 June, giving members graduate and technician Development Enabling Fund Ironbridge Gorge Unesco World the opportunity to have their members are invited to join is seeking funding applications Heritage Site was overall winner say on who should help to the ICE President for the for work to enhance the and geotechnical award winner lead their Institution. Members Institution’s 200th anniversary evidence base required to at ICE West Midlands’ Annual eligible to vote will receive in 2018. The President’s support radical changes Awards on 17 May. The historic voting papers at the start of apprentice scheme is an towards a more sustainable and Jackfield slip, which had been June. Voting opened on 1 June opportunity to gain insight resilient future. The research slipping into the river Severn and closes on 11 July 2017. into the top of the profession. findings will be published and since the 1700s, has been Results will be announced at Apprentices will work with presented for ICE members. halted by the installation of the ICE AGM on 18 July. Elected 2017/18 President, Lord Mair; Applications from all branches 2,200 continuous flight augur candidates will take office get involved in strategic ICE of the profession are sought, piles. Judges said it was an from 7 November 2017. For projects; attend key ICE events; including those from younger “outstanding project which more information about the and meet senior industry members and those not solves a large, longstanding election process and to view the people and politicians. For more normally involved in research and geotechnically complex candidate statements visit www. information, visit www.ice.org. and development. Closing date problem.” ice.org.uk/ice-council. uk/presidents-apprentices. for applications is 31 July.

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EAST MIDLANDS VIEW TAKING STOCK OF OUR SUCCESSES

As we are in the We have a fantastic throngs of summer, it is the time of year opportunity to engage in the East and West Midlands when with the public to celebrate we celebrate our successes of the how engineering has shaped Claire year! Once again, to communities around the Greenwood we have recognised the past, present and more country. the projects at the “ “The findings from the top of their field, importantly the future government’s SuDS planning highlighting innovation and the achievements of review are due to be published those involved, at our annual award dinners. ICE later this year and we look President Tim Broyd’s visit to the East Midlands to support these amazing and inspiring events. forward to the report.” region on 8 and 9 June cemented the celebration June is also the month of celebration for of these successes as he toured our branches to Women in Engineering, promoting role models see the projects and the teams behind them. for women to be inspired to follow or jump into a Our institution, in particular at regional and career in civil engineering, which runs in parallel PASS LISTS, BYLAW 15 branch level, relies on volunteers to give time to alongside the Daily Telegraph’s Top 50 Women in the many facets of our institution, whether that Engineering. This year the Telegraph’s campaign As New Civil Engineer is now be supporting a school’s event, organising a site is concentrating on the top 50 women under the published monthly, the names visit, judging the Merit Awards or contributing age of 35. It is without doubt that both of these of candidates recently awarded a an expert opinion to one of our interest panels. campaigns will help to promote female role professional qualification with ICE Therefore, it is apt that this month we celebrate models within the industry and inspire the next will only be published online at International Volunteer Week. generations to come. I certainly was inspired by www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/ June is a busy time for our volunteers as we the woman who built one of the bridges on the icenews. They will no longer be have our regional Big Bang events in the East M62, and encouraged me that it was possible to published in the print edition. and West Midlands, engaging with young people be female and an engineer! across the region, hoping to inspire them to I am sure that across all the regions we The pass lists will also be published become the next generation of civil engineers have teams involved in the planning of our on ICE’s website, along with the and construction professionals. The events bicentenary, from both an internal and external names of all candidates applying are always popular with our volunteers, as the perspective. We have a fantastic opportunity to for professionally qualified impact of large scale engagement is hugely engage with members of the public to celebrate membership (Bylaw 15). Both rewarding for all involved. This was particularly how engineering has shaped the past, present can be viewed at www.ice.org.uk/ the case with the East Midlands K-Nex challenge. and more importantly, how it will shape the bylaw15 under “newest qualified There, the visitors exceeded our expectations future. Our challenge in the regions is how member”. Lists will remain on the in building their towers, resulting in the tallest we embrace the digital interactive and visual site for 28 days. To view lists on being measured with a levelling staff! mediums to ensure we can adapt and remain the New Civil Engineer website, Without our volunteers, we would not be agile in this fast moving environment. l visit www.newcivilengineer.com/ able to celebrate the engineering or school’s Claire Greenwood is an ICE Council latest/icenews engagement successes as we would not be able member for the East Midlands

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BENEVOLENT FUND Benevolent Fund launches new film

The ICE Benevolent Fund has produced a new awareness- raising film telling the story of how it once came to the aid of the man who is now its chairman. In the three minute film Benevolent Fund chairman and ICE member Jon Sturgess describes how he approached the Fund six years ago when he lost his job as he undertook The new tooklit is aimed costly house improvements. at getting more women The Benevolent Fund into apprenticeships provided short-term financial support and helped him return EQUALITY to work as a civil engineer. Sturgess later joined the Benevolent Fund as a trustee and this year became chairman. ICE backs launch of toolkit to “The point of the film is to show, through my own story, how the Ben Fund can help help women into apprenticeships engineers facing some kind of crisis,” said Sturgess. “It was a very difficult The ICE is supporting the launch “We have seen successes in of the G7 group of industrialised and challenging time for me. of the Women in Science and our ‘Civils Comeback’ internship nations by some way and Financial problems are only Engineering (WISE), Science, scheme for engineers returning a world class engineering one of many ways the Ben Fund Engineering & Manufacturing to work after having children. workforce is a key to closing helps engineers – it can also Technologies Alliance and ICE We also continue to work with this gap. However, the UK has help with housing, employment, apprenticeship toolkit on 23 schools to help overcome faced an engineering skills financial education, counselling, June. misconceptions about careers shortage for some time now, health and mental well-being. If The toolkit is intended to in engineering and our diversity and the uncertainty of Brexit you need them, get in touch.” help attract, engage, support and inclusivity plan, now in brings further challenges. It l Watch the film at https:// and retain female science, its second year, aims to tackle is therefore vital that we look vimeo.com/217140221. technology, engineering and unconscious bias within the to bring underrepresented maths apprentices. sector.” sections of our society into the The launch coincides To further celebrate Inwed, infrastructure sector. with International Women in the ICE will hold events around “Women represent 12.7% of Engineering Day (Inwed). the UK and will publish relevant the ICE’s total membership and “The ICE continues to content online. Members can female applications to the ICE support International Women join in using the official hashtag are slowly rising, with graduate in Engineering Day, and works #INWED17 and #MenAsAllies. numbers at 16.4%. But there across the year to develop The ICE is also encouraging is a long way to go, and we programmes which aim to submissions to the Daily must take every opportunity address the gender imbalance Telegraph’s Top 50 Women in to ensure we show women and within the sector,” said ICE Engineering under 35 poll. young girls that engineering membership director Sean Harris added: “The UK’s can offer a creative and richly Sturgess: New Ben Fund chair Harris. productivity lags behind the rest fulfilling career.”

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