Civil Scotland - Jan 2015

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Glasgow’s Games Legacy

Since its creation in 2009 ICE Scotland has made good progress in growing and diversifying the membership,

providing high quality knowledge transfer for our members, inspiring the next generation of civil engineers and informing opinion. Ensuring our offer remains relevant and we continue to help civil engineers in their day to day jobs across Scotland and throughout their professional lives will continue to

existing events, publications, lectures or webinars to ensure they appeal to as wide an audience as possible. They have worked hard to help members access our knowledge events at a time and location to suit them by recording events and members can look forward to a new website and improved digital media in 2015. A challenge we face is the high proportion of our members due to retire over the next 10 years. This is compounded by the fact that there

inform our efforts in 2015. Other membership organisations provide similar services, so how does ICE Scotland compare in meeting members’ needs? What makes membership valuable to employers and employees? These are just some of the questions we’ll tackle at an away day with staff and active members early in the New Year. Our branches and specialist interest groups have begun to broaden our

Groups IndexAACE Aberdeen Association of Civil EngineersDAB Dundee Area BranchEAB Edinburgh Area BranchGWoS Glasgow & West of ScotlandH&I Highlands & Islands BranchMGS Municipal Group ScotlandPHEW Panel for Historical Engineering WorksSGG Scottish Geotechnical GroupSHSG Scottish Hydraulics Study GroupSHG Scottish Hydrological Group

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Chairs update

Correction to Annual Report

On page 10 of the ICE Scotland update 2013-14 the plaque erected on Kelvin Bridge (Great Western Road Bridge) celebrated the work of William Arrol NOT Thomas Telford.

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ICE Scotland Support TeamDirector:Sara Thiam

Coordinator: Lynn Dow

Policy Manager: Kelly Forbes

Membership Manager:Donna Surgeoner

Membership Development Officer:Vacant

Marketing & Communications:Vacant

Admin Assistant:Andrew Crawford

Email addresses take the form [email protected]

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Cover picture: Professor Balmforth joins colleagues from Clyde Gateway and Barhale at culvert diversion works in Glasgow’s East End.

Find out what ICE Scotland have been doing to support the membership in our 2013/2014 Annual Update available at www.ice.org.uk/Scotland

will be 15% fewer 11-18 year olds in the UK by 2020 so attracting new and different members will help ensure the highest professional standards in the industry. Increasing the number of engineering technicians will help ensure the Institution is more representative of the industry as a whole and our new Membership Manager Dr Donna Surgeoner will lead on this work. Inspiring the next generation of civil engineers through visits to schools and careers fairs is an activity, which our volunteers enjoy and value highly. There are a number of organisations active in this field in Scotland with whom we might usefully collaborate to maximise impact. Refreshing and updating our activities to meet the needs of our target audiences (young people and those who work with them ie teachers, careers advisors, guide/scout leaders) will also be a priority. Look out for the call for evidence in January for our State of the Nation Infrastructure Scotland Scorecard Report which is planned for Autumn 2015 in time to inform manifesto development for Scottish Parliament elections in 2016. Finally I must thank our outgoing Chairman Ronnie Hunter, who has brought considerable energy and focus to ICE Scotland Committee in 2013-14 and continues to support our policy and public affairs work and ably represent Scottish members’ interests on ICE Council and UK Regional Advisory Committee.

Prof. Gareth Pender ICE Scotland Chair

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What changes have happened in the Membership Team?Scotland and NI Membership staff are now managed as one area. There are now 5 Membership areas in the UK; Scotland & NI, North England, Mid England, London & South East and South West and Wales.The Membership Team for Scotland and NI consists of myself, in a ‘player/manager role’, a part-time MDO in the North and East of Scotland (at time of press still to be appointed), and a new MDO in NI, Jenny Green.

David Kennedy MDO in the North of Scotland, will retire in January 2015. He has been a great member of the team and will be missed.

What is the aim of the re-structure?To provide a more coordinated programme of membership guidance so that members and potential members in all UK areas receive a similar level of support regardless of where they are based, and to have a newly focused approach to our membership recruitment activities.

Will I be affected by the changes?We will continue to hold regular membership surgeries, visit members in organisations with ICE training schemes, run training events, respond to membership queries, and visit Colleges and Universities. In addition, the launch of the new ICE website in 2015 will see a streamlined guidance and application processes for membership. See www.ice.org.uk/streamlining

Do you know someone who could apply for ICE membership? Contact Donna: [email protected] t 01698 356471 m 07584 213393

Donna Surgeoner talks membership

Technician Professional QualificationWe have been promoting the Technician Professional Qualification for several years now and numbers are beginning to increase with 19 applications to the standard review sessions in Scotland in 2014. Congratulations to all those who passed their review in 2014!!

Can you help us increase these numbers further? Do you know a Technician who could apply? See ice.org.uk/technician or contact [email protected]

Congratulations to all those New Qualifiers from the Autumn Reviews:

New Chartered Engineers & Fellows in Scotland


Fergus Lough Aitchison CEng MICE Shona Aitken EngTech TMICEKatie Bacon CEng MICENeil Baillie CEng MICERita Baniulyte CEng MICEMokshda Bheem Singh CEng MICECraig Bogle IEng MICEJordan Brownlee CEng MICEScott Carruthers CEng MICEHok Weng Chau CEng MICEStephen Clark EngTech TMICERoss Davies CEng MICEMethusi Dibidi CEng MICEGavin John Dyet CEng MICESteven Fagan EngTech TMICEKevin Farquharson EngTech TMICEStephen James Gamble CEng MICEMartin Hagen CEng MICENeil William Harcus CEng MICEDavid Howie CEng MICEAndrew Jay IEng MICEDavid Craig Johnson IEng MICEDavid Brian Kelly EngTech TMICESrinivasa Rao Kharidu CEng MICEShah Saud Khattak CEng MICEDavid Kingsmill CEng MICEKatarzyna Kukla CEng MICEThomas Lee CEng MICESteve Lindsay IEng MICE

Tomás Liam Martin IEng MICEFraser May CEng MICEJohn Patrick McCluskey CEng MICEStephen McIlroy IEng MICEDavid Mcwilliams CEng MICEFatemeh Mehrbakhsh CEng MICEEuan Mitchell CEng MICELouise Mitchell IEng MICEDavid Moseley CEng MICEBrian Munro CEng MICEDouglas Munro EngTech TMICECraig Douglas Primrose EngTech TMICEDavid Pritchard CEng MICEAndrew Petrie Reid CEng MICECraig Reid CEng MICEChristopher Scott EngTech TMICEAmol Shah CEng MICEAmanda Shaw EngTech TMICEGrant Sloggie EngTech TMICETimothy Lawrence Taylor CEng MICECraig Turner CEng MICEAnayo Afam Uche IEng MICEKenna Warren EngTech TMICEStuart Waugh IEng MICERoss Whiteside CEng MICEDavid Wiggins IEng MICEEva Wilson CEng MICEMichael Yule CEng MICE

Skills Scotland2014

Tomorrow’s Engineers week, held this year from 3-7 November, is a campaign aimed at changing perceptions of engineering among young people (focusing on 11-14s), their parents and teachers.

In support of the initiative, ICE Scotland ran a 3 day Bridges to Schools event at Belmont Academy in Ayr, hosting 200 primary 7 pupils from local primary schools in the surrounding area.

Two ‘Girls into Physics’ events hosted at George Watson’s College and St Matthews Academy in Saltcoats, targeted secondary pupils – with 160 girls taking part over 2 days.

Volunteers from ICE Scotland, supported by partners Carillion & Amey, engaged with over 2,500 secondary school pupils at this year’s Skills Scotland Careers Fayre in the SECC, Glasgow. A competition to win an iPad mini encouraged pupils to submit their email addresses who then received careers information. Congratulations to winner, Ryan Mcmullen from St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge.

#TEWeek14 – Inspiring the next generation of engineers in Scotland

Education & Inspiration

The grade of Fellow is the highest and most senior grade of ICE Membership and is reserved for senior civil engineers who have made a significant contribution to the civil engineering profession or have advanced the practice of engineering. Congratulations to new Fellows:

Simon ByfordAlan MacLeayMichael McHaleKaren MacPhersonOmar Laghrouche

Andrew AikmanRebecca LunnGraeme MonteithDonald MorrisonCraig Gerry

ICE and Subsea 7 have combined their expertise to bring ‘Bridges to Schools’ to Grampian.

A new bridge model constructed specifically for North East schools was fabricated at Subsea 7’s Westhill workshop with support from CHAP Construction. In total nine suppliers donated materials: CHAP Group, K & L Ross, Grampian Fasteners, RPI Rubber & Plastic Industries, Dales Engineering, ATR Group, Buck & Hickman, Keyline and Loftus Signs.

Tullos Primary School was the first to try out the new model during a visit from the Lord Provost of Aberdeen George Adam. President of Aberdeen Association of Civil Engineers, Rachel Kennedy, said: “Civil engineering is responsible for much of the infrastructure we take for granted in the modern world, such as roads and bridges.

“Like most areas of engineering, we need a constant supply of young talent, and we are trying hard to raise the profile of civil engineering as an interesting and rewarding career choice.”

The bridge model is now available to any primary school, or schools that group together, to host their own bridge building day.

Bridges to Schools launched in the North-East

Barry ColfordTom DougallAlaistair McKintosh

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Offshore Field Life Extension & DevelopmentAberdeen, October, Pieter voor de Poorte, Premier Oil

The latest advances in subsea technology being used by offshore Civil Engineers can both extend the life of North Sea oilfields and make future extraction more efficient. Increasing operation and maintenance costs in conjunction with declining production are late field life challenges which many North Sea operators face. This talk by Pieter voor de Poorte, Premier Oil demonstrated how these challenges are being met and highlighted future focus on Subsea processing with a view to maximising recovery and delaying decommissioning expenditure. These new techniques being developed in the UK sector, will have further potential in other worldwide, more remote, deeper and more challenging environments.

Shieldhall Tunnel – Scottish Water

Glasgow, December, Joe Ruddy & Dominic Flanagan of Scottish Water, and Guillaume LeFrere & Albéric Du Chéné of The Costain-Vinci Joint Venture

Since the 2002 flood in Glasgow’s East End, Scottish Water has been challenged with engineering a solution to the city’s flood alleviation problems. In this presentation, Joe Ruddy & Dominic Flanagan of Scottish Water explored the options appraisal process which lead

ICE Technical Lectures are free to attend. Find out what’s on in your area at www.ice.org.uk/Events-Conferences/Events

Don’t forget to book your places in advance to avoid disappointment!

An increasing number of events are now being broadcast live Online – to join Scottish events, register for your place and use the password scotevent

Transport for Edinburgh: One City … Many JourneysEdinburgh, November, Tom Norris, Director and General Manager, Bob McCafferty Tram Project Manager and Stuart Abbott, Assistant Engineering Manager

In one of the most popular technical lectures of the year, speakers in Edinburgh gave an insight into what has been a high profile and intensely debated project for the city. Design, construction and maintenance of the track, structures on the line (with a design life of 120 years), as well as overhead line equipment and carriages were explored in depth at this EAB G&S event.

How the tram system interacts with the public and other road users within the city centre was a key consideration for Edinburgh Trams, who had to work closely with user groups on safety issues. Ongoing maintenance and inspection of the 14km double track running line, must currently be carried out in a 4.5 hour window overnight when the service is inactive adding time pressures to any maintenance projects. The possibility of moving to a new timetable which runs earlier in the morning and later at night will make this work increasingly difficult.

UK Shale Gas: Frack on, frack off or frack well

Edinburgh, November, SGG’s most recent lecture... Godfrey Thomson Hall, Edinburgh

SGG’s November lecture covered the topical area of fracking as a technology which will be embedded in the future of energy production, with over 2000 onshore wells drilled over the past 30 years – roughly 200 of which are in the UK. Professor Zoe Shipton summarised common concerns, such as: seismicity and fracture propagation,

to the proposed construction of the Shieldhall tunnel; a 4.7 metre diameter, 3.5 mile long water attenuation tunnel, which will drastically reduce the risks of further flooding. Guillaume LeFrere & Albéric Du Chéné of The Costain-Vinci Joint Venture then explored the technical challenges facing the project, and the innovative engineering solutions they have developed to overcome them. The project is due to be completed in 2017, and is likely to capture the focus of civil engineers across Scotland.

water abstraction and use, wastewater management, well integrity, greenhouse gas emissions and the implications for public health.

Political differences between the UK/EU and the US, such as mineral rights and their effect on the rapid development of shale gas extraction in America, as well as the differences in the laws governing extraction and operational procedures were identified as differences that have affected the attitude of the public.

Photo courtesy of Tim Ruggiero

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WINNER

The HelixFalkirkTransforming a 300-hectare site from disused scrubland into a modern urban green space connecting 26 communities with 27km of pathways, The Helix is completed by Andy Scott’s iconic Kelpie sculptures. The awe inspiring project comprises a new 800m access road and 75 space car park, a Greenspace Park; and a 1km extension to the Forth and Clyde canal – which included the creation of an inland lock and a tidal sea lock, as well as two mechanical moving bridges and two static bridges. Since its opening in April 2014, The Development has attracted an estimated 500,000 visitors.

Five runners up also received Commendations for outstanding engineering in this year’s Awards. They were:

1 – Dounreay Low Level Waste Facility for its ‘Engineered containment’, a project exemplifying the role of the engineers in delivering safe and environmentally effective solutions to create Scotland’s first low-level radioactive waste facility.

2 – SSE Hydro, Scotland’s largest indoor entertainment venue, recently ranked the 3rd busiest music venue in the world and was a key venue for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

3 – Waverley Station for its £100M, 3½ year refurbishment programme which has included the reconstruction of the roof, renewal of concourses and platforms, upgrade of station utilities and facilities and platform drainage improvements.

4 – Shore Road Bridge Reconstruction in Stirling – a major element in the £80m advance clearance works for National Rail’s £650m Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP).

5 – Glentarken Bridge – The new Bailey bridge, spans 33m and was constructed across a deep gorge formed by the burn some 40 metres below. The new structure mirrors the trusses of the old railway bridge which was removed after the line closed in 1951.

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President’s visit

Professor Balmforth presents pupils from the Clyde Gateway ‘Get Into Engineering’ programme with their certificates’

David Balmforth, Bob McLellan (Fife Council) and Stuart Eckersley (Operations Director VolkerStevin) at Kirkcaldy Sea Wall

Dura Den Flood Remediation Project L-R Dundee Branch Chair, Frances Ratcliffe, Blyth Berwick , Gillian Balmforth, David Balmforth, Grant McGovern and Tanja Wasser from Mouchel

Professor Balmforth addresses 200 Graduates & Students at their Annual Lunch in Glasgow

GWoS Chairman, Lawrence Shackman meets Professor Balmforth at Scotland’s newest music venue, the SSE Hydro, Glasgow

Professor Balmforth launches Transport Scotland’s new Graduates Network with help from Glasgow Branch G&S Group

Professor David Balmforth speaks to STV at the new Dundee Waterfront Development


Lynne Valentine, Clyde Gateway, shows Professor Balmforth the new Urban Development in Glasgow’s East End

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What is it? A new initiative that aims to match professionally qualified members with more experienced members who can provide advice and support

Who can join? We’re looking for both mentees and mentors to join the scheme.

• MenteesneedtobeEngTech,IEngor CEng qualified, and qualified for between 0-15 years

New mentoring scheme for qualified members


Kelly Forbes has recently joined ICE Scotland as Policy Manager, based in the Glasgow regional office. Prior to joining ICE, Kelly was Assistant Clerk to the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee of the Scottish Parliament, and worked on a number of high profile Bills, including the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Bill and the Housing (Scotland) Bill. She also supported the Committee’s consideration of the Draft Third National Planning Framework.

Over the coming months Kelly will be working on the State of the Nation Infrastructure Scorecard for Scotland 2015, to be published in October 2015. This report will set out ICE’s key messages and recommendations to policy makers in Scotland prior to the 2016 elections, inform opinion, and promote the work of civil engineering in Scotland. Kelly will support the work of the SoN 2015 steering group in shaping the report.

New Policy Manager for ICE Scotland

Clock is ticking to save Union Chain

AACE G&S Photo Competition winner 2014: By Armin Kakavand, site Structural engineer for AMEC

The Britannia Long Term Compression (LTC) project module – a 2200Te structure which was successfully installed offshore on top of a Mono-Column structure (the first of its type in the North Sea). The photo was taken during the sailaway of the module from Wilton’s quayside. The module was towed away beneath the Transporter Bridge (Steel structure in Blue) another UK/World first.

Civil engineers are at the front line of decisions that ‘Shape the World’. This event introduced ICE’s ethics toolkit which assists civil engineers in identifying the ethical consequences of their work, enabling them to fulfil their professional duties to the public, the environment and to society. Geoff French delivered a keynote on the importance of integrity and was joined by Neil Johnstone, an ‘ethics ambassador’ with CH2M HILL, Cath Inglesfield of Mott MacDonald, who helped put the toolkit together as a President’s apprentice and Jim Baxter from the University of Leeds Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre. Neil Johnstone explored how companies embed ethics and good business conduct and ensure their supply chain measures up as well as the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act. Many civil engineers think that they are ‘covering the bases’ ethically by obeying the law. This clearly isn’t the case as there are laws which are unethical and ethical principles which are not reflected in law. Jim Baxter looked at reasons to be ethical which extend beyond compliance with the law and encouraged the audience to consider how engineers should behave in situations including the space shuttle Challenger disaster and New York’s Citigroup Centre skyscraper where contingency plans were made in secret and the story was not made public when the building was found to be structurally unsafe. Find out more on Ethics at: www.ice.org.uk/topics/ethics/Ethics-Toolkit

Integrity & Ethics Breakfast

The world’s oldest suspension bridge still carrying vehicular traffic, opened in 1820, which connects England and Scotland over the River Tweed, has become the focus of the ICE’s PHEW who are working to encourage refurbishment. PHEW Chairman, Professor Roland Paxton, recently took Professor Isohata of Nihon University, Tokyo, to inspect the bridge which is deteriorating from lack of adequate maintenance.

More than £4m is required for its refurbishment which it is hoped will be

achieved by the bridge’s bicentenary and marked by ASCE/ICE with an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark plaquing by both presidents – similar to that for the Titan Crane at Clydebank last year. Prof. Isohata, who on the visit became a ‘Friend of Union Chain Bridge’, an organisation launched at Prof Paxton’s PHEW keynote lecture to a large local audience at Paxton House on 25 June, intends to promote the cause of refurbishing the bridge through the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.

• Mentorsshouldbeexperiencedmembers,and need to have been professionally qualified (EngTech, IEng, CEng) for at least 5 years.

How does it work? Mentees and mentors sign up with the online platform for the scheme. This then helps to match people so that they can begin the mentoring relationship.

www.ice.org.uk/qualification-careers/Mentoring-for-qualified-members

Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland

Volume 3 – 1890-1920. ICE Publishing Ltd. 2014. Pp. xvii, 743. ISBN 978-0-7277-58347 Book Review by Prof Roland Paxton This useful reference work complementing earlier volumes covering 1500-1890 is the concluding part of the world’s most comprehensive biographical dictionary of its kind. This volume covers the life and work of an editorial selection of civil engineers who practised from 1890 to 1920 and is based on unpublished and other archival material at the Institution of Civil Engineers and family and biographical sources. Some British engineers working overseas are included. Its articles, many enhanced with portraits and illustrations, are written by specialist authorities including the editors M.M. Chrimes, R.C.Cox, P.S.M.Cross Rudkin, J.M.H.Elton, B.L.Hurst. R.C. McWilliam. R.W. Rennison. R.J.M. Sutherland and R.E. Thomas.


Aberdeen Association 100th Annual Dinner Join the AACE for this landmark event on Saturday 7 Feb 2015. Cost is £49 Sponsorship opportunities are availableSpeakers: Willie Allan & Judith Ralston, BBC WeatherContact: Clive Kennedy [email protected]

Edinburgh Branch Annual Dinner 24 April 2015, Balmoral Hotel, EdinburghCost: £55Contact: [email protected] Sponsorship opportunities are available.

PHEW Summer Visit July 3-5th 2015 to Dumfries & Galloway AreaVisit the works of Thomas Telford & John Rennie, The Galloway Hydo-Electric Scheme, & Southernness Lighthouse among other historic Engineering Structures. The visit will be based at a hotel in the area with travel by coach.Contact: Sandra Purves [email protected], tel. 0131 556 4503

Above: Top Table at 111th GWoS Annual Dinner, Thistle Hotel, GlasgowGlasgow & West of Scotland Branch celebrated their 111th annual dinner in November, welcoming 600 guests from around the country. The event raised £6,665 for chosen charities RedrUK and Benevolent fund.

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