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ICE NW Annual General Meeting

ICE NW Annual General Meeting. Representing 6,000 civil engineers who live in the NW and Isle of Man. Influencing public infrastructure policy and promoting the civil engineering profession. Delivering benefits and adding value for all of our members Civil Engineers – shaping the world.

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ICE NW Annual General Meeting

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  1. ICE NW Annual General Meeting

  2. Representing 6,000 civil engineers who live in the NW and Isle of Man. Influencing public infrastructure policy and promoting the civil engineering profession. Delivering benefits and adding value for all of our members Civil Engineers – shaping the world ICE North West

  3. Regional Activity - Highlights Presidential Visit and Awards Dinner in Chester Award entries up on 2013 Highly successful Presidential Debate on “Infrastructure as a driver of Economic Growth” • ICE NW Reviews – dedicated TMICE Review successfully trialled • Law and Contract Course fully booked for 2nd year

  4. Qualifications • 74 Grads sat the Professional Review (+25%) • 17 TMICE review applications (+70%) • Overall membership numbers static, TMICE (+6%) • Held two Fellows’ Forums • 24 training sessions and workshops, 700 attendees (+ 65%) • Delivered 4 lunchtime Membership Webinars • 100 company visits and surgeries seeing ~ 585 graduates (+17%), plus over 3,600 consultations by e-mail, phone or web conferencing (+50%)

  5. Informing Opinion • Media coverage up by 10% on 2013 Print 77, Web 14, Radio 8, Broadcast 0 • Presidential Debate - Infrastructure & economic growth • SON Scorecard NW briefing sheet • NW Infrastructure Client Group 2 x meetings, ICE NW partner in first NW Construction Summit • E-news read rates consistently over 30%, • Website use up by 30%

  6. Knowledge • Collectively delivered over 72 Branch and specialist group meetings (over 175 CPD hours) attendance up 23% on 2013 • 6 regional graduate training seminars • Ran 26 week Law and Contract Course, 2nd year, again oversubscribed (good results ‘13) • Exploring delivery of L&C advanced module • Work on-going to increase visibility of ICE meetings through social media • Delivered video summary of Annual Review

  7. Education and Inspiration • Pre-19 activities – 51 (48) activities with over 2,000 interactions • Big Bang – ICE Presence at Liverpool July 2013, Aintree July 2014 • Bridge to Schools – Catalyst Museum Runcorn, will host bridge and local company will fund • This is Civil Engineering – Launched at Manchester Victoria Station, further sites...

  8. Cheshire Cumbria Lancashire and IoM Manchester Merseyside and Graduates and Students Branches

  9. Cheshire Branch 2013-14 • Deliver high quality CPD • Show off the art and science that is civil engineering • Get the schools excited about our art and science • Get politicians involved

  10. Cheshire Branch 2013-14 • Our goal: Nurture Inspire Empower Our programme will be mostly Northwich-centric

  11. Cumbria Branch highlights 2013-14 Chairman: Gareth Scott • 2013-14 Annual Supper – Ambleside • Cumbria Big Bang science fair • Strengthening links between the ICE and other local engineering groups • Kendal and District Engineering Society KDES • Professional Engineers of South Cumbria PESC • Joint west Cumbrian engineering institute committee IMech

  12. Cumbria Branch: upcoming plans 2014-15 Chairman: Gareth Scott • Increase the use of publicity around events (twitter etc.) • Increase the use of shared meetings to provide better value • Increase our discussion with members at events • Continued support of STEM activities in Cumbria • Continue to plan events around Cumbria to suit our members

  13. Lancashire Branch 2013-14 Chairman: Christopher Wilding • More Active Committee Members • Closer ties with Special Interest Groups and other Institutions • Improved communications

  14. Lancashire Branch 2013-14 Chairman: Christopher Wilding • Review the Branch Constitution • Continue to develop closer ties with Special Interest Groups and other Institutions • Look to widen the work we do

  15. Manchester Branch • Delivered 12 technical meetings during 2013/14; • ICE North West Manchester Branch 6th Annual Carol Concert , attracted >300 people and raised £800 for Railway Children, kindly sponsored by GHA Livigunn; • Engaged with prospective young engineers during a two day educational event hosted by St Ambrose Barlow RC High School; • Hosted two “Meet the Committee…” sessions to promote the committee and our values;

  16. Manchester BranchWhat to look forward to… • 15 planned technical meetings including: BIM and the Law: Points to remember; Manchester Victoria Station Upgrade (including a site visit!); Choosing the HS2 Route to Manchester; Manchester City Regeneration; Diversity: Does it Matter? • 7th Annual ICE Manchester Branch Carol Concert; • Change of venue for some technical meetings;

  17. Merseyside Branch 2014-15 Chairman: Bill Atherton • 10 Technical Meetings held over the past 12 months • Providing Continuous Professional Development events for over 500 professionals and students • Supporting the development of Students by organising talks, mentoring sessions and arranging work placements

  18. Merseyside Branch 2014-15 Chairman: Terry McCormick Upcoming plans We have an exciting year ahead and we look to provide the same high standard presentation as listed below:

  19. Graduates and Students 2013-2014 Chair: Sarah Beck • Gained an additional £1100 of sponsorship • Planned and hosted the first diversity event in the region leading to the concept and launch of the Equality and Diversity SIG • 20 CPD events • 10 Written Exercise Group sessions • Hosted the northern final of the Communications Competition • Expanded construction challenge to 3 venues

  20. Graduates and Students 2014-2015 Chair: Ben Smith • Focus on gaining more sponsorship • Gaining an active rep at each university • Hosting the GSNet annual conference • Trialling new venues and earlier start times for CPD events

  21. Environment & Sustainability and Health & Safety Group Geotechnical Historical Engineering Management Transportation Special Interest Groups

  22. Environment & Sustainability and Health & Safety Group • ESHSG established for 2013/2014 session, with Co-Chairs Dave Haddon & Prof Rob Jackson. • Informative lectures, including joint events with Branches in 2013/2014. • Table at ICE NW Annual Dinner 2014. • Regular input to ICE NW e-news. • AGM held on 16 June 2014 at ICE NW office in Manchester.

  23. Environment & Sustainability and Health & Safety Group • Expanded committee for 2014/2015 session. • More extensive joint events with ICE NW Branches in 2014/2015. • New initiative to engage with Liverpool Law Society. • Continuing with ICE NW e-news input. • Aiming for enhanced presence on ICE NW web pages.

  24. Geotechnical Group Highlights 2014-15 Chairman: Martin de Kretser

  25. Geotechnical Group 2014-15 Chairman: Gareth Belton Upcoming plans

  26. Historical Engineering Group • Technical meetings • Liaison with PHEW • Liaison with other conservation groups

  27. Historical Engineering Group

  28. NW Chair’s Apprentices • Lara Smith & Keith MacDonald • Our focus; improving engagement of future Civil Engineers by creating self sustaining network of peers • How? Through mentoring • What we did; • Interactive mentoring session with students at Liverpool University

  29. Key results Findings • Students understood benefits of ICE and mentoring • Focus on jobs, industry and ICE qualifications • Preference for face to face with other technologies (cloud, LinkedIn etc) • Lack of awareness of the G&S • Understand networking opportunities but find it intimidating at events • Don’t always find out about the meetings, too far away, topics don’t seem relevant Recommendations • Graduate/member led job surgeries before meetings • Ways to facilitate networking • Opportunities for career overviews from graduates at Grab a Grad events • Improve profile of G&S in Liverpool • Run similar mentoring research sessions at other Universities

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