ICE Info

Question 1

What is the purpose of the ICE?

Answer 1

• The ICE exists to improve lives by ensuring the world has the engineering capacity and infrastructure systems it needs to enable our planet and our people to thrive.
• What:
  o Share learning, fund research
  o Qualify engineers to maintain competence
  o Offer advice to politicians and decision makers
• Why:
  o Address challenges from climate change to demographic shift
  o Bringing together engineers to innovate and find solutions

Question 2

Who is the current president?

Answer 2

Keith Howells – 158th President

Question 3

Who is the next president?

Answer 3

Professor Anusha Shah – 159th President

Question 4

Who was the first president?

Answer 4

Thomas Telford (1820)

Question 5

When was the ICE founded?

Answer 5

1818 - 205 years old

Question 6

What are the ICE codes of conduct?

Answer 6

1. All members shall discharge their professional duties with integrity and shall behave with integrity in relation to all conduct bearing upon the standing, reputation and dignity of the Institution and of the profession of civil engineering
2. All members shall only undertake work that they are competent to do
3. All members shall have full regard for the public interest, particularly in relation to matters of health and safety, and in relation to the well-being of future generations
4. All members shall show due regard for the environment and for the sustainable management of natural resources
5. All members shall develop their professional knowledge, skills and competence on a continuing basis and shall give all reasonable assistance to further the education, training and continuing professional development of others
6. Notifying ICE

Question 7

Keith’s Goals in address

Answer 7

• Climate change – the defining issue of our age
• The institution can effectively achieve its aims by supporting delivery of the UNSDGs
• Seven aims of the ICE for addressing the issue:
  1. To raise engineering standards: specifically, by conferring professional qualifications on our members.
  2. To put the decarbonisation of our industry at the heart of our agenda;
  3. To transform the productivity of our industry through modern methods of procurement and construction, including the widespread use of data and digital technology;
  4. To work with others to build resilience and mitigate the effects of climate change on our infrastructure;
  5. To transform the availability of water, sanitation and affordable clean energy, particularly in the global south;
  6. To develop a technology-focused mobility and transportation programme, to facilitate a reduction in the carbon intensity of transport;
  7. And, to work with others to enhance the knowledge, insight and ethical understanding of engineers.