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For the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the ICE Demolition Protocol is a British waste management protocol produced by EnviroCentre, in partnership with London Remade. It came out of a joint ICE and Institute of Waste Management group called the Resource Sustainability Initiative.
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, while the rest are located in more than 150 other countries.
Wilson has also been chairman of engineering consultancy EC Harris (now part of Arcadis). [5] Wilson was a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and was its president for the November 1991 to November 1992 session. [1] [6] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queens Birthday Honours of 13 June 1992. [3]
The founding of the Institution was said by Stephenson's biographer Samuel Smiles to have been spurred by outrage that Stephenson, the most famous mechanical engineer of the age, had been refused admission to the Institution of Civil Engineers unless he sent in "a probationary essay as proof of his capacity as an engineer". [5]
However, it was more than a year before a first meeting, including the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, took place on 1 November 1988. [2] The body was incorporated in May 1999, and with the Institution of Civil Engineers then a member, changed its name to the Construction Industry Council in April 1990.
This is a list of presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The president's role is to represent the institution and to promote the profession to the public. The first president was Thomas Telford who had the office bestowed upon him for life in recognition of his contributions to the civil engineering profession.
In 1866 he acted as chairman of the Royal Commission on the Pollution of Rivers, and a few years later was appointed chief engineering inspector to the Local Government Board; on retiring from this position in 1888 be was promoted to be KCB. [1] Between May 1894 and May 1895 he served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. [2]
Francis was an ironmonger, his shop being the centre one of three located on the ground floor of the Bank Buildings, One brother (Adam) was a Civil Engineer in Dublin, while another (Francis), became an eminent dentist, practicing at St Stephens Green, Dublin. John was educated at Belfast Academical Institution and University of Glasgow. [1]