ICE Past Presidents

Past Presidents from ICE’s early history and recent years

Natural energy, engineering energy and partnership energy

Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine

Engravings of Newcomen’s 1712 steam engine

New £50 note design to be issued from 2 November 2011

Extract from ICE’s Royal Charter

“The art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man”

Ghazi-Barotha

Image top-left courtesy of Binnie and Partners, images top-right and bottom courtesy of Mott MacDonald Ghazi-Barotha hydropower scheme: under construction and completed

Ghazi-Barotha

Image courtesy of Black & Veatch

Sadequain's mural at Mangla power station

The art and power of civil engineering shown in a mural at Mangla power station, Pakistan

Dinorwig Pumped Storage Scheme

Image of Dinorwig courtesy of First Hydro Company Dinorwig power station and, inset, Richard Coackley working on the scheme

Dinorwig Pumped Storage Scheme

Image courtesy of First Hydro Company A cross-section of the Dinorwig Pumped Storage Scheme

Dinorwig Pumped Storage Scheme

Image courtesy of First Hydro Company Aerial photo

Green energy vision

Image courtesy of Marine Current Turbines Limited Top: solar power and a wind farm trialling hydrogen production Bottom: Strangford Lough SeaGen tidal power and Cruachan Dam

Lochaber hydroelectric refurbishment

Lochaber hydroelectric power station refurbishment and Laggan Dam

Liquid energy

State of the Nation Water STATE OF THE NATION WATER 2012

The challenges: Victorian era to 21 st century

Image courtesy of Southern Water Top: Euston Station in the 19 th century and Brighton and Hove wastewater treatment Bottom: Abbey Mills Pumping Station and St Pancras Station

Challenge to industry

Challenge to industry: one voice “It will always be a challenge to speak with ‘one voice’ but industry must answer that challenge”

Background image: All Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure visit to New Tyne Tunnel

Challenge to ICE and the profession: harnessing talent

A global Institution Over 80,000 members in 150 countries 90 ICE Representatives around the world 21% of ICE’s membership is international

ICE Graduates and Students Network

Regional and devolved activity

Rosyth Docks, London Olympic stadium, Wales Millennium Centre, Birmingham New Street, Peace Bridge and local transport

International activity

Top: Hong Kong MTR and Burj Khalifa, Dubai Bottom: Central New York and Richard Coackley, Tom Foulkes and HE Mattar Al Tayer

One Great George Street

Director General and Secretary

Developing policy

Challenge to Government Historically the UK has suffered from an approach to infrastructure which has been: “timid, uncoordinated, incremental and wasteful in… supporting sustainable growth in the economy”

From the Government’s National Infrastructure Plan (2010)

Challenge to Government £200 billion investment required to make UK infrastructure fit for purpose

Chief Construction Advisor Infrastructure: a priority for Government National Infrastructure Plan Water White Paper Green Investment Bank Plan for Growth Energy Market Reform

Inspiring the next generation

Dinorwig Power Station and tour bus at Dinorwig’s “Electric Mountain”

The Big Bang

Inspiring young people with science and engineering at the annual Big Bang fair

JET and ITER Top-left: Joint European Torus (JET) – Europe's largest fusion device Top-right: ITER, JET’s planned successor, currently under construction in France Bottom: ITER planned facility

President’s Apprentices 2011-12

Yan Zhou, Angela Crowther, Sebastian John, Caroline Traynor, Kieren Couch, Lydia Walpole

ICE Vice Presidents 2011-12

Top: Barry Clarke, Geoff French, Bill Hewlett, Tim Broyd Bottom: David Balmforth, Andrew McNaughton, Alan Stilwell