ICE Tech Talks

Funding nature-positive infrastructure

This roundtable discussion, chaired by ICE President Anusha Shah, explores how nature-positive infrastructure projects can attract enough funding from an institutional investment community that has largely yet to be convinced that these can offer attractive long-term returns.

Overcoming systemic barriers to a nature-positive world

This roundtable discussion, chaired by ICE President Anusha Shah, focuses on the new regulations, standards, tools and techniques required by tomorrow’s senior engineers if their work is to stand a chance of benefiting the natural world.

Coastal Management 2025: how to become a presenter

Abstract submission deadline 30 September 2024 – submit now.
Our coastal systems are changing. As we learn to adapt, is sustainable coastal management still achievable? That’s just one of the key questions to be addressed at the Coastal Management 2025 conference, which the ICE is holding at the historic UK port city of Bristol next September.  
Anyone wishing to be considered as a speaker can submit an abstract for the organising committee to review. Abstracts should be submitted by midnight on 30 September 2024 via this submission platform.
Listen as committee member Jonathan Hird, vice president at Moffat & Nichol, outlines the event’s key themes and explains what he and his colleagues are seeking in a successful application. 
The conference will take place on 16-18 September 2025. Visit ice.org.uk/events/latest-events/coastal-management-2025 for further information. 

How to put social value at the heart of infrastructure

James Crumly, ICE knowledge research lead, discusses Glasgow's Stockingfield Bridge project with Richard Millar, chief operating officer at Scottish Canals, and Alison Ramsey, social value and performance manager at public-sector procurement organisation Scape. 
They describe how social value was central to the planning, design and delivery of the project, the role that engineers can play in driving outcomes, and what value looks like to stakeholders over the life of an asset. 

Nature-based solutions for new and existing water infrastructure

Low-carbon energy: Ensuring a whole-life approach to renewable infrastructure delivery

Transport: Embracing technology to meet the net-zero challenge

Industry approaches to productivity and the use of technology

Driving change, productivity and a lean mindset requires a strong culture, engaged staff and a focus on raising quality throughout all processes.
Especially if margins are to be improved and waste reduced.
These core principles are central to Toyota and its manufacturing of cars.
And it’s what members of the ICE’s Community Advisory Boards (CABs) explored during a recent visit to Toyota’s Lean Management Centre (LMC), in Deeside, North Wales.
The visit was designed to draw out ideas, lessons and best practice to apply to the infrastructure sector and drive productivity in design and operations.

Collaborative Reporting on Safer Structures (CROSS)

Mark Hansford, ICE director of engineering knowledge, talks with Julie Bregulla, director of innovation partnerships and projects at TEDI London, and Andy Alder, vice president and head of major programmes at Jacobs, about the ways in which people who work in infrastructure can share lessons learnt from when something goes wrong on a project – and also when things go well.

Construction Logistics and Community Safety (CLOCS) standard

Every engineer working on the design or construction of a project has a legal responsibility to make sure work is completed as safely as possible. 
This audio explainer focuses on the Construction Logistics and Community Safety (CLOCS) standard, which was developed by the construction and fleet industry in 2013 to address the challenge of safe construction-vehicle journeys.