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A young engineer from Bristol is calling on other female engineers to apply for the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year awards, where she was a finalist last year at a national award ceremony in London, chaired by TV presenter Dr Alice Roberts.
Even the best-made contingency plans can be prone to failure. On 23 December 2013, Gatwick Airport experienced unprecedented rainfall. More rain fell on that one day (68mm) than had done for the whole of the month, far exceeding Met Office forecasts. The airport’s flood risk assessment failed to foresee such problems, which led to what was described by its chief executive Stewart Wingate as, “…the worst flooding in the airport’s living memory.”
Two Unilever food processing sites have allegedly netted £46,500 of savings a year in energy costs, thanks to a turn-key project to convert its external and internal SON lighting to LED.
Following a decade of being awarded consecutive Gold Awards by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), NG Bailey has this year secured a President’s Award – in recognition of its health and safety achievements.
Select, the campaigning trade body for Scotland's electrical sector, has called for certification schemes which guarantee the quality of work in the construction industry to become mandatory.
