Supporting the delivery of civil engineering projects

Supporting the delivery of civil engineering projects, working on the delivery of a programme of civil engineering works.

NEC4 contract selection and development.

Technical lead for the procurement process.

Advice and feedback on the development of the design tender packs.

Supported a contractor quality bid for a £100M plus project.

Advised on a landowner's slope stability issue including likely causes and suitable remedial treatment.

Continued to support ICE through undertaking a number of Professional Reviews.

Heading up the Highways design teams at LCC that carry out a range of tasks.

Developing and promoting local highway works, from small improvement schemes to projects that significantly improve or expand the highway network.

Developing and delivering local highway safety schemes.

Design and supervision of works associated with Section 278 Agreements.

Drainage works that reduce flood risk to highways and property.

Providing civil engineering design expertise on a wide range of County schemes.

Chaired ICE NW Regional Committee and Regional Executive Board Meetings each month. The former establishes and maintains two way communication between Branches, Special Interest Groups and Council Members whilst the latter considered policy, budget, planning and similar strategic issues.

Attended an ICE overseas trip where we had a packed couple of days looking at everything from heritage engineering to 21st century schemes to reconnect communities following extreme flood damage (yes, the Isle of Man is an overseas visit).

Led on a variety of events throughout my year in office; arrangements for the President's Visit and NW Awards Dinner; led project and individual engineer selection for NW entries in the ICE200 anniversary; judged ICE NW Awards entries as well as regional heats of competitions such as Emerging Engineers and the Graduates & Students Communications Competition.

Represented ICE NW at national meetings, at events in other Regions and attended events held with other regional professional institutions.

Worked with ICE NW Regional Support Team on the delivery of events, promotion of civil engineering, recognition of individuals and groups who were passionate in the protection or preservation of key civil engineering assets.

Moved to a newly created team within LCC formed in response to new roles and duties.

Worked with the Public Realm, operational teams and partners to address flood risk issues.

Carried out drainage improvements in coordination with major highway improvements.

Created the newly created Lead Local Flood Authority role within Lancashire County Council.

Reviewed flood incidents, rated them on a priority basis and developed schemes to reduce flood risk to highways and property.

Engaged with other authorities / bodies to develop solutions to multi agency problems.

Delivered drainage design; flood risk assessment; SuDS solutions; foul and surface water assessments for new works.

Various works, including - refurbishment of a large diameter Armco culvert structure - assessment of loading from a working museum on a buried masonry arch ring - heat straightening and strengthening of a damaged 3 span continuous steel overbridge - assessment of structures over and under the M6 - strengthening work on sub-standard bridges - design work on a new FlexiArch structure.

Designing new highway structures and preparation of major maintenance schemes to keep the bridge stock in optimum condition.

Supervision of works on site, evaluating payments, resolving construction issues during execution of the works.

Assessing the load carrying capacity of highway bridges.

Preparation and implementation of strengthening schemes.

Carried out design, design checks and assessments on a wide variety of highway structures, often with reinforced or prestressed concrete components but also including steel and timber superstructures.

Worked on both stand alone bridge projects and on structures that formed part of larger schemes.

Working on the design of a variety of highway structures; from motorway overbridges to propped abutments on County roads.

Carrying out independent design checks of structures.

Working on a wide variety of schemes whilst under an ICE Training Agreement. Experience related to design of works; preparation of contract documents and tender documents; supervision of works on site; measurement and valuation of the works.

Developed schemes to remediate derelict sites within the Borough and leave them in a state for future, positive, development.

The work was varied and included the remediation of contaminated sites; the recovery of shallow coal measures through open cast excavation; construction of roads, sewers, retaining walls and river bank protection works.