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Blackburn Meadows WwTW

Owen Winters on the recent lecture series and site visit.

Leeds Arena

Damian Kilburn provides an update on the subject of last November’s Project Focus.

Regional Achievers

New ICE Fellows Simon Diggle and Eamonn Murphy.

ICE Member Benefits

David Tattersall on employer training schemes, as North Yorkshire County Council reinstate their scheme.

Regional Committee

Your new ICE Y&H Committee for 2012-13.

Project Focus

Rhianna Rose provides details of the Fulford Rising Mains scheme.

ice | yorkshireandhumber

The members’ newsletterof ICE Yorkshire and HumberJuly 2012

Bringing you news and views on civil engineering in your Region.

We welcome your comments, letters and articles.Please contact us at: iceyandh@ice.org.uk Follow us on twitter: @ICEYorksHumber

Linton Falls Hydropower Schemephoto courtesy JN Bentley Ltd

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As my year as Chair draws to a close I would like to thank my fellow Committee and sub-group members for their continuing hard work. The ‘new’ committee structure with its Knowledge Transfer, Membership and Public Voice subgroups is working well and we would like to continue to recruit sub-group members.

Knowledge Transfer have been working hard to put together an interesting and varied programme for next year; including a talk from John Armitt, and a presentation on the Kings Cross Station Works. They have also established a regional LinkedIn group.

The Membership sub-group are currently producing the rules and guidance notes for an exciting new individual award. We will be accepting entries for the award at the end of this year - so watch this space.

The Public Voice team have a produced a fantastic walking tour guide to Civil Engineering structures in Sheffield and are investigating the option of an App for smartphones.

The Regional Advisory Board (RAB) continues to support the Public Voice work by meeting with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP’s) and regional Chambers of Commerce, aswell as contributing to State of the Nation reports.

The RAB are assisted in their Public Voice role by Elizabeth Thompson and Robin Bailey. Elizabeth and Robin both undertake the combined role of Membership Development Officer and External Relations Executive. The RST also continues to support the Committee by providing administration services and running courses and training. I would like to extend my thanks to the whole team.

Last but not least I would like to wish John every success in his year as Chair and I am certain he will provide an excellent role model to the Committee and the Region.

Rhianna RoseMEng CEng MICE

ICE Y&H Chair2011-12

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A World Class Arena for Leeds

Following the AGM on 4th July, the design team from Arup presented a detailed and thought provoking outline of the Leeds Arena project, currently approaching completion at Claypit Lane, Leeds.

Jim Bell, Neil Hooton, and Ben Watkins discussed the project from inception through the planning process, preliminary design, detailed design and construction. The early stages of the project were progressed at pace by Leeds City Council (LCC) who, despite the credit crunch, implemented an innovative delivery model whereby the operator was selected first on a 25 year lease, following which a design and build contractor was appointed.

The Arup team explained how key planning conditions were discharged, including designing within noise level constraints outside the building whilst providing the acoustic requirements for a music venue inside the auditorium.

The structure is founded on concrete pad foundations with mass concrete poured where the depth to the bearing stratum was significant; this negated piling and eliminated H&S risks of steelfixers working in trenches.

The structural design was optimised following the appointment of BAM, with Arup working closely with the Contractor to minimise structural steel elements. Nevertheless a 54 metre long, 10 metre deep 170T Proscenium Arch Truss was installed to support the stage box using two large mobile cranes.

Neil Hooton described how BIM has been used extensively throughout this project. The BIM model has assisted in identifying structure/service clashes, opportunities to value engineer the structure, identification and quantification of changes in cost, and impressive visualisations of the design, which when compared with the actual construction were virtually indistinguishable.

Following the presentation there was a lively question and answer session.

This year’s annual G&S Lecture Series focused on the work currently underway at Blackburn Meadows WwTW. Over the course of three evening lectures ICE members were given the opportunity to learn about three different projects being undertaken by ETM (a Galliford Try – Aecom Joint Venture) at the site in Sheffield on behalf of Yorkshire Water.

The lectures covered a wide range of different aspects of the three projects, including; cost savings though innovation, the Yorkshire Water commercial model, value engineering, environmental awareness and buildability. The evening events were held at the University of Sheffield and were open to all grades of member.

The culmination of the lecture series was a site visit in early July, giving people the chance to see for themselves the work which they had learnt about during the lectures. Blackburn Meadows is one of the largest treatment facilities in Yorkshire, and extensive upgrades are currently being made to the site. On the visit members were shown the work already completed as part of Yorkshire Water’s Medium Treatment Stream; a new 6X

flood overflow system and the upgrading of Don Valley Pumping Station. They also saw the preparation work on the sites of the new Bio-Energy Digester Plant and the new primary settlement tanks, activated sludge plant and final settlement tanks, being constructed to meet the requirements of the EU’s Freshwater and Fisheries Directive. In addition to seeing the construction work on site the tour also included a walkthrough of the existing system, showing the various of stages of treatment that take place from where the waste water enters the site below the Tinsley Viaduct on the M1 to where it leaves the site, over a kilometre away, at the outfall into the River Don.

Special thanks to all of the ETM project team involved, who gave up their time to allow this event to happen.

Apology

Through the generosity of BAM and Arup, a site visit to Leeds Arena, prior to the AGM and presentation, was organised for very limited numbers. 40 members said that they wished to take advantage of the visit but practicalities meant that we could only confirm 9 places Disappointingly, only 3 of the 9 members that booked a place attended. It was also noted that a number of members left the evening meeting early, some of them walking in front of the presenters whilst they were answering questions. The finish time for all our meetings is advertised and we will ensure that members can leave at this time, even if proceedings are overrunning.

On behalf of ICE Y&H, we apologise most sincerely to Arup and to BAM, to those members who were disappointed that they were unable to have a place on the site visit and to the majority of the audience and the speakers in the evening, who suffered disruption when people left early.

Rhianna Rose (Chair: ICE Y&H)

Leeds Arena

Blackburn Meadows WwTW site visit

Blackburn Meadows Wastewater Treatment Works

Lecture Series and Site Visit

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ICE Member Benefits

ICE Training

Not a good title, on two counts. First, a Civil Engineer builds on the educational base by learning through experience and very little of that comes from formal training. Second, the ICE doesn’t train any Civil Engineers in civil engineering; it can’t, because, as an organisation, it doesn’t do any civil engineering. What it does do, and has done for many years, is to run a scheme to help with the training or, more accurately, development, of Civil Engineers.

Any employer can have an ICE-approved training scheme, provided that they are able to offer relevant experience and have at least one person who will act as a Supervising Civil Engineer (SCE). Once a training scheme and an SCE are in place, they are in a position to offer a Training Agreement to any of their employees who are aiming for an ICE professional qualification.

So what is the point of this? Won’t people pick up the experience and develop competence anyway over the course of time? Yes, most of them will, but why be dictated to by ‘the course of time’? Far better to take control and to develop as quickly as conditions allow. With a Training Agreement, a structured training scheme is followed to ensure that the most is made of the opportunities available, with the support of the SCE (and sometimes a Delegated Engineer) and the Regional Support Team (RST), in particular the Membership Development Officers.

The aim of every civil engineer should be to get from A to B, where A is completion of the educational base and B is a successful Professional Review. It is in the interests of good employees, good employers and the profession as a whole that people get there as quickly as possible. Anyone wanting to travel between physical points A and B will get there eventually, if they persist, but they are unlikely to find the quickest route without

a map. In the context of development, an ICE training scheme is a map.

Anyone who would like to set up a training scheme can call on the RST to help and will find that it is fairly simple to do. It isn’t just the large companies who have them; one training scheme was produced so that the single employee (other than the boss, who became the SCE) could have a Training Agreement. Get in touch with us if you would like to know more.

North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) is a recent example of an employer who has reinstated their Training Scheme. They successfully joined the list of ICE Approved Employers with a new company approved training scheme.

NYCC wanted to enhance their graduate programme and help themselves to become an employer of choice for Graduate Engineers and Technicians. They chose the ICE scheme as they felt it gave them the most flexibility in accommodating the diverse opportunities within their organisation.

Their SCE is Barrie Mason who is delighted to be involved in this new venture from NYCC. We are looking forward to working with them.

Regional Achievers

We would like to congratulate the following people from within our Region who have recently achieved Fellowship of the Institution:

Eamonn Murphy - Eamonn lives in the North East, but works in Tadcaster for Birse Civils Northern Division as a Regional Engineering Manager. He is a Supervising Civil Engineer within the Yorkshire and Humber Region, and acts as a Professional Reviewer for the ICE.

Simon Diggle - Simon is Head of Commercial Performance at the Highways Agency. He has also been Chairman of the Construction Clients’ Group, the national body which represents the interests of both public and private sector clients in the industry, for the past two years. Simon’s work to maximise the value delivered to clients through better procurement and delivery of construction was a key factor in achieving his recent Fellowship status. He has also delivered a number of schemes within the Region and was project manager for the M1 Tinsley Viaduct strengthening scheme in South Yorkshire.

Fellow is the highest grade of membership of the Institution. It may be awarded if you are or have been engaged in a position of responsibility in the promotion, planning, design, construction, maintenance or management of important engineering work.

For more on Fellowship visit the ICE Fellows pages:ice.org.uk/Fellow

Left to right: MDO Elizabeth Thompson with David Bowes and Barrie Mason at NYCC

Eamonn MurphySimon Diggle

Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) – a joint venture between global consultant Mott MacDonald and UK civil engineering contractor JN Bentley – completed a £5m scheme for Yorkshire Water to replace two existing rising mains that transfer flows of wastewater 3.2km from Fulford Sewage Pumping Station to Naburn Wastewater Treatment Works, near York.

By replacing the existing mains – which date back to the 1930s and 1950s – MMB and Yorkshire Water have eliminated the risk of any structural deficiencies developing and improved the performance of the asset, which lies on this flood plain of the River Ouse.

As the pipes pass through Fulford Ings – a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), and an area thought by historians to be the site of the 1066 Battle of Fulford - key to the success of the scheme was environmental management and enhancement of the area.

Following liaison with numerous interested parties including the Environment Agency, City of York Council and landowners, MMB developed a ‘Restoration Proposal’ in collaboration with Natural England; detailing not only how the land would be reinstated, but how the condition of the site would be enhanced and its long-term condition safeguarded.

Pre-start of the construction, tree and hedgerow; ecological; and archaeological surveys all assisted in highlighting potential and specific issues associated with the site – and allowed appropriate

mitigation measures to be taken, including:

� Successful translocation (and subsequent return) of rare tansy plants and beetles during construction works – the tansy beetle can only be found along a 30km stretch of the River Ouse, making their protection vital.

� Appropriately timed removal and reinstatement of trees and hedgerows to minimise disruption to breeding birds and bats.

� A programme developed to eradicate the invasive Indian Balsam species.

� Continued protection of the easement post-construction to allow green hay to be re-sown and the reinstatement of turf stripped prior to works.

Also key to the success of the scheme was the continued vigilance of the engineers on site – musket balls and a Roman brooch were unearthed safely during the works.

MMB and Yorkshire Water’s diligent approach to the delivery of the works also saw them receive a prestigious Green Apple Built Environment and Architectural Bronze Award recently.

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Elected members

Mark Calvert EngTech TMICE

Granville Davies CEng MICE

Alex Holt CEng MICE

Rachel Horn CEng MICE

Crina Oltean-Dumbrava CEng FICE

Catherine Topliss CEnv AMICE

Client: � Yorkshire Water

Design and Construction: � Mott MacDonald

Bentley (MMB)

ICE Y&H Committee Structure 2012-13

Regional Project Focus:

Fulford Rising Mains

Officers of the Region

Chair John Bowes CEng MICE

Senior Vice Chair Damian Kilburn CEng MICE

Junior Vice Chair, Honorary Treasurer

Sandie Forte-Gill CEng MICE

Immediate Past Chair Rhianna Rose CEng MICE

Deputy Treasurer Nick Chamberlain CEng MICE

Honorary Secretary vacant

Ex officio

Regional Member of Council

Richard Dew CEng FICE

Graduates and Students

Simone Bertram

Humber Branch Ron Warner CEng MICE

Regional Director David Tattersall CEng MICE