The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, while the rest are located in more than 150 other countries. The ICE aims to support the civil engineering profession by offering professional qualification, promoting education, maintaining professional ethics, and liaising with industry, academia and government. Under its commercial arm, it delivers training, recruitment, publishing and contract services. As a professional body, ICE aims to support and promote professional learning (both to students and existing practitioners), managing professional ethics and safeguarding the status of engineers, and representing the interests of the profession in dealings with government, etc. It sets standards for membership of the body; works with industry and academia to progress engineering standards and advises on education and training curricula...
On 4 November 2025, David Porter became the 161st President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). For one of his first Presidential engagements, he was back on home ground: a Northern Ireland visit that included schools outreach, industry discussions, a meeting with a government minister, early-career engagement and, finally, a celebration of excellence at the annual dinner. This briefing shares what it felt like to step into the role for the first time in his home country, why his theme ‘You, Me and the ICE’ matters to members, and how these visits come alive through the people who make them happen.
This is an abridged version of the inaugural address of David Porter as the 161st President of the ICE on Tuesday 4 November 2025 to an audience at One Great George Street and online.
In this paper is presented a concept solution and acceptance test application procedure of deep pit protection structure, intended for three underground levels of residential building: A,B,C,D, block 10C, Budva, Montenegro. The anchored wall used consist of nongravity cantilevered walls with three levels of ground anchors. Nongravity cantilevered walls employ continuous walls constructed in slurry trenches (i.e., slurry (diaphragm) walls), e.g vertical elements that are drilled to depths below the finished excavation grade. For those nongravity cantilevered walls, support is provided through the shear and bending stiffness of the vertical wall elements and passive resistance from the soil below the finished excavation grade. Anchored wall support relies on these components as well as lateral resistance provided by the ground anchors to resist horizontal pressures (e.g., earth, water, external loads) acting on the wall. Anchored wall analysed and applied is temporary supporting structure necessary for the excavation and erection of the underground structure part up to ground surface level. Temporary ground anchors lifetime is up to two years. Dynamic loads are not considered.
Description: This study analyses the effect of La Niña phenomena on building structural mechanisms in the Southern Hemisphere. The work connects climate variability with structural engineering parameters such as wind load, soil saturation, and hydrostatic pressure. Probable mathematical models are provided to quantify these effects. Prepared by Anirban Ghosh (Civil Engineer, Tutor, Independent Researcher). The work aims to guide practical design considerations for engineers and policymakers under changing ENSO conditions.
Soils have remarkable capacity to store and sequester atmospheric carbon and participate actively in the global carbon cycle. When considering the vast amounts of soil and soil surface areas across the planet, it is well known that one of the most effective principle means of carbon sequestration is in the soil. However, contrary to most people's view, soil carbon is stored foremostly in the exudates of plants and microbiota rather than in macro-carbon. In this study, four sites in South Dakota were studied for 4-15 years with compost as a geo-environmental soil amendment used to kick-start carbon sequestration while simultaneously reducing erosion and increasing crop yields. These four sites include an active farm, a non-grazed hay field, a residential kitchen garden, and a slope located in a long-term geotechnical erosion study site. Compost was added to the soil at each site, and soil carbon was measured over long-time periods. Baseline measurements from adjacent non-intervention sites were also collected to account for more global atmospheric and other conditions include landscape management. Data from the four sites show that compost can be used to stimulate the storage of carbon through plant exudates in soil if the landscape is managed in regenerative frameworks and oxidation of organic matter is not allowed to occur and negate the effects of the compost amendments.
