The Young Members' Panel represents the views of younger members of the profession and develops initiatives to benefit those members.
Under the chairmanship of Roger Knipe, the panel liaises with other panels and committees within the Institution to ensure that the voice of the young engineer is heard.
The panel has been raising the awareness and interest of young people in the profession through a number of measures including visiting universities to give presentations on the Institution, the benefits of membership and the industry in general.
The panel are always considering ways in which the industry and Institution can be brought to the attention of a wider, younger audience.
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Roger Knipe - Chairman
Northern Ireland
MEng, Structural Engineering with Architecture, Queen's University, Belfast, 2006
Employer: Scott Wilson
Position: Structural Engineer
Experience/projects
Belfast printing works: Installation of two new printing presses which involved removing the existing floor to cast a concrete base and raise the roof. All without disrupting the printing operations on the other two presses. A job which had to be millimetre perfect!
Royal Victoria hospital, Belfast: Support for a listed Victorian corridor structure whilst a new tunnel was excavated beneath it.
Bombardier CSeries building: Project engineer responsible to the steel superstructure of the new factory building. Main challenges are the extremely demanding design and construction programme, technical requirements for overhead cranes which can only tolerate very small deflections in the roof trusses.
Specialist interests
Folded plate timber roofs: My dissertation won the national TRADA timber engineering student prize. Timber engineering still holds great interest for me.
Old buildings: one of my ambitions is to work on the restoration of a prominent historic structure.
Production and process engineering structures, particularly the interface between structure and plant, and overhead cranes.
Hobbies/interests
Music
Youth work
Mountaineering
Driving my Land Rover off-road
Working on the family farm at weekends |
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Jenny Green – Vice Chair
North Thames
MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering University of Edinburgh (2002)
Employer: Conisbee
Position: Engineer
Experience/projects
Barking Road: RC frame including residential basement car park.
High Road, Woodford Green: RC and Timber multi-use (retail, office, residential).
Holte Hotel, Aston Villa FC: Full refurbishment of Victorian pub.
Secondary School, Surrey: New build large school.
Specialist interests
Environmental issues - contaminated land
Modern methods of construction particularly concerning requirements by authorities for funding.
Hobbies/interests
Cooking and holidays!
Travelling - a year spent travelling post uni. |
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Ruth Bailey
Hong Kong
MEng Engineering Science Oxford Unviersity
Employer: Buro Happold
Position: Senior Structural Engineer
Experience/projects
King Abdullah’s International Gardens, Ryiadh: 165 Ha development including the world’s largest indoor botanical gardens.
Various London Academies; West London, Bexley, Edgware and, most recently, Petchey Academy in Hackney.
Sanger Centre, Bryanston School, Dorset.
Institute of Cultural Heritage, UCL, London.
New Holland Island, St Petersburg: A large cultural centre including underground recital halls and an amphitheatre.
While working for Taylor Thomson Whitting:
Sir Moses Montifiore Synagogue, Sydney
Lake Ainsworth Recreational Centre, Byron Bay, NSW
The Cardboard House, Sydney
Specialist interests
Load-bearing masonry
Post-tensioned concrete
ETFE & PTFE (tension and pneumatic structures)
Glass design and facades engineering |
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Roger Faires
North Thames
Meng (Hons) First Class, Cardiff University
Employer: KMG Partnership
Position: Graduate Structural Engineer
Experience/projects
Chancery Place Manchester
15 storey concrete framed offices in the centre of Manchester
3663 First for Food Services
Cold stores and ambient warehousing and office design including infrastructure works
Leavesden Studios projects
Maintenance and reports of studio building envelope.
Specialist interests
Bridges
Coldstore design
Genetic algorithms
Media and film set design
The influence of Lego on structural engineers at a young age!
Hobbies/interests
Watford FC and Saracens RFC
Squash and golf (key management skills)
Film buff and music fan
Politics and political humour
Traveling and the food and drink associated with it |
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Chris Fernandez
East Anglia
First Class, BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering, University of Plymouth
Employer: May Gurney Ltd
Position: Design Engineer
Experience/projects
Bridge engineering, design of replacement, strengthening and refurbishment works for public and private sector clients.
Building structures design for industrial / commercial projects, and more latterly school projects.
Temporary works design for a variety of civil engineering works.
Specialist interests
Branch Eurocode champion
Hobbies/interests
Avid sportsman playing squash, tennis and football.
Recently taken up alpine skiing going to the Alps for the last few seasons.
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Alfred Kofi Gand
Midland Counties
First Class BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering & MSc in Civil and Structural Engineering
Experience/projects
Birmingham Schools PFI: The scheme consists of 12 primary and secondary schools delivered in two phases and under extremely tight schedule.
30 Crown Place: This project consists of 18-storey steel framed with two level of basement for car parking and storage. The design incorporates a transfer structure at the 17th floor from which the south wing of floors 10 to 17 is hung thus allowing for maximum column free space.
Liverpool Football Club’s new stadium: A new home for Liverpool Football Club with a striking roof structure consisting of clear spans of up to 160m solely supported by four “cigar” columns, one at each corner and with a complex building geometry.
Grace Academy, Coventry: This project is part of the government’s city academy schemes and includes a secondary school with business enterprise specialism.
Specialist interests
Sustainable construction and how engineers can contribute especially at early stages of schemes to ensure sustainable designs.
Appropriate technologies and the application of low cost sustainable materials for improving the infrastructural needs of low income level countries.
Hobbies/interests
Promoting engineering and sharing experience with children.
Midland Counties branch where I am currently the Chairman of the Young Members' Group.
Choral music
Teaching
Football |
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Mahdi Kazemzadeh
Wales
BEng Civil Engineering
Employer: Cass Hayward LLP
Position: Assistant Bridge Engineer
Experience/projects
London 2012 Olympic Infrastructure
Bishops Stortford Footbridge
London Stratford City Bridges
Borough Rd Viaduct, London
Derby New Raynesway River Bridge
Specialist interests
Bridges
Concrete structures
Theoretical and applied mechanics
Numerical modelling
Dynamic analysis
Hobbies/interests
Cycling and tennis |
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Hunter Lyden
Lancashire and Cheshire
MEng Structural Engineering with Architecture, Manchester University
Employer:
Position: Graduate Structural Engineer
Experience/projects
2 summer placements (2007 and 2006) with BDP working on mostly school and hospital design.
1 summer (2005) with Mouchel doing condition surveys of retaining walls.
3 months post-graduate experience with Buro Happold doing mostly conceptual design of three colleges in concrete and steel.
Specialist interests
Conceptual design
Timber
High-rise
Earthquake design
Hobbies/interests
Sailing
Football
Travel |
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Kate Leighton
Western Counties
MEng (Hons) Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Bath
Employer: Curtins Consulting
Position: Project Engineer
Experience/projects
Imperial Retail Park, B&Q Warehouse, Bristol: providing structural design for the substructure for a 100,000 square feet building.
150 Cornish houses for South Somerset Homes: Structural and concrete surveys on all properties as well as structural and architectural detailing for the refurbishment. I subsequently carried out the weekly site visits liaising with the contractor and client.
Cheltenham Racecourse Horse Sales Ring: I carried out the 3D computer analysis of the steel frame for this light weight tensile fabric structure.
I am also experienced in carrying out structural surveys of retaining walls, impact and flood damaged properties. As well as carrying out the surveys I have taken on a project management role and prepared repair schedules, CDM information, JCT contracts and carried out administrative duties.
Current projects:
Project engineer on the Royal National College for the Blind student accommodation block.
The design of a new build of two to four storey houses and flats both in timber frame and traditional masonry construction at Prospect Place, Trowbridge.
Flood remediation works in Gloucestershire and Devon dealing with numerous properties of cob, masonry and timber construction.
Specialist interests
Traditional building methods such as timber frame, cob, boulder clay and masonry.
Hobbies/interests
Films
Music
Shopping
Cooking
Dancing
Friends |
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Paul Pankhurst
Surrey
MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering, University of Surrey
Employer: Tony Gee and Partners LLP (Esher office)
Position: Project Engineer
Experience/projects
Student (sponsored by TGP):
Wembley Stadium, London: dealing with the temporary works
The design of an architectural footbridge in Scotland
The construction engineering of a post tensioned viaduct in Thailand (including a period on site during the construction).
Graduate (working for TGP):
I have continued to work predominantly within the structures group, working on the design and checking of complex bridges and unusual structures.
This has included the analysis of a complex space frame roof in China, and the tender design of bridges for a crossing of the Danube and the London Olympics.
Specialist interests
Bridges, in particular their dynamic behaviour.
Promoting engineering as a career to schools, colleges and universities.
Hobbies/interests
Squash
Sailing
Ballroom dancing |
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Mark Renshaw
South Eastern Counties
BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering
Employer: Elliott Wood Partnership
Position: Graduate Engineer
Experience/projects
Student:
Period placement at Elliott Wood Partnership where I worked on a wide range of projects including a new build school, a mezzanine floor for a well known artists studio and residential (large, medium and small) refurbishment that included timber, steel RC, masonry and glass design.
Second placement was at Ringway Parkman’s Trowbridge office where I worked on site as an assistant clerk of works for a major road refurbishment near Swindon.
Graduate:
I have re-joined Elliott Wood Partnership and worked on a large number of projects as the main job engineer.
St. James’s Close - £6m: 2 new build flats on the top of a large 6 storey 1930’s purpose built apartment building.
Holland Park - £9m: refurbishment of a large existing house including a substantial new build rear extension under the garden level.
Robin Hood Lane: experimental contemporary new build bungalow filmed for Grand Designs. The house included geothermal piles, dual skin precast concrete panel roof with heat exchanger and Roger Bullivants ‘System First’ foundation system.
Specialist interests
Sustainability in engineering.
Natural building materials.
Alternative and modern methods of construction
‘Unique element’ design.
Hobbies/interests
Duke of Edinburgh: I am actively involved as a volunteer leader in a local Open Awards Centre and a qualified expedition assessor.
American Football, watching the matches and kitting up for the annual old-boys match.
Dancing, competing at amatuer level in latin and ballroom . Currently learning salsa. |
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Ben Woodwiss
Yorkshire
BEng (Hons) Architectural Engineering and MSc Structural Engineering, Leeds University
Employer: White Young Green
Position: Assistant Engineer
Experience/projects
Pontefract and Pinderfields hospital- (£330m)
Coatham pool
Durham pool
Menwith hill
ISIS R80 target building
Specialist interests
Building information modelling
Glulam timber composite structures
Hobbies/interests
Skiing
Rugby
Keeping fit |
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