Welcome to the East Midlands Branch

CENTENARY AGM & TECHNICAL MEETING - A LIFE OF LEISURE.... 11th November 2008

John Roberts, Past President of The Institution of Structural Engineers, 1999 – 2000, will give a vivid description of how a structural engineer moved into a highly specialised field of work designing and constructing large rollercoasters, wheels and other major rides and attractions. John is an Executive Director of Operations at Jacobs Engineering UK Limited, and this presentation is an update of his Gold Medal Address first given at the London IMAX theatre in 2006.

We hope you will be able to join us for this lecture where there will of course be an opportunity afterwards to ask your burning questions.

The AGM will as usual be kept as brief as possible to leave more time for the technical lecture.

Further details can be found in our meetings page via the link in the left hand panel.

PARTNER'S DAY

Please note that the Partner's Day, now at Belvoir Castle, now been postponed to October, with the provisional date to be confirmed shortly.

SEMINAR

The seminar on Ground Improvement Techniques has also been postponed and will now be held on the 7th of November, and the venue will be Holywell Park, at Loughborough University. Further details will follow shortly.

21st ANNUAL JOINT INSTITUTIONS PRESTIGE LECTURE

This year's lecture is entitled HMS Astute - The Next Generation Submarine for the Royal Navy, and will be presented by John Hudson, Techical Director of BAe Systems. The date of the meeting is 26th November 2008, and will be held at the East Midlands Conferenec Centre, Nottingham.

Further details & ticket information can be found in our meetings page via the link in the left hand panel or the link below:

http://www.istructe.org/BRANCH/EASTMIDLANDS/meetings/event.asp?EID=3341

and also from the EMESP web site at

http://www.emesp.org.uk/news2.asp?id=11


CENTENARY YEAR

2008 is the centenary year for the Institution, and we are looking for suggestions for the best way to celebrate this significant milestone. Your suggestions for events, meetings, awards etc are most welcome and should be given to any member of the committee (click through the committee or email section on the left panel). The Institution is your Institution - We look forward to your input.

Please also look visit the Institution's dedicated Centenary website at:

http://www.istructe.org/centenary/index.asp


MEETINGS UPDATE
A reminder that the current listing of our programme of events and forthcoming meetings is posted on our meetings page (see the link in the left hand panel). We hope you will find them interesting and encourage you to participate.

FORUM & FEEDBACK

The East Midlands Branch is trying to encourage the use of the web site to communicate with it`s members, and to use the facilities available, such as the message forum.
Please do try & visit the forum, by clicking on the link in the left hand menu. You never know you may have a subject that raises a flood of replies.

Any feedback regarding technical meetings would be appreciated, and will help us to be a much more responsive branch. It will also enable us to provide a more interesting and varied selection of meetings in future.

If you have any direct questions or comments and would rather not enter them in the forum, then please send them by email to any member of the committee.

ADOBE ACROBAT

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If you do not have this, it can be obtained at: http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readermain.html