Welcome to ICE Northern Ireland, representing almost 2,000 civil engineers living and working in Northern Ireland and celebrating the work that they do.

The programme of Technical Meetings have recently closed for the 2008/09 period, and incoming ICE NI Chairman Jonathan Hegan along with the Regional Support (headed by Wendy Blundell, pictured above) are currently busy finalising the Programme Card for 2009/10.  Many interesting meeting are in the offing for the 2009/10 session, with details to be  finalised  and published in August.

In the meantime, schools events and ambassador programmes have continued into the Spring.  The hughly successful Civil Engineering in Primary Schools (CEPS) celebration saw around 400 children become excited about civil engineering at the CEPS celebrations days held in Omagh and Jordanstown.

Bridges to Schools continue also, with young civil engineers and civil engineering students visiting schools throughout the region to construct the cable stay bridge with the children and talk about the industry more generally.

The Omagh Lunch furthermore was a great date in April and Charles Friel spoke very well on his niche subject of "Railways West of the Bann"