CREDITON engineer, Peter Herrod-Taylor, has been awarded membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) - an influential body representing the 86,000 civil engineers and technicians across the world who design, build and maintain our transport, water, energy, waste and flood infrastructure.

ICE membership can be awarded to a wide range of engineers practising in the broad area of civil engineering.

Peter, who has met all the requirements of the ICE’s Chartered Professional Review, is now entitled to add the letters MICE to his name and adopt the Institution’s own protected title of “Chartered Civil Engineer”.

ICE’s professionally qualified grades of membership are internationally recognised and highly valued. Attainment of these is widely viewed as a significant achievement and a benchmark of an engineer’s competence and professional standing.

Peter was presented with his membership certificate by ICE Vice President Professor Tim Broyd at a special ceremony held at ICE’s headquarters in Westminster, London.

Miranda Housden, ICE South West Regional Director, commented: “Civil engineering sits right at the heart of society. It is all about shaping, improving and protecting the infrastructure that we all depend on in our day-to-day lives – from bridges, roads and railways right through to energy networks and water and waste infrastructure.

“Achieving Chartered Civil engineer status is a significant personal and career achievement and we welcome Peter into the ICE.”

Peter, who works for Atkins in Exeter, said he was thrilled to achieve his ambition of becoming a Chartered Civil Engineer.

He said: “I am very pleased to have passed my review, I am now able to progress my career with Atkins.”

Peter became an engineer because he was always interested in building things. “Civil engineering was a natural step for me; my career is exciting and is a way to make a difference to the world we live in.”

His career highlight so far has been acting as the lead structural engineer on a major defence project. “The project was technically challenging and I led a team of structural engineers split across three offices.”

The opportunity to join ICE is available to civil engineers, technicians and technical/scientific specialists at every stage of their professional career, from students and apprentices to senior board directors. Find out more at http://www.ice.org.uk/Membership .

Alan Quick