ICE Tech Talks
This series explores how engineers can help solve some of the world’s greatest challenges – from heading off threats from climate change to ensuring safe, clean and sustainable water supplies for all. Episodes aim to inspire and equip engineers, and their collaborators, with the tools they need to face these challenges, today and in the future.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
PAS 2080 – next steps on the road to net zero
This podcast features Lewis Barlow, ICE trustee for carbon and climate, in conversation with Mark Hansford, the institution’s director of engineering knowledge, about the PAS 2080 standard.
The ICE’s review of safety risk management
This podcast features Paul Sheffield, chair of the recent ICE review of safety risk management in civil engineering, in conversation with Mark Hansford, the institution’s director of engineering know…
Funding nature-positive infrastructure
This roundtable discussion, chaired by ICE President Anusha Shah, explores how nature-positive infrastructure projects can attract enough funding from an institutional investment community that has l…
Overcoming systemic barriers to a nature-positive world
This roundtable discussion, chaired by ICE President Anusha Shah, focuses on the new regulations, standards, tools and techniques required by tomorrow’s senior engineers if their work is to stand a c…
Coastal Management 2025: how to become a presenter
Abstract submission deadline 30 September 2024 – submit now.
Our coastal systems are changing. As we learn to adapt, is sustainable coastal management still achievable? That’s just one of the key que…
How to put social value at the heart of infrastructure
James Crumly, ICE knowledge research lead, discusses Glasgow's Stockingfield Bridge project with Richard Millar, chief operating officer at Scottish Canals, and Alison Ramsey, social value and perfor…
Low-carbon energy: Ensuring a whole-life approach to renewable infrastructure delivery
Industry approaches to productivity and the use of technology
Driving change, productivity and a lean mindset requires a strong culture, engaged staff and a focus on raising quality throughout all processes.
Especially if margins are to be improved and waste re…
Collaborative Reporting on Safer Structures (CROSS)
Mark Hansford, ICE director of engineering knowledge, talks with Julie Bregulla, director of innovation partnerships and projects at TEDI London, and Andy Alder, vice president and head of major prog…
Construction Logistics and Community Safety (CLOCS) standard
Every engineer working on the design or construction of a project has a legal responsibility to make sure work is completed as safely as possible.
This audio explainer focuses on the Construction Lo…
Collaborative and technical challenges on Humber 2100+
How is the civil engineering sector building resilience, adaptation and carbon reduction into its projects? What are the implications for assets in the future?
In this podcast, an expert will discu…
Port of San Francisco waterfront resilience programme
How is the civil engineering sector building resilience, adaptation and carbon reduction into its projects? What are the implications for assets in the future?
In this podcast, an expert will discu…
How engineers can respond to more extreme and challenging weather
How is the civil engineering sector building resilience, adaptation and carbon reduction into its projects? What are the implications for assets in the future?
In this podcast, an expert will discu…
Designing for adaptation, resilience and decarbonisation
How is the civil engineering sector building resilience, adaptation and carbon reduction into its projects? What are the implications for assets in the future?
In this podcast, experts discuss how …
Rethinking freight infrastructure
Civil engineers face multiple challenges in decarbonising infrastructure. Dealing with the emissions resulting from freight infrastructure is one such area of focus, particularly for the highways sec…
Explainer: The five-minute design risk management overview
Design risk management (DRM) should be part of a holistic approach to design on all projects, and those involved in any construction project should understand their duties relating to DRM under the C…
The civil engineer’s role in tackling climate change
As we strive to reach net zero, carbon literacy is fundamental for ICE members as well as for the future of civil engineering. Which skills will engineers need to develop to reduce carbon emissions i…
Explainer: the four-minute carbon literacy overview
To avert the worst impacts of climate change and preserve a habitable planet, we must stop temperature rise. Civil engineers have a key role to play in doing this. This ICE audio explainer explores t…