Pool & Networking Event (Winter 2015)

Winter Pool & Networking Event

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18:30 Thursday 3rd December
Rileys,
21-22 Essex Street, 
B5 4TR

Join us at the start of December for our winter networking event!

The event will involve opportunities to network with professionals in the region from a variety of construction and engineering related courses and careers. Please invite friends and colleagues within the industry; they are welcome to join us.

There will also be a number of recently chartered members and regional committee members on hand to share their experience and answer any questions you might have.

A food buffet will be available for you to enjoy. This event is FREE to attend. To enable us to order enough food , please sign up here:

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Eastside Locks Site Visit (Summer 2015)

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On Wednesday 26th August, a group of young members visited Alumno's Eastside Locks Development, being constructed by John Sisk & Son Ltd.

No1 City Locks is student accommodation building being constructed on a derelict site in the centre of Birmingham, as part of the city’s Eastside Regeneration project.

Construction is progressing on site, with the piled foundation and insitu concrete podium complete. The superstructure is currently being formed of precast concrete unit, and so this visit provided a great opportunity to witness and learn more about precast construction.

City Locks complements the historic canal-side environment, fitting in with other developments and minimising disruption to the local community, while bringing key benefits. Level access and an active ground floor frontage encourage a new active and sustainable canal-side environment and offer improved safety by increased use of the area.

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COMMITTEE ROLES 2015-16 - Your chance to get involved!

Congratulations to the new committee who will take over as of September 2015!

Committee 2015-16

The Midlands Young Members’ Group is run by a volunteer group of young members in the region. If you would like to get involved and fancy having a go at one of the still vacant positions outlined below, please let us know by email at istructeymp@gmail.com. New members to the group are certainly welcome, no previous experience is required for all roles except the role of Chairperson.

Communications officer - VACANT  

·         Create flyers for all events      

·         Email out flyers for all events      

·         Collate / write reports for all events     

·         Update the Facebook page     

·         Update the LinkedIn page     

·         Update the blog      

·         Update the Twitter feed    

·         Update events on Combined Calendar      

·         Update events on IStructE Website    

·         Work with Chair to manage incoming emails

STEM representative - VACANT

Lead the promotion of the IStructE, engineering & STEM in schools

Undertake school visits and/or workshops (content can be provided)

Student Representative - VACANT (University of Birmingham)

Assist in the organisation of annual student lectures         

Facilitate the hosting of regional events at universities

Advertise events to students in coordination with Communication Officer

Joint Event - Hidden Spaces (Summer 2015)

This sell-out exclusive evening view of this year's Hidden Spaces exhibition took place on Wednesday 24th June.

You may have seen a preview at New Street Station - a fascinating collection of images and short films of 24 of Birmingham's treasures will be on displace, within the stunning setting of the former bank.

Guest speakers from Make Architects, plus a variety of other events, were there in support of LoveBrum.

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Project Talk (Summer 2015) Slipstream Sculpture

On National Women in Engineering Day we were delighted to be able to hear from:

Ralph Parker - Price & Myers

Completed in 2014, this 78 m long structure is now suspended in the new Heathrow Terminal 2 building. The sculpture is based on the movement of an aerobatic stunt plane flying through the terminal’s entrance space.

Spanning between four steel columns, 20 m above the floor and clad in riveted aluminium, Slipstream has a hidden armature structure that supports its continuously undulating plywood stress-skin surface.

We find out about this structure, which has over 32,000 unique steel, plywood and aluminium parts, together with over a quarter of a million rivets carefully positioned across its surface. 

Two and a half years and £2 million was spent on the design and construction of this fantastic sculpture, which will be seen by 20 billion a year as they pass through Terminal 2.

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Networking (Summer 2015)

At the start of June we held our summer networking event!

The event provided the opportunity to network with professionals in the region from a variety of construction and engineering related courses and careers. 

There was also food, drinks and a themed quiz, which everyone participated in - congratulations to the "Pink" team for winning. They were awarded prizes of wine and Amazon vouchers for their success.

Scores were:

1st:     Pink 28.5
2nd:   Red 28
3rd:    Blue 26
4th:    Purple 24.5
=5th:  Green & Orange 19.5
7th:    Yellow 18

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WINNER! - Young Structural Engineers' International Design Competition

The winners of The Young Structural Engineers International Design Competition were announced on 18 March, during a reception at our Bastwick Street Headquarters in London.
The International Design Competition is organised every three years by The Institution’s Educational Trust to encourage ingenuity, imagination and inventiveness in young structural engineers.

In 2014 a brief was set to design a temporary solution for accommodation following a natural disaster. Entries were received from across the globe, and we are proud to announce that our very own Will Evans, was the winner of the Undergraduate Prize, with his Cubeaid scheme:

The concept of this design is that a transitional shelter is a pre-fabricated, modular, self-assembled cuboid. The proposed structure form is a hybrid-timber/steel pin jointed frame which has hinged vertical and horizontal members which allow the structure to be easily erected. The tensile memberane keeps the structure light-weight and easy to hanfle and move. The individual shelter forms part of a modular system where they can be 'stacked' to two storeys high, and a maximum of four units in either direction.

Will is also the incoming Vice-Chair of our Young Members' Group - congratulations!

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Annual General Meeting (2015)

This year's Annual General Meeting took place on Tuesday 19th May at 18:00 at the Temple Street Social.

A new committee was agreed upon, details of which can be found here:

http://istructeymg.blogspot.co.uk/p/2015-16.html

We are still looking for Student Representatives and a  STEM Representative, so if you are interested please contact us to find out more!

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Networking (Spring 2015) - Built Environment Young Professionals Networking Event

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On Thursday 19th March at Apres Bar, the: 

• IStructE YMP, 
• RTPI YPWestmids, 
• RICS Matrics, 
• ICE, 
• LIM, 
• and RIBA

teamed up to bring you a fast paced evening of speed networking. People from across the built environment professions shared knowledge and built their networks! 

This event was sponsored by Hays Recruitment, Interface and Solus Ceramics.

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Big Bang Fair (Spring 2015)

The Big Bang is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths for young people in the UK. Everything is aimed at showing young people (primarily aged 7-19) just how many exciting and rewarding opportunities there are out there for them with the right experience and qualifications.

From 12 – 15 March 2015, over 75,000 visitors were welcomed to The NEC, Birmingham, and were amazed them at just how exciting engineering and science can be. But it’s about more than thrills.

For the national event (The Big Bang Fair) which happens in March every year in Birmingham, we work with to try and give a flavour of the real scale of engineering and science in the UK.

At its heart, The Big Bang is about careers and futures and highlighting the exciting possibilities that exist for young people with science, technology, engineering and maths backgrounds.  It’s about the contribution they, with the right motivation, can make to the UK economy and to society in general.

A Young Member Panel member, helping out on the day, says:

"....Assisting children with building either the Eiffel Tower, the London Eye or a suspension bridge out of octagons was good fun and a nice opportunity to chat to both children and parents about engineering...."

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Project Talk (Spring 2015) - Paradise Forum

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On Thursday 5th March, Glenn Howells Architects and Argent gave a talk on the near and dear Paradise Forum Redevelopment project.

Paradise forum as we know it is to be transformed into a vibrant mixed use development of commercial, civic, retail, leisure and hotel space, providing major improvements to pedestrian access and public realm within this exemplary historic setting. Paradise will be one of the biggest development schemes Birmingham has seen for a generation and will dramatically transform the whole area of the city.

Argent and Glenn Howells intend to deliver this large scale development through a phased programme, and the first phase started on site in January 2015.

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Competition (Winter 2015) Make & Break

On Tuesday 17^th February at the University of Birmingham's Civil & Mechanical Engineering Building Design Centre we held our Make & Break Competition.

This year's brief was a bridge structure, with the aim to maximise both the clear span and the load-bearing capacity, whilst still building efficiently. Twelve teams competed against each other - including three student teams - to construct the best structure within the time of 60 minutes.

Testing at the end of the evening involved loading each bridge up after assessing its span and material use. The material and performance scores were then used to calculate the overall points total.

Prizes and certificates were awarded for first place, and to the best performing student team. Well done to "Hang on a Myy" from WSP UK - clear winners of this year's event. Some close results followed, with just 11 points separating the next three teams. 

The full results were:

1st - Hang on a Myy (WSP) - 310 points  -  WINNERS
2nd - Runder No Pressure (RNP Associates) - 247 points
3rd - Civilised Engineering Inc (WSP) - 237 points
4th - Tony Gee (Tony Gee & Partners) - 236 points
5th - Cov Uni Civils (Coventry University) - 211 points  -  BEST STUDENT  TEAM
6th - Warwick Official (Warwick University) - 179 points
7th - Eurovision (AECOM) - 114 points
8th - Design Engine (Design Engine Structures) - 107 points
9th - 3 beards and a Ken (Mixed) - 97 points
10th - UOB (University of Birmingham) - 96 points
11th - 4 engineers, 1 structure (WSP) - 91 points
12th - Waterman Birmingham (Waterman Group) - 37 points

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Site Visit (Winter 2015) - Timber Construction

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On the afternoon of the 22^nd of January 2015 graduates and students from the Midlands Counties group attended a site visit at Meadows primary school in Northfield which sits to the southwest of Birmingham city centre.

The project at Meadows primary school is the construction of a two storey classroom block to the existing building which utilises CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) as the main structural material.

Before entering onto the site the graduates and students heard from Kierton Risdale, Technical Manager for B&K Structures, CLT Supplier on the project. The young members learned about the benefits of Timber Construction, in particular CLT, its advantages over more traditional methods of construction, the manufacturer process, the company’s structure and its partnership between Austrian manufacturers Binderholz. The members also learned how CLT was being utilised elsewhere in the UK to construct high rise structures.

Once on the site our young members could see the CLT being constructed, at the time there was a 60 tonne truck mounted crane lifting in 8m spanning CLT floor panels. The Member also learned about some of the problems faced during the design of the CLT, such as resisting lateral loads with the shear walls, the integration between Sub-Structure and Super-Structure and how resistance to ‘sliding’ or the horizontal loads are achieved at this intersection.

A huge thanks goes out to B&K Structures for their time and effort spent showing the group around their site and for answering all the queries that the group had.

We would like to thank B&K Structures for hosting us.

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