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October 2005
Halcrow announce winner of technical paper presentation
Halcrow
hosted a technical paper presentation, at the Science Museum in London,
4 October.
The three finalists were
picked from the 63 technical papers registered under Halcrow’s
awards for technical papers scheme in 2004. The scheme recognises
the importance of technical papers to the development of the company.
The papers submitted covered a wide range of engineering issues, showing
the contribution Halcrow specialists are making to the industry.
Group
board director, Chris Fleming said: “This is the highest
submission for technical papers under the awards scheme to date.
I read each of these papers with great interest and I would like
to extend my thanks to all those who have presented and published
their papers”.
External assessors
selected three papers to present at the technical paper presentation,
they were;
- Nigel Pontee:
‘Designing sustainable estuarine
intertidal habitats’
- Robert Harvey, Corinna Morgan (Simpson), Daniel Van der Leer, Richard
Crowder and Alan Frampton:
‘Easton Broad: Achieving sustainable
flood management for nature conservation on the Suffolk coast’
- Ahmed Allam:
‘Performance-based structural fire safety engineering
solutions using computer modelling techniques’
The guest judges for
the evening were the chief executive of CIRIA and assistant director
of the Institution of Civil engineers, John Bennett. They will be working
with third judge Chris Fleming to rank them first, second or third place
based on their skill at presenting their work and answering questions.
After much deliberation from the judges, Peter
Gammie announced that Nigel Pontee was the evenings’ winner.
Nigel
said: “I’m really pleased to win, especially since
I was up against some difficult competition. The other finalists
both gave excellent presentations and clearly knew their subjects
well.”
He continued, “I enjoyed
the evening and thought that it provided a good chance to show
our clients some of the work we do'.
At the end of the evening, Chris Fleming said: “The
standard of all of the submissions was very high. Reducing the
original 63 down to 10 was a major task, but selecting three finalists
was even more difficult according to our external judges. The presentations
tonight were all of a very high standard and the judges had to
be most rigorous in the way that the winner was selected. Nigel's presentation
was very clear, made with some humour and understandable to a broad
based audience. His enthusiasm and passion for his subject were
quite evident. The runners up were also very close in a number of these
attributes.'
Employees and Clients who attended the event
were treated to a private tour of the museum before the presentation
of the short-listed three papers and then a buffet before the announcement
of the winner.
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