21 March 2019International engineering federation FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) has set up a new diversity and inclusion task force to actively support representation and inclusion from more diverse groups so they can become leaders and influencers in the consulting...

The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (DTTS) recently advised that the updates to Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual and the Temporary Traffic Management Document Guidelines are near complete and have been submitted to DTTAS for approval and publication.  A  letter detailing these can be found here. Following the...

A new report by Engineers Ireland has found that there is ongoing buoyancy in the sector, with 77% of employers’ financial position improving in 2018 and 89% expecting their financial position to improve in 2019. The report, titled ...

In November 2018, Hannah Vickers announced ACE’s Future of Consultancy campaign in London. The aim of the campaign is to prepare the engineering industry in the UK for the challenges brought on by the fourth industrial revolution brought on by a significant rise in the importance of data and technology. Since then, much work has been done in designing the initial campaign and identifying the four...

ACEI welcomes the update from Ciara Ahern, Head of the Building Engineering programme in the Technological University Dublin (TUD previously DIT) as she continues to promote Building Engineering as a career along with the assistance of an expert Steering Group that includes ACEI members. On 6th March 2019, an article in The Independent highlighted the shortage of Building Engineers. Read...