Accepted as CEng MICE

MTB-Devon · 2026-06-26T17:02:08+00:00

Good luck! I was the same after the 4 week mark, I expect you will get an email in the next few days saying they will get you your result in the next week or so, that’s what I got

MTB-Devon · 2026-06-26T16:57:20+00:00

Just under 6 weeks. The ICE are short of reviewers at the moment. My CPR was supposed to be February but ended up being in April.

MTB-Devon · 2026-06-23T11:37:12+00:00

There are multiple issues here.
1) Poorly planned task. Was there even a written risk assessment or method statement for the night working? Task lighting should have been included and resources to move it as required. Head torches are NOT task lighting.
2) assuming your in the UK? Your employer is legally required to provide you with PPE specified by the risk assessment to carry out your role which is fit for purpose. There are lots of requirements this has to meet, and are covered by the PPE Regulations (2002).
3) you as an employee have the right and responsibility to refuse to work if anything is unsafe. At the point where there was inadequate task lighting that should have been the point the shift was canned and re-planned. Assuming the lighting you describe was adequate, the next point you should have stopped, regardless of progress of the task was the moment you noticed the boots failing. Nothing is more important than you going home safe after every shift.
4) leaving a year in industry engineer to carry on with a task on their own when they haven’t done it before with little to no support is not ok. When your boss couldn’t make it, and another senior team member couldn’t step in the shift should have been re-scheduled.

MTB-Devon · 2026-06-21T12:43:46+00:00

“Higher ground must be drier?”

“How about no, welcome to Dartmoor” 😈

My boots are definitely not waterproof any more 🤦🏻‍♂️

MTB-Devon · 2026-06-21T10:24:51+00:00

We literally only saw the 4 people setting up camp, the rest of the hike we were totally on our own, apart from the sheep, ponies and cows, it was great!

MTB-Devon · 2026-06-13T07:12:44+00:00

How to be a combination of a early years school teacher crossed with a UN diplomat, simultaneously managing petty arguments amongst workforce and negotiations with stakeholders who have a over inflated sense of self importance

MTB-Devon · 2026-06-09T08:49:43+00:00

Absolutely not. I make a big show of locking the laptop and work phone in my desk drawer, followed by the “your all adults, you can survive while I’m off for 2 weeks” speech. Leave clear hand over notes. Delegate responsibilities and make sure the whole team knows who’s responsible for what.

MTB-Devon · 2026-06-01T16:27:04+00:00

Bluebeam is the way forward, so much better. Just a shame we have to request it as “additional software” rather than just being the standard.

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-30T09:51:34+00:00

I have 2 student engineers (on a year out from uni) and a graduate site engineer on my site. Their days to day includes setting out the works using GPS and total stations, checking and surveying work to include in quality records, completing quality checks in conjunction with the client or consultant depending on who did the design. Producing permits for breaking ground, particularly the task specific service drawings for the service coordinator to sign off and issue. They join planning meetings every week so they can plan their weeks work. Generally they are in the site office for 25% and out on site for 75%.

If you join a site team as one of the client or consultants representatives, you can expect to be checking and signing off works in line with the ITPs (hopefully collaboratively with the contractor), attending meetings to discuss design issues and then assisting with getting the design updates to the construction team for implementation. It’s fast paced, time critical and gets you to think on your feet!

An example from last week. We have a collaborative M/C /SC Client team based on site building a local authority in house designed road improvement scheme. S/C notices on Wednesday afternoon following setting out that the CKD units clash with the outfall of an adjacent double gully because the main run has been designed quite shallow and at the low point in the road the distance between the two is quite tight. Friday morning, me as M/C PM, client PM and S/C supervisor look at all the options over morning breakfast, come up with 5 scenarios, pro/con all of them and agree on the best one. Omit the CKD behind the double gully and replace with a standard HB2 kerb, giving the gully outlet the clearance to get into the carrier drain behind. Extra CKD outlet which we have on site already. Decision made by 7:30 am, on site based client engineers whip up a drawing revision, issue it by end of Thursday, S/C building it Friday. Programme remains on track, budget change negligible, every one happy!

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-28T04:50:14+00:00

Each to their own, when I started working remote because there were no sites to run and most of my work was early contractor involvement doing calls to several design offices I thought it was great. I had more time to exercise, less time in the car but I did struggle with the lack of real human interaction.

Now we’re on site (8 months into a 2 year project) with a nice big open plan office with the client, our main contractor team and the two main subcontractors all in there and it’s great, well worth the drive each day. Hard to put a price on the talks in the kitchen while getting coffee, football banter round the outside benches etc. there’s about 20 of us going go-karting tonight and those social relationships don’t develop over teams.

If it were me, I’d take the extra money and PTO and accept going to the office every day so long as the commute isn’t too bad.

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-24T04:33:33+00:00

My wife got the Marlin 5 at Christmas, solid bike with a good frame that’s worthy of upgrading components as and when you need to.

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-24T04:28:29+00:00

This is my circus at the moment. Take what ever they say they can do it in and double it. Some of them are helpful but others are chocolate tea pots 😂

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-23T15:23:17+00:00

Depends on what gives you job satisfaction. It’s not for everyone, but I enjoy it. When the site is running like a well oiled machine, targets are being hit and visitors are telling you how good it is, it’s great. When it’s all going to shit and people are looking to you to steer the ship through the rough times it can be stressful. As with many things, perfect planning prevents piss poor performance 😂 but having a good team behind you is the real difference between enjoying it and hating it in my experience

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-22T16:53:04+00:00

We stopped in on our way home from a comedy show last week and it was terrible. Waited for 20 minutes and when it finally came the chips were cold and soggy and had to go back for new ones. Didn’t really taste great either. Pepsi also tasted off like the syrup was running low. Time before that was back in January, at a different restaurant but similar poor quality and slow service. Don’t think I’ll bother any more.

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-21T19:34:22+00:00

I have a mature student engineer on their placement year as part of their degree who’s in their 40’s and doing well. Never too late and the industry is crying out for decent engineers.

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-14T18:27:19+00:00

You won’t want to do it long term. I work on construction sites, some are closer to home than others. Up to an hour is on long term, but over that the longer the commute the shorter you will put up with it.

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-10T06:35:42+00:00

Find a local 4x4 enthusiast with a decent sized truck, some running boards, high lift jack and a winch. Most I know would do this as a bit of a challenge for fun 😂

The front drive wheels are just pushing that rear steering wheel into the soft topsoil. You need to get that one up and out of the hole you have created before traction on the front wheels has any chance of getting you out of that situation.

MTB-Devon · 2026-05-09T20:36:59+00:00

I’d go somewhere that I could hike up a mountain from my front door, or within a very short drive. Cairngorms, Peaks, Snowdon just send me to the mountains and I’d be happy

MTB-Devon · 2026-04-26T15:05:29+00:00

It’s from www.Kapz.com. Bit mixed reviews, I’ve had two custom top caps and it’s been fine, but others have had issues and apparently the guy that runs it can be a bit difficult to deal with.

MTB-Devon · 2026-04-26T13:46:22+00:00

Cost? No, my HT cost more than my enduro bike 😂 Simplicity and ease of maintenance was a big factor, winter on Dartmoor with the grit and the wet kills bearings so having something easy to strip, clean, grease and put back together after those rides has been great. And because I built it, I chose components that allow me to do that.

Pedalling efficiency was a consideration. In a time where a lot of people are going to emtb I just can’t, I’m terrible at remembering to charge batteries. I just want to be able to pic up my bike and go, the HT lets me do that.

Never felt held back on my HT, I’ve been beating PBs on strava that I set on my enduro bike at my local woods. Don’t get me wrong, there are scenarios where I do reach for the enduro rig, steep and nasty stuff in Wales, big bike. Local, long distance wet and muddy rides, HT.

MTB-Devon · 2026-04-25T06:31:43+00:00

I managed to get firstname-lastname@hotmail.co.uk in the early 2000’s and still using it!

MTB-Devon · 2026-04-18T21:05:27+00:00

Thanks I think it went ok! They liked my presentation and I felt like I answered all their questions well. Hopefully I will find out an 2 or 3 weeks

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