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Membership and Regions
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Policy and External Affairs
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4 Nelson’s Column
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ACE Chief Executive Nelson Ogunshakin looks at the positives for the year ahead.
sgoldie@acenet.co.uk
5 News
Royal Haskoning chosen for surface water management project; ACE vice chairman to
Impact
lead new Grontmij group; RedR supports emergency relief in Haiti.
Editor
Gavin Pearson
9 Chair and Secretary appointed to ACE Middle East Group
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Mott MacDonald’s Ian Clarke has been appointed chair of ACE’s Middle East Group.
gpearson@acenet.co.uk Simon Harden of Waterman PLC will serve as the group’s secretary.
Designer
10 Michelle McDowell’s first interview as ACE Chair
James Dixon
Impact magazine talks to Michelle McDowell about her views on the year ahead, training
young people, and the issues facing engineering.
Impact welcomes articles and features on
issues relating to the business of consultancy
12 ACE plan conference and awards
and engineering. Contributors should send
Plans for the 2010 Engineering Excellence Awards and annual conference on the 14 April
material to the editor at impact@acenet.co.uk
or to the address above. Phone Impact on
2010 are underway.
020 7202 0255.
14 Award winning Manywells land remediation project
Impact is the magazine of the Association for The Manywells project to make safe and landscape the Cullingworth landfill site is
Consultancy and Engineering. It is published nearing its final phase. Impact takes a look at the award winning Yorkshire project and
bi-monthly. Printed in the UK by Russell Press.
what it has achieved.
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16 ACE launches manifesto for UK prosperity
New manifesto for the up-coming general election calls for better procurement practices,
a long term approach to investment, and a new focus on greening existing buildings.
18 A look at Scotland
Impact takes a look at developments in Scotland, including: The ACE Scottish reception;
The Forth replacement crossing progress; and plans for renewables off the east coast.
21 Small business finance
A year after the launch of the £1billion Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme, Impact
looks at the current state of play in small business finance.
22 Hoare Lea rolls out Adopt a School programme
Hoare Lea tells Impact about its successful project to help engineers to get into
secondary schools to promote the sector and help students find out more.
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