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For all professional members considering applying for Engineering Council Registration as Chartered engineer, Incorporated Engineer or Engineering Technician (CEng, IEng or EngTech)
the new 4th edition of UK-SPEC has been issued and is now in force from the beginning of 2022
The changes to UK-SPEC aim for greater clarity, making the requirements, i.e. the Standard itself, more obvious, while providing better examples of how applicants might provide evidence of having met the Standard. The new edition is more informative, particularly with respect to assessment.
For consistency, a number of terms have been amended:
- Applicant – Potential registrants are referred to as “applicant” in place of “candidate”
- Recognised Qualifications and Individual Assessment – These terms replace ‘Standard Route’ and ‘Individual Route’.
- Licensee – in place of ‘PEI’, ‘Professional Engineering Institution’, ‘licensed PEI’, and ‘Institution’
- The competences and evidence examples have been revised to clarify the requirements
ICorr and the Society of Operations Engineers (SOE), have now upgraded their procedures and forms to comply with the 4th Edition, and all new applications must now be on the new forms. The new forms and associated documents can be downloaded
from www.icorr.org
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SIG IRELAND
SIG has been a supplier to the Irish Construction Industry for over 30 years, having built up their presence over that time through joint ventures with local entrepreneurs and through acquisition. They are now the largest provider of specialist building products and technical expertise to the construction industry on the island of Ireland, employing over 250 people.
At the forefront of their business is the Technical Building Solutions Team, where cost effective, and regulatory compliant proposals, with impartial product advice to the construction industry, are offered. The specialist team can provide advice on energy saving construction products and guidance on building regulation compliance. Their complete integrated service gives unbiased access to thousands of market leading products and solutions, while their intimate knowledge of product performance helps you to make the right choice. They specialise in thermal, acoustic, fire protection and moisture management requirements and have access to an unrivalled product range, ensuring your project has the right combination of products to deliver optimal building performance. SIG Technical Building Solutions can provide guidance to all sectors of the construction industry in ROI and NI.
SIG have long term relationships with many of the construction industry’s top brands and have extensive product ranges in stock, available from their branches in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Omagh, where their sales reps, and in-house technical experts, can advise customers on a wide range of specialist building products.
SIG pride themselves on delivering superior customer service built on operational excellence. They believe that their continued success and growth is dependent on the dedication and commitment of their staff and the quality of service that they give customers. They are continually striving to achieve their goals by being a ‘people’ business and recognise that customers, colleagues, and suppliers, are their greatest assets.
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Akakus Oil Operations
Akakus Oil Operations (AOO) is one of the largest oil companies operating in Libya and has pioneered, explored and eventually developed, two major blocks in the Murzuq Basin in the South Western area of the Libyan Desert adjacent to the famous Akakus Mountain strip and the old city of Ubari, and has its head office in Tripoli, Libya.
AKAKUS Oil Operations runs El-Sharara oil field under joint venture ownership with Libyan’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), Spain’s Repsol, France’s Total, Austria’s OMV, and Norway’s Equinor. The three concessions that have been developed, NC-115, NC-186 and I/R blocks, collectively form the El-Sharara Field. The first was the NC-115 concession area which is approximately 680 km south of Tripoli. The second was the NC-186 concession area, located about 60 km from NC-115. Oil is transported from all oil fields via the NC-115 Gas Oil Separation Plant “A” and a 30inch X 723 km long pipeline across the Sahara Desert to Zawia Tank Farm, located on the Mediterranean coast approximately 45 km west of Tripoli.
AOO began operation in 1996, and in December 1997, block NC-115 was commissioned, followed by in October 1998, a storage terminal and the723 km of transmission pipeline put into operation. Production at NC-186 began in 2004 and I/R in 2008.
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Welcome to the 180 new members and 10 Sustaining Company members who joined in 2021. Together with the congratulations of the Institute to all the following members who have attained Professional status in 2021.
TECHNICIAN
Keith Bauer, Matthew Cain, Mark Gamble, Benjamin Lee and Matthew John Walling.
PROFESSIONAL
Ashraf Al Aasmi,Emilya Abdullayeva,Fredric Ajayi,Muhammad Akhtar, Uzma Anjum, Ahamed Ansari, Muhammad Usman Asghar, Irfan Salim Bagwan, Djamel Bouzidi, Muzaffar Hussain Chaudhry, Ronald Clark, Angus James McDonald Chartres Cook, Simon Daly, Marcel Obinna Dike, Graham Dowling, Raju Dowluri, El Shafey Kamel El Sayed, Muhammad Ejaz, Judith Fergus, Paul Andrew Frankin, Aravindan Gopal, Bashir Ul Haq, Tariq Khelifa, Amir Kribaa, Serkant Koseler, David Lee, Huzoor Bux Laghari, Charles Marks, Selim Selim Mahmoud, Baby Mathai, Mohamed Riyaz Syed Masood, Daniel James Macleod, Stewart McGillivray, Ella Podmore, Mohamed Ramadan, Marc Riley, Robinson Sellamuthu, Boomari Raja Selvam, Mohammed Ali Shaikh, Abdul Kayum Shaikh, Arash Shadmani, Amir Shamsa, Ranjeet Singh, Sudhasanan Soundararajan, Gani Sultanov, Anilkumar Suvarnalatha, Mohammed Iqbal Upare and Jaffer Sait Vaseem.
FELLOW
Riky Bernard, Frank Cheng, Andrew Charles Duncan, Carmen Fonseca, Shagufta Khan, Rudi Merola, Abdulaziz Moshaweh, Cristiano
Padovani, Nelu Rusalim, Anthony Setiadi, Dmitry Sidorin, Mark Anthony Smith, Hooman Takhtechian, Devendra Wasnik, Christopher Richard Williams and Shengqi Zhou.
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Welcome to 2022 – by the time you read this it will be the end of February and a bit late to wish you a happy new year – but I do hope 2022 is a great year for you both personally and professionally.
As we came to the end of 2021 several events occurred that give me confidence that some level of normality is returning. On the 22nd November we held our Annual General Meeting (AGM) at The National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham. It was a fantastic venue and I want to thank Paul Segers for organising a great day which included technical presentations as well as updates on ICorr training programmes. The event was also available on-line and we had approximately double the number of attendees on-line compared to in-person. I suspect this was due to concerns about in-person events due to Covid, and it will be interesting to see if this ratio changes for events in 2022. For those of you who could not attend, the reports and presentations are available on the ICorr website in the members area and I would encourage you to have a look to see a summary of the many things going on.
It was also great to see that our finances remain healthy. ICorr continued to invest heavily in new training courses in 2021 and this resulted in a loss of £26,000. However, our training company, Correx, made a profit of £82,000 to leave “ICorr Group” with a surplus of £56,000.
The following day I took the opportunity to have several key ICorr members participate in a strategy meeting – to reflect on what’s working well and where we can improve. It was encouraging to hear that everyone had many positive stories to tell but we also managed to come up with a healthy list of things to improve. I won’t list them here except for one thing which I found very insightful – a concern that the workings of ICorr are not transparent and that decisions are made behind closed doors by “men in dark suits”! Related to this, several folks said they did not understand the purpose or roles of the various committees and people involved in the ICorr Council. My takeaway was that if these folks felt this, then I suspect many of you feel the same. For me this should be easy to fix and in coming editions I will try and persuade Brian Goldie (our editor) to include some articles from our various committee leaders to explain what they do. Since I’m mentioning Brian, I want to thank him for all he does behind the scenes to produce this great publication which I know is well received (and read !) by you.
Another clear sign that in-person meetings were back-on was the resumption of the London Branch annual Christmas Luncheon at the Royal Overseas League in London. As usual it was a sold-out event and it was wonderful to catch up with so many friends and ICorr colleagues again. Many thanks to London Branch for another great event.
My final event for the year was a presentation at the Young ICorr Christmas quiz organised by Danny Burkle. Whilst I certainly don’t qualify for admission to this great group it was a privilege to listen in to some great problem solving by the teams that took part.
In December we completed the development of the ABRACO coating inspector conversion course in Portuguese. This was presented at the Brazilian annual seminar on anticorrosion paints in December by Lucia Fullalove and Kevin Harold, who have done the hard work in making
this happen.
As always, I love to hear your comments and questions about ICorr so please keep them coming.
Until next time,
Bill Hedges, Institute of Corrosion President
Email: president@icorr.org
