ICE launches global challenges fund raiser

摘要

A new initiative to help the civil engineering profession work together to alleviate the effects of some of the huge challenges the world faces - from population growth and growing energy demands through to shortages in infrastructure funding - has been launched by the ICE. President Barry Clarke, who launched the Shaping the World initiative and funding appeal last week with patron Princess Anne, said governments, businesses and societies across the world needed to "act now to prepare for the many complex challenges ahead". He said civil engineering had been at the heart of global development for hundreds of years, and would be "at the heart of meeting the social, economic and environmental challenges we face in the coming decades", but added that a "global game changing initiative" was required to equip the civil engineers of today and tomorrow with the required levels of technical excellence, breadth and depth of knowledge, leadership skills and vision.