New president also pledges to defend civil engineering values and standards. Incoming ICE president David Orr has pledged to "stand up for the unsung heroes" of the engineering profession. Addressing the Institution in his inauguralspeech on Tuesday, the Ulsterman also committed himself to defending the value of civil engineering; campaigning for the highest professional standards and the pursuit of excellence in procurement. Orr is the second president of the Institution in five years to hail from Northern Ireland following Professor Adrian Long in 2003.
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