CPD Courses and Events

This course is designed to improve your understanding of contracts, covering contractual conditions, their legal framework and the management procedure you need to successfully complete projects. It follows the Institution of Civil Engineers syllabus and will prepare you for the ICE Law and Contract Management examinations in June 2024.

If you’re wishing to take the exams you will be able to do so at an additional charge to be confirmed and registration and payment will be direct with the ICE. Please note any examination queries, bookings and payments (for ICE exams) should be made directly with the ICE [email protected]

The live online presentations take place on Monday evenings 6.30pm – 8.30pm and the course extends to the end of June with breaks at Christmas, Easter, May and the Spring Bank holidays. We also offer revision evenings for those taking the ICE exams at the end of the course. 

The course programme will be delivered exclusively online and will be recorded with the recordings being made available to participants only.

About the course
The online course will take place on the following days and times:
Tuesday 24 October 2023 (14:00-16:30 BST)
Wednesday 25 October 2023 (14:00-16:30 BST) 
Thursday 26 October (10:00-12:30 BST)

This course is designed to improve your understanding of cracking in concrete. The following topics will be covered:

• the origin and analysis of the crack shape, profile and width at different ages – this is related to the RILEM technical committee TC 287 - CCS - Early age and long-term crack width analysis in RC Structures and it is fundamental to understanding the link between cracking, durability and structural performance.

• how we can control cracks at nano, micro and macro-scale

• guidance on the measurement, analytical and numerical modelling

• the concept of self-healing cracks and an update of the current state of this technology

This course is suitable for you if you are:

•  a civil, structural, materials engineer involved in design, construction and management concrete infrastructure

•  an academic or researcher interested in the latest challenges on durability and structural performance of concrete assets

• a service engineer or scientist who would value a deeper understanding of cracking in concretes and how the theory can be applied to develop effective control strategies

Chem4Energy is pleased to announce the 2024 conference on ‘Materials and Processes for a Sustainable Energy Future’. 

The Chem4Energy community has grown out of a number of collaborative UK-Africa consortium programmes and 2024 will see the third in this series of annual meetings, which focus in particular on:

• Highlighting the synergy between experiment and computation
• Offering opportunities for early career researchers to disseminate their work in oral and poster presentations - often their first conference talk!
• Allowing plenty of opportunity for discussion of the research presentations

The Chem4Energy conferences aim to bring together local academic and industrial researchers and developers from Southern Africa with colleagues from Europe, the USA and further afield, to discuss the latest developments in sustainable energy materials and processes, build new collaborations, and influence and support future directions in the field of sustainable energy research.  

Although contributions in all areas within the Chem4Energy remit are welcome, core themes of the 2024 meeting include:

•    Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis for clean energy production; 
•    CO2 capture and utilisation;
•    Materials for solar energy devices;
•    Nuclear energy;
•    Hydrogen production, storage and transport;
•    High-performance computing in energy research.

Please read the 'More Info' section before completing your registration