Past Events
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What is the Truth? Do engineers, scientists and lawyers answer that question the same way?
Roger ter Haar KC’s lecture on how engineers and scientists, and lawyers, view the truth from different angles.
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A Metallurgist’s Role in Structural Engineering
Alan Denney on his work as Arup’s first metallurgist: cast steel on the Centre Pompidou, stainless steel castings at Bush Lane House, fire engineering and offshore nodes.
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The Bridgemasters of London – 850 Years of Engineering, Ceremony and Scandal
A lecture and dinner with Sue Threader, one of the two current Bridgemasters of the City of London, on Monday 16 November 2026 at the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
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Driving Ahead – The Future of the Car
A look beyond electrification. The future of the car as it undergoes its most significant transition in response to an increasingly complex world.
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President’s Day to Bristol
Based around the local legacy of Brunel with visits including the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the SS Great Britain and the British Aerospace Museum at Filton. One overnight stay at a hotel.
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Spring Voyage to Liverpool and Manchester Area
Including visits to the two Liverpool Cathedrals, Historic Liverpool Dock Area and Waterfront, Mersey Tunnel and Ferry, Bridgewater Canal, Anderton Boat Lift, Jodrell Bank, Styal Mill and Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
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A Metallurgist’s Role in Structural Engineering – Centre Pompidou, Bush Lane House, Offshore and the Rest
The lecture illustrates how interesting and varied the role of the Metallurgist can be. How in the 1970s castings with water filled cavities for fire protection were developed for use in buildings.
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The Grenfell Tower: Key Outcomes from the Inquiry and Further Change on the Horizon
The presentation will summarize actions and conclusions setting the stage to what could be expected to be the future of fire safety within the construction industry.
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“What is Truth?” Do Engineers, Scientists and Lawyers answer that question the same way?
Where do Courts/Lawyers depart from Engineers/Scientists in determining truth? “The truth is never pure and rarely simple” Oscar Wilde
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Autumn Voyage 2025 to Provence
The IESF British Section Autumn Voyage 2025 returns to the ITER fusion reactor site at Cadarache, based in Avignon from Wednesday 10th to Sunday 14th September.