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NCE is the leading magazine for the UK civil engineering industry with a weekly distribution of nearly 55,000. The readership includes every member of the Institution of Civil Engineers based in the UK and Europe.

The Editorial Team

Editor

Antony Oliver

Since joining NCE
I have worked on all sections of the magazine since starting as a junior reporter straight from industry. I'm proud to be a chartered member of the ICE but I'm a journalist now not an engineer. That said, I enjoyed my six years with Owen Williams and working on site with Balfour Beatty certainly taught me a huge amount about how the industry really works. Throughout this time I was an avid reader of NCE and I still am! As editor for the last five years I strive to help the editorial team continue to produce a high quality business magazine that meets the needs of readers every week and actually helps the whole industry move forward.

Areas of Interest
I tend to keep an eye on the whole industry, what's happening next, who's doing what, where the innovation is coming from and what the political drivers are. Whether the issue is rail, roads, bridges, airports, earthworks, power, education, recruitment or environment policy I'm always interested and have usually got a view. In particular it is important to me that the industry challenges itself to make its views heard by the nation's decision makers and actually commits to driving solutions rather than simply complaining. I am also passionate about ensuring that the next generation sees civil engineering as a realistic career option and as a trustee of engineering disaster relief charity RedR-IHE, I am keen to ensure that young and old engineers are able to channel their energy and expertise into life saving activities across the globe

Deputy Editor
Jackie Whitelaw

Since joining NCE
My career has given me something of a Blue Peter existence, including helicopter rides to north sea gas rigs, a roam around the dome of Sizewell B, dinner in a crossover cavern and being stranded in Denver with the US olympic judo squad. Highpoint: the Channel Tunnel breakthrough party; low point: frog soup in China.

Areas of Interest
I have been writing about construction all my adult life and still find it fascinating. As managing editor of NCE I run the magazine day to day and act as Antony's deputy.

Content Editor
Mark Hansford

Since joining NCE
Been the first construction journalist into Iraq following the second Gulf War (and won IBP News Reporter of the Year as a result), was on the scene in tsunami-struck Sri Lanka, reported on a fatal bridge collapse in Portugal, covered a tunnel blaze in Baltimore, and exposed fundamental design failings in the Windsor's Jubilee River. My most moving experience to date was talking exclusively to acquitted Hatfield engineer Nick Jeffries over how he is putting his life back together after his five-year ordeal. Worst experience to date has to be getting lured into a night out in Scotland with the ICE graduates and students, waking up with a raging hangover with the grim reality dawning that I had missed my flight home. Never again.

Areas of Interest
Engineering disasters, design cock-ups and personal traumas are a staple of NCE, but fortunately are few and far between. Transport issues, particularly in roads and railways, are my main area of responsibility. I also have a keen interest in tackling the skills shortage, something NCE feels passionate about to, and actively attempts to address through our school's magazine NCEinsite.

News editor

John McKenna

Since joining NCE
I've found myself sleeping on an office floor in flooded New Orleans within two months of joining the NCE team. I spent my time having dirt blown in my face by Chinook Helicopters, dodging wild dogs and eating my dinner onboard a dredging ship.

Areas of Interest
While there are no limits to what can be written about in the wonderful world of engineering, I tend to focus on news about the rail industry, local and regional government, the London Olympics, and New Orleans post-Katrina. I also try to keep my eyes peeled for anything fascinating happening in Wales, Germany, Eastern Europe and Indonesia.

Senior reporter(special features)
Ruby Kitching

Since joining NCE
I have covered news stories on the Paris airport terminal collapse, 7 July bombings, the G8 summit and spent a nightshift with Tube workers. Over the summer I was at Glastonbury during its worst ever flooding in history – and managed to get the scoop on why it was so bad this year. It wasn't just down to Mother Nature!

Areas of Interest
I have a civil engineering background and was a structural engineer for three and a half years. My beats include ICE, the rail and Tube network, structures, foundations, poverty-reduction issues and waste management

Senior reporter (online)

Ed Owen

Since joining NCE

I went into journalism late – I had been a photographer in Cairo, a DJ in Sao Paulo, run an organic food shop in Manchester, and worked briefly in politics. I then trained at the London College of Printing and worked at the BBC before moving to work in Amsterdam and then Brussels before coming back to the UK, to work at NCE in October 2006. My first day was taken up with a bridge collapse in Canada, and I have since ridden on a Tunnel Boring Machine beep below the palace of Versailles, stood on an earth dam which may have collapsed at any minute, and reported from the Grayrigg crash site in Northumbria.

Technical Reporter

Jessica Rowson

Freelance writers

Margo Cole

Adrian Greeman

Damian Arnold

CJ Schexnayder

Jon Young

David Hayward

Chief Sub-editor
Andy Bolton

Designer

James McCarthy