Contents
Ingenia - Issue 51, June 2012
Editorial
Olympic Legacies
Dr Scott Steedman CBE FREng
Engineering learnings from the 2012 Games
In brief
Celebrating steam innovation; Water music; SET for Britain; Forum for engineering
In Brief: short articles and engineering news
Letters
Response to: Smart cities
Ellie Cosgrave and Léan Doody
Contributing authors to Information Marketplaces: The New Economics of Cities respond to What’s so clever about smart cities? (Ingenia 50)
Opinion
Catastrophe risk engineering
Dr Gordon Woo
Leading risk expert from the Blackett Review panel explains some of the best ways to identify, asses and manage high impact low probability risk
Profile
Sarah Springman CBE FREng
Competitive spirit
A civil engineer renowned for her research and teaching
in soil mechanics. She has enjoyed a parallel career as an
international elite athlete
By Michael Kenward OBE
Paralympic Technology
Tim Rushby-Smith and Lawrie Douglas
Wind tunnel testing, computer modelling, and adapted prosthetics built from specialist materials help Paralympic athletes maximise their sporting potential
Design Winner
Emily Bick
Design team Barber Osgerby worked with UK engineering companies to develop a lightweight, functional, safe and memorable Olympic Torch for London 2012
Imaging in Four Dimensions
Professor Phil Withers FREng and Professor Peter D Lee
Improvements in 3D X-ray tomography have allowed researchers to create movies to study processes including tumour growth and permafrost thawing
MacRobert Award 2012
The MacRobert finalists for 2012 are Andor Technology with a vacuum cooled scientific CMOS camera; Jaguar Land Rover with the Range Rover Evoque; and the JBA Group with the JFLOW flood mapping system
Delivering the games
Sir John Armitt CBE FREng FICE
The chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) explains how the ODA has helped clear the Stratford site for the Olympic Park and prepared the permanent venues and infrastructure for the 2012 Games
The Olympic Velodrome
The 6,000 seat London 2012 Olympic Velodrome was inspired by the minimalist design of the champion cyclist Victoria Pendleton’s racing bike
Offsite Construction
Hugh Ferguson
Laing O’Rourke’s Explore Manufacturing precast concrete facility uses techniques from the automobile and aerospace industries to improve precision and efficiency in construction
INNOVATION WATCH - Pocket-sized programming
The Raspberry Pi Foundation promotes creative computing education with its credit-card sized PC
HOW DOES THAT WORK? - Pool sterilisation
An explanation of methods used to disinfect swimming pools
Temporary Olympic Structures
In a bid to meet sustainability goals, temporary venues have featured highly in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Editorial Board
The members of the Ingenia editorial board
Editor-in-Chief | Dr Scott Steedman CBE FREng | |
Managing Editor | Dominic Joyeux | |
Copy Editor | Emily Bick | |
Editorial Board | Professor John Burland CBE FREng FRS Derek Hanson FREng Michael Kenward OBE John Loughhead OBE FREng Martin Manning FREng Dr Ian Nussey OBE FREng Professor William Stewart FREng Professor Liz Tanner FREng Professor William Webb FREng Stephen Vranch FREng
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Director, Policy & Public Affairs | Beverley Parkin |
Sponsors
The Royal Academy of Engineering acknowledges the generous support by the following organisations for Ingenia: ARUP, BAE Systems, ConocoPhillips, Lloyd's Register, Rolls-Royce plc
The Royal Academy of Engineering acknowledges the generous support by the following organisations for Ingenia:
- ARUP
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- BAE Systems
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- ConocoPhillips
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- Lloyd's Register
The Lloyd’s Register Group is an organisation that works to enhance safety and to approve assets and systems at sea, on land and in the air. We check that assets and systems work so that people and communities around the world can get on with everyday life. We are driven by a strong sense that what we are doing matters. To make this happen, we set, uphold and apply high technical standards of design, manufacture, construction, maintenance, operation and performance across many industries to the benefit of many businesses. Lloyd’s Register stands apart: independent, objective, experienced and uncompromising in our commitment to helping our clients. |
- Rolls-Royce plc
With annual sales of £11 billion, an order book of over £60 billion and 39,000 people employed globally, Rolls-Royce has manufacturing and service facilities in 50 countries. Our customer base comprises 500 airlines, 4,000 corporate and utility operators, 2,000 marine customers and 160 armed forces and energy customers in 120 countries. We have over 54,000 gas turbines in service worldwide which generate a demand for high-value services throughout their operational lives. Rolls-Royce service revenues have grown by ten per cent compound over the past decade, now representing 51 per cent of annual sales. |