An Engine for Change - A Chronicle of the Engineering Council

1999-2001: THE HAWLEY YEARS 155new A4 format, developed as a result of seeking the views of Registrants. In it the EngCChairman, Dr Hawley highlighted issues facing the profession and backed the SARTORapproach to improving quality and maintaining standardsEnvironment Award for EngineersThe highly successful Environment Award for Engineers was re-launched in 1999 with a newstructure having three additional categories to reflect topical concerns. The categories were‘Engineering in the Natural Environment’, ‘Engineering in the Built Environment’ and‘Sustainable Engineering’. The sponsors were Lloyd’s Register, Rolls Royce, British Energy,UKAPE and the EngC. The 1999 Award for Engineers was won by a 5-man team from TWIfor a new aluminium welding technique who received the Lloyd’s Register Trophy and£5,000. The British Energy ‘Award for Sustainable Engineering’ was won jointly by TWIand Serck Heat Transfer Ltd. The Rolls Royce ‘Engineering in the Natural EnvironmentAward’ was won by RKL-Avp and Yorkshire Water. The ‘Engineering in the BuiltEnvironment Award’ was won by NatWest Group Property.In the following year the Awards Ceremony took place at the Science Museum on 10 Octoberwith nearly 300 guests attending. The overall winners for 2000 were from MorrisonConstruction Ltd who received the ‘Lloyd’s Register Trophy’. They also received the ‘Rolls-Royce Award for Engineering in the Natural Environment’. The winners of the ‘BritishEnergy Award for Sustainable Development’ were Mitsui Babcock. A new class,‘Engineering Alternatives’, was won by Shetland Heat Energy and Power Ltd.The final EngC Awards Ceremony took place at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 10October 2001. The destiny of this successful venture would now reside in the hands of thefuture ETB with other stakeholders managing the Award in the future.Recognising Excellence CampaignWork began during 1999 on the ‘Recognising Excellence’ campaign, launched in thefollowing year at Peterborough in conjunction with marketing the Register, to encouragecompanies to employ registered engineers and Institution members. Evaluation of the initiallaunch was completed in 2000 but awaited additional feedback from the opening phases ofthe wider East Anglian pilot. Generally, responses to the campaign messages and materialswere pleasing but, as expected, it was clear that some adjustment had to be made beforerolling the campaign out elsewhere.The second phase of the regional campaign programme was launched in Newport SouthWales in March 2001 by James Dyson. A publicity event for ‘Recognising Excellence’ tookplace in Bristol in October of that year and received good media coverage.The Hawley InitiativeWhen Robert Hawley became Chairman of the EngC in February 1999 in succession to AlanRudge, the ‘Lasting New Relationship’ which was the outcome of the Fairclough Initiative[see Chapter 5] was still bedding in. The consequent ‘Activity Review’ that we havementioned above, was well under way but the recommended changes had not been set fully inplace. The new Director General of the EngC, Malcolm Shirley, had been in post only amatter of months – he had joined in June 1998 - and was occupied for much of his time with© Engineering Council UK 2004