South East IDE Regional Meeting confirmed for July 16th

This is a quick reminder that a South-East Regional Meeting is being held by the IDE on Thursday, 16th July between 4-6pm.

If you would like to attend, the venue address is as follows:

The Tilbury Room
Hilton Dartford Bridge Hotel,
Masthead Close,
Crossways Business Park,
Dartford DA2 6QF

In order to attend, you need to email The National Secretary at info@ide.org.uk. And it's well worth attending, with David Matthews from Pro-Edge Ltd. speaking about Plant & Commercial Vehicle Visions Camera, Nicola Elvery speaking about Occupational Health, and IDE Past President Steve Jack discussing Demolition within the Nuclear Environment. Gary Bishop will also be present for a chat, and attending counts as 2 hours of CPD.

South-East IDE Regional Meeting next month!

A South-East Regional Meeting is being held by the IDE next month on Thursday, 16th July.

The venue is The Tilbury Room, the address is as follows:

The Tilbry Room
Hilton Dartford Bridge Hotel,
Masthead Close,
Crossways Business Park,
Dartford DA2 6QF

IDE Past President Steve Jack and Gary Bishop will be hosting, with the meeting kicking off at 4pm and finishing at 6pm. If you would like to attend then please get in touch with the IDE National Secretary by emailing info@ide.org.uk

IDE Autumn Seminar announced for 26th September

The IDE Autumn Seminar has been confirmed as taking place on the 26th September. IDE President Steve Jack is inviting members to join him at the seminar, which is being held at One Great George Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3AA.

Refreshments and lunch will be served in the Great Hall, with presentations happening in the Telford Theatre. The programme is as follows: (clikc the image to see it full size)



If you would like to attend then please complete the booking form.

Source: IDE

IDE South-East Regional Meeting confirmed for May 8th

The South-East Regional Meeting will be held on Thursday, 8th May between 4-7pm at:

The Tilbury Room,
Hilton Dartford Bridge Hotel,
Masthead Close,
Crossways Business Park,
Dartford DA2 6QF

The meeting will be hosted by IDE President Steve Jack. Speakers include representatives from Liebherr Great Britain Ltd, Sandvik Mining & Construction, Haulmark Equipment Ltd and Kocurek Excavators Ltd.

Please register your attendance by contacting The National Secretary at info@ide.org.uk

IDE thanks its members for helping Baby Lifeline charity

Current IDE President Steve Jack FIDE chose Baby Lifeline as the President's Charity for his time in office and he was delighted to present them with a cheque for money raised at the AGM Luncheon in November.

Full details can be found via this link.

Watch IDE President Steve Jack address the 2013 Demolition Summit in Amsterdam

Regular readers of this page will know that John has been a judge at the KHL DRi World Demolition Awards since their inception. Each year he goes to Amsterdam for the awards presentation and to listen to the wide range of presentations at the Demolition Summit that takes place the day of the awards.

This year John was particularly keen to listen to IDE President Steve Jack who gave a presentation about the current state of the IDE and the plans for the institute during his Presidency.

That presentation can be seen below:-

IDE Vice President Duncan Rudall co-facilitates NDTG Demolition Manager Course in January

Since it's inception the NDTG Demolition Manager Course has been delivered by John or Roy Brown, but changes are afoot in 2014 as Duncan Rudall is joining John on the January intake in Birmingham with a view to assisting with revising the course content and delivering future courses.

NDTG and C&D have agreed that the course requires updating and it will, therefore, be updated after the January intake with Duncan assisting with the update following his attendance on the course as a co-facilitator.

Duncan is a self employed demolition trainer and consultant who works closely with C&D to deliver quality training throughout the UK.

The photograph shows Duncan receiving his IDE Vice President scroll from current IDE President Steve Jack.

IDE Back On Track

IDE members have noticed that, following the resignation of Valerie Stroud in February of this year, new President Steve Jack has had a few issues to deal with and, with the help of Vice President Duncan Rudall, Stuart Accleton and the rest of the Management Council those issues have now been resolved.

Comments have been made that the IDE was losing the momentum built up over the last 5 years and the lack of a media presence, with no website and twitter feed, was not helping to recruit new members and keep existing members informed. I can assure you that those comments have been addressed.

First job was to recruit a new National Secretary to replace Valerie and we now have Maureen Tong-Ralphs in post and working well. Maureen has recruited a new assistant so that administration in the office can now be back to normal.

The IDE website is now up and running with news feeds but it is having a full revamp and re-launch in the next few weeks so keep visiting the site and wait for the re-launch.

The @IDEPresident Twitter feed is now working again and Maureen will tweet news for the IDE office on a daily basis.

It has been a difficult few months but the IDE is Back!

A new beginning for the IDE

This Thursday at 9.00am will see the IDE Council of Management meet in full for the first time since the sudden resignation of Valerie Stroud following the successful seminar in Leeds at the end of February.

The council, under the leadership of Steve Jack, will sit for the first time since the bombshell resignation and plan IDE activities, consider membership applications and address member concerns.

For the new National Secretary, Maureen Tong-Ralphs, it will be first time that she has met or spoken to many council members so it will give them the opportunity to meet her and welcome her into the position. Maureen was recruited following a lengthy series of interviews by President Steve Jack, Vice President Duncan Rudall and Stuart Accleton and she is now working her way through the backlog of work left behind when Valerie Stroud resigned.

Items for discussion at the council remain confidential, but I can tell you that the events team will discuss the forthcoming Demo Expo 2013, the OGGS Seminar booked for Friday 27 September and the AGM and annual luncheon booked for Friday 15 November.

IDE appoint new National Secretary

The IDE was surprised in February when Valerie Stroud decided to leave the position of National Secretary at a minutes notice and there was some disruption to Institute business since then but now they are back on track.

IDE President Steve Jack, Vice President Duncan Rudall and Council of Management member Stuart Accleton have taken their time, interviewed many applicants for the position, (nearly as many as were interviewed for the Wolves Head Coach position) and have made the appointment of a new National Secretary.

We are pleased to announce that Maureen Tong-Ralphs has taken over the position and is now getting to grips with institute business. She will attend her first IDE Council meeting on Thursday 13th June at Armac Group in Birmingham.

Here at C&D we wish Maureen all the best in the position and look forward to working closely with her for the future.

Roland O'Connor MIDE

We are delighted to announce that Roland O'Connor, well known to many C&D customers, is now a Full member of The Institute of Demolition Engineers following his succesful professional interview in Leeds.

Roland is mainly known to C&D customers for the work carried out in the training room and the site audit fields of the business, but he has, for the last 5 years, been involved in many demolition projects throughout the UK for Erith, City Demolition, Liston Group, GHA and others, and he has produced H&S plans, method statements, and plans of work for many varied projects.

The IDE professional interview was daunting for Roland as he had to face questions from President Steve Jack FIDE, Vice President Duncan Rudall FIDE, and Dave Darsey FIDE about his portfolio prepared from his work over the last 2 years.

From all at C&D CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL DONE!

January 23rd IDE Regional Meeting planned in Dartford

Steve Jack FIDE IEng AMIStructE, the IDE President, has kindly organised a Regional Meeting in Dartford.

The meeting will be held on the Wednesday 23 January 2013.

• The venue will be at the Swanley Room Suite 2 the Hilton Bridge Hotel, Masthead Close Crossways Business Park Dartford DA2 6QF
• The meeting will take place between 4-7pm with refreshments being served from 4.00pm – 4.30pm.
• Davinder Singh Reehal BEng(Hons), AMIDE of John F Hunt Demolition Ltd will be showing a presentation on ‘the LU’.
• Daniel Anoff of Brown and Mason Ltd will be ‘The Removal of Marshgate Lane Bridge, a Demolition Engineer’s Perspective’.
• Keith Kelsey from The Health and Safety People Group will be presenting ‘applying the new BS6187:2011 code of practice’.
• Attending the Meeting will earn you 3 Core IDE CPD hours.

If you would like to attend this meeting then please e-mail Sandra by Thursday 17 January 2013.

IDE presidency changes hands

Friday, November 16th saw our own John Woodward step down as IDE President and hand over the reigns to Steve Jack FIDE.

The 2 years that John has been President have flown by, but now he can take more time to grow the business of C&D Consultancy in the fields of CDM-C works and demolition training.

A full report on the changeover at the top can be found at Demolitionnews including video interviews with Steve Jack the new President, and John.

John will remain on the IDE Council of Management as Immediate Past President for the next two years and will be fully supporting Steve throughout his Presidency.

More members of IDE pass the Institute exam and progress to AMIDE

Examination successes!

Congratulations to the following Entrant members who have successfully passed the Institute's examinations (26th March) and will now graduate to Associate membership.

• Daniel Baker, Lee Demolition Ltd
• Terry Davies, Wye Valley Demolition Ltd
• Robert Ellis, Keltbray Ltd
• Richard Henderson, Sam Gilpin Demolition Ltd
• Richard Jarvis, Sellafield Ltd
• Stephen McCann Jnr, Forth Demolition Ltd
• Cecil Thompson, Sellafield Ltd

IDE Vice President, Steve Jack, applauded the successes saying that he hoped that they would achieve Full Membership in two years time.

John Woodward becomes IDE President

C&D Consultancy are delighted to announce that John Woodward was elected to the position of President of The Institute of Demolition Engineers on Friday 19th November at the IDE AGM at the Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden.

John succeeded Terry Quarmby, (Director of Dorton Group) and will hold the post for two years before being himself succeeded by Steve Jack of Erith Group.