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To stand in the shadows of Thomas Telford's Dean Bridge, beneath the vaulting roof of William Barlow's St Pancras station (Figure 1) or inside Joseph Bazalgette's pumping station at Crossness is both an inspiring and a humbling experience. The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) building at Great George Street in London evokes a similar sense of place, a cathedral of civil engineering echoing with the voices of the great engineers of the past whose names are carved in its Portland stone, whose portraits adorn its walls and whose spirits inspire us today.

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