Engineering Practice Committee

The Engineering Practice Committee meets 4 times a year and reports to Council after each meeting. The Committee’s Terms of Reference are:

1. To be responsible for developing and implementing policy concerning technical matters related to structural engineering.
2. To promote and encourage research relative to structural engineering and its use in practice.
3. To keep under review legislation, codes and standards and other matters affecting the profession.
4. To form (and disband) Study Groups, and to appoint their convenors.
5. To consider and as thought fit to appoint and remove Institution representatives on outside bodies primarily of a technical engineering nature.
6. To agree and oversee work on technical projects.
7. To liaise with other relevant organisations and government agencies.

The Committee is chaired by a Vice-President and made up of 2 members of Council (of whom one is Chairman or Vice-Chairman), 18 Branch representatives, 7 others, the Chairmen of the Panels, and the President.