The Young Members’ Committee of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) has issued a recruitment call to clients and contractors as momentum builds for the recently launched group.
Last month, the Committee was invited to the Thames Tunnel Banquet at the Brunel Museum, in south east London, which saw the reopening of the Grand Entrance Hall after 140 years. It plans to work on public and young peoples’ education with the museum, and noted that Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a youthful engineer working with his father, Marc, when the tunnel was built.
The Committee’s second full meeting is this month, led by its founder, Kate Cooksey, who has also been shortlisted as a Graduate of the Year by New Civil Engineer, notes her employer Morgan Est. Her contact with the firm began during a sandwich degree and MEng in civil engineering at Cardiff University. She has worked on the London Ring Main extension from Brixton to Honor Oak, and led a flood defence project in Ormskirk, near Liverpool.
The Committee will be working to support the activities of the BTS main committee, and aims to boost the profile of the tunnelling sector among young engineers. A number of social events are also planned for the coming months.
