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COURSES TO MARCH 2018

The start of 2018 includes a large number of bespoke courses, which continues the trend from 2017.  We are naturally running a range of open courses too, and those coming up in the first quarter of 2018 include recommendations for candidates preparing for their ICE professional review.  Courses currently scheduled include:
  • Contractual Awareness, on 13 February
  • The ICE Professional Review – Preparing for the Interview (maximum of 4 delegates), on 22 February
  • Slope Stability – Principles and Practice, on 27 February
  • Introduction to Geotechnical Design to Eurocode 7, on 13 March
  • Earthworks – Principles and Practice, on 20 March
  • Ground Investigation Design to EC7 – The Essentials (half day course), on 22 March
In addition to these standard day courses, we have our inaugural Design Programme on Shallow Foundations and Settlements.  This programme of 6 evening  courses allows delegates to explore the subject matter in more depth than possible during a typical day course. All courses are running in Chesterfield.  Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course. Remember too that all courses can be run bespoke for your company if there are sufficient numbers – just call us to see what we could do for you.  

EVENING COURSES ADDED FOR 2018

We are pleased to announce that our course calendar for 2018 now includes two new programmes of evening courses in geotechnics.  The courses are:
  • SP130 Design Programme on Shallow Foundations and Settlements
  • SP131 Design Programme on Soil Slope Stability and Earthworks
Both 6 week programmes (each equivalent to a 3 day course) will be run at our offices in Chesterfield from 4pm to 7.30pm each week.  They are designed to be interactive and discussion based, to allow delegates to explore the subject matter in more depth than possible during a typical day course.  To facilitate this, and to promote a positive and constructive atmosphere in the collaborative, tutorial style sessions, numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 10 people on each course.  In addition, coursework will be set between each session to allow delegates to practice and reinforce their learning. Each programme just costs £695 + VAT per delegate for all 6 sessions.  More details of SP130 can be found here, and details of SP131 can be found here.  If you have any other queries please call the tutor Dr Andy Goodwin on 01246 807808 or email him at andy.goodwin@surepathtraining.co.uk.

COURSE CALENDAR FOR 2018

We are pleased to announce that our course calendar for 2018 is now available on the website – just click on “Download Our Calendar” link on the left sidebar or click on this link to access your own copy in a new window. We hope the expanded list of courses offered as ‘open’ courses rather than just bespoke will be welcomed and will aid the planing of your staff development activities.  Remember discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course.  Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course.    

HOWARD MEDAL AWARDED

As announced previously, we are very pleased and honoured to announce that on 6 October 2017 our Dr Andy Goodwin, Simon Ellis (Mott Macdonald), Prof Liz Laycock (Sheffield Hallam University) and Dr Chris Hurst (Mott MacDonald) were all awarded the Howard Medal by ICE Publishing for a paper jointly published in 2016.  The awards dinner was held in the ICE headquarters near Westminster. The happy recipients are shown below on stage, and both before and after perhaps a little too much champagne! Entitled “Use of crushed brick in reinforced earth railway structures”, the paper was published in ICE’s Construction Materials Journal.  Targeted at improving the sustainability of the development, the work reported on a short practically-focused research project undertaken in association with Sheffield Hallam University with a clear focus on assessing the suitability of crushed bricks to be sourced from a viaduct for re-use as engineered fill.  It shows the benefits that can be gained from integrating focused research into a large project.   More details of the project can be seen in the paper, which can be downloaded for free from http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/10.1680/coma.15.00014.  

APPROVED MENTOR APPOINTMENT

We are delighted to announce that our Dr Andy Goodwin has been appointed by a large local authority to be the Approved Mentor under the ICE Mentor Supported Training Route for a candidate seeking the IEng professional qualification.  The support involves quarterly review meetings with the candidate to guide his professional development whilst also helping to prepare him for his professional review in due course.

Andy is already the Supervising Civil Engineer for numerous graduates employed by a large oil and gas company.  Additionally, he is using his skills as an SCE and as an ICE Reviewer to support three other graduates as they work towards their professional qualification too.

If you are in need of mentoring or need a mentor for your staff, then please feel free to contact Andy to discuss how he could use his mentoring and professional skills to help you.  He may be contacted on 01246 807808 or email him using the enquiries link on this website.   Andy will happily talk you through what we could do for you to add value to your existing arrangements and processes, without any obligation.

LAST FEW COURSES IN 2017

  The end of 2017 is approaching and we are busy preparing the course calendar for 2018.  There is still time to book onto just a few courses with spaces in 2107:
  • Slope Stability – Principles and Practice (28 November)
  • Mentoring for Engineering Geologists on Geotechnical Engineering (30 November)
  • The ICE Professional Review – Overview and Preparation (7 December)
  • Introduction to Structural Design to the Eurocodes (12 December)
Each course is running in Chesterfield.  Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course. Remember too that all courses can be run bespoke for your company if there are sufficient numbers – just call us to see what we could do for you.  

CHANGE OF REGISTERED ADDRESS

As of 1 November 2017 the registered address of both Surepath Training and Surepath Consulting changed to The Hub at Gladstone Buildings, Broadleys, Clay Cross, Chesterfield S45 9JN. The change follows our move from Tapton Park Innovation Centre to new offices at the registered address in early September 2017.  Any post sent to the old Tapton address will still reach us rest assured.  

A BUSY SUMMER… ICE MOCK REVIEWS AND MENTORING

Two thousand miles of travel across the UK later, from Aberdeen to London, and Manchester to Cambridge, we are finally settling back down after a very busy summer. We have had the pleasure of undertaking numerous mock interviews for candidates sitting their ICE Professional Review in the Autumn 2017 or Spring 2018 sessions.  In total, we worked with 14 candidates and we wish all of them the very best of luck. We also continued to mentor our graduates and assist them to develop their professional skills through supportively questioning them as they discussed their work and explored their learning.  As usual, it was a pleasure working with them and they all rose to the challenge.

If you are in need of mentoring, or need a mentor for your staff, then please contact Andy Goodwin on 01246 807808 or email him at the address below.  Andy will happily talk you through what we could do for you to add value to your existing arrangements and processes, without any obligation.

WE HAVE MOVED…….

After 5 years at Tapton Park Innovation Centre, we are pleased to announce that we have moved a few miles south to take an office in The Hub in Clay Cross.  The new larger office can accommodate visiting tutors and staff, and there are on-site meeting and training rooms too. Our new address is: The Hub at Gladstone Buildings, Broadleys, Clay Cross, Chesterfield S45 9JN. We are retaining a presence at Tapton Park to the end of November, which remains our registered address for now.  Any post sent there will still reach us rest assured.  

COURSES IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2017

  We have a range of courses coming up towards the end of the year.  They include:
  • Pile Foundations – Principles and Practice (7 November)
  • CDM for Designers and Clients (14 November)
  • Mentoring for Engineering Geologists on Geotechnical Engineering (21 November)
  • Slope Stability – Principles and Practice (28 November)
  • Introduction to Reinforced Earth (5 December)
  • The ICE Professional Review – Overview and Preparation (7 December)
  • Introduction to Structural Design to the Eurocodes (12 December)
  • Introduction to Structural Steelwork Design to EC3 (date TBC)
Each course is running in Chesterfield.  Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course. Remember too that all courses can be run bespoke for your company if there are sufficient numbers – just call us to see what we could do for you.