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CIVIL ENGINEERING SURVEYOR
The Journal of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
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June 2014

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June
Contents
05. From the CEO
06. ICES regions
10. Social network
12. News
22. Events
47. Profiles
48. Classifieds/Where to buy
49. Subscriptions
50. Recruitment
51. Training dates
FeaturesRegulars
20. Behind the scenes at the map museum
Darrell Smart and Abigail Tomkins with
Tom Harper, British Library
24. Qatar arbitration: Be careful
Hamish Lal FCInstCES, Jones Day
26. Monitoring wave induced shocks at
Eddystone Lighthouse
Jon Penn, Caption Data
29. At rest: Finding the victims of the
Herrin Massacre
Steven M Di Naso, Eastern Illinois
University, with Scott Doody
33. Notification of compensation events
Rob Horne, Trowers & Hamlins
35. Questions of jurisdiction
Gillian Cruickshanks, MBM Consulting
37. Mapping due-diligence to minimise
construction delays
Carole Ankers, Landmark Information
39. A profession scattered within an
industry
Dennis Gedge MCInstCES
42. The technology and techniques driving
effective highway asset management
Sarah Jones, LandScope Engineering
45. Taking BIM mobile
Iain Miskimmin, Bentley Systems COMIT
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WHEN asked what the theme of my column would be
this month, I responded that I wanted it to tie into the
feedback I received from members following my visits
to our regions this spring. So perhaps I should begin with a
reminder of the feedback.
On the positive side, members were upbeat and encouraged
about the amount of work they are now receiving, with some
even finding themselves overwhelmed! On the downside,
however, skills shortages were a real issue for both the major
contractors and the SMEs. This is not surprising given that the
same message is currently being received across the whole
construction sector.
The need to listen to our members is something I consider to
be extremely important — particularly if they are expressing
concerns. And it raised the question in my mind as to what we
can do as a professional body to take positive action, support
our members and mitigate those concerns. The civil engineering
surveying profession presents opportunities to individuals as well as companies. It is a
career that makes a difference, and one that shapes the environment around you. In
other words, it is an exciting and varied profession. So how do we play our part in
attracting people to this wonderful career?
Reaching out
For us as a professional body, there needs to be a two pronged approach. Firstly, we need
to engage with individuals throughout their education and at the very outset of their
careers. Secondly, we need to identify those already within the civil engineering surveying
sector who, for one reason or another, have not become professionally qualified.
Membership of ICES is a great way for individuals to demonstrate their competence
and progress their careers — we have seen this in the exciting projects our members
are employed in, here in the UK and across the globe. In addition, there is much to be
gained for those companies who choose to support these individuals in their
membership. They too will reap a number of benefits, including staff who are highly
motivated and feel valued, better retention rates and a competitive edge over other
organisations with a demonstrably competent and professional workforce which, as a
consequence, should win more tenders.
Affiliations
We will be inviting all those with an interest in civil engineering surveying to join us
today as affiliates. Whether they will take this as a first step to fuller membership or
simply as a way of keeping in touch with the vital work our members do, we will
provide support to them with our excellent journal Civil Engineering Surveyor,
newsletters, and access to a wide range of national and regional events. By connecting
with prospective members and allied professionals, we can encourage the take-up of
continuing professional development and training within our fields of expertise, and
ensure that civil engineering surveying attracts a competent and excellent workforce.
If some of the things in this column strike a chord for you as an individual and your
own career aspirations, or you know of anyone who you think could benefit from this
initiative, then please contact Serena Ronan, our region and administration manager, for
more details. Likewise, if you employ staff and are keen to create a professional and
competent team within your own organisation, do get in touch.
Bill Pryke, Chief Executive Officer, bpryke@cices.org
Serena Ronan can be contacted at sronan@cices.org
Join us in the pursuit of excellence
CEO Bill Pryke on a new
push from ICES towards
a competent and
engaged workforce

The presentation will explain how to
utilise laser scanning to create 3D models
for building information modelling
projects. It will show real-life examples of
large scale 3D laser scan projects and their
conversion to Autodesk Revit models. It
will cover the complex 3D challenges each
project raised and the variety of phase
deliverables produced. The presentation
will also show how games engine
technology can be used to recycle and add
value to the 3D dataset, building bespoke
applications tailored for health and safety
briefings, facilities management,
stakeholder engagement and site briefings.
Speakers are Severn Partnership’s Mark
King and SEEABLE’s Dr Nigel Moore.
08 SEP 14: Committee meeting
ICES HQ, Sale 6pm for 6.30pm
23 SEP 2014: Concurrent delay: The legal
approach and the delay expert’s approach
Weightmans, Manchester, 5.30pm for 6pm
Bookings: Serena Ronan +44 (0)161 972 3100
sronan@cices.org
www.cices.org/north-west-north-wales/
An evening seminar with buffet.
03 NOV 14: Committee meeting
18 NOV 2014: Update on recent case law in the
construction industry
Eversheds, Manchester, 6pm for 6.30pm
sronan@cices.org
ICES Northern Counties
24 JUN 2014: Practical guidance on the FIDIC
suite of contracts
Eversheds, Newcastle upon Tyne, 6pm
sronan@cices.org www.cices.org/northern-
counties/
A seminar presented by David Moss of
Eversheds LLP. The presentation will focus
on the standard terms and the FIDIC
approach; common/recommended
amendments to the standard terms; the
increased use of FIDIC contracts in the UK
market; common problems encountered;
and the use of dispute adjudication boards.
ICES Scotland
Appeal to members
ICES Scotland is now entering a busy
period and urgently requires people to join
or return to the committee and support the
business of the institution. The areas of
support largely encompass managing
strategic relationships with CPD providers
such as lawyers, liaising with other
institutions such as ICE/CIOB on potential
collaborative CPD events, representing
ICES at CPD events (ensuring attendance
registers and feedback forms are
completed by attendees and submitted to
ICES HQ), and interviewing candidates for
membership. Those interested should
either email the secretary or attend the
ICES Anglia & Central
Civil Engineering Surveyor apologises to
ICES A&C secretary Gordon Clarke for
listing him as George Clarke in the
previous issue.
05 JUN 2014: Sheringham Shoal
Egmere, Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm,
Scira Offshore Energy, Walsingham,
6.30pm for 7pm
sronan@cices.org
www.cices.org/anglia-central
Jason Halsey, plant and operations
manager, will be hosting a follow up event
from the July 2013 visit. Sheringham Shoal
is an operational renewable energy project.
It has 88 turbines and two substations
located off the north Norfolk coast. The
operational shore-base is at Wells-next-the-
Sea and a new operations centre at
Egmere. No PPE required.
ICES Eastern & Midlands
16 SEP 14: Concurrent delay: legal and
programming issues
Weightmans, Birmingham, 6pm for 6.30pm
sronan@cices.org
www.cices.org/eastern-midlands/
ICES E&M presents a one-hour seminar in
conjunction with Weightmans Solicitors and
DGA Construction Consultants. The
seminar will address wide and narrow
definitions of concurrent delay; what the
law says; the roles for ‘first in time’ or
dominant delay; apportionment when both
parties are at fault; and retrospective and
prospective approaches in delay analysis. A
light buffet will be served.
ICES Ireland & Northern Ireland
20 JUN 2014: A night at the dogs
Harold’s Cross Greyhound Stadium, Dublin 6.45pm,
first race 8pm
Bookings: ciaran.bruton@osi.ie
Members and non-members welcome.
ICES North West & North Wales
17 JUN 2014: BIM – Legal issues
Hill Dickinson, Liverpool, 6.30pm
sronan@cices.org
David Oram will cover various issues
surrounding building information
modelling, including the responsibilities
and liabilities of contributors; the duties of
the BIM model manager; responsibility for
design errors, insurance, changes to the
standard form of construction contract and
copyright.
07 JUL 14: Committee meeting
15 JUL 2014: Scan to BIM and SEEABLE data
Black and Veatch, Chester 6pm for 6.30pm
sronan@cices.org
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Membership Officer: Juliette Mellaza jmellaza@cices.org
Regions & Administration Manager: Serena Ronan sronan@cices.org
Administrator: Louise Whittaker lwhittaker@cices.org
Administration Assistant: Tom Johnson tjohnson@cices.org
Legal Advice
A legal hotline is available free of charge to ICES members from the
institution’s advisory solicitors.
Advisory Solicitors
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Jonathan Hosie +44 (0)20 3130 3343
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Committees
ICES committees and panels are available to receive member queries.
Commercial Management Practices Committee
Chair: David Kyte cmpc@committees.cices.org
Contracts & Dispute Resolution Panel
Chair: Steve Williams cdrp@committees.cices.org
Education, Professional Development & Membership Committee
Chair: Steve Jackson epdm@committees.cices.org
Finance & General Purposes Committee
Chair: Chris Birchall fgp@committees.cices.org
Geospatial Engineering Practices Committee
Chair: Chris Preston gepc@committees.cices.org
International Affairs Committee
Chair: Mike Sutton iac@committees.cices.org
ICES Network
Chair: Alex Maddison network@cices.org
Regions
ICES Anglia & Central
Chair: John Elven john.elven@btinternet.com
Secretary: Gordon Clarke gordon@collinsprojectdelivery.co.uk
ICES www.cices.org/anglia-central
ICE www.ice.org.uk/eastofengland
ICES Eastern & Midlands
Chair: Derek Spalton d.spalton@derby.ac.uk
Secretary: Lukasz Bonenberg Lukasz.Bonenberg@nottingham.ac.uk
ICES www.cices.org/eastern-midlands
ICE www.ice.org.uk/westmidlands www.ice.org.uk/eastmidlands
ICES Hong Kong
Chair: Michael Wong michael.wong@leightonasia.com
Secretary: Ralph Leung ices.ralphlcw@gmail.com
ICES www.cices.org.hk
ICE www.ice.org.uk/hongkong
ICES Ireland & Northern Ireland
Chair: Ken Stewart Ken.Stewart@dfpni.gov.uk
Secretary: Ciaran Bruton ciaran.bruton@osi.ie
ICES www.cices.org/ireland
ICE www.ice.org.uk/ireland www.ice.org.uk/northernireland
ICES Northern Counties
Chair: Steve Aspinall steve@evanspiling.co.uk
Secretary: George Bothamley George.Bothamley@costain.com
ICES www.cices.org/northern-counties
ICE www.ice.org.uk/northeast
ICES North West & North Wales
Chair: Mark Hudson markhudson@coastway.net
Secretary: Jennii Chadwick Jennii.Chadwick@BAMNuttall.co.uk
ICES www.cices.org/north-west-north-wales
ICE www.ice.org.uk/northwest www.ice.org.uk/wales
ICES Scotland
Chair: Bob MacKellar rmackellar@yahoo.co.uk
Secretary: Mark Shaw mark.shaw@echarris.com
ICES www.cices.org/scotland
ICE www.ice.org.uk/scotland
ICES South East
Chair: Eric Zeeven eric.zeeven@cwcontractors.com
ICES www.cices.org/south-east
ICE www.ice.org.uk/london www.ice.org.uk/southeast
ICES South West & South Wales
Chair: Mark Phillips Mark.Phillips@electricityalliance-sw.com
Secretary: Steve Lailey steven.lailey@skanska.co.uk
ICES www.cices.org/south-west-south-wales
ICE www.ice.org.uk/wales www.ice.org.uk/southwest
ICES UAE
Chairman: Dhammika Gamage dhammika.gamage@alnaboodah.com
ICES www.cices.org/uae
ICE www.ice.org.uk/nearyou/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates
ICES Yorkshire
Chair: Neil Harvey neil.harvey@metsurveys.com
Secretary: Matthew Lock matthew.lock@korecgroup.com
ICES www.cices.org/yorkshire
ICE www.ice.org.uk/yorkshire

next committee meeting. The committee
would welcome non-members who intend
to pursue ICES membership or members of
other institutions.
06 JUN 2014: Committee meeting
Forthbank Stadium, Stirling, 7.30pm
All members, non-members and
prospective members welcome.
19 JUN 2014: Site visit to the Forth Bridge
Experience Project (Historic Rail Bridge)
William Tunnell Architecture, South Queensferry,
5.30pm
sronan@cices.org www.cices.org/scotland/
In 2013 Network Rail appointed WT
Architecture to develop early proposals
for visitor buildings for the historic Forth
Bridge. The project involves creation of
facilities at both ends of the bridge, one
facilitating access to the bridge via a
walk, and the other a more extensive
visitor centre beneath the Fife Cantilever
of the bridge, giving access to the top of
the bridge via hoists. William Tunnell will
talk about these proposals and will be
joined by Ian Heigh of Network Rail, who
is leading the project and was head
engineer for the recent restoration of the
bridge. Complimentary drinks and nibbles
will be served.
12 AUG 2014: Construction defects
MacRoberts, Glasgow, 6pm for 6.30pm
David Moss, partner, will present a seminar
on the contractual responsibility for defects;
investigating and remedying defects;
recovery of losses; insurance, prescription
and collateral warranties. Tea and coffee on
arrival. Wine, nibbles and networking
afterwards.
19 AUG 2014: Energy seminar
MacRoberts, Edinburgh, 6pm for 6.30pm
Duncan Osler, partner, will discuss the
new EU Procurement Directives that were
agreed by the European Parliament on
15 January 2014 and will be consulted on
by the Scottish government this year. It’s
the start of the two year period for
implementing these directives into
national law and new additional laws are
also expected as and when the
procurement reform bill is enacted. Tea
and coffee on arrival. Wine, nibbles and
networking afterwards.
16 SEP 2014: Public sector property asset
management
EC Harris, Edinburgh, 6pm for 6.30pm
Graham Hill, lead partner for EC Harris
Scotland, will discuss best practice
guidance on current issues relating to
public sector asset management, covering
improving public sector assets and reducing
costs; optimising public sector property
management; strategic best practice;
changes to property assets; collaboration
and public sector property vehicles.
Refreshments available. The event is free
and open to all.
30 SEP 2014: Expert witness
MacRoberts Glasgow, 6pm for 6.30pm
21 OCT 2014: How to start your own business —
Risk, compliance and planning
Young & Partners, Dunfermline, 6pm for 6.30pm
19 NOV 2014: The pen is mightier than the sword:
Effective business writing
Maclay Murray & Spens, Edinburgh 6pm for 6.30pm
ICES South East
ICES SE thanks Andy Rhoades of Heathrow
Airport for his presentation last month on
the BIM project at the airport. In addition to
those planned, we hope to run two further
events in September on planning a major
tunnel construction project like Crossrail,
and remote piloted aerial systems. Further
details to follow.
26 JUN 14: 4D planning
UCL, Chadwick Building (registration and reception
in G04 with the lecture in the Basement LT B05)
London, 6.30pm
sronan@cices.org www.cices.org/south-east/
Christopher Brown, director of Oakwood
Engineering, will talk about the
international award winning Gravesend
Station remodelling. The station had to
undergo a complex remodelling during a
15-day full line blockade over Christmas
and new year 2013/14. 4D BIM was
selected by Network Rail to virtually
construct the station using 3D models and
hourly programme data. The model was
used extensively within the project team
prior to the blockade, with a significant
amount of benefits. The presentation will
cover capturing 3D data; 3D model sources;
determination of the level of detail;
implementation within the project team;
model uses; the blockade; and project
outcome and lessons learned.
03 JUL 2014: Networking on the Thames
London, 6pm
An evening of socialising and networking
onboard a cruise of the River Thames.
Sponsored by Topcon UK. There will be a
buffet and cash bar onboard.
24 SEP 14: Concurrent delay
Weightmans, London 5.30pm for 6pm
A talk covering the legal approach and
delay expert’s approach to concurrent
delay. Refreshments will be served.
23 OCT 14: Surveying the Somme update
A talk by the La Boiselle Study Group.
06 NOV 2014: Thames Tideway Tunnel
Pinsent Masons, London
13 NOV 2014: Infrastructure Information Service
Union Jack Club, London
This is a joint ICES/CIOB event.
ICES South West & South Wales
21 JUN 2014: River cruise on the Tower Belle
11.15am-3pm. £6 per ticket
sronan@cices.org www.cices.org/bookings/
Join ICES SWSW for a social and
networking cruise from Bristol Harbourside.
Regular CES contributor, Hamish Mitchell
will be giving a talk on the Bristol Channel.
Attendees should meet at 11.15am at
Wapping Wharf by SS Great Britain. The
boat will depart at 11.45am sharp. Buffet
and refreshments will be provided. Cash
bar available. The cruise is sponsored by
Keyline Builders Merchants.
08 JUL 2014: Committee meeting
Atkins Hub, Almondsbury nr Bristol BS32 4RZ 6pm
sronan@cices.org www.cices.org/south-west-
south-wales/
A buffet will be served.
09 SEP 2014: Committee meeting
Atkins Hub, Almondsbury nr Bristol BS32 4RZ 6pm
sronan@cices.org www.cices.org/south-west-
south-wales/
A buffet will be served.
06 JAN 2015: Committee meeting
ICES SE chair, Eric Zeeven introducing the BIM presentation. Delegates at the ICES SE Heathrow Airport BIM event.

ICES Dinner 2014
Chateau Impney, Droitwich Spa
6.45pm, 19 September 2014 Tickets: £75.00*
Join ICES president Alan Barrow at Chateau Impney, one of the finest, most
authentic examples of French chateau-style buildings in the UK that holds a
history as enchanting as the building itself. The chateau was built in the 19th
century by John Corbett who, after travelling to France, fell in love with
beautiful French governess Hannah Eliza O’Meara. They married in Paris and
returned to the UK to set up home. The couple had been charmed by
Versailles and the French chateaux of the Loire Valley, and this undoubtedly
influenced the design for their own home. French architect Auguste
Tronquois was appointed to oversee the works, with a brief to design a grand
chateau in the style of Louis XIII. In 1875, the spectacular Impney Hall and
its grounds were completed, totally transforming the landscape with 155
acres of parkland, lakes, waterfalls, tropical gardens, and over 3,000
varieties of trees – many of which are still evident today.
+44 (0)161 972 3110
dinner@cices.org
Dress code: Black tie
* Ticket price includes VAT
Sponsors
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Waiting list bookings only

Nominations for Council of Management
The institution is now seeking nominations from corporate members (MCInstCES and
FCInstCES) to join its council of management. No previous experience of any
committees or panels is necessary.
The institution is conscious to reflect the diversity of the industry and encourages
nominations from all those who are keen to help shape its future. New council
members, all of whom are directors and trustees of ICES, will receive a trustees’
handbook outlining the role and responsibilities of a council member and literature
issued by the Charity Commission will be distributed. Expenses incurred in council
activities are reimbursed. The term of office commences following this year’s AGM on
20 September 2014. If you would like more information or to speak to an existing
member of council about what the role entails, please contact ICES CEO, Bill Pryke.
A nomination form has been distributed with this issue of Civil Engineering Surveyor.
Additional forms are available on request from ICES HQ or via the website. Completed forms
must be returned to ICES by no later than noon on 7 July 2014.
ICES HQ: +44 (0)161 972 3100 admin@cices.org www.cices.org/downloads
New accreditation for DIT
The institution has accredited Dublin
Institute of Technology’s MSc course in
applied construction cost management.
ICES Ireland and Northern Ireland chair
Ken Stewart presented the accreditation
certificate to DIT’s College of Engineering
and the Built Environment. DIT’s
geomatics degree programme is already
accredited by ICES.
Pictured above: (left to right) Charles Mitchell, Richard O’Carroll,
Ken Stewart, Ciaran Bruton and Dr Alan V Hore.
MTR wins Merit
A team from Hong Kong’s Mass Transit
Railways has won the Merit competition for
early career civil engineering professionals.
The competition, sponsored by the
Institution of Civil Engineers, sees teams
compete in a computer simulated
construction project.
Gordon Kwok, Dickie Chan, Henry Lam,
Ellen Wong, Davy Chan and Dave Cheung
were presented the award by David Kyte of
the joint ICES/ICE Management Panel.
Pictured above: The MTR team finding out who has won.
ICES and IMCA to work
closely together
ICES and the International Marine
Contractors Association (IMCA) are to work
more closely together in the areas of
hydrographic and civil engineering surveying
in the marine environment. The two
organisations signed a memorandum of
understanding on 14 May 2014, outlining
closer collaboration and co-operation. Under
the terms of the memorandum of
understanding, both ICES and IMCA acknowledge the competency of their respective
members. Offshore survey personnel working to the assured competency levels of IMCA
can use this as a demonstration of their competence for membership of ICES, whilst IMCA
will recognise the competence of ICES members within its international competency
framework for offshore survey work. Both organisations will promote continuing
professional development and best practice, and have pledged to support the uptake and
development of internationally recognised standards.
ICES chief executive officer Bill Pryke commented: “I am delighted to strengthen the
relationship between our two organisations. I have a great respect for the valuable work of
IMCA and know that closer collaboration between us can only benefit the offshore survey
industry. IMCA rightly acknowledges the competency of our members and ICES would
welcome membership applications from those working to the high standards of
professionalism and safety that IMCA embodies.”
IMCA technical director Jane Bugler said: “We view this as a win-win situation for both
organisations and our global memberships. Closer collaboration and relations between
associations with the aim of continually raising technical standards and improving
competence is vital for our industry. Competence and training is an IMCA core activity and
we look forward to working closely with ICES in the coming months and years,
encouraging our member companies to promote membership of ICES and the benefits of
CPD internally to their team members.”
Pictured above: Jane Bugler signing the MOU with ICES president Alan Barrow.
BIM conference now online
Presentations from the institution’s BIM conference are now available free to view online.
Talks filmed include David Philp of the Cabinet Office’s BIM Task Group, Will Hackney of
London Underground, Malcom Taylor of Crossrail, Simon Rawlinson of EC Harris and ICES
vice president Ian Bush of Survey4BIM.
ICES BIM 2014 covered the theme of the developing role of the surveyor and was held at
Canary Wharf, London in February. The videos are available via the downloads section of
the ICES website www.cices.org/downloads

New accreditation for UWL
The institution has accredited five courses at the University of West London. The
foundation degree, bachelors, honours and masters in civil and environmental
engineering, and masters in applied project management with internship, are all accredited
for the next five years.
UK government agrees payment charter
for construction
A new payment charter in the UK has been agreed by the government’s Construction
Leadership Council. The charter sets out 11 fair payment commitments, including to
reduce supply chain payment terms to 30 days from January 2018. The introduction of the
payment terms will be staggered; with 45 days in effect from June 2015, and 60 days with
immediate effect. Other commitments include not withholding cash retentions, not
delaying or withholding payment, making payments electronically, and the use of project
bank accounts on central government projects. There is also a pledge for a “transparent,
honest, and collaborative approach when resolving differences and disputes.”
Companies represented on the Construction Leadership Council that have agreed to
sign up to the charter include; Barratt Developments, Berkeley Group, British Land, Imtech
UK, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Skanska, Stanford Industrial Concrete Flooring and Stepnell.
Peter Hansford, the government’s chief construction advisor, said: “This charter signifies
the Construction Leadership Council’s commitment to small and medium-sized business,
and the important role they play in the construction industry. Through the council, the
government is working very closely with industry to give businesses of all sizes the
confidence to invest — securing high skilled jobs and a stronger economy for everyone.”
Kevin Louch, president of the National Specialist Contractors Council, said: “We want to
see 30-day payment terms on all construction projects, but we recognise that it will take
time for large businesses to adjust their business models over the next few years.”
The payment charter is part of a body of work to reduce initial and whole life costs by
33% by 2025. The council is also looking to reduce the delivery time of construction
projects by 50%, and greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment by 50% in the
same timeframe.
Approval for kit anti-theft system
The Survey Association has approved an
anti-theft scheme for surveying equipment.
The police-approved security identification
system, from Datatag ID, uses overt
warnings and a number of covert markings
to make total stations a less attractive target
for thieves. Each item will be marked with
an unremovable chemical ‘DNA’ fingerprint
that will make it traceable by the police,
and it will be impossible to remove the
security tags without leaving signs that it
has been tampered with.
Research from TSA has shown that in
the last 18 months, 30 total stations have
been stolen from London’s Crossrail project
alone, with one recovered in Russia and
one traced to Iraq. ICES fellow and TSA
president Graham Mills said: “Some of our
members have been threatened with knives
and have even had equipment wrestled
from them in broad daylight. Personal
safety must be the main consideration, but
we know the knock-on impact can be
great. Downtime and delay leads to losses
in revenue and some insurance providers
may set restrictions or decline cover if site
risks are seen as too great.”
Prices start from £49.99 (TSA member)
£64.99 (non TSA) for the full system and
£19.99 for the tripod kit when purchased
with a full security system
www.datatag.co.uk
The (CES) social network
#Surveying Shipston sports club for changing
room refurb. Will miss that heady mix of sweat,
deep heat etc for a while.
@hooksurvey
3D laser scanning survey at a mock junction at
the Top Gear track - cant see Mr Clarkson
anywhere!!
Craig Simmonds
The UK government’s BIM Task Group will be wound down from the end of
this year, prompting fears of a lack of central government support for public
sector bodies adopting BIM level two ahead of the government’s 2016
deadline. What do you think?
BIM Experts
Pleased or annoyed. Lost a job today by £25!
(less than 1% of the total value). Should I be
pleased we are very competitive or annoyed it
was by such a small ammount?
R L Surveys
A project currently nicknamed the “China-Russia-Canada-America” line has
China looking into plans for a high speed train between Beijing and the U.S.
Interesting Engineering
We're finally getting a new sign put on our office
building. Everyone who has ever tried to find us
via Sat Nav will appreciate this ;)
@MetConsGroup
At the airport. People who don't know how to
travel swiftly through security should not be
allowed to travel.
@JohnAmaechi
When An Engineer
Goes to MacDonalds
pic.twitter.com/MGfl8gbnE1
@WonderfulEngr
Oh God I think I'm an
introvert #wtrends14
@SuButcher
And in the 1940s
they thought
#Asbestos was
important.
@Veritas_Office
Here it is: the London
tube map goes
beautifully circular.
bit.ly/1eswRYx
@simongarfield
PAS1192-3:
60 minutes of my life
I'm never getting
back.
@NigelPDavies

The Richard Carter Prize
Geospatial Engineer 2014
Nomination Procedures
Open to members and non-members of ICES
The closing date for nominations is 30 June 2014
Visit the website for full details
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*includes accommodation and dinner costs for the winner
Cheque for £500
Commemorative certificate
Richard Carter Prize will be presented to the winner at the institution dinner*

Farewell to Cockcroft’s Follies
Decommissioning of the last Windscale chimney at the Sellafield nuclear site has reached
the half-way point. The 530 tonne filter gallery is currently being demolished before work
can begin to dismantle the 110m tall chimney.
High performance filters were fitted in the chimneys in the 1940s at the insistence of
the Nobel prize-winning physicist John Cockcroft. Because the chimney barrels had been
designed and partially built, they produced bulges at the top of the structures, which
became known as Cockcroft’s Follies. The filters, however, worked as they had been
designed to during a fire at Windscale Pile One in 1957 and prevented much of the
radioactive contamination escaping to the local area. Over half the filter gallery has been
demolished and it is estimated that 172 tonnes of steelwork, 66 tonnes of brick and 150
tonnes of concrete have been brought down so far — over 5,000 tonnes of materials in
total is to be removed during full demolition to ground level. The waste is monitored to
check for any contamination and most of it has been found to be suitable for disposal at
the Sellafield landfill.
Jeremy Hunt, Sellafield’s head of decommissioning projects, said: “The challenges
posed by the pile chimney are unique and no other structure in the world provides the
same complexity in terms of both radiological and conventional decommissioning
constraints. There’s no instruction manual for the job and we have to prove the
decommissioning techniques chosen can be used 100% safely on the congested Sellafield
site.” It is expected the filter gallery will be fully dismantled by October 2014.
Overground options for HS2/Crossrail
WSP has been appointed by Transport for
London to develop and recommend
options for a London overground station
to link to the proposed HS2/Crossrail
interchange at Old Oak Common. WSP is
to provide railway engineering and
infrastructure services for a Grip 3 study
of three options. Architect Farrells is
to provide masterplanning and
architectural support.
Project director Dave Darnell said: “This
is a hugely exciting scheme that has the
potential to create a major new regional
transport hub, taking some of the demand
off existing overloaded routes by
providing links to HS2 from the west and
southwest without travelling into central
London, and offering better access into the
area of Old Oak Common for existing and
future residents.”
Solar role to play in biodiversity
Guidance on how to turn solar farms into
biodiversity havens has been launched at
Kew Gardens. Solar farms typically take up
less than 5% of the land they are on and
the guidance urges solar farms to be
planned to enhance existing designated
habitats and develop corridors to improve
space for wildlife. Research by the guide’s
author, Dr Guy Parker, shows that solar
farms demonstrably increase biodiversity
compared to farmed or neglected land.
One of the case studies in the study
features a partnership by Solarcentury and
the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to boost
bumblebee populations, which have been
in significant decline in recent years.
Around 2.5GW of solar farms have
already been delivered in the UK. The Solar
Trade Association wants to see around
10GW by 2020 which would require
around 0.1% of UK land. The guidance,
published by BRE, has been developed in
partnership with numerous ecology
organisations including the National Trust,
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,
Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Eden
Project, and the Solar Trade Association.
Water contract for Balfours
Balfour Beatty has been awarded £115m
of work by Anglian Water as part of its
£1.3b Asset Management Plan 6 period
from 2015 to 2020. Balfour Beatty will be
providing design and construction services
focused on clean water infrastructure
(water mains), and wastewater pipes and
non-infrastructure projects, including
treatment works.
Balfour Beatty will be part of an
alliance being put together by Anglian
Water and will be based at an integrated
office in Peterborough.

First aid planned for Bertha
Bertha, the tunnel boring machine that broke down on the Alaskan Way viaduct project
in Seattle, is to resume digging in March 2015. Construction began last month on an
access pit to reach Bertha and carry out repairs, which include replacing the main
bearing, installing a more robust seal system and adding monitoring equipment. Testing
of the repaired TBM is expected to commence in February next year, with the
resumption of tunnelling set for the following month.
The updated construction timeline delays tunnel boring by up to 16 months, but
contractor Seattle Tunnelling Partners hopes to recover up to four months to meet the
revised tunnel opening date of November 2016.
Kazakhstan views the world
Kazakhstan’s first Earth observation satellite
has been placed successfully in orbit.
KazEOSat-1 was launched last month from
the European Spaceport in French Guiana.
The satellite, built by Airbus Defence
and Space, weighs 900kg and has an
imaging resolution of 1m. It is expected to
provide Kazakhstan with a complete range
of civil applications, including monitoring
of natural and agricultural resources, the
provision of mapping data, security
applications, and support for rescue
operations.
KazEOSat-2, a medium resolution sister
satellite, is now being built by SSTL, while
Airbus Defence and Space is building
Peru’s first Earth observation satellite.
Monitoring a 600-year-old roof
Sensors have been installed in London’s Westminster Hall to monitor the effects of
temperature and humidity on the roof. Built in 1097, Westminster Hall is the oldest
building on the Parliamentary estate. Its hammer-beam roof, commissioned in 1393 by
Richard II, is the largest medieval timber roof in northern Europe, measuring 21m by 73m
and 30m tall.
Caption Data Limited supplied a number of battery powered wireless sensors to be
installed throughout the roof structure. The base station, located out of sight, will
automatically transmit data via the mobile phone network to the cloud. In addition to the
sensors inside the hall, there will be a weather station on the roof which will measure
wind speed, rain, sunshine, temperature and humidity, and correlate this data with that
collected internally. The Parliamentary Estate’s directorate involved in the conservation
project will be able to view trends of data online to establish the best conservation
treatments for the internal stonework and roof timbers.
In brief: CMS-Geotech has launched a new
operations base in Lowestoft, Suffolk,
specialising in geotechnical equipment hire,
surveys and seabed sampling, specialist
vessel charter and marine survey
consultancy support services. • Skanska has
begun building the first railway tunnel in
Norway constructed with a tunnel boring
machine. The £130m tunnel, part of the
large railway extension at Arna-Bergen, is
due to be completed in summer 2021. •
The new €265m domestic terminal at Izmir
Adnan Menderes International Airport in
western Turkey has opened. Mott MacDonald
acted as technical advisor to a consortium
of lenders on the project. • Turner &
Townsend has been appointed by National
Grid to provide professional management
services across the gas, electricity and non-
regulated businesses. The consultancy has
been awarded a three to five year
framework with subconsultants QEM
Solutions and PCS Hyder. • Hydro International
has released a guide to surface water
treatment in sustainable drainage systems.
The HX Guide to Surface Water Treatment
is available at www.hydro-int.com • Nick
Zembillas has joined Subscan as executive
director. • Environmental Scientifics Group has
been awarded an intrusive ground
investigation contract by Scottish Water,
including land-based and overwater work
to improve water quality in the River Clyde.
Midlands councils opt for civil engineering framework
A new national framework with an anticipated value of between £1b and £1.5b is being
procured by local council conglomerate Scape to support clients in delivering civil
engineering and infrastructure projects. Scape, comprising Derby City, Derbyshire County,
Gateshead, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire County and Warwickshire County councils,
will operate the framework nationwide but deliver services locally.
Mark Robinson, Scape chief executive, said: “The framework will be able to deliver on
large-scale, high profile projects such as associated infrastructure around HS2, however it
will meet the immediate need of the large number of public sector bodies carrying out
projects such as flood defence work, footbridges, public realm and local road network
improvements. This new framework will obviate the need for expensive individual OJEU
tenders and will bring the benefits of a client collective.”
Scape envisages a single provider will be awarded the framework, but expects this to
be a consortium formed to bid for the deal. A prior information notice in the Official
Journal of the European Union has been published.

Same tune, different song
Name: Daniel Coates
ICES grade: Member
Occupation: Project Manager
Company: Goodwin Midson, Brisbane
Whilst the core principles of
surveying remain the same,
there are different legislations
and regulations to adhere to.
What encouraged you to join the construction industry?
In some ways it was not a planned decision — more of something that developed. I was
always looking for a career that would encompass a balanced lifestyle and allow for
travel opportunities.
What academic or professional qualifications do you have?
I have a degree in geography, surveying and mapping science from the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne. In addition to being a member of ICES, I am also a full member of
the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
What does a typical day involve?
My current role involves the management of complex projects, with the day to day
supervision of survey staff. Additionally, I liaise with local governments, government
agencies and clients to ensure projects are running on schedule.
Can you give an example of any recent projects you have been working on?
Recent projects have included large residential subdivisions and civil construction. Two
key projects have been Riverstone Rise, a 3,000 lot masterplanned community
development in Boyne Island, central
Queensland and the Yarwun residual
management area, a civil construction
project relating to the raising of a dam wall
to increase capacity.
What are the good bits and bad bits about
your job?
The good part about my job is being
able to travel and visit sites that many
people don’t know exist. You get to see
a vast array of locations and develop
skills through interacting with
different professionals.
There aren’t many bad parts to working
in the surveying profession however it has
certainly become more challenging since the global financial crisis, with projects becoming
more cost sensitive and surveyors having to look at ways to diversify and become more
efficient without losing quality.
If you were to recommend your job to someone else, what would you say?
Surveying is not a typical nine to five job; however it provides opportunities to use the
latest technologies in a good working environment. There is a great mix of outdoor and
indoor work and there are the opportunities to travel.
What’s been your biggest career challenge?
Relocating to Australia has certainly been a challenge in many aspects. There has been a
lot to learn and many new skills to develop. Whilst the core principles of surveying remain
the same, there are different legislations and regulations to adhere to. However, so far it
has been a good adventure.
If you could change one thing about the construction industry, what would it be?
The nature of the construction industry means it can be sometimes be a high pressured
environment with everyone wanting something at once from the surveyor. Lead in
times and priorities can change very
quickly so you have to be on the ball and
sometimes educate the client to give them
a better understanding of what they
require and when.
Where would you like to take your future career?
Currently I am working towards becoming
a registered surveyor with the Surveyors
Board of Queensland. I will then look to
obtain a cadastral endorsement in order to
become a licenced surveyor.
What encouraged you to join ICES?
I believe ICES has an important role to play
in the geospatial industry, especially
through the promotion of legislation and
services, and the development and training
of professionals.
Have you had any involvement with the ICES
regions, committees or panels?
Prior to emigrating to Australia I had started
becoming more involved in the institution,
especially helping to develop approved
development schemes.
What are your hobbies and interests?
I enjoy playing music and have been in
bands for longer than I have been
surveying! I have played guitar since an
early age and whenever possible I will be
doing something musical.

RUDI KLEIN, president of the NEC Users’ Group, opened the 18th annual
seminar on 28 April this year. This seemed a fitting milestone as 2014 is also the
21st anniversary of the New Engineering Contract, the former coming of age as
currently adopted, and the latter the correct interpretation to those of us over a certain
age. Points of interest noted by Rudi included the launch of the new NEC website in
June, the forthcoming publication of NEC building information modelling contracts and
the new NEC3 engineering construction contract project manager accreditation initiative.
Government projects
The keynote presentation was given by Lord Deighton, commercial secretary to the
Treasury, and former chief executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic
and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). He recently led the production of the HS2 Growth
Taskforce report, High Speed 2: Get Ready. The presentation started by emphasising the
Olympic initiative which was a resounding success for both the NEC and government.
Lord Deighton set out the government’s commitment to the National Infrastructure Plan
to the tune of £375b, albeit the dreaded term PFI (or is that now PF2?) was mentioned as a
key element of that plan. Another point was that the current planning regime was often
open to abuse and was being made more efficient and effective with, inter alia, a new
planning court being introduced.
The capability to deliver is obviously a key factor and this is being addressed. For
example, independent delivery mechanisms such as HS2 and the Highways Agency are
being made more independent. Quality is being made a priority — starting at the top with
government and cascading down the supply chain. NEC3 is seen as the mechanism to
deliver projects on time and to budget and it is incumbent on the government to progress
the National Infrastructure Plan in terms of project driven timelines and not political ones.
Whilst Lord Deighton was obviously committed to the points raised, it is still to be seen if
government, of whatever colour or conviction, can deliver.
Commercial pitfalls
Phil Joyce, director of specialist chartered accountancy practice Orange Partnership, spoke
about top commercial pitfalls and how NEC3 can help to avoid them. There are several
common themes at the root of unpleasant commercial surprises:
• Complacency in failing to spot and/or deal with problems, and over-reliance on the
pain/gain mechanism, which leads to a lack of policing of procedures and processes
and the timely identification of problems.
• Different contractual interpretations, such as application of the schedule of cost
components; how changes are recorded, evidenced and validated; and the subcontract
being adequately documented.
• Weakness in reporting; incurred cost reporting and accruals capture; assessment of
the effect of changes and earned value in general.
• Breakdown in commercial processes; use of early warning notices and mitigation in
the event of changes; reporting of subcontractor performance and lack of employer
involvement through the supply chain.
• Fraud allowed to occur through lack of oversight and/or ownership, and lack of
infrastructure to manage, deter and detect it.
The primary solution was, perhaps unsurprisingly, to implement competent, independent
and risk-focused assurance to highlight and address problems early. Other more
fundamental points were to apply the contract, be open to challenge and improvement,
and actively manage risks and opportunities. The issues identified are nothing radical, but
they are a reminder that it can often be a failure to address the basics that can lead to less
than acceptable contract performance.
Is NEC coming of age?
Steven Williams LLDip DipBar DipArb FRICS FCIArb CArb FCInstCES, Director, SDW Commercial Management
Steven Williams on the
latest views and news of
the New Engineering
Contract as it celebrates
its 21st birthday

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+44 (0)161 972 3110
mmhw@cices.org
www.cices.org
Managing with the MMHW
An examination of the use of the Method of Measurement for Highway Works
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The Manchester experience
Stephen Williamson, commercial manager
of Manchester City Council, has worked as
the commercial leader for the £170m
refurbishment of the Manchester Town Hall
complex for the last four years. He spoke
about the challenging programme for the
Town Hall extension and library. Both were
designed by E Vincent Harris in 1927,
completed in 1938, and are now Grade 2*
listed and part of a civic complex of world
class status. The programme was to
transform both the way in which city
council services are delivered and the
working environment, whilst creating an
innovative and contemporary design
embedded in a historic setting to enable
the buildings to continue to function as a
library and the administrative centre for
Manchester City Council.
The nature of the project with its
potential for change in response to
unforeseen, and indeed unforeseeable,
problems lends itself to the use of option C.
A key aspect of the council’s approach to
the successful use of NEC3 was to ensure
everyone, from employer down through
the supply chain, acted as one team. The
success of that approach was evidenced by
the following statistics. The contract was
NEC3 option C with minor amendments,
delivering the project by the completion
date and within the authorised budget and
with the final account agreed four weeks
prior to completion. This was achieved
despite 1,051 early warnings, 560 project
manager generated compensation events
and 210 notifications of compensation
events. The following points of added
value were also achieved (none of which
was a contractual requirement); 80 long
term apprenticeships, 75 work placements,
85% of the budget spent within Greater
Manchester and 100% of the supply chain
paid within 30 days (without use of a
project bank account).
The Hong Kong experience
Wai Tsui, deputy director of the Hong Kong
Drainage Services Department, reported
that he currently has five NEC projects
under construction and a further 20
planned. The first NEC project was the Fuk
Man Road Nullah improvement in Sai
Kung, which commenced in August 2009
and was successfully completed in May
2012 — six months ahead of programme
and with a 5% cost saving.
Prior to this, the Hong Kong
government procured work under the
General Conditions of Contract (GCC), a
family of contracts for various types of
works based on the Institution of Civil
Engineers conditions. Following
publication of the Construction Industry
Review Committee report in January 2001,
Construct for Excellence, which
recommended the integration of partnering
and alternative payment methods (such as
target cost, pain-gain share), the
government introduced non-contractual
partnering under adversarial contract
forms. In 2006, the government decided to
take the process one significant step
further by adopting NEC and contractual
partnering. The Drainage Services
Department was chosen for the pilot trial
— the Fuk Man Road project that
commenced some three years later.
The challenges to the introduction of
NEC were outlined and generally associated
with maintaining the status quo. However,
the benefits of the use of NEC3 were
obviously apparent to the Hong Kong
government, as is demonstrated by the
expanding programme of current and
planned projects. Wai Tsui offered further
examples such as the Happy Valley
underground stormwater storage scheme
which encountered a conflict with HEC
cables that threatened progress and would
have had an unacceptable impact on the
horse racing calendar, given its status as a
local passion. The partnering approach
allowed a solution to be found and
implemented that allowed the horse racing
to proceed without hindrance.
Amendments to NEC3 were touched
upon and, whilst the majority were in
response to the specific nature of the
market and environment, for example the
inclement weather provisions under clause
60.1(13), one notable amendment removes
positive cashflow from the contract, with
clause 11.2(29) referring to payments made
by the contractor at the current, rather than
subsequent assessment, date.
What route will HS2 take?
Richard Mould, head of corporate
procurement at HS2 Ltd and former head of
procurement of LOCOG, looked at the use
of NEC3 for the successful procurement
within HS2. The key statistics for HS2 are
330 miles of new track; nine HS2 stations
(four new) and a budget of £42.6b
(including £14.4b contingency). The
procurement strategy is to be:
• Tunnels: £2,900m in four main
packages of work, adopting early
contractor involvement (ECI) based on
NEC3 using an employer prepared
preliminary design and an integrated
contractor and designer team appointed
under an incentivised two-stage contract
with a break point between the stages.
• Surface route: £2,700m in three to six
main packages of work, adopting the
same ECI approach.
• Stations: £2,600m in four main
packages (one main per station, subject
to rationalisation), adopting the same
ECI approach.
• Enabling works: £600m with a new
framework agreement established.
• Railway systems: £1,500m in four to
six route-wide packages, adopting
either the same ECI approach, or design
and build.
• Design services: £350m in
multidisciplinary packages, adopting a
framework approach based on NEC3.
• Rolling stock: £200m+ in a single
package, adopting a bespoke contract.
The current market engagement phase is
examining the work packaging approach
under several topics to arrive at an
updated procurement strategy and a
supply chain conference later in 2014. The
current supply chain involvement in the
process includes 400 suppliers taking part
as a direct result of the market
engagement; seven seminars arranged with
umbrella trade associations and eight local
enterprise partnership seminars arranged. It
is worth noting that NEC3 is to be a basis
for the work package contracts, so it is to
be seen if HS2 follows other infrastructure
clients by amending the standard form out
of all recognition.
Risk
An eclectic panel of experts from employer
to insurance broker and risk management
adviser, responded to questions posed by
the session chair, Tiffany Kemp and the
audience. The issue of risk transfer was
raised in the context of early
contractor/subcontractor involvement to
identify, quantify and manage risk
prospectively. This was supported by all
members as a useful initiative. Another
issue was the greater use of blame-free
multi-party risk cover on projects, rather
than the usual trend of each party at all
levels of the supply chain taking
responsibility for defined elements,
providing insurance cover and defending
its position in the event of an incident.
There was some debate and consensus that
the balance of power within the supply
chain is shifting downwards as the
economy is recovering, i.e. subcontractors
and contractors can begin to be more
selective about the projects they bid for and
at what price.
This was a thought invoking and interesting
event. One aspect that struck me was the
close-knit group that was present at the
event, it was obvious that a large
proportion of delegates were long-standing
colleagues and acquaintances that
facilitated an atmosphere of a convivial
gathering of like-minded professionals.
Steven Williams FCInstCES,
SDW Commercial Management Ltd
Steven Williams is the chair of the ICES
Contracts and Dispute Resolution Panel
sdwilliams@ricsonline.net
www.sdwcm.co.uk

NOT all maps are geographically
accurate. Most of the maps that
form part of our cultural heritage
are geographically inaccurate; Mappa
Mundi, Harry Beck’s Tube map, the Catalan
Atlas... Not to undervalue the work of
national mapping agencies throughout the
world, but Ordnance Survey’s Explorer
series isn’t necessarily something our
descendents will be going to a gallery or
museum to see. Thank heavens for
cartography as art.
Gareth Wood, going by the name Fuller,
has recently completed his map of Bristol.
It is a hand-drawn depiction of a city he
has lived in for four years. It has taken him
500 hours and countless architectural pens
to produce the work on a 900mm x 900mm
archival mount board. It has taken three
years to complete — a part-time
undertaking in addition to his full-time
work as a video and film producer.
Fuller’s work isn’t to scale physically, but
it does represent the city’s personality. The
buildings that are included are ones that
have left their mark on the artist and those
he has come into contact with through his
everyday life in Bristol. It’s a personal map
appealing to the personal experiences of
those who are viewing it. It is a
cartographical love letter to Bristol.
With Bristol now complete, another
cityscape will be slowly handcrafted back
to life. Fuller plans to bring his unfinished
map of London out of storage.
Abigail Tomkins
Fuller’s Map of Bristol is to go on display at
It’s All 2 Much in Bristol from 31 May 2014.
www.fullermaps.com
Imagery © Luke Thornton,
www.lthorntonphotography.co.uk
Fuller mapping

BEAUTIFUL Science is the name of the first exhibition you come across on
entering the British Library. It’s a celebration of how graphical and pictorial
representations of data can help people understand the science behind them.
Looking through the library’s antiquarian map collection, it’s a perfect description of
how civil engineering surveyors work. Maps and drawings are often a pictorial way of
showing past achievements in the built environment or how you envisage future glories
to be. It is these two categories that make up the bulk of the 4 million maps included
in the collection. Despite the beauty and care that goes into these, the real finds are,
according to antiquarian map curator Tom Harper, the working maps in the middle —
the ones that get thrown away.
You can understand why this happens. Maps serve a function and when that ceases,
they become obsolete. The velum becomes more valuable than the figures drawn on it.
Many important and valuable maps have been found living a recycled life as book
bindings. One working map that has survived is Gregory King’s sketch of the area
around St Katharine Docks after the Great Fire of London. Dating back to 1680, Tom
Harper describes it as a ‘miracle in its survival’. The squares of buildings sitting
alongside a wonky river are a physical link to the hand that drew them. Making it more
endearing are the diary notes scribbled to the side that include:
“Friday, survey afternoon sans assistance”
You can almost hear the frustration at his assistant failing to turn up for work that day.
Gregory King never intended this sketch to be looked at in 2014. He would probably
Behind the scenes at the map museum
Darrell Smart, Editor, and Abigail Tomkins, Deputy Editor, with Tom Harper, Curator of Antiquarian Mapping, British Library
A pick of some of the best
maps celebrating civil
engineering available at
the British Library
A copper engraved print of Bonsignori’s map of Florence: Nova
Pulcherrimae Florentiae Topographia accuratissimé delineata.
Bonsignori is pictured in the bottom centre, surveying his work.

cringe when he thought that this,
amongst all of his life’s work, was part of
his lasting testament. But, again, that’s
part of the beauty. Sometimes seeing a
scrap of paper 350 years old with
annotations in the margin that are just
like those you write today is just as
exciting as a copper engraved print of a
mapping masterpiece. And there are
plenty of those in the collection.
The British Library holds one of the
handful of remaining original prints of
Stefano Bonsignori’s map of Florence
from 1584. Spread out over nine sheets, it
was produced to celebrate the civil
engineering feats in the city over the last
few decades; to revel in civic pride. It is a
bird’s eye view, based on a detailed
measured plan of the city, and Bonsignori
draws himself, sitting on an imaginary
rocky outcrop, quadrant in hand,
surveying the work he has surveyed. It is
beautiful. And yet there is a constant
reminder of its primary use as a
functional object. At some point in its 430
year old history it’s been cut into pieces
and stuck to a linen sheet to make
storage that bit easier.
The inclusion of the surveyor on his
own work isn’t so unusual. Many of the
large estate maps feature intricately drawn
motifs that identify the surveyor by their
style. Tagging as it were. The fusion of art
and surveying is clear in a collection of
maps drawn for Henry VIII. It is a
collection brought together by Sir Robert
Cotton in Elizabeth I’s time. It forms part
of the royal collection now cared for by
the British Library. The maps are full of
military plans for forts and harbours to
protect the vulnerable south coast of
England. These are maps that were hand-
drawn for the king and had far-reaching
consequences. The seas are filled with
battle ships and bare-toothed monsters. As
Tom Harper says: “It’s very hard to
reconcile what is to us a very attractive
artful map with its practical purpose. But
if you’re producing something for very
important people, you make it look nice.”
The draining of the Fens — one of the
major civil engineering projects of the
17th century — warranted maps that were
equally attractive. The Duke of Bedford’s
project sought approval from Charles I.
The British Library is lucky to have an
original drawing of the area and a 1625
map based on that drawing. You can see
the similarity of the sketched survey, and
the pimped up plan for the king.
The use of maps in propaganda isn’t a
new concept and the library’s collection
reinforces there is nothing new under the
sun. For example, a map that shows a
(Top left): One of the earliest maps in the British Library’s
collection. Dating from the 13th century, it celebrates a new
watercourse carrying water from local springs to Waltham Abbey.
(Top right): A coloured chart of Falmouth Haven and the river Fal
up to Truro; drawn in 1597. Part of Sir Robert Cotton’s royal
collection. The cartographer is unknown.
(Above): A coloured plan of Dover Harbour and town, showing Lord
Cobham's plan for a second sluice to the pent. Drawn in 1582 by
Thomas Digges using ink and pigments on vellum.

proposed new rail line through leafy Tory supporting Buckinghamshire was used to
drum support before a public meeting. This map is from 1874 and relates to the
proposed (and successful) extension of the Metropolitan Line. Another 150 years and
Tom Harper’s successor will be presenting similar material relating to the proposed
(and successful?!) HS2 to the editors of Civil Engineering Surveyor.
There are too many gems in the collection for there to be any one standout item in
the British Library. The collection is open to anyone who wants to see it. The map
reading room has especially large tables for the purpose. It could be the 13th century
map of a watercourse built to supply Waltham Abbey, and found bound within the
manuscript collection of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford, that leaves the deepest
impression; or it could be Edmund Crocker’s notebook from the early 1800s detailing
his work for Ordnance Survey; or maybe Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s plans for the rail
line on Portishead Pier. The maps tell a story — not just in what they were created for,
but in the journey they have taken to find a safe home at the British Library. Many have
travelled across continents; suffering wars, great fires, floods and frosts.
Tom Harper’s antiquarian remit of anything older that 100 years means his charge is
ever changing, but will it eventually cease to be a source of new material? Will the
British Library’s digital map curator become an e-antiquarian? Are rumours of the death
of printed maps greatly exaggerated? Tom Harper’s answer is: “I think people should
relax a bit more. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter what form maps take.
The map won’t die. Maps are ways of organising our minds.”
Tom Harper, Curator of Antiquarian Mapping, was with Darrell Smart and Abigail
Tomkins at the British Library, Euston Road, London
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(Top and middle): Map accompanying a printed letter to landowners from a committee at High Wycombe. The letter requests opinions on
a proposed railway to link the town to the Metropolitan Railway.
(Bottom): A chart of the Fens between Lynn Regis, Denver Sluice and Wisbich. Drawn in 1610 by the cartographer William Hayward, using
ink and tempera on parchment.
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QATAR is a compelling commercial proposition for the
UK construction sector. In turn, arbitration appears to
be a necessary proposition for conducting business
there, but there may be problems in enforcing arbitration
awards, especially those carried out under Qatari rules.
The problem came to light when a controversial decision was
rendered by the Qatari Court of Cassation in 2012, where a
domestic award (not foreign) issued under the auspices of the
Qatar International Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration was
declared null and void because it failed to state that it was issued
in the name of His Highness the Emir of Qatar. The court
determined that the wording of the constitution and state law
required this wording to be included in any judgment for it to be
valid. It further held that there was no distinction between a
court judgment and an arbitral award under state law; therefore,
any failure of an arbitral award (which was deemed to be akin to
a judgment) to include this wording would render it null and
void and contrary to public order.
By way of general background, arbitration in Qatar is dealt
with under articles 190 to 210 of the Qatari Civil and Commercial
Code of Procedure (law no. 13 of 1990). Article 205 of the civil
procedure code treats arbitral awards as though they were court
judgments and arbitral awards are therefore subject to appeals.
Article 63 of the Qatari constitution states:
“Judicial authority shall be vested in the courts in the manner
prescribed in this constitution and judgments shall be issued
in the name of the Emir.”
Further, article 69 of the civil procedure code provides that:
“Judgments are issued and executed in the name of HH the
Emir of the State of Qatar.”
Article 204 provides that arbitrators’ judgments are not
enforceable unless an order of execution is granted by the
president of the court with whose clerk the original judgment
was registered, upon request of any of the concerned parties.
This execution order is granted after consideration of the
judgment and the arbitration agreement, and after confirmation
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enforcing judge has jurisdiction over all questions relating to
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A recent judgment of the Qatari Court of Cassation (the
highest court in Qatar) has overturned lower court decisions and
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issued in 2012 by a sole arbitrator seated in Doha. The arbitrator
had found in favour of a Qatari subcontractor in its claim against
Qatar arbitration: Be careful
Hamish Lal FCInstCES, Partner and Head of Construction, Jones Day
Hamish Lal on problems in
enforcing arbitration
awards under Qatari rules

a locally incorporated joint venture
between Qatari and foreign companies.
The arbitration and the underlying
contract were governed by Qatari law. A
Doha court of first instance had set aside
the award in April 2013, with that
judgment upheld by the Doha Court of
Appeal. At both instances, the courts
relied on the 1990 Qatari civil procedure
law, which does not distinguish between
domestic and foreign arbitral awards. The
earlier courts’ decisions had caused
concern. One tangible concern was that
certain arbitrators abroad were not willing
to render awards in the name of a head of
state such as an Emir.
The Court of Cassation’s reasoning in
overturning the judgment made by the
lower courts is interesting and may not be
as encouraging as first assumed. This is
because whilst the arbitration in question
was seated in Qatar, between Qatari
entities, in respect of a Qatari project and
with Qatari law governing, the arbitral
proceedings were under the ICC rules.
This latter fact allowed the Court of
Cassation to treat it as a foreign award
such that the New York Convention
should apply for enforcement purposes.
The court said there was no defect with
the award and the award was sent back to
the Court of Appeal for reconsideration.
It remains to be seen whether the lower
Qatari courts will follow the Court of
Cassation’s interpretation. In practice,
much will turn on whether the award can
be construed to be foreign, if so, there
will be more pressure on the Qatar courts
to enforce under the New York
Convention. If it is not, then one may
find that the courts continue to apply a
strict interpretation to article 63 of the
Qatari constitution and/or to article 69 of
the Qatari civil procedure code which
state, respectively that “judicial authority
shall be vested in the courts in the
manner prescribed in this constitution
and judgments shall be issued in the
name of the Emir” and that “judgments
are issued and executed in the name of
HH the Emir of the State of Qatar.”
There is tangible uncertainty in this
area and it appears that some
practitioners are seeking to make sure
that arbitrations with any Qatari entities
contain an arbitration agreement that
says that the award shall be deemed to
be foreign and, in any event, the
award should be rendered in the name
of the Emir.
Hamish Lal, Partner
Head of Construction, Jones Day
hlal@jonesday.com
www.jonesday.com
The problem came to light
when a domestic award was
declared null and void because
it failed to state that it was
issued in the name of His
Highness the Emir of Qatar.
ULTRA SYSTEMEXPERT UTILITY TRACING AND LOCATING

THE 2013/2014 winter storms were some of the most
severe recorded in southwest England. During this
period, Plymouth University’s School of Marine Science
and Engineering has been using vibration monitoring equipment
from Caption Data to measure the dynamic structural response of
Eddystone Lighthouse’s tower under various stress loads.
The equipment is more commonly found monitoring
construction and groundworks near sensitive buildings and
structures around tunnelling or pipelines, but is also in use on
other iconic structures such as the Thames Barrier and the Ta’
Bistra catacombs in Malta.
The lighthouse
Eddystone Lighthouse was built on a dangerous rocky reef
13 miles southwest of the city of Plymouth over 130 years ago.
The current structure is the fourth to be built on the site. The
first and second were destroyed by storm and fire, and the third,
best known for its influence on future lighthouse designs, was
dismantled in the 1870s.
Before the first lighthouse was built on Eddystone Rocks, sea
merchants would sail around the Channel Islands or to the
French coast for fear of being wrecked on the reef.
Research
Plymouth University, in collaboration with General Lighthouse
Authorities of the United Kingdom & Ireland (specifically Trinity
House), has been engaged in research to characterise the
environmental loads on the granite structure of Eddystone
Lighthouse. The project is the first in a wider study, with
implications across the population of rock based lighthouses in
the UK. This is an area of research that has been neglected for
Monitoring wave induced shocks
at Eddystone Lighthouse
Jon Penn, Managing Director, Caption Data
Jon Penn on researching the
effects of stormy weather on
rock-based lighthouses
Figure 1 (left): Eddystone Lighthouse built on a treacherous rocky reef southwest of Plymouth. The
stump of one of its three previous incarnations stands next to it.
Figure 2 (right): Images capture wave run up at Eddystone Lighthouse using a CCTV system
specifically designed by Plymouth University.

generations and is made difficult by the
remoteness and low power availability.
Plymouth’s research is led by associate
professor Alison Raby and has followed a
triple sequence approach, with (i) finite
element analysis models; (ii) a 1:100
physical scale model used in the wave
flume of the Coastal, Ocean and Sediment
Transport Laboratory of Plymouth
University; and (iii) field measurements on
the lighthouse itself using a shock
monitoring system and geophone sensors.
In addition, CCTV cameras have been developed by the
university to monitor wave impacts and run-up at the lighthouse.
These have the ability, via date and time stamping, to
synchronise images of waves to specific vibration data from the
shock monitoring system to validate results.
Field measurements
The RDL//Vibe shock monitoring system was chosen because it
is autonomous, robust (including an IP66 rated enclosure),
reliable, simple to install, and sensitive enough to monitor wave
induced vibration in the structure. It is optimised for low power
usage, is battery powered by a lithium D-cell and can also
accommodate an external power supply.
The system constantly monitors vibrations and shocks at user
selected frequencies from 10-500Hz. It has inputs from two tri-
axial geophone sensors typically with low frequency response
down to 4.5Hz. Minimum trigger levels are 0.18mm/s while
maximum sensor levels are 43.4mm/s. Alarm thresholds can be set
to alert any number of recipients by email or text when
predefined limits are exceeded. It also uses a fully roaming SIM to
lock onto the most appropriate GSM network at any given time.
Data is available online from Caption Data’s web portal,
where the settings of the RDL//Vibe are managed. As well as
receiving graphical interpretation of events, raw data can be
downloaded for further analysis, and derived parameters such as
peak particle velocity, displacement and acceleration are
available online. This means there is an online, uneditable audit
trail that logs every event and alarm that is sent.
Winter storms
The winter storms of 2013/2014 saw a catalogue of wave
induced damage along the coast of southwest Britain, from the
washing away of rail lines at Dawlish to the demolition of a
Victorian shelter on the promenade in Aberystwyth, Wales.
Nearer to Eddystone Lighthouse, the famous Kingsand Clock
Tower was left facing demolition but has since had £100,000 of
repairs. Eddystone Lighthouse, of course, stood firm throughout,
and with the benefit of remote monitoring, the research team
from Plymouth University was able to see exactly the effect on
the structure of these immense natural forces.
During the period from 15 December 2013 to 28 February
2014 there were 3,090 events logged by the remote monitoring
system; typical data from an event is shown in Figure 3 and
represents velocities from the tri-axial geophones installed 28m
above sea level on the structure. The ability to remotely access
live motion data from Eddystone Lighthouse, and to be able to
change the threshold at which such data is acquired has been a
tremendous asset for the research project. During daylight hours
it was possible to correlate vibration data with CCTV images of
wave strikes.
Future research
Plymouth University has purchased further RDL//Vibes and
geophones in order to equip the Eddystone Lighthouse with
measuring points at differing heights on the structure. In
addition, further research is due to commence using geophones
with a low frequency response of 0.3Hz. Research is also being
planned to monitor a number of other rock based lighthouses
around the UK.
Jon Penn, Managing Director, Caption Data Limited
jon@captiondata.com
www.captiondata.com
Acknowledgements
The research work has been funded through a Plymouth University School of
Marine Science and Engineering PhD studentship and from the GLA who has
provided equipment and helicopter access. As well as Alison Raby, Associate
Professor, PhD student Davide Banfi and a host of experienced technicians at the
School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Ron Blakeley
principal civil engineer at Trinity House, and Martin Bransby from the General
Lighthouse Authorities of the UK & Ireland have had pivotal roles in creating and
supporting the team involved in this research work.
Figure 3 (right): Graph data relates to the event pictured by CCTV
footage in Figure 2.
Figure 4 (far right): The RDL//Vibe and a single tri-axial geophone.
Figure 5: The research team on the helipad at Eddystone Lighthouse.
From left to right, Dr Alison Raby, Ron Blakeley and Prof Geoff Bullock.

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IN March 2010, I came across the
historian Scott Doody looking for the
grave site of a decorated World War I
veteran who was killed in the infamous,
but now largely forgotten, Herrin Massacre
of 1922. He was searching for a single
marker erected by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars to honour Anton Malkovich, but it
had vanished. This chance meeting in
Herrin City Cemetery in Illinois led to one
of the greatest challenges of my life.
The search for Malkovich’s grave site
would eventually become a four-year
interdisciplinary project that would locate
the unmarked graves of other men killed in
the Herrin Massacre. Although the story of
the massacre was well documented, the
event was so atrocious that it was not
spoken of for generations. In time, the
locations of the unmarked graves of the
men killed were forgotten.
23 men were killed in the massacre.
Seven bodies were immediately claimed by
relatives. The bodies of the remaining 16
men were buried in the potter’s field — an
area of the cemetery reserved for the
indigent, the unknown, and the
unidentified. Within four months, five of
the bodies in the potter’s field were
disinterred and claimed by relatives. On
3 October 1922, Ignatz Kubinetz, who had
been injured in the massacre, died of his
wounds and was also buried in the potter’s
field. This brought the total of unmarked
grave sites from the Herrin Massacre to 12.
GIS v witching
Nearly a century later, Scott Doody and I
joined a team of geospatial scientists,
historians and forensic anthropologists —
all coming together in an attempt to locate
these lost burial sites. Could the long-
forgotten graves of the victims of the Herrin
Massacre be found by applying GIS
techniques? The cemetery’s long-held secret
would be revealed not by mapping what
was on the surface, but what lay beneath.
The team relied on hundreds of maps,
animations, 3D renderings, charts, graphs
and figures. For the first time, integrative
methods and geospatial technology would
be used to find the massacre victims’
locations. Additional help was offered to
the team. Some local residents claimed the
men were buried in a location outside the
cemetery. Others said they could find the
graves by ‘witching’. Psychics offered to
speak to the dead on our behalf. All these
offers were politely declined.
To create, store, manage, analyse and
distribute the data the team had assembled,
a custom enterprise geodatabase model
was implemented and deployed on
Microsoft SQL Server 2008. By versioning
the data, the team could work on the
model and the attribution of the many
sections, blocks, lots, spaces and markers.
Data and maps were shared by publishing
numerous services via ArcGIS for Server.
Taking an old, hand-drawn paper map,
they built a GIS model of the cemetery’s
At rest
Finding the victims of the Herrin Massacre
Steven M Di Naso, Director, Geographic Information Sciences Center, Eastern Illinois University, with Scott Doody, Historian
How surveying techniques
are being used in the
quest to find the lost
victims of an American
tragedy
Looking for the forgotten 12: (front row) Vincent Gutowski, Steven
Di Naso, Grant Woods, (back row) Roy Music, Scott Doody, Bill
Sizemore, Trevor Barham, John Bauernfeindj, Robert Corruccini,
and John Foster. ©Steven M Di Naso
Scan of the cemetery viewed in Leica’s TruView.

parcel fabric from known dimensions. It was the conceptual design or ideal layout of the
cemetery. Initially it acted as a template for analysis and modelling of interment. Other
data was used to produce a single animation that would reveal the location of the potter’s
field as a function of the behaviour of its sextons over the cemetery’s long history.
The team produced the first accurate GIS inventory of the sections, blocks, lots, spaces,
headstones and associated interment records for the 25-acre cemetery. More than 9,600
interment records were modified from an existing genealogical database made available by
the Williamson County Historical Society. This comprehensive repository of geographic
data, empowered by ArcGIS, became the driving force behind the research. Thousands of
news articles from the period were reviewed. These account descriptions offered
geographic clues and supported location hypotheses. The city’s cemetery records were
studied; county recorder’s office records reviewed; and representative photogrammetry for
every decade from 1938 to present, as well as period photographs, were obtained and
scrutinised. From these resources, the team produced an accurate compilation of historical
data for conducting research.
Field surveys
In the field, accurate horizontal and vertical control was established using static GPS
techniques. The data was processed through the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) online
positioning user interface (OPUS). OPUS provides access to high-accuracy National Spatial
Reference System (NSRS) coordinates by upload of a data file collected with a survey-
grade GPS receiver. The NSRS position for that file is returned via email. OPUS enabled
positional precision on the order of millimeters — well above the accuracy and precision
required. The team used real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS with a multiple-baseline solution
and differential corrections provided by the Kara Company ReIL-Net on the NGS
continuously operating reference station (CORS) data to map headstones and acquire
photographs of them contemporaneously.
In practice, although use of NAVSTAR, the GPS satellite network operated by the US Air
Force, generally requires signal acquisition from a minimum of four satellites on any given
day to attain a position, there are specific intervals of time throughout the day during
which satellite geometry and other factors permit recovery of precise positioning at survey-
grade accuracies (i.e. centimetre level) when using RTK GPS. By taking photographs and
positions contemporaneously within these short intervals, during which survey-grade
positions could be acquired, we ensured the collection of all headstones and attribute
The Herrin Massacre
In April 1922, the United Mine Workers of America
(UMWA) went on a nationwide coal strike. Eight
weeks into the strike, WJ Lester, owner of the
Southern Illinois Coal Company in Williamson County,
having already released the union workers from their
duties, hired non-union workers and armed guards
from Chicago. (Whether these men knew they were
strikebreakers or not is still a matter of debate.)
Union miners from as far as Kansas, Indiana and Ohio
had arrived to protest earlier in the week. By 21 June
1922, a steady stream of gunfire had been exchanged
between the two factions. By nightfall, two UMWA
men had been killed. Miners, farmers and other locals
were infuriated. By the morning of 22 June, it was
estimated that 1,000 armed men had advanced on
the mine. Realising there was no alternative, the non-
union men raised a white flag of surrender. With
promise of safe passage out of the county, the men
were led from the Lester Strip Pit to a wooded area
about two miles away, known as the Power House
Woods, where many were then killed.
In total 23 men were killed over two days in
Williamson County and on the streets of Herrin,
Illinois. It was the largest mass murder of non-union
workers in the history of America, and became known
as the Herrin Massacre.
Burying the dead. Photographs from the 1922 mass burial of the
Herrin victims. Herrin Mayor AT Pace is pictured (in the top
foreground) flanked by UMWA officials as they move the body of
the first victim. Note the coffin's beveled and chamfered corners.
©Williamson County Historical Society.
Originally published in the Chicago Tribune.

data. This strategy permitted the team to include attributes such as first name, last name
and date of death (when these were legible in photographs) back at the lab after
processing the data. The surface inventory allowed interment records tied to the
conceptual model of the cemetery to be compared to actual interment locations in the
field. Often, these locations did not agree. Conceptual designs seldom match reality, and
the Herrin City Cemetery was no different.
Using a high-definition, high-accuracy, long-range 3D scanner from multiple setups, an
area encompassing 6.5 acres was scanned and detailed topography, headstone outlines
and imagery extrapolated from millions of cloud points obtained. This microtopography,
processed using tools in ArcGIS 3D Analyst and visualised in ArcScene, offered insights
into the locations of unmarked burial sites by illustrating small changes in slope and
highlighting subtle surface depressions. Using this data, dynamic, virtual walk-throughs of
the cemetery were created and made available using a simple web browser so the team
could visit the cemetery virtually without having to physically go there.
A cemetery brought to life
The GIS model offered a unique opportunity to locate the potter’s field through an
animation of interments over the cemetery’s 108-year history. For example, one lot, 16ft by
20ft, held eight grave spaces. Each grave space was 4ft by 10ft. Despite having interment
data that was explicit to the grave-space level, the team decided to create an animation
using the first record of interment for each lot to visualise the exponential growth of the
cemetery with higher fidelity and without the hyperspecificity of space-level data. The
grave spec for any one lot could be used independently over the lifetime of its availability.
The simplified animation of the year of first interment in each lot demonstrated a less
ambiguous patterning of the cemetery’s growth. The animation was supplemented with a
continuous surface model of interments created using an empirical Bayesian kriging
interpolation model on the same variable.
An animation of interments between 1905 and the present revealed a predictable
pattern of burial practices in blocks 1 through 28 with the exception of one block; block
15. The earliest burials (circa 1905) were at the top of a hill in the centre of the cemetery.
As new interments followed, these burials were located down-slope and radiating away
from the centre, continuing until all blocks were occupied. Block 15 however, was utilised
irregularly, with contemporaneous and seemingly dispersed interments throughout its long
history in a pattern typical of a potter’s field.
Finding the dead. Steven Di Naso and Scott Doody discover the
first grave (top) and two further graves — note the distinctive
At Rest plates.
Forgotten lives
One of the victims of the Herrin Massacre was the
English-born Robert Marsh. He was born in
Workington, Cumbria on 26 January 1889, and went
on to spend his childhood in Coatbridge, Scotland. He
emigrated to the US, sailing from Glasgow onboard
the SS Columbia on 11 October 1910. His occupation
was listed as ironworker.
He entered the US Army in 1917, and was assigned to
the 354th Aero Squadron. After training, the squadron
shipped overseas in August 1918 and saw action on
the Western Front in France. He returned to the US in
June 1919, obtained a job with the Bertrand
Employment Agency in Chicago and was sent to
Herrin, to cover the work of the striking miners, in
June 1922.
On 22 June 1922, Robert Marsh was shot and killed
by a mob, probably trapped by a barbwire fence in the
Power House Woods. On 25 June he was buried in the
potter’s field of Herrin City Cemetery as one of the
original 16 unknown victims. Before the end of the
month, his body had been claimed by his fiancé
Myrtle Ritcher. He was exhumed and transported to
Chicago. She purchased a burial plot at Rosehill
Cemetery, and he is interred here in another
unmarked grave.
Nobody was ever prosecuted for the massacre. There
were two trials, but both ended in aquittals. There are
records of a federal lawsuit brought against the
UMWA by Myrtle Ritcher and others. The actions were
dismissed, but it is recorded that the parties reached
an agreement.

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