Professional Development and Networking Event: The Future of Civil Engineering and Cement-Free Concrete for Bored Tunnels

Janet Young

Dr Janet Young CBE is the director general and secretary at the ICE.

Janet leads the organisation, working in partnership with a trustee board and a team of senior executives.

This includes delivering the ICE’s strategy, and essential services such as member qualifications, furthering knowledge and innovation and advocacy.

Janet’s role is outward facing, representing the ICE to members, industry, academia and governments.

She is the infrastructure sector lead on the UK government’s Construction Leadership Council (CLC).

Janet has extensive experience in the built environment. She is a chartered surveyor and Fellow of the ICE, RICS and Royal Engineers.

Her previous role was the government head of the property profession at the Cabinet Office.

She has also delivered major transformation and capital programmes for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Department for Education (DfE) and was the global estates director at the British Council.

Dr. Carola Edvardsen

Dr.-Ing. Carola Edvardsen possesses a wealth of experience and is responsible for COWI's activities within concrete durability technology and service life design for new structures in general, which include bridge, tunnel, and marine structures in particular.

She has concentrated on combining durability technology of concrete structures with the design of reliable new structures worldwide. In addition, she has significant experience in repair works; in particular water retaining structures. Carola has gained substantial experience in the assessment of cracks in concrete, in particular early age cracking, the reason for the cracks and their influence on durability and service life.