Routes to Fellowship with Caroline Field

Keith Jones FICE

Keith is a Chartered Civil Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of ICE. He has been in post since May 2008, prior to this he was Operational Manager Highways at the Vale of Glamorgan Council, responsible for all highway maintenance operations including management of the DSO contracting unit as well as Environmental Manager for the Council.

Keith was in Local Government from 1967 to 2008 holding a range of posts involving engineering, highways, infrastructure and drainage. Former Chairman of the County Surveyors Society Wales Engineering Committee and member of the UK Roads Board, advising Government on Highways issues.

He is a member of the Cross Party Groups on STEMM and Construction and Industrial Liaison Boards at Cardiff University and Swansea University.

Emma Antrobus

Emma has been the North West Director of ICE since July 2018, overseeing the activity and budgeting for more than 6,500 members in the region. ICE has more than 95,000 members across the world in all sectors of engineering including transport, housing, development, energy and water.

Having done a business with manufacturing degree, Emma has spent most of her career working with and supporting businesses in all sectors towards improvement and change, with a focus on the engagement with and understanding of policy focusing on infrastructure projects including rebuilding Manchester city centre following the 1996 bomb, Northern Hub and HS2.

Caroline Field

Caroline is a leader in the resilience consulting industry and a pioneer and role model in civil engineering. She has nearly 30 years of experience founded in structural engineering, specialising in structural dynamics. This includes expertise in counter terrorism and blast mitigation, earthquake engineering and more recently whole-system resilience. Caroline has broad experience of the European and US markets and holds dual British/American citizenship. She has always been a pioneer of new approaches and cutting-edge solutions, spearheading performance-based design techniques and bridging the space between research and practice. 

Caroline has been a pioneer for women in engineering, which has not always been a comfortable position to be in. She is passionate about encouraging and support other females in the profession. In 2020, she was a recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineers (RAE) visiting professorship programme. She is a visiting professor of structural and infrastructural resilience at Loughborough University. As part of this, Caroline participated in the Civil Engineering Industry Advisory Board, give at least give lectures a year and supports student projects and EDI activities.