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Membership
Career development & professional registration-
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Members and registered users
Enhance your career
Professional registration recognises your competence, commitment, skills and experience.
The IET provides guidance and support to enable members to undertake planned and structured Initial Professional Development (IPD) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Professional development courses designed to help individuals and organisations reach and stay at the leading edge of engineering and technology.
The IET Awards reward and celebrate individual excellence, innovation and ambition (engineering scholarships).
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Resources
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E&T Jobs
Engineering & Technology Jobs
Search today for your next engineering role on Engineering & Technology Jobs, the job board hosted by the IET.
Standards
IET Standards
IET Standards publishes authoritative standards, codes of practice and guidance materials for professional engineers and other key stakeholders, using its expertise to achieve consensus on best practice in emerging and established technology fields. ISL also works with expert partners to deliver training based on its publications.
Publications
Buses, Bankers and the Beer of Revenge
From Greek computers to aircraft carriers made of ice - a collection of 50 of the best stories from Justin Pollard’s Eccentric Engineer column in E&T magazine.
Engineering & Technology magazine
E&T is the leading monthly magazine for all engineering professionals. Its award winning content is available in print, online and on iPad.
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Get Involved
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MyCommunity
Shape your community. Shape your world.
MyCommunity, the IET's professional network and collaboration platform, enabling you to connect, interact and exchange knowledge with your peers.
Volunteering
Interact with the IET and raise your professional profile
Volunteering can enhance your career development, is a personally rewarding experience and also benefits your Community.
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Events
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Highlighted events
20 May 2013 | IET London: Savoy Place, UK
11 - 14 June 2013 | Wyboston Lakes Hotel, Bedfordshire, UK
14 June 2013 | IET London: Savoy Place, UK
8 - 10 April 2014 | Midland Hotel, Manchester, UK
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Policy & Media
Thought leadership, media centre & public affairs-
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Media centre
IET corporate news and activities, plus comment and reaction on engineering and technology issues.
Read what the media is saying about the IET and our activities.
We can provide independent experts to talk to the media on a range of engineering and technology related subjects.
Advice and support to IET members on promoting IET activities via the media and social media.
Policy
Key topics offer summaries of the IET’s positions on many of the most important policy topics.
The IET represents the views of its members on a wide range of professional and technological issues.
Offering unbiased, independent, evidence based policy advice.
The engineering profession speaking with one voice on key issues relating to engineering.
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IET.tv
E&T magazine news
Call to capitalise on smart meter roll-out delay
The IET has called for the government to capitalise on the smart meter roll-out delay to formalise specifications for the system.
Platinum miners stage wildcat strike in South Africa
Miners working for world number three platinum producer Lonmin launched a wildcat strike today, halting all mining operations.
Latest events
21 May
Conservation Engineering – A Unique Team
Shropshire, United Kingdom
24 May
19 Jun
Intelligent Cities Conference
Leeds, United Kingdom
Sector Case Study
GE Digital Energy, Grid IQ Innovation Centre: Generating a Sustainable Future
View the latest Built Environment Sector case study on GE Digital Energy, a division of GE Energy which is part of the global Smart Grid effort to modernise and optimise how the world generates, moves and consumes energy.
Virtual library
Virtual library
IET members can access for free electronic books and journals from: EBSCO, Engineering and IT Reference Library, Faulkner reports, Knovel, Wiley, and Key Note.
Learning Legacy
Engineering the Olympics
Engineering and technology has enabled the London 2012 Games to be a huge success.Publications
Communities in this sector
Resources
Energy Storage
Energy Storage has a part to play in redressing the balance between power demand and power supply at a given point in time. This resource page offers useful links on developments in this technology.
Lifts, escalator and horizontal walkways
The partnership between the IET and the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Lifts Group has produced a wealth of insights in this area.
Building Energy Efficiency
Webcasts and industry interviews from Building Energy Efficiency professionals, as well as a perspective from tomorrow’s engineers in Europe.
Data Centre Design
Data Centre Design are notorious power consuming installations. Find out how they are now being designed with Energy Efficiency in mind.
Community Scale Thinking
Power generated within the community and the utilisation of the heat for the community that surrounds the power source. Not a new idea but more schemes are beginning to be commissioned, including the Olympic Park. Why now?
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
BIM is fast becoming an accepted process on many projects. This page of webcasts outlines from industry experts what exactly this means for practitioners and where is this mindset taking us.
Sector publications
Built Environment Sector Newsletters
Bringing you all the latest on IET Built Environment Sector initiatives, partnerships and thought leadership together with details of upcoming events, Sector highlights on IET.tv and opportunities for you to get involved!
IET Sectors 2012: A year in review
This high-level review summarises the major outcomes from a remarkable year of activity for IET Sectors.
Built environment articles
Tianjin Eco-city - blueprint for the future
11 March 2013
There is no single internationally accepted definition of an 'eco-city', but China believes it has a pretty good suggestion in Tianjin Eco-city.
Engineering Grand Challenges
11 February 2013
On 12-13 March the IET hosts a major international summit in London organised by the national engineering academies of the UK, US and China to discuss progress on 14 'grand challenges' identified five years ago by America's National Academy of Engineering. We look at what they are and how close the world is to solving them.
Classic Projects: Second Severn Crossing
11 February 2013
Three decades after the opening of the original Severn Bridge a second crossing was opened to alleviate congestion caused the huge growth in traffic streaming into Wales.
About this sector
Contact us
If you would like to learn more or have any questions about the Built Environment Sector, please email: built-environment@theiet.org
Factfiles
Electricity storage
This Briefing provides an introduction to electricity storage technologies and answers some key questions about the roles that storage can play within the electricity system.
Can we really do more at less cost with the UK road network?
This factfile examines what can be done at less cost with the UK road network to achieve transport policy objectives such as reducing congestion, accidents and emissions.
Policy
Government policy
The IET represents the views of its members on a wide range of professional and technological issues.
EU energy: decarbonisation and economic competitiveness
Submitted on 03 October 2012 to House of Lords European Union Committee (Sub-Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy)
Submitted on 03 October 2012 to House of Lords European Union Committee (Sub-Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy)
The Economics of Wind Power
Submitted on 27 June 2012 to House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
Submitted on 27 June 2012 to House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
