Impact archive Impact is ACE's industry magazine and is received and read by all members and selected ACE stakeholders. Impact provides an engaging and entertaining read on the news and views of the consultancy and engineering sector, and includes interviews, comment, reviews and the latest on impressive work by our members and affiliates.  Impact is open to contributions. So if you want to highlight an outstanding project, report industry news, offer insight into a specific issue, or simply keep us updated on the movers and shakers in your firm, please email Gavin Pearson, Impact's editor.

	Nelson's Column - Growing consensus on Engineering’s importance     All change in energy     Moving electricity through water     Bridging the gap in road investment     New bridge across the Mersey     The government’s role in advancing BIM     BIM gathers momentum     Biometrics     ACE’s budget submission offers answers to Chancellor’s questions     Energy, geopolitics and engineers     ACE Golfing Society News     ACE Annual Conference preview     What and where does the UK government procure?     Rail growth an international phenomenon     High Speed 2 – how it happened     Infrarail show will focus on rail infrastructure     Viewpoint: Building Better Schools in Ghana     A new voice for the North West     The problems with borrowing     Nelson's column - BIM: improving the future of the engineering industry     RedR trains food crisis aid workers     Agency Worker Regulations 2011     Information security risk     Improving your bottom line     Viewpoint: Taking the psych out of psychometrics     The three lines of defence     Successful tendering     Engineering the political climate     Green light for light rail     Scottish spending review and draft budget     Is the market ready to engineer economic recovery?     FIDIC 2011     FIDIC looks at opportunities in Africa     FIDIC Profile: Gregs Thomopulos     FIDIC Profile: Geoff French     What price an integrated industry?     Progress Network holds legal lecture     The McNulty Report     ACE Engineering Ambassador of the Year for 2011     Appointments     Nelson's Column - The greatest (construction) show on Earth?     Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996: are you prepared?     ACE delegation visits Brussels     Minister endorses new survey document     Shadow secretary for Scotland talks borrowing powers and spurring growth     Turn up the volume: getting your message across in a crowded marketplace     Jonathan Garrett talks sustainability, community engagement and cost     Carbon capture and storage innovation     Sustainability by design: smart home technologies     The Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link: immersed tunnel     The Retail Distribution Review: issue or opportunity for employers?     Is UK growth lagging behind?     ACE Golfing Society Captain’s Event 2011: Royal Birkdale     Nigel Valvona talks health and safety     Viewpoint: zero carbon definition - red herring or real driver?     It’s time for PSOs to get back to business     Appointments     Engaging on the environment     FIDIC 2011 in Davos     Chris Cole talks projects, change and pride in engineering     Tynemouth Station restoration     Transport Secretary talks efficiency and HS2     Viewpoint: The growing role of dynamic modelling     Shadow minister for industry talks construction and SMEs     The Government Construction Strategy     How far and fast are costs likely to drive innovation?     ACE Golfing Society News: Scottish Trip 2011     Legal update: Jones v Kaney [2011]     ACE Conference 2011: getting back to business     Is the UK playing catch-up?     Appointments     Legal update - Bribery Act 2010 guidance     Have we learned the lessons from AMP 4?     Infrastructure Cost Review Implementation Plan     Keith Howells talks energy and global growth and turmoil     Viewpoint: which way for UK energy policy?     Taking a stake in energy     Planning for growth: the 2011 Budget     The value of metrics     Pensions auto-enrolment: ready or not!     Brodies opens office in Aberdeen     NCE/ACE Young Consultant of the Year: Peter Brown     Has the Bank of England’s inflation gamble paid off?     Good Small Business Guide 2011: A review     Training local aid workers to reduce the impact of disasters     ACE Corporate plan 2011-2013     Brave new world?     New ACE affiliate     Appointments     Ground source heating system at One New Change     Graham Nicholson talks infrastructure and finance     The Usable Buildings Trust and new professionalism     ACE joins the CBI British Business Bureau     From the archives - The origins of ACE     Impact talks with climate change minister     Winter brings economic contraction     Is tax taxing?     ACE and industry at the party conferences     The case for infrastructure investment is being made     A LEP into the unknown     Geoff French becomes president elect of FIDIC     Alan Bramwell talks SMEs with Impact     The delicate balance for SMEs     Teaching engineering at Bournemouth University     Comprehensive Spending Review     Engineering strength     Mark Prisk speaks to Parliamentary guests     Innate becomes an ACE Affiliate     Maximising value when selecting finance advisors     Experts discuss Middle East hotspots     Nakheel sets out plans for recovery     CoST pilot reports on disclosure     The challenge for nuclear decommissioning     ACE State of Business 2010 - Impact article     The UK National Infrastructure Plan     JCB Academy     Profiling the risk     Children engage on sustainable schools     Birthday honours praise engineering     Nelson's column - Plans to investigate infrastructure project costs     UAE summer health and safety laws change     GDP bounces back     Amey's holistic vision     Sandberg: 150 not out     Public Procurement under the spotlight     Balancing the budget