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need this much testing. Where change is enablers of innovation. They should also be REFERENCES
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Sir Arnold Waters Medal

The Sir Arnold Waters Medal is open to presentations that have won

a Regional Group award in the session.

To be eligible for consideration, all authors of a presentation must be members (any grade) of the Institution, and the presentation
must be submitted to HQ by the Regional Group.

The Judging Panel will consider: Entries for 2017

• Value to the profession as a contribution to the art and science of • Presentations must be submitted to the panel secretary by the Regional

structural engineering Group Chair/Secretary by 28 February 2017
• Clarity and presentation • The submission may take the form of a written paper, an electronic
• Extent of the author’s responsibility for the work described presentation (e.g. PowerPoint), or any other suitable method

Further information on entries can be found at www.istructe.org/Arnold-Waters

Sir Arnold Waters VC
1886–1981
President: 1933–34 and 1943–44
The only person to have been Institution President twice, Sir Arnold Waters was awarded the Victoria Cross for an act of bravery in completing
the construction of a bridge during the second Battle of the Sambre near Ors in France in 1918.

Registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales No. 233392 and in Scotland No. SC038263

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