attract students into engineering degrees and to provide more sustainable solutions to engineering problems. However he died in London on 28 March 1995, just five months into his one-year presidency. A prize in his honour is awarded annually by the Institution of Civil Engineers for contributions to sustainability in the industry. He was posthumously awarded an honorary doctorate of science by Nottingham University in 1996. References English civil engineers People educated at Eton College Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers British structural engineers 1942 births 1995 deaths People from Beaconsfield Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge