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Our vision is to be the Institute of Choice for Highway Engineers. Our mission is to provide professional development opportunities, support and leadership for individuals to achieve and maintain professional recognition.

  • Learn about the IHE. IHE membership formally recognises your qualifications and industry experience.

  • We’ve been registering engineers and technicians with the Engineering Council since 1972 and accrediting academic courses since 1989. We’re proud of our long history and provide our members with 50 plus years of highways experience.

IHE Membership

Join us and demonstrate your technical skills, qualifications and expertise to clients and employers. We offer membership types for highways professionals at every stage of their career.

Professional Registration

Becoming a professionally registered engineer demonstrates your high standard of competence and commitment. By choosing to register, you set yourself apart as an engineer with high standards and also demonstrate your commitment to maintain that competence in the future.

Academy Training

The IHE Highway Engineering Academy offers industry-led training in highway engineering. Through one of our specialist training courses leading to an industry-recognised Professional Certificate or Diploma, the HEA delivers the qualifications, skills and knowledge demanded by the highways industry which are in short supply today.

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Professional Development Partnerships are open to Highways Sector businesses, Local Government Authorities, Academic Institutions, Professional Engineering Institutes and other Highways interest based organisations.

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We administer the registers for Highway Inspectors and Road Safety Auditors as well as manage our active forums contributed to by highways professionals.

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IHE seeking new members for Council

  • Thursday March 17, 2022

Have you ever thought about seeking nomination to the IHE Council? Now is your opportunity.

The IHE has a number of vacancies coming up for those wishing to join Council as of the next AGM due to be held in June 2022.

Sitting on the IHE Council provides you as a member of the Institute, the opportunity to help steer the Institute’s strategy and direction for the future. Any subscribing member of the IHE can seek nomination to sit on Council, and all members are encouraged to support the Institute by considering putting themselves forward for election. The process is simple and requires you to get six IHE members to support your nomination, which will then enable your name to go forward to an open ballot of members.

Details of the forthcoming election will be published on the IHE website very shortly and an email will be sent out to all members.

The vacancies that are available are for:

  • 3 Ordinary Members – Open to any Corporate Member, serving for a term of 4 years.
  • 1 Regional Member – Open to any Corporate Member, Serving for a term of 4 years.
  • 1 Student Member – Open to any Student Member, Serving for a term of 2 years.

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IHE membership formally recognises your qualifications and industry experience. Join us and demonstrate your technical skills, qualifications and expertise to clients and employers.