Tanya Preston

Volunteering as a STEM Ambassador in schools is one of the most rewarding parts of my career. Both @ICE_engineers and @STEMLearningUK always need new ambassadors - learn more bit.ly/2mP1xyb and bit.ly/2vEMEyy #STEM #civilengineering

I'm working on an article about integrated transport - are there any cities around the world who are connecting all the different transport modes together particularly well? If so, how are they doing it? I'd be interested to learn more. #transportplanning #transport #mobility

I’m proud to have been included on @CIHTUK’s Q&A for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and humbled to be in such good company. ciht.org.uk/international-… #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScienceDay #womenandgirlsinscience

@espirian @L_Coull @EJCownley @straygoat @thatcontentshed @davidhartshorne @BismaHashmi @ContentBoutique @MightyFineCopy_ Thanks for the mention, John. ☺️👍🏻 I feel like I’m in good company!

@L_Coull @EJCownley So lovely, Laura, thanks! Re the B2B/tech bit, there are lots of good people who do that sort of thing: @straygoat @engineeredcopy @thatcontentshed @davidhartshorne @BismaHashmi @ContentBoutique @MightyFineCopy_ I could list people for the outdoorsy bit too if you want.

@EditorSpice Aww, Melanie that’s a brilliant analogy! Thank you! ☺️🙌🏻

@littlehillsch Happy birthday Jon! From Mikey x x

From everyone at Little Hill, we'd like to say a big 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' to a very special little boy at our school. Take a look at this video message for him: youtu.be/wTGLJ-HNmBc . He should be receiving a DVD copy in the post today. Have a lovely day Jon!

Tonight's task is writing about safety barriers, or vehicle restraint systems. I've had to swot up using the new Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, which had a major update in March. It looks great, but thank goodness for the search function as nothing is where I remember 😅😆

Though if you're wondering: yes, my parking and reversing skills were just as atrocious in CAD as they are in real life. 😅😂

Writing about swept path analysis today. #Highway engineers use this to check that vehicles have enough room to manoeuvre within a given space, like a car park. I used to love doing these - you actually simulate driving a vehicle around your design in CAD. Good times. ☺

@espirian @TrishaLewisTalk True - I need to re-record mine with something compelling. 👍🏻

@TrishaLewisTalk @engineeredcopy But remember that it's a chance to insert a bit of personality and a marketing message in your 10 seconds.

Just added an audio pronunciation to my #LinkedIn profile – thanks @espirian for the tip! 👍🏻 I don’t like to make a big deal of it, but I much prefer my name to be pronounced 🇬🇧 Tarn-ya / 🇨🇦 Tawn-ya, not TAN-ya. Though I’ll take anything halfway polite, to be fair 😜

@espirian Thanks, John ☺️🙏🏻

@engineeredcopy Ah, lovely, thanks, Tarn-ya 😎🤓 Happy reading! 🟦🟩🟧

A couple weeks ago, I was supposed to attend @Traffex Seeing is Believing, which unfortunately couldn't go ahead this year. I've just registered for @HWYSUK's Highways UK in Nov - hopefully, this one will 🤞 #CPD Register here: secure.terrapinn.com/V5/step1.aspx?…

Proof that you *can* earn money online from posting a few blogs. 😂 This is a bumper month for me actually; another one like this and I can treat myself to a celebratory Freddo next month 😜 #writing

Excited that one of my big projects is coming back, after getting suspended due to COVID. It’ll be nice to wrap it up and get it published 🤞🏻💃🏻

@PebbleCoveEdits 🤣👌🏻 Mine is, Wow! ☺️👌🏻 looks great! Good for you 😘 🤣

“That’s after, isn’t it?” 🤭

@EditorSpice At least, that’s been my experience in the Midlands and a couple other areas. I think the M25 is under a different contract. 🤔

@EditorSpice ☺️👌🏻 Glad to see a common data environment being used for collaboration and control. I think major projects are ahead of the game compared to day-to-day maintenance, which is still designed in 2D and uploaded to an online portal.

Researching for a post I'm writing and found a post from the World Economic Forum which describes infrastructure assets as the least digitally transformed in the entire economy 😮 Having experienced firsthand the fragmented approach to highways maintenance, I can only agree. 1/2

@littlehillsch For Mr P 🦾

@engineeredcopy What a fab idea! Very creative as always 😎 Mr P

@lizziecardwell ❤👌 Love that one! ☺ Unfortunately, I think my rendition was probably closer to a cat wailing in pain than singing 🤣

@engineeredcopy School d8sco Music...who's gonna drive you homeeeeeee tonight!