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In 1987, when I joined the Halcrow group of consulting engineers as a member of the then Hammersmith, London-based marketing and PR team, we were down the corridor from the Tunnels and Tunnelling department, and (in those pre-email days) used to get occasional wry internal memos with clippings from the Yellow Pages telephone directory reading “Boring – see: Civil Engineers”.

Twitter for boring professionals? « pwcom 2.0 2009

In 1987, when I joined the Halcrow group of consulting engineers as a member of the then Hammersmith, London-based marketing and PR team, we were down the corridor from the Tunnels and Tunnelling department, and (in those pre-email days) used to get occasional wry internal memos with clippings from the Yellow Pages telephone directory reading [...]

2009 May « pwcom 2.0 2009

For example, when I joined the marketing team at Halcrow in the late 1980s, most of our media relations work was heavily reliant upon paper-based communications.

PR and web 2.0 ‘ghosts’ « pwcom 2.0 2009

From my earliest days in construction industry marketing (at consulting engineer Halcrow in the the late 1980s, for example), I have been conscious of the potential marketing role of every employee.

Avoiding the ‘Glass Box’ « pwcom 2.0 2009

In 1987, when I joined the Halcrow group of consulting engineers as a member of the then Hammersmith, London-based marketing and PR team, we were down the corridor from the Tunnels and Tunnelling department, and (in those pre-email days) used to get occasional wry internal memos with clippings from the Yellow Pages telephone directory reading [...]

2009 May 08 « pwcom 2.0 2009

Releases are rarely printed out and posted; they are more likely to be emailed, and they are also made immediately available on our website, perhaps with accompanying low - and high-resolution images (for web and print use) available for download (the Halcrow website today even has a video newsroom).

PR and web 2.0 ‘ghosts’ « pwcom 2.0 2009

So last week Foster, in partnership with engineers Halcrow and economic consultancy Volterra, unveiled a plan for Thames Hub, a four-runway airport to be built on the Isle of Grain in north Kent, on the Thames estuary.

London's new airport: should Beijing be a blueprint for the Isle of Grain? 2011

The Halcrow Group, which was commissioned by four local authorities covering Leicester and the surrounding towns and villages to assess the Co-op's plans, said the new town was likely to produce fewer jobs than envisaged, would suffer from poor transport links and would be out of keeping in what is currently a rural setting.

New report casts doubt on viability of Pennbury eco-town 2009

For example, when I joined the marketing team at Halcrow in the late 1980s, [...] 1 Comment

2009 February 06 « pwcom 2.0 2009

For me, civil engineering was far from boring (I ended up spending seven years with Halcrow, and I remain fascinated by the profession and its achievements); other professions seemed far less interesting – accountancy, law, quantity surveying ….

Twitter for boring professionals? « pwcom 2.0 2009