Route to Chartership
Getting Chartered Engineer (CENG) status can make a big difference when it comes to developing your career. That’s why we’re so committed to helping all our people get this professional accreditation.
See our quick guide to Professional Accreditation to find out how the process works, step by step, here at Buro Happold.
Tips to help you get Chartered:
These tips will help you with the process of gaining CENG status with a UK institution. We don’t expect graduates to start this until they’ve been with us for three months. Graduates based in the USA can get to their guide from here.
Look carefully at your options
You may well have a choice of institutions whose programmes can help you gain CENG status. It’s important to discuss them with your line manager to find the one best suited to you. Buro Happold has written some training programmes that are accredited with the ICE, IStructE, CIBSE and IET. We tend to recommend these because they’re Buro Happold specific, and easier for our employees to digest.
View a full list of institutions with whom Buro Happold have supported graduates to gain CENG status
Gather the information you need
You’ll find this on the relevant institutions’ websites. Our own ‘Magellan’ intranet site - which you can access once you’ve joined - has a professional accreditation section with separate pages for Buro Happold accredited schemes.
Speak to Annie
Annie Boswell, in our Learning and Development department, supports graduates through the chartership process. She’s happy to deal with your queries, and to talk you through the options to get you started.
Application forms
These can usually be found on Magellan’s professional accreditation pages or downloaded from institutions’ websites.
Paying the fees
Buro Happold pays your fees if your local line manager agrees that the scheme’s right for you. It normally works like this: your manager gives you the go-ahead, you pay the registration and membership fees, then claim the money back via expenses. Note that Buro Happold won’t pay your membership fees until you’ve passed your probation period with us.
IPD (Initial Professional Development)
To complete this stage you need to fulfil a number of objectives. Buro Happold schemes make these very straightforward, so much so that you should be able to achieve them just by doing your job. IPD usually takes three and half years, but it can be sooner with the right experience.
Mentor or delegated engineer
Whatever you call it, this role’s important. Mentor and scheme participant meet at least once every 6 months to compare progression against core IPD objectives, and to discuss how to overcome any gaps. It’s good to pick a mentor who’s already chartered, and it’s good if you have a regular working relationship with them - they can then assess and advise you more clearly.