Jacqueline Whitelaw (29 May 1957 – 20 July 2021), usually credited as Jackie Whitelaw, was a British technical journalist and editor, based in London. She focused on civil engineering, infrastructure, and transportation planning topics.

Early life

Whitelaw completed a degree in history and archaeology at the

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in 1978.

Career

After college, Whitelaw joined the staff of ''

New Civil Engineer ''New Civil Engineer'' is the monthly magazine for members of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the UK chartered body that oversees the practice of civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the appl ...

'', initially as a secretary to the managing director. She served as the magazine's deputy editor from 1998 to 2009, and wrote profiles and reports for the magazine as a freelancer after 2009. From 2011 to 2013, she was editor of ''Transportation Professional'', a publication of the

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(CIHT), focusing especially on London's transportation planning around the

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. From 2014 to 2015 she was co-founder and associate editor of ''Infrastructure Intelligence'', an online news service under the auspices of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering. She also wrote for ''

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''. Among her last published articles were interviews with MIT professor Caitlin Mueller and John French of Cambridge Innovation Parks, on designing for

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standards, and an article about the use of concrete with sensors for

building information modelling Building information modeling (BIM) is an approach involving the generation and management of digital representations of the physical and functional characteristics of buildings or other physical assets and facilities. BIM is supported by vario ...

in Hong Kong.

Personal life

Whitelaw died in 2021, aged 64 years.

References

External links

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