Use this material to examine your own work. Confirm current requirements, forms and dates with ICE before applying.
Your application is submitted as one PDF. Allow time to assemble it carefully: administrative issues cause many of the delays.
Where it goes
Civil engineering candidates submit through the Professional Reviews upload portal. Infrastructure engineering candidates send the application by email to ICE's infrastructure address. Both routes are given in the current Professional Review Guidance, along with the telephone number for portal problems.
Before you upload, you must confirm that both your sponsors have submitted their statement of support, and that every item on ICE's own application checklist is included. That confirmation is your responsibility, not your sponsors'.
What happens after you upload
- Immediately
An automated on-screen response confirms the upload
If you do not see it, contact the Professional Reviews team rather than assuming.
- Within 10 working days
ICE checks your application for completeness and acknowledges it
Provide missing information within 48 hours. ICE pauses processing until it arrives, so check the submission carefully beforehand.
- After acknowledgement
Your name is published on the ICE website for at least 28 days
In accordance with Admission Procedure 3.
- About 4 weeks before the review
Your notification letter arrives
It gives the date and time, the names of your reviewers, and the timing of your Communication Task. Check immediately for any conflict of interest and tell ICE if there is one. Never contact a reviewer directly.
- Before the review
Your reviewers pre-assess your report
If they agree it is not of a satisfactory standard, your review is deferred, you are told why and what to do, and the review is rearranged once you have addressed the comments.
Details on the form that matter more than they look
Expertise and employment type. You select one from each list. ICE uses these to match you with reviewers, so an inaccurate selection can put you in front of someone whose background does not fit your work.
Infrastructure engineering description. Infrastructure candidates also select an engineering description and provide a brief summary of their report, again to help ICE match reviewers.
Individual requirements. These must be stated when you apply, with any supporting evidence, not raised later. See reasonable adjustments.
Unspent convictions. ICE's admission rules deal with this specifically. If you have an unspent conviction relating to a serious criminal offence, there is a criminal convictions form which must also be signed by your sponsors and submitted with your application; a member of staff will then contact you directly and in confidence.
Publication of your name. There is a tick box. If you tick it and you are successful, your name is published on the ICE website five days after your result is issued, and subsequently appears on the New Civil Engineer website.
Official sources
Selected publisher pages were rechecked in September 2026. Other source records were last checked in July 2026. Open the latest official document before relying on a requirement.