Company Profile
Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers
Company Overview
We are the professional engineering institution for gas, here to support individuals and organisations connected with the gas industry.
As advocates of excellence, our core aim is to help all those involved with gas to achieve and maintain the highest standards of professional competence.
We do this by publishing technical standards, delivering high quality events and courses that contribute to professional development and by bringing people together through membership to share knowledge, expertise and best practice.
Our aims are to:
- promote the attainment and maintenance of the highest standards of professional competence
- provide high quality products, services and personal and professional development
- continue to identify and improve gas policy in co-operation with other stakeholders
- conduct all our activities with robust governance and on a sound financial basis
... and through the delivery of all of these, promote, encourage and enhance membership.
Company History
The Institution was founded in 1863 as the British Association of Gas Managers by the 1100+ gas companies who operated in the United Kingdom prior to nationalization.
The purpose of the Institution was, and still is, to act as a focal point for formulating and standardising codes of practice and technical standards for the industry, to provide a neutral forum for the exchange of technical and managerial information, to ensure that the professional standards of individual gas engineers and those associated with the gas industry are maintained, and to encourage good practice through exchange of information.
The Incorporated Institution of Gas Engineers, as it was known from 1902-1928, was granted a Royal Charter by the Privy Council of His Majesty King George V in 1929.
The nationalisation of the industry in 1949 swept away the 1100+ gas companies and the Institution reflected this change. However, the deregulation of the gas industry and the opening of the market has meant a return for the Institution to the role it fulfilled pre-1949.
In 2001, the Institution changed its name (and its scope) to the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM).