In partnership with British Water, we are proud to host a webinar following the release of the Sustainable Water Management Focus Group's new publication "How to Guide: Applying the CIRIA SuDS Manual (C753) Simple Index Approach to Proprietary/Manufactured Stormwater Treatment Devices". The guide is intended to help designers and specifiers to interpret results from the…
How do we design urban drainage to be resilient and manage the risk of exceedance? This year’s CIWEM UDG training day will be held over two days, 16-17 March. The topic we will be covering is exceedance: as engineers, environmentalists, planners and policy makers, how do we design and adapt our assets to cope with…
Speaker, Mike Mowen, will talk about the use of SuDS, using the construction of an industrial unit for AGB at the Orion Business Park in Dublin to illustrate the issue. Points covered will include: Re-zoning from greenfield site to industrial usage The management of storm water run-off by using attenuation methods Planning matters The Rational…
Join the CIWEM Central Southern Branch for a live panel Q&A session of Property Flood Resilience. During the successful Central Southern Branch Annual Seminar, which took place in October 2021, a large number of questions were asked but sadly there was not enough time to answer them all! The panel are therefore gathering again for…
We are currently in a flood rich period in the UK and traditionally attention is focussed on direct protection to communities at risk. More recently it has been realised that opportunities to ameliorate flood impact also exist outside of at-risk towns and cities. These forms of Natural Flood Management have received considerable attention of late…
Hosted by CIWEM Event description Sewage pollution from storm overflows in sewers has become a headline environmental and social water quality issue. A wide range of factors influence how frequently they spill. And a wide range of actions are needed to reduce that frequency. By looking beyond the obvious, we can maximise the benefits of…
Hosted by Water New Zealand and the CIWEM Aotearoa | New Zealand branch Event description Please note that this event will start at 5:30 pm New Zealand Time | 6:30 am BST. CIWEM and Water New Zealand are delighted to be able to share a fascinating session detailing how Auckland Council’s Healthy Waters department intend…
The natural flood management manual (C802) covers the delivery of NFM from problem identification through conception, funding, design, construction, inspection, maintenance, adaptive management to end-of-life considerations. It is primarily concerned with the ‘where?’ and ‘how?’ of NFM delivery, rather than ‘why?’ It aims to provide confidence in NFM delivery and ensure the best outcomes, recognising that…
Hosted by the CIWEM Rivers & Coastal Group Event description The Environment Agency’s Flood Warning Expansion Project (FWEP) aims to deliver flood warnings to all properties at high risk of fluvial flooding in England. To achieve this, the FWEP monitoring team has significantly increased the capability of the Environment Agency to warn and inform the…
Since 2019, the IGNITION project has explored how Greater Manchester can accelerate the delivery of urban nature-based solutions to build a climate resilient city-region. Supported by the Urban Innovations Actions Fund, the project brought together twelve partners from local government, universities, NGOs and business to develop pathways to accelerate public-private investment nature-based solutions. One strand of the…
Hosted by Castle Debates and the CIWEM South Eastern branch Event description The CIWEM South Eastern branch are delighted to join the Castle Debates for a discussion on the state of our rivers and other waterways. The most common sources of pollution of our waters in the UK are: a) sewage from domestic and industrial…
This free event, hosted by The University of Sheffield and Newcastle University, will provide insight into the outcomes and impacts of a three-year collaborative research project (Urban Green DaMS) to improve design parameters for biofilters/raingardens. Limited places to in-person event Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are…