Association of SuDS Authorities

Urban reforestation as effective climate change mitigation
2022-01-25 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Virtual Event
Wide-ranging presentation covering urban tree planting, sustainable drainage systems and green wall planting specifically designed to not only help adapt to climate change but to create safer, cleaner, and healthier towns and cities for future generations.
Species choice, best practice planting methods and incorporation of sustainable drainage systems open new possibilities that will enhance our towns and cities, making them resilient, future-proofed, and simply more pleasant.
Urban biodiversity will also be covered in this session – a matter of concern to many local authorities who desire to re-wild our towns, bringing in flora and fauna that may have flourished in the past, but have been reduced by the removal of natural habitat.
Learning outcomes:

Understanding different tree planting methodologies, and how effective they are
Importance of retro-fitting SuDS systems which are multi-functional to make urban areas resilient
Alternative ways to green screen vertical walls, and the advantages to the built environment

Find out more here.

Beyond the Asset: Catchment system opportunities
2022-02-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Virtual Event
Brought to you by CIWEM Tyne & Humber branch and Stantec, this first webinar in a two-part series will explore catchment system opportunities, with the second focusing on solutions.
Catchment investigation is a significant part of developing water and wastewater solutions. The Government has defined over 100 major water catchments in England and has identified a significant shortfall in the catchment spending required to meet policy objectives. Catchment management represents a new way of working.
Historically, water companies have relied on predictable and visible treatment or engineering solutions. This is because delivering these is in their control. But catchment management schemes are more uncertain. They often rely on partnerships, new skills and changing the behaviours of individuals and organisations within water catchments, alongside new ways of predicting and monitoring success.
If adopting catchment management approaches enables a company to meet its legal water quality standards at a reduced cost its customers will benefit from lower bills. The environment also benefits from improvements in sustainability and biodiversity.
Bringing together key practitioners in this field from Northumbrian Water, Promar International and Stantec, we will discuss some of the key challenges in identifying and investigating catchment system opportunities. These include opportunity mapping, working with multiple stakeholders, dealing with fair share concepts and how to evidence the performance of catchment measures.

Find out more here.

An evening technical meeting: Living with water in Belfast
2022-02-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual Event
This joint webinar brought to you by the CIWEM Northern Ireland branch and the Institute of Water NI will provide an overview of the LWWP, Belfast Strategic Drainage Infrastructure Plan that was published in November 2021.
Our speakers will explore the key challenges that must be overcome to protect against flooding whilst enhancing the environment and providing increased capacity for economic growth.
Details of how the development of the scope of the projects is coming along will be covered, focusing on the procurement and delivery of larger projects and the mitigations being deployed due to constraints to development through lack of capacity.
Find out more here.

Sustainable Water Management Focus Group
2022-03-03 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-09-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
This Focus Group has been formed to provide manufacturers/suppliers with a route through which to monitor and lobby in relation to, the development of SUDS Regulations and to promote engineered SUDS components within the overall design and application of SUDS.
The Focus Group works with the environmental regulators to develop and publish guidance information and to disseminate the information to planners, developers, and regulators.

Learning from the Natural Flood Management Programme
2022-03-07 12:00 - 13:15 | Virtual Event
Although there had been a handful of small, innovative NFM projects in the past, the UK government’s natural flood management programme was introduced to understand more fully how nature-based solutions can be used at a large scale as part of the toolbox to reduce flood risk and improve habitats.
This webinar will provide an overview of the programme and the next steps in the journey to mainstreaming nature-based solutions. It will cover the different terminology around natural flood management, the interventions used, how the programme was managed, as well as the lessons learnt and how these can be incorporated into future projects.
This talk is open to all, particularly those with an interest in flood and coastal risk management.
Part of the CIWEM Flood Resilience digital series.

Vernon Harcourt Lecture - 2022 Flood risk management - a just transition to a climate resilient future
2022-03-08 18:00 - 19:50 | One Great George Street, One Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AA, United Kingdom
Join us at this year’s Vernon Harcourt lecture, which will be delivered by Sally Sudworth, global head of sustainability and climate change at Mott MacDonald.
As it stands, entire economies still revolve around fossil fuels, with people around the world relying on them for not just their livelihoods but also their way of life. Making the switch to a sustainable way of living won’t happen overnight, but green infrastructure can play a huge part in creating a cleaner, greener, healthier world.
As we look forward to COP27 for climate and COP15 for biodiversity, the debate about whether COP26 was a success continues. We, as engineers, are a community of professionals that is uniquely placed to do something positive. This is as exciting and rewarding as it is demanding.
We must safeguard the globe’s precious resources, creating balanced outcomes against the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We have a duty to ensure, to the best of our ability, that the infrastructure we deliver for our clients will be resilient to the impacts of climate change from wildfires, drought, extremes of temperature (freezing conditions to heat domes) to flooding. But resilience is just part of it, we also have need to factor in carbon reduction, making a conscious effort to reduce the amount we are locking in, both in construction and operation.
Are we doing enough? Come along, join the discussion in person, and better understand your role in making a difference.

Street SuDS: Technical Designfor Highways (Part 2)
2022-03-10 09:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
This hands-on session is specifically tailored for highway designers and eng ineers to provide you with a more detailed understanding of how to design SuDS from start to finish within highways schemes.
This event will take place on two separate half-day mornings – on 02nd and 10th March 2022, from 9.30 – 12.00. Spaces are limited and the event will not be recorded so please only book if you can attend both morning events live. Scroll up to book onto the other event of this two-part training.
This event is aimed at designers. If you are looking for an introduction to SuDS please book onto our ‘Street SuDS: An Introduction’ event on 18th Jan 2022.

Agenda
09:30 Designing for effective Maintenance, Bob Bray (Robert Bray Associates)
10:00 The use of permeable surfaces, Judith Puckmayr (Robert Bray Associates)
10:30 Inlets, outlets and flow control, Anthony McCloy (McCloy Consulting)
11:00 Break
11:10 Choosing, locating and sizing SuDS components, Judith Puckmayr (Robert Bray Associates)
11:40 Worked example: Developing a SuDS Concept
12:10 Our solutions, Bob Bray (Robert Bray Associates)
12:30 Close

The British Water how to Guide: Applying the CIRIA SuDS Manual (C753)
2022-03-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
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 main recognised UK and international test methods or verification programmes at the time of publication and apply these to the Simple Index Approach (SIA) as defined within Chapter 26 of The SuDS Manual (C753).
The webinar will provide an overview of the aim, objectives, purpose and use of the guide and special panel Q&A with the authors of the guide.

David Smoker, ACO
Daniel Jarman, Hydro International
Jessica Jefferys, Innovyze
Jo Bradley, SDS and Stormwater Shepherds

If you’re interested but not able to attend this live webinar, register and we’ll send you a link to the recording!

Urban Drainage Group Training Day 2022
2022-03-16 09:30 - 2022-03-17 15:00 | Virtual Event
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 extremes in weather?
This challenge is one that needs to tackled in collaboration, with risk management authorities working with other organisations and stakeholders. It potentially involves those directly impacted, so that they can help to protect themselves.
Our packed programme will include CPD-accredited interactive sessions, technical paper presentations, panel discussions, practical sessions and speed networking.
Spaces are limited and are available on a first come, first serve basis. Registration will close at midnight on 10th March.
The cost to attend both days is £60, sponsorship packages are available at £900 (including local taxes, where applicable).
For sponsorship enquiries, please email ciwemevents@syonmedia.com
For group bookings, please email events@ciwem.org

Attenuation using SuDS online
2022-03-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual Event
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 Method, as laid out in SuDS Manual, and its limitations
Masterplan requirements for the overall industrial estate and implications

We aim to ensure that our events and venues are accessible to all. If you have particular needs please let us know and we’ll always do our best to accommodate.
This event is organised and hosted by ICE Merseyside branch.

Mike Mowen is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer with experience in the UK and abroad, currently working in the rail industry.

Property Flood Resilience Q&A Webinar
2022-04-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Event
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 an hour live Q&A. This is a new style of session for the branch, so don’t miss out!
The panel discussion will be chaired by Alastair Chisolm (CIWEM). After an introduction from Anya Fisher and Alex Lane of the CIWEM Central Southern branch) there will be a session for each of the three topics covered in the original seminar series, which are:
1. Strategy to Delivery
Alastair Moseley (H20 WEM)
Katherine Greig (FloodRe)
Anne Chataigne (FloodRe)
Beverly Adams (Marsh)
2. Customer Perspectives on PFR
Phil Foxley (Environment Agency)
Bev Adams (Marsh)
David Kelly (Marsh)
Mary Dhonau (MaryDhonauAssociates)
3. PFR Delivery Challenges
Alan Ryan (North Northamptonshire Council)
Matt Tandy (AECOM)
Simon Crowther (Flood Protection Solutions)

Northumbrian Water Liason Meeting - UK Forum Liaison Meeting - Virtual
2022-04-12 11:00 - 12:45 | Virtual Event
UK Forum Liaison Meetings are held with major players in the sector. These include meetings with water company representatives where an overview of the water company’s structure is provided as well as an update on their capital delivery and asset management programme, procurement processes and much more. This Liaison Meeting is with Northumbrian Water.
Members are invited to submit questions, in advance of the meeting, regardless of whether they can attend as they will take priority on the day. The deadline for pre-submitted questions is Friday 8 April 12.00pm.

Engineering Dynamism back into Rivers Webinar
2022-04-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual Event
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 and this talk will review the recent approaches to better managing our rivers and their floodplains to control flood peaks and importantly to restore the natural sediment balance in river systems that sees gravels stored in the catchments above flood risk areas rather than accumulating in urban flood relief schemes as it does at present.
We present data from several systems in the North of England where, through the reestablishment of natural river and floodplain processes, large volumes of sediment are now being locked up across floodplain areas reducing the flux of material heading downstream. We also discuss the added value that these types of schemes bring in terms of biodiversity gains and climate change mitigation through the rejuvenation of functional wetlands and consequent carbon capture.

River Water Quality & Storm Overflows - Systems approach to maximise improvement
2022-05-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual Event
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 actions and make them as cost-effective to deliver as possible.
As Defra is consulting on its Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, CIWEM is launching the findings of stakeholder research and systems mapping to highlight where action should be taken to get the best outcomes in reducing pollution from storm overflows.
This webinar will present why we need to look beyond just water companies to achieve lasting improvements on sewage pollution and set out the findings and recommendations of CIWEM’s work. This consulted a wide range of water professionals, NGOs and local and national government, agencies and regulators and involved systems-thinking and mapping specialists from Imperial College London to understand the system of pressures on sewerage infrastructure.
The findings set out where additional action – tapping into related areas of activity, investment and policy – can supplement the measures set out by Government to tackle the issue, and get more bang for our buck.
With speakers from CIWEM, Imperial College London, The Rivers Trust and Stantec this 90-minute event will explore what we need to do and who needs to act, how that can give us not just cleaner, healthier rivers but greener, more climate resilient places to live, how long it might realistically take and how much it might cost.

Part of the CIWEM Pollution digital series.

Net Zero Together - How the water industry can measure, manage & mitigate carbon.
2022-05-03 18:30 - 21:30 | Virtual Event
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 to take actions to meet the commitment outlined in Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri (Auckland’s Climate Plan) for Auckland to halve its emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.
With a population that continues to grow and a climate which has changed rapidly over the last decade, the water cycle has been directly impacted and faces further instances of drought, more extreme weather events, rising sea levels and increased coastal flooding unless greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced.
This webinar will provide an overview of how Healthy Waters are approaching carbon reduction through innovative means to build and operate a low carbon water system.
Our speakers will share the journey so far and seek to inspire us all to go further and faster to meet Auckland’s goal of being net zero:
5:30 pm | Session Intro and Challenges | Liam Foster and Jon Rix
5:35 pm | A LGNZ view on decarbonisation | Mark McKeag
5:40 pm | What role do carbon portals and tools play? | Jonny Breen
6:05 pm | Healthy Waters Zero Carbon Team: an active approach to carbon reduction | Konrad Heinemann and Leigh Steckler
6:35 pm | Q&A | facilitated by Jon Rix
7:00 pm | Summary and introduction to optional discussion session | Liam Foster
7:05 pm | Optional Discussion Forum – seeking to share ideas to the aspirations shared by Healthy Waters and determining how CIWEM and the industry can support moving forward.
7:30 pm | event close

Part of the CIWEM Climate Emergency Adaption & Resilience digital series.

The National Flood Management Manual Launch Webinar
2022-05-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
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 innovation in this area is constantly emerging.
The manual is intended for use in the UK and is tailored to the geographical settings and conditions of the country, although it draws on advice and case studies from elsewhere and could be of assistance for overseas projects.
The manual covers NFM measures to reduce the risk of flooding from surface water and rivers. It does not include coastal NFM to reduce the risk of tidal or coastal flooding, guidance for which is available elsewhere.
Detailed technical advice is given on four key measures which are considered challenging to deliver and with less detailed information already available. Other measures are covered in one-page summaries with signposts to other guidance.
This webinar will introduce the manual and provide an overview of its aim, scope and content.
Programme
Click here to view the full programme with session outlines.
14:00 Welcome and introduction
Martin Janes, Managing Director, RRC
14:05 The importance of working with nature right now
Denise Bower, Group Executive Board Member, Climate and Sustainability,
Mott MacDonald
14:15 Overview of The natural flood management manual
Lead Author: Emma Wren, Technical Principal – Nature Based Solutions
Mott MacDonald
Importance of The natural flood management manual
14:35 The user’s perspective
David Johnson, Technical Director, The Rivers Trust
14:55 Break
15:05 The regulator’s perspective (i)
Phil Foxley, Programme Manager, Flood and Coastal Risk Management
Directorate, Environment Agency
15:15 The regulator’s perspective (ii)
Heather Forbes, Senior Policy Officer, National Flooding Partnerships,
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
15:30 The asset owner’s perspective
15:45 Interactive discussion and Q&A
16:00 Closing remarks

Hydrometic Monitoring for the EA Flood Warning Expansion Project
2022-05-11 12:30 - 13:30
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 public of flooding. As part of this programme there have been nearly 200 hydrometric monitoring sites installed in 18 months to help provide flood warnings to almost ten thousand properties at high risk of flooding.
Members of the FWEP project team will present how they devised a low cost, small footprint, low carbon, adaptable, risk reduced solution that will potentially change the future of hydrometric monitoring within the Environment Agency.
This webinar is open to all and no previous hydrometric or flood warning knowledge is required to attend this presentation.

Part of the CIWEM Flood Resilience digital series.

Highlights of the Ignition Project Webinar
2022-05-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
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 project focused on collaborative investment approaches to tackling urban surface water flooding by:

Identifying hotspots for multi-partner investment in urban SuDS retrofit
Piloting the development of an urban SuDS neighbourhood including:

Developing conceptual SuDS deisgns
Modelling potential benefits to receiving sewer networks and surface water flood risk
Estimate of likely scheme costs
Building a multi-partner business case

Testing a replicable methodology for the adaptation of sewer models to represent SuDS.

This webinar will present an overview of the IGNITION project and then provide a deep dive into the SuDS neighbourhood pilot focusing on the planning, modelling and impact evaluation of retrofit SuDS neighbourhood in Walkden, Salford.
Programme
11:00 Welcome and introduction
Dr Louise Walker, Senior Research Manager, CIRIA
11:05 IGNITION: Accelerating the delivery of urban nature-based solutions in Greater Manchester
Matt Ellis, Climate Resilience Lead, Environment Agency
Rachel Morrison, Senior Nature Based Solutions Advisor, Greater Manchester Combined Authority
11:15 Retrofit SuDS: planning, conceptual design and cost estimation
Phil Williams, Technical Director, The Environmental Protection Group
11:40 SuDS retrofit modelling methods and outcomes
Bridget Woods Ballard, Principal Engineer, HR Wallingford
12:05 Interactive discussion and Q&A
12:25 Closing remarks
Fees CIRIA members: Free to attend Non-members: Free to attend

Pollution of our Waters Webinar
2022-05-25 14:30 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
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 processes;
b) agricultural effluent, e.g. from use of pesticides and fertilisers;
c) oil pollution, e.g. spillage and loss from storage facilities;
d) radioactive waste, e.g. industrial, medical and domestic sources;
e) fly tipping in rivers; and
f) marine pollution from waste dumping and waste washed from land e.g. plastics.
The Debate will describe the issues in detail and discuss the various remedies to improve the quality of these wetland habitats.
Part of the CIWEM Pollution digital series.

SuDS Awards 2022
2022-09-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
Our third bi-annual susdrain SuDS Awards 2022 celebrated outstanding projects across the UK. Join us to hear the winners discuss their projects in more detail.

Background
Since 2018, susdrain has been celebrating outstanding SuDS projects and recognising SuDS Champions who are instrumental in delivering exceptional SuDS. The Awards provide a platform to share the good practice, multi-beneficial SuDS, and recognise high-quality planning, design, construction and maintenance of sustainable drainage.Congratulations to all of this year’s susdrain SuDS Award winners and susdrain SuDS Champions!
During the awards ceremony, the finalists showcased key elements of their schemes. This two-part webinar series provides a unique opportunity to get the inside track on the winning projects with in-depth case studies presented by the teams involved. Join us to learn more about their SuDS initiatives.
This first webinar will showcase the following winning projects about which the judges commented:
Early Housing Scheme Not Yet Developed Winner 2022
Fourfields, Cheshunt submitted by Refolo Landscape Architects

This is telling the story of SuDS within the design and cleverly reduces the consented drainage from 5l/s to 2.5 l/s.

Overall Winner 2022 and Catchment-based Solutions Winner 2022
Moore Brook Green Link submitted by London Borough of Enfield

Really good range of features in dense urban context.
Range of issues to balance providing attractive new healthy environments.
We need more of this!

Click here to discover which award-winning SuDS projects will be featured in the final webinar on 11 October 2022.
Why attend

Gain more insight into award-winning SuDS delivery including the design philosophy and process.
Understand what constitutes a successful SuDS scheme from replicable case studies.
Discover how SuDS professionals are rising to the challenge of delivering SuDS and attractive places.
Earn valuable CPD.

Who should attend

Engineering consultants
Architects and designers
Developers
Urban designers
Landscape architects
Local planning authority SuDS approvers
Members of lead local flood authorities
Drainage engineers
Highway engineers
Water companies
Tier 1 and 2 contractors
Professional bodies
Local community groups involved in SuDS
Anyone with an interest in SuDS

When
Tuesday 27 September 2022
14:00 – 16:00
Programme
14:00 – Welcome and introduction
14:10 – Early Housing Scheme Not Yet Developed Winner 2022
Fourfields, Cheshunt
Cristina Refolo, Director, Refolo Landscape Architects
14:30 – Overall Winner 2022 and Catchment-based Solutions Winner 2022
Moore Brook Green Link
Jamie Kukadia, Senior Engineer, Watercourses Team, Enfield Council
14:50 – susdrain SuDS Awards 2022 winner’s case study
15:10 – susdrain SuDS Champion 2022 update
15:30 – Interactive discussion and Q&A
15:55 – Closing remarks
Fees
susdrain partners and supporters Free to attend
CIRIA members Free to attend
Non-members Free to attend
Booking
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