Association of SuDS Authorities

ICE - Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in Yorkshire, online
2021-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Virtual Event
Landscape architects 2B Landscape Consultancy Ltd have extensive experience spanning over 30 years in Landscape Design, Assessment and Visualisation, with a special interest in Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS).
SuDS design teams will be familiar with the four pillars of SuDS; quantity, quality, amenity and biodiversity, but often find their clients asking – “but isn’t it going to cost more?”
When 2B was asked to provide a planting plan for an already designed drainage system, they worked with the quantity surveyor to demonstrate that a landscape-based SuDS scheme would have saved 1.5% on the construction budget, had landscape architects been involved in time.
Join us for this knowledge sharing event to find out how early engagement with landscape architects on drainage design can reduce scheme costs and deliver on the four pillars of SuDS.
The webinar will explore how reducing costs can be achieved alongside the four pillars of SuDS by:
Reducing the need for underground tanks and pipework.
Using site earthworks to construct the landscaped SuDS.
Avoiding costs associated with connections by using natural drainage pathways.
Following a recap on good SuDS principles generally, 2B will walk through the proposed landscaped SuDS Design for the University of Hull student accommodation case study, including the detail of where cost savings were identified compared to conventional drainage design.
Yorkshire Water will provide a brief overview of the 2020 Sewerage Sector Guidance as it relates to adoptable SuDS, and detail the types of landscaped SuDS that can be presented for adoption locally.

Greening London's Flood Risk Management Assets, Webinar
2021-11-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
Delivering flood risk management assets, like all other infrastructure, is going through a paradigm shift to ensure provision intrinsically supports the sustainability agenda – net zero, circular economy, net gain and social value. This talk looks, via the lens of activity on the Thames, at how current practice is changing its shape to deliver sustainably. From:

strategy level approaches of using asset management, which echoes the premise of the architecture of the built environment – ‘the greenest building [flood risk management asset] is the one you already have’
through, programme alignment that delivers to net zero and circular economy ambitions and targets, and
and operational techniques such as Integrated Green Grey Infrastructure, and Estuary Edges approaches that deliver to net gain, and that are increasingly enabling social value benefits.

LIEM: Natural Flood Management - an urban perspective
2021-11-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual Event
Natural Flood Management (NFM) involves slowing the flow of water from rural headwater streams to reduce flood risk in downstream urban areas. But how natural is ‘natural’ flood management’ and is there a place for it in urban green spaces? This talk will explore the scientific basis behind NFM and highlight some of the challenges of introducing ’natural’ to the urban water environment, with reference to recent case studies. The talk should be of interested to landscape architects, ecologists and flood risk management professionals involved in the management of urban green spaces.

CIWEM Urban Drainage Group Annual General Meeting 2021
2021-11-11 12:30 - 13:00 | Virtual Event
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the CIWEM Urban Drainage Group is scheduled to be held on Thursday 11 November 2021 a12:30 pm GMT via Zoom.
The Annual General Meeting is open to CIWEM Urban Drainage Group members. When you register you will be asked a compulsory question about your grade of membership, as only CIWEM group members are entitled to vote at the AGM.
This webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform and will be recorded. Please note that registrations will close 24 hours before the event starts. If you have not registered before that time, unfortunately we cannot add you to the event. You will receive an email with joining instructions after you have successfully registered for the webinar and the registration has been approved by our team. If you have any questions about your booking or would like to cancel your attendance, please contact barbara.woods@ciwem.org.
Please make sure you add this event to your calendar, all you need to do is copy the body text of the joining instruction email, go to your Calendar, create a new calendar appointment, set the start and end date and time, paste the text and click the “Save & Close” button.
For queries about the AGM, please contact the chair, Kieran Downey at Kieran.Downey@scottishwater.co.uk or the honorary secretary, Ian Lang at Ian.Lang@atkinsglobal.com.

ASA Conference - Surface water drainage now and in the future
2021-11-16 14:00 - 16:30, 2021-11-17 10:00 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
If you wish to attend, please RSVP to admin@suds-authority.org.uk A holding calendar invite will then be sent to you within a few days. Further detailed information and a registration link will then follow.

Street SuDS - Technical Design for Highways Part 1
2021-11-17 09:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
This hands-on session is specifically tailored for highway designers and engineers 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 as two separate half day mornings – on 17th & 25th November 2021, from 9.30 – 12.30. Please scroll down to book a place for Part 2.
Please note this event is limited to London borough and TfL officers only.

Day 1 Agenda (17th November): Site Analysis
09:30 Introduction, Bob Bray
10:00 Design brief for feasibility, Judith Puckmay
10:30 Essential Hydraulics and Discharge Hierarchy,
Anthony McCloy
11:00 Break
11:10 SuDS Components for the Highway, Bob Bray
11:40 Worked example: Evaluating a site
12:10 Summary
12:30 Close

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in CaBA
2021-11-17 14:30 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
The aim of this session is to help Catchment Partnerships gain a greater understanding of EDI, share best practices and provide an opportunity to discuss any challenges.
Hosted by CaBA NSG >> Book now

ASA AGM
2021-11-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual Event
All members are encouraged to attend as this year the AGM will confirm new executive members. If you wish to attend, please RSVP to admin@suds-authority.org.uk A separate invitation will be sent together with details of voting arrangements.

Street SuDS - Technical Design for Highways Part 2
2021-11-25 09:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
This hands-on session is specifically tailored for highway designers and engineers 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 as two separate half day mornings – on 17th & 25th November 2021, from 9.30 – 12.30.
Please note this event is limited to London borough and TfL officers only.
Day 2 Agenda (25th November): Practical Design Approaches
09:30 Designing for effective Maintenance, Bob Bray
10:00 The use of permeable surfaces, Judith Puckmayr
10:30 Inlets, outlets and flow control, Anthony McCloy
11:00 Break
11:10 Choosing, locating and sizing SuDS components,
Judith Puckmayr
11:40 Worked example: Developing a SuDS Concept
12:10 Our solutions, Bob Bray
12:30 Close

Promoting health and wellbeing through integrated water management
2021-11-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
This webinar aims to bring together those researching the contribution of the natural environment to health and wellbeing; those delivering social prescribing; and the catchment partnerships, to explore the opportunities and challenges in ensuring that the health and wellbeing benefits of integrated water management are maximised.
Hosted by the CaBA Urban Working Group >> Book now

Sustainable Water Management Focus Group - Members only
2021-12-01 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.

Evaluating climate change impacts using Flood Modeller
2021-12-01 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
Join Adam Parkes, Head of Discipline for Hydrology at Jacobs, to learn how Flood Modeller enables you to confidently understand flood risk and develop optimal solutions to manage the impacts of climate change.

How climate change affects multiple sources of flooding (rain, rivers, coastal)
Requirements for considering climate change in the UK
Uncertainty in estimates of climate change
How to include climate change in your modelling
How to analyse and present your results

Resilience Planning in the Water Industry
2021-12-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual Event
A key component of resilience planning is the creation and maintenance of detailed planning and the provision of adequate training to guide those tasked with responding to events that threaten to and sometimes disrupt the key activities that are essential to the operation of any organisation.
This short presentation will look at this component from a water industry perspective but many of the topics explored have application across most if not all organisations, especially as the challenges of the current climate emergency deepen.

Introduction to Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS)
2022-01-18 | Virtual Event
This introductory session will explore the multiple benefits of delivering water sensitive design solutions for public realm projects large and small.
Find out more here.

The John Mitchell Lecture 2022: Thinking conceptually about groundwater problems
2022-01-18 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual Event
Many excavations and tunnels experience problems and instability caused by uncontrolled groundwater inflows or pressures. Groundwater control measures are used to overcome these problems and create stable and workably dry conditions below groundwater level.
A key challenge for designers is that the performance of the various techniques is strongly influenced by the hydrogeological conditions at a site. Furthermore, the available ground investigation data may have gaps or be subject to considerable uncertainty regarding key parameters such as permeability or hydraulic boundary conditions. This means that there are some groundwater problems where analysis involves so many assumptions and uncertainties that the design outcomes are of little practical value.
This lecture will discuss how thinking conceptually about groundwater problems can be of great benefit when developing of groundwater control schemes, and that a robust conceptual model helps reduce the risk of designs being developed using inappropriate techniques. Examples will be given of cases where conceptual understanding of groundwater conditions proved vital in developing practical engineering solutions.
Find out more here

Urban reforestation as effective climate change mitigation
2022-01-25 11:00 - 12:00 | 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 | Virtual Event

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.
