Land and Water Management for Food Security: The Broad Picture Recent estimates of food demand, based on median projections of growth, call for a 50% increase in the global demand figure. Linearly proportional increases in the allocation of land and water resources towards increased food production are not realistic given the trends in competing uses…
The Development of the London Storage Reservoir System - an historical view, webinar
Winchester, King Alfred’s capital of Wessex, is a beautiful cathedral City, but also has a complicated river system with various interlinked branches of the River Itchen flowing through, and under the City. Following serious flooding in 2014 a scheme was built last year to help to manage flooding by control of the river upstream in…
ICE’s Carbon Champions initiative aims to celebrate individuals and their teams who are committed to achieving net zero. Applicants are invited to submit examples of their own carbon reduction activities, giving details of their project and the quantified carbon saving that has been achieved, or is projected/expected following a decision which is now embedded into…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The regions of Yorkshire and Humber face a wide range of challenges in reducing flood risk in the future and particularly with the additional challenges associated with climate change, including increasing rainfall and run-off, as well as sea level rise in the coastal and estuarine regions. The main aim of this inaugural conference is to…
ICE, together with the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI), invite you to the opening lecture of our 14th Brunel International Lecture series. Building on previous series, resilience and sustainability in infrastructure development will remain the main theme of the 2022-24 programme. The individual lectures will focus on: Challenges Opportunities Engineering solutions and; Best practice examples…