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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…