Three webinars on sustainability and the future of transport - the processes and the products we use.
Three webinars on sustainability and the future of transport.
This event will give you the latest on green infrastructure to adapt to a changing climate and support biodiversity in our transport networks.
Featuring an interview with the Highways Project Manager Live Labs for a trial of Graphene in highways in Kent and how data is used to drive decision making.
Three webinars on the future of Transport - all for the price of one.
This event will cover good practices in transport and green infrastructure. Permeable paving, where it can be used and its benefits. How to manage storm water. How to connect habitats and how biodiversity can be improved.
The 2020 SuDS Champion, George Warren will outline how Green Infrastructure is being delivered through the London Mayor’s Transport Plan. Owen Davies will outline practical issues of highways and green infrastructure. Sue Illman will provide insight into what needs to change with planning and transport.
The event will be chaired by Sue Percy, Chief Executive, CIHT.
Speakers:
Owen Davies, Project Engineer, Havant Borough Council
Sue Illman, Managing Director, Illman Young Landscape Design
George Warren, Project Manager, Climate Change Team, Greater London Authority
Paul Shaffer, Associate - Water Management, CIRIA
In this talk Colin Holm, Senior Technical Advisor – Sustainable Development and Climate Change at Highways England, will cover how road infrastructure can deliver sustainable development. It will cover some of the challenges and priorities faced as we seek to decarbonise roads, build resilience and deliver wider environmental, societal and economic benefits. Colin will also talk about the new DMRB and how it relates to sustainability. The event will be chaired by Ginny Clarke CBE, Chair of CIHT's Learned Society and Technical Strategy Board.
In this event Carol Valentine, Highways Project Manager at Kent County Council, will answer the question: is the highways industry on the cusp of an innovation revolution? How can the delivery of highway services trial and adopt technologies that can improve performance, reduce environmental impacts, and sustain health and safety measures? What is a data driven approach? Kent County Council is one of 8 ADEPT/DfT Live Labs, a 2 year innovation programme. The programme has been trialling innovations relating to new surfacing materials, defect identification, risk identification, and the development of an insights platform to facilitate intelligent decision making. The event will be chaired by CIHT Vice-President Deborah Sims.
These webinars are for anyone interested in transport planning and governance, network management and how and what we need to consider when we think about the future of transport.
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Three types of tickets are available. A ticket gives you access to all three webinars, that you can access live or on-demand after the live webinar has taken place.
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George is the Project Manager for the ‘London Sustainable Drainage Action Plan’ (LSDAP), which promotes the retrofit of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) across London. George is the current UK Susdrain SuDS Champion and former chair of the London Drainage Engineering Group (LoDEG).
Prior to his current role George worked within a Local Authority highways department where he was involved in the delivery of several award-winning highway schemes, and before that worked for a number of engineering consultancies, both in the UK and Australia, where his focus was on infrastructure planning and water management.
An engineer by training, George has a real interest in ensuring that the solutions we put forward today have one eye firmly on the future and importantly provide multiple benefits to the local area. George fully appreciates the value that green infrastructure can bring to a community and gets huge pleasure in returning grey spaces to green.
Paul is a fellow of CIWEM and has over 25 years’ experience in the water industry. While at CIRIA he has led a diverse range of projects covering most aspects of the delivery of SuDS, including the management of research programmes, guidance, websites and sectoral capacity building programmes.
An experienced and successful Public Realm Engineer with 23 years’ experience of Highways, Road Safety, Network Management, Policy & Strategy. Alongside delivery of Flood and Water Management Act for two London boroughs delivering strategies and surface water management projects in dense urban environments. Has delivered challenging successful, award winning public realm projects from inception, securing funding, design, consultation, delivery to final account with a proven record of implementing detailed and competing legislative duties, roles, guidance and responsibilities into practice as council policy, continuing business as usual.
Sue is a practicing Landscape Architect, and Managing Director of Illman Young. Whilst her practice works across a broad range of sectors, Sue is best known for her specialist expertise, enthusiasm and advocacy around the use of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). Whilst designing and delivering SuDS on the ground, Sue’s key contribution has been through her work as an author of the SuDS Manual, and as lead author for the SuDS Construction Guidance. She is a regular lecturer, delivers SuDS training for CIRIA, and is part of the team delivering training to Water Companies since the introduction of the new Design and Construction Guidance. Sue has also been part of the project team undertaking research into potential new policy structures around SuDS for Defra.
Whilst Sue promotes a ‘landscape led’ approach, this is fundamentally rooted in a collaborative and cross professional approach to problem solving and site design.
Sue Percy is the Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation. CIHT is a charity, learned society and membership body with 14,000 members, who are mainly engineers and transport planners, operating in the UK and internationally. Sue’s interests include improving the way transport infrastructure - including roads - is planned, funded, designed, built, managed and operated to meet societal needs, environmental imperatives and supporting a strong economy. She has a deep interest in changing the image of the transport infrastructure industry and making it a more diverse and inclusive career for all.
Sue holds several voluntary Trustee and non-executive Director roles and is a member of the roads expert panel of the Office of Rail and Road. She has worked in the built environment sector for over 30 years in allied professions, Higher Education and in local government. Sue was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours in June 2019 for services to transport.
Carol is currently the Highways Project Manager on an exciting innovation project, Live Labs, in partnership with Amey plc and funded by the Department for Transport and ADEPT. The two-year Live Labs project, started in summer 2019, is part of ADEPT’s SMART Places programme to support the use of digital technology in place-based services.
In this role Carol is leading on a wide range of innovation trials in highways service delivery including the development of an insight’s digital platform, materials testing graphene in asphalt and the deployment of sensor and drone technology. The project is also developing an improved digital customer service platform utilizing the outputs from the operational platform.
Deborah is a Chartered Highway Engineer and Fellow of CIHT. She spent over 25 years as a highway engineer specialising in road safety and asset management and working in both public and private sector for London boroughs, district and county councils, and in consultancy. For the past 10 years she has worked as an academic in the School of Engineering of the University of Greenwich at Medway, teaching professional skills, construction management & technology and highway engineering. Deborah is the employability champion for engineering and is currently on two university wide steering groups focussing on developing the university’s employment focussed and industry and student led curricula.
She is a strong advocate of students gaining real world experience in industry. Deborah has been a member of CIHT for over 30 years and has sat on numerous committees, working groups and panels, and has served as a professional reviewer since 2003. Currently she is a Trustee and senior Vice President of CIHT.
Colin is an environmental specialist who has worked with Highways England to deliver their sustainable development strategy. Coming from a background in local government, Colin has worked on a range of projects to shape standards and policy, and to embed sustainable development into schemes.
Ginny Clarke is a Trustee of the CIHT and a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Ginny has had a long career in the roads sector with fifteen years on the Executive of Highways Agency/Highways England. As Chief Highway Engineer she was responsible for road standards, safety and research and was the UK’s First Delegate at the World Roads Association. In her role as Strategy Director she took the lead in developing the first Road Investment Strategy and legislation for the new Highways England company.
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