6 April 2011 - 7 April 2011,
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SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT IN TRANSPORT
A Greater London Branch Presentation
Date: Wednesday 06 April 2011
(6:00 pm for 6:30 pm start)
Venue:Parsons Brinckerhoff, Devonshire Sq. London
Nearest Tube: Liverpool St/ Aldgate
Speakers: Nicola Leahy MSc MBA, Sustainability Manager, Chris Britton Consultancy, and James Elliott CEng MCIHT MICE MIAM, Operations Director, Chris Britton Consultancy
Can we really have sustainable roads? There are varied views about what form a sustainable transport infrastructure takes. Instead of building and maintaining roads to meet every increasing demand for personal mobility, should we not be trying to change perceptions and behaviours? Understanding our transport demands within local and global sustainability issues such as finite fuel sources, congestion, outputs of harmful emissions and climate change potential requires a change in approach, not only in engineering solutions but in how we invest. In the UK, funds available for transport infrastructure investment have been considerable reduced – but will this positively or negatively affect the priority of sustainability in projects? This presentation will debate the above issues and will appeal to those public and private sector engineers and transport practitioners with an interest in continuing to develop sustainable transport infrastructure within ever competing demands
Nicola Leahy, Sustainability Team Leader
Nicola, (or Niki), has worked as a practioner in environmental management in business since 1994, more recently specialising in sustainability issues across a spectrum of industry sectors. Her background includes in-house sustainability management expertise in the manufacturing and construction sectors, as well as senior sustainability consultancy experience working on carbon management and reduction with clients including Standard Life, Britvic, the Guinness Trust, Richemont and Dyson. Her current projects with Chris Britton Consultancy include work with the Highways Agency and Managing Agent Contractors on embedding sustainability within highway asset management, work with Connect Plus on the development and implementation of a sustainability checklist and index for the M25 road network, and projects with a number of local authority and corporate clients on developing systems and procedures for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme. Niki has an economics degree, an MBA from the Manchester Business School and an MSc in Environmental Management from Cranfield University.
James Elliott, Technical Director, Asset Management
James joined the CBC Management Team in 2007 as Technical Director Asset Management having built up the management and operation of strategic highway assets with Balfour Beatty/InterRoute. James’ key strengths are Strategy/People/Organisations/Systems which he applies to the three CBC business sectors for local authority and strategic highway clients in the UK and overseas; Asset Management, Data and Systems and Sustainability and Environment. James facilitates strategy and operational workshops on Asset Management and is a lecturer to MSc students.
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