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29Jun 2023
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Blue-green infrastructure for asset managers

Blue-green infrastructure for asset managers Louise Walker, Senior Research Manager, CIRIA/susdrain   CIRIA has been at the forefront of Blue-Green Infrastructure implementation for many years, with for example the widely known SuDS Manual being the go-to guidance for the sector. …

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06Aug 2021
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What lies beneath? Using infiltration SuDS on potentially contaminated brownfield land

Darren Beriro and Chris Jackson, British Geological Survey   [Download the PDF]   Urban infiltration   With predicted increases in the intensity of rainfall events under future climate, there is, of course, a need to reduce flood risk by ‘slowing …

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12Jan 2021
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Maximising the health and wellbeing benefits of blue and green infrastructure in post-COVID cities; incorporating a healthcare agenda

Anna Kenyon, Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Central Lancashire, akenyon10@uclan.ac.uk   It is well known that many types of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and blue-green infrastructure (BGI) can deliver multifunctional benefit to local communities, including health and wellbeing …

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25Sep 2020
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Rainwater Harvesting

Dr Christine Sefton, Community Engagement Researcher, The University of Sheffield   Just to be clear, this article is not going to tell you anything new about how rainwater harvesting works, or even why it is important; my skills lie in communication, community …

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28Aug 2020
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Urban drainage – A glimpse of the future

Chris Digman – Technical Director at Stantec   Lockdown – providing a rare insight into future opportunities to manage surface water   Many of the wider challenges and gauntlets that were present at the start of the year still remain, …

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06Aug 2020
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SuDS, natural capital and economic resilience: what does systems thinking tell us?

Fran Moore, Principal Environmental Economist at Black & Veatch   Urban systems are constantly adapting to change. They are not static; they need to ‘stretch and breathe’ (have resilience) – so that they can deal with unexpected events. SuDS promote resilience …

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25Jun 2020
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SuDS – The Welsh Way

Ian Titherington, Cardiff City Council   It has been an absolute pleasure being the CIRIA SuDS Champion for the last 12 months. To be recognised by people whom I greatly admire (and pinch great ideas from) is all a bit …

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19Jun 2020
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Rains, Drains and Automobiles

Brian D’Arcy, independent environmental consultant   Roads and car parks are typically impervious and therefore shed most of the rain which falls on them as runoff, which has to go somewhere.  The traditional (and most expensive) solutions were to provide open …

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09Jun 2020
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A guide to the DCG

David Strang, Water UK   https://www.water.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Water-UK-SuDS-brochure.pdf   The SuDS community has rightly taken a lot of interest in the new approach to sewer adoption that water and sewerage companies (WaSCs) have developed. For the first time, national standards have been …

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30Apr 2020
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Kinross-shire Raingardens Challenge

Brian J. D’Arcy, for the Kinross-shire Civic Trust Raingardens Challenge   CIRIA is pleased to support an interesting initiative in Scotland in 2020: The Kinross-shire Raingardens Challenge, which is promoting SuDS.   Kinross and its surrounding areas are served by …

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