Helen E Smith, Technical Director – Landscape Architecture, JBA Consulting, helensmith1@jbaconsulting.com When the JBA Consulting team traveled to Cardiff for the 2024 susdrain SuDS Awards on 26 June, we were thrilled just to be invited and absolutely delighted to be shortlisted! …
The Towards Incentivisation for Community Centric Rainwater Management lead by Thames Water in partnership with Anglian Water, South West Water, our Rainwater, Indepen, and Isle Utilities, was initiated through Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge, an innovation competition which awards funding to projects …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
