The 2025 susdrain SuDS Champions Awards wrapped up in Bristol on 18 June, shining a spotlight on the people and projects making real change through sustainable drainage. Here’s our gallery of photos from the day!
Jacqueline Diaz-Nieto, Associate SuDS Engineer, Environmental Protection Group, Dr Louise Walker Award for Outstanding Contribution to SuDS Winner 2025 Reflections on a SuDS Journey This award means a lot to me, especially as I found out about Louise’s sad …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Louise Walker, CIRIA What is susdrain? Susdrain is regarded as a trusted, independent, “go-to” resource by those delivering Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). Susdrain signposts and shares good practice and it has a lot to offer in terms of resources on …
Steve Wilson, EPG. Fitting a rain garden or a stormwater planter to existing roof drainage is a very effective way of reducing runoff from buildings. This is routine in many countries but in the UK take up has not …
Katie Powell, Richard Allitt Associates Ltd and Alex Grist, Innovyze. When a project for retrofitting SuDS is identified, modelling your options can be beneficial when there are complex situations to be addressed or there is some uncertainty about the …