Assessing Benefits of SuDS - Using CIRIA’s BeST Tool
CIRIA's Benefits of SuDS Tool, BeST has been in use for over a year. This webinar offers attendees an overview of the tool, its functionality, and the opportunity to see how BeST can be applied using a worked-through case study. The webinar will last approximately 50 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A session.
This is a FREE webinar.
Background
Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) provide multiple benefits, beyond what is expected from a conventional, piped approach. This is possible because SuDS can enhance urban areas and contribute to economic and environmental benefits.
CIRIA has developed a user tool and guidance, W045 BeST (Benefits of SuDS Tool) to help practitioners estimate the impacts that drainage schemes can create. The aim is to help make assessing benefits easier without the need for full scale economic inputs.
BeST provides a structured approach to evaluating a wide range of benefits, often based upon the drainage system performance overall. It follows a simple structure, commencing with a screening and qualitative assessment to identify the benefits to evaluate further. Then it provides support to help quantify and monetise the benefit. On completion of the evaluation, the tool provides a series of graphs and charts based on Ecosystem Services (ESS) and Triple Bottom Line (TBL) criteria.
Why attend?
This free event will provide attendees with;
- an overview of BeST
- an understanding of when to apply BeST and what to expect from its outputs
- a worked through demonstration of BeST using a case study example
- an understanding of when to use BeST to extract bespoke outputs for specific schemes.
Speakers
Prof Christopher Digman, MWH Global
Dr Bruce Horton, MWH Global
Who should attend?
Clients and commissioners, regulators, engineers, landscape architects, urban designers, local planning authorities, lead Local flood authorities, sewerage undertakers
When
15 June 2017
1:00 - 14:00
Fees
FREE to attend