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ERIIP Showcase - Scour

A showcase of NERC-funded innovation projects that take the outcomes of existing research and translate these into industry-relevant information and tools to help UK infrastructure identify environmental risks, assess their impacts on infrastructure and develop solutions. This webinar will focus on the risks posed by scour to bridges and river banks.


Background
Decision-makers are increasingly faced with the challenge of making our infrastructure resilient and mitigating the effects of extreme weather events and climate change. There is a wealth of data, knowledge and expertise in the UK research base which could address this challenge but this valuable resource is often difficult to access and requires translating to be more readily used.

The Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Innovation Programme is a five-year, £5m initiative, which will be driven by the needs of the business community and decision-makers. It will provide sound evidence for the identification and assessment of environmental risks and their impacts on infrastructure, translating the latest research into industry-relevant outputs.

More information on the programme is available here.

This event will showcase recently completed projects that tackle scour and its effects on infrastructure.

Why attend?
Attendees at this webinar will:

  • hear directly from the academics involved in ERIIP funded projects, and have an opportunity to ask questions about the projects
  • examine the impact funded projects have had on industry to date
  • have an opportunity to identify project outputs that may be transferable to their businesses
  • develop understanding of what academics are working on outside of the ERIIP programme.

Programme
15:00 Welcome and overview of the NERC ERIIP Programme
          Dr Owen Jenkins, CIRIA
15:05 Industry perspective on scour
15:15 Decision support framework to incorporate river bank stability in
          pipeline crossing risk
          Dr Richard Williams, University of Glasgow
15:30 Early warning decision support system for the management of underwater
          scour risk for road and railway bridges           
         Prof Daniele Zonta, University of Strathclyde
15:45 Debris Effects on BRIdge resiliencE and Flooding (DEBRIEF)
          Dr Gustavo de Almeida, University of Southampton
16:00 Assessing scour risk due to debris blockage
          Dr Prakash Kripakaran, University of Exeter
16:15 Q&A
16:30 Close

Who should attend?
Asset Managers, Asset Owners, Risks Engineer, Resilience Managers, Consultants

When
3 July 2018
15.00 - 16.30

Fees
This webinar is FREE to attend.

When
7/3/2018
Where
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