Innovation Showcase: Environmental Risks to Infrastructure
A showcase of NERC funded innovation projects which take the outcomes of existing research and translate these into industry-relevant information, tools to help UK infrastructure identify environmental risks, assess their impacts on infrastructure and develop solutions.
This is an invite only event.
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 on the NERC Environmental Risks to Infrastructure webpage.
This event will showcase a number of recently completed projects across a number of infrastructure sectors.
Why attend
Attendees at this event 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 across other sectors or have other applications
- Develop understanding of what academics are working on outside of the ERIIP programme
Programme
14.30 Introduction & welcome
CIRIA / NERC
14.45 Groundwater and Flood Risk in the London Rail Infrastructure Network:
Building Resilience into Existing Masonry Infrastructure Assets
Dr Dina D'Ayala, University College London
15.00 A tool to improve prediction of real time environmental risk to UK
rail infrastructure
Mr Jason Sadler, University of Southampton
15.15 FoRUM - Flood risk: Building infrastructure resilience through
better understanding and management choices
Paul Sayers, University of Oxford
15.30 Panel discussion
16.00 Coffee break
16.15 Risk Based Performance Forecast of Flood Defences Affected by
Changing Environments
Dr Huapeng Chen, University of Greenwich
16.30 Evaluating the resilience of critical infrastructure for emergency response
to extreme flood events in Leicester City
Dr Dapeng Yu, Loughborough University
17.45 Panel discussion
17.30 Close
When
Tuesday 21 June 2016
14.30 - 17.30 (Registration from 14.00)
Where
CIRIA offices, Griffin Court
15 Long Lane, London
EC1A 9PN
Booking
To express an interest in attending this event please contact Patrick Williams on 020 7549 3300 or email [email protected]