Celebrating SuDS: the susdrain SuDS Champions Awards 2025
Join us for this celebratory event to discover who will be crowned winners of the susdrain SuDS Champions Awards 2025.
This is a fantastic opportunity for professionals to be recognised for their achievements in SuDS. View the susdrain SuDS Champions Finalists and Nominees!
SuDS are often implemented due to the ability of champions who inspire, inform and influence others to get on board, share good practice, and deliver good SuDS. The susdrain SuDS Champions Awards celebrate individuals and teams who have demonstrably gone the ‘extra mile’ to deliver and encourage the uptake of SuDS.
This year, susdrain will recognise:
- rising stars of the SuDS world
- experienced SuDS professionals
- outstanding SuDS teams
Why attend
- Recognise industry leaders and rising stars in the SuDS community
- Celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams who champion and deliver high quality SuDS
- Discover how SuDS professionals are rising to the challenge of developing more sustainable and attractive places with well managed surface water
- Share good practice and take inspiration from adoptable ideas
- Earn valuable CPD
Who should attend
- susdrain partners and supporters
- Anyone involved in SuDS promotion or delivery
- SuDS approvers from local authorities and water and sewerage companies
- Developers (commercial and domestic)
- Designers (engineers, landscape architects)
- those from related fields such as highway engineers and linear asset operators
- those involved in community SuDS schemes (e.g. NGOs such as Rivers Trusts, Groundwork or schools and Parish Council members).
- SuDS champions
- Local authorities
- Lead Local Flood Authorities
- Drainage engineers
- Regulators
- Planners
- Land agents
- Representatives of Government departments interested in SuDS
- Media
- Trade bodies
Programme
12:00 Networking lunch
13:00 Visit SuDS projects in Bristol
15:30 Networking coffee
16:00 Welcome and introduction
Dr Andy Moores, Director of Research, CIRIA
16:10 The Environment Agency’s approach to flood and coastal risk management
Rachael Hill MBE, Strategy and Resilient Places Manager, Environment Agency
16:25 Improving rainwater management
Matt Wheeldon, Director of Infrastructure Development, Wessex Water
16:35 Welcome from susdrain
Graham Fairhurst, Chair, susdrain Project Steering Group
Adrien Baudrimont, Senior Research Manager, CIRIA
16:45 Advancing the SuDS agenda
Jo Bradley, Director of Operations, Stormwater Shepherds
Nicola Morris, Managing Director, Stomor Civil Engineering Consultants
17:05 susdrain SuDS Champions Awards presentations
Dr Andy Moores, Director of Research, CIRIA
17:30 Closing remarks and photographs
17:45 Walk to restaurant
18:00 Celebrations continue at The Coconut Tree, Bristol Clifton Triangle
When
Wednesday 18 June 2025
12:00 – 18:00 followed by networking drinks and dinner
Where
Environment Agency
Horizon House
Deanery Road
Bristol
BS1 5AH
Fees
| CIRIA, susdrain and CIWEM members |
Free to attend |
| Non-members |
Free to attend |
Booking
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