Prof Peter Guthrie, Dr Richard Fenner, Charles Ainger, Dr Heather Cruickshank
ICE Prestige Lecture 2008
Sustainable development is a value laden term and open to wide interpretation. In the context of civil engineering this means built infrastructure and the provision of associated services should be delivered to satisfy a broad diversity of interests and responsibilties.
This lecture shows have engineers must continue to fulfil obligations to clients, ensure business viability and strive for excellence and robustness in the application of engineering principles. By adopting a sustainable development perspective, their role must extend to ensuring that the real needs of all end users are met, as well as recognising impacts on both the natural environment and future generation
This paper was awarded the George Stephenson Gold Medal in 2007.
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Widening engineering horizons: addressing the complexity of sustainable development
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