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Engineers are too focused on carbon: an ICE NY bar debate

Event organised by ICE

Date
24 October 2024
Time
18:00 - 21:00 EDT
Location
11th St. Bar
510 E 11th St
New York, NY 10009
United States

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Overview

Are engineers too focused on reducing carbon, to the detriment of the rest of the environment? Are engineers ignoring carbon and its potential for minimizing climate impacts so that they can focus on cost and schedule?

Join ICE New York Metropolitan Association for a traditional NY-style bar debate at 11th Street Bar in Alphabet City. Listen to a cross-disciplinary team of four built environment practitioners - drawing from engineering, landscape architecture and public policy – spar over the future of our industry and take the opportunity to grill them yourself.

ICE NY has the honour of hosting the current president of the ICE Professor Anusha Shah this week in NYC, and we are fortunate that she will open the debate with some brief thoughts to set the scene.

Programme

18:00 - 18:15

Doors open

18:15 - 18:25

Introduction from ICE President Professor Anusha Shah

18:25 - 19:15

Debate begins

19:15 - 21:00

Post-debate networking

Speaker

Prof. Anusha Shah

Prof. Anusha Shah

Institution of Civil Engineers

president 2023/24

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Prof. Anusha Shah

Anusha Shah is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and its president for the 2023-24 session. She’s the third woman and first person of colour to be elected as president in over 200 years of ICE history.

She’s a senior director for resilient cities and UK climate change adaptation lead at Arcadis, a global sustainability, design, engineering and management consulting firm.

She’s also a non-executive director at the Met Office, a trustee at the Green Alliance and a visiting professor at Edinburgh University. She was awarded honorary professorship by the University of Wolverhampton for knowledge transfer and an honorary doctorate of engineering by the University of East London for her services to address climate change.

Anusha specialises in water and environmental engineering and has over 22 years of experience in designing, managing and leading projects and programmes in the UK and internationally.

Anusha sits on various industry climate change groups. She represents Arcadis at the London Climate Change Partnership and the 50L Home Initiative of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She’s a past chair of the Thames Estuary Partnership Board.

Anusha is the recipient of several awards, including the 2020 Top 50 UK Women Engineers Sustainability Award and the CECA Inspiring Change Award. She was recognised by Climate Reframe as one of the UK’s leading Black, Asian and minority ethnic voices on climate change.