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Networking

Networking lunch and resilient infrastructure panel debate

Event organised by ICE

Date
05 September 2024
Time
13:00 - 15:00 BST (GMT+1)
Location
Waterbeach Urban & Civic
The Control Tower
Waterbeach
Cambridge, CB25 9PA
United Kingdom

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Overview

Come and join like minded civil engineers in the East of England for a networking lunch with ICE President Anusha Shah and members of the East of England Regional Executive Board followed by a panel debate on resilient infrastructure.  

Topics covered include: 

  • Power & Heat - constraints and opportunities for long-term asset adoption and management, including Smart technologies, storage and distribution networks, rapidly evolving technology, etc. 
  • Water Resource Efficiency - as power & heat, including Biodiversity Net Gain, water treatment and recycling, water efficiency, etc. 
  • IT/Fibre Flexibility 
  • Low-carbon solutions 
  • Sustainable Transport 
  • Data Infrastructure and Asset Management
  • "System of systems" thinking / holistic sustainability / integrated networks

The event is kindly being hosted by Urban & Civic at their Waterbeach development site.

Programme

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch & Networking

14:00 - 15:00

Resilient Infrastructure Panel debate– chaired by Elizabeth Orchard

Speakers

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.

Elizabeth Orchard

Elizabeth Orchard

Ptarmigan Land

civil engineer

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Elizabeth Orchard

Elizabeth Orchard CEng MICE is a Chartered Civil Engineer specialising in the delivery of sustainable development on large (strategic) sites, and is the Institution of Civil Engineers' Regional Member of Council for the East of England until 2025. 

In March 2023, Elizabeth set up her own consultancy business, Endelevu Ltd., to help fulfil her ambitions to help deliver truly sustainable large-scale/strategic development in the UK, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and now advises clients on how to deliver Net Zero Impact infrastructure in mixed-use developments around the UK.  

Ryan O’Sullivan

Ryan O’Sullivan

ESPUG

wastewater network manager

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Ryan O’Sullivan

ESPUG’s Wastewater Network Manager is responsible for setting the standards for construction of wastewater networks to be adopted by the company.  He is also responsible for the technical and commercial aspects of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) design, adoption and operation. Ryan has 18 years in the water industry working at Black & Veatch (Binnies) and joined ESPUG from Southern Water in October 2021. He is a Chartered Geographer (Cgeog GIS), a member of CIWEM and is part of the Ciria ‘Getting SuDS right from the start’ working group and Ofwat’s NAV Environmental incentives group. 

Kevin Keilty

Kevin Keilty

ESPUG

strategic development manager

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Kevin Keilty

ESPUG’s Strategic Development Manager is responsible for ensuring that projects that ESPUG are involved in are compliant and technically sound, working with developers to lower costs while ensuring networks are built sustainably. Kevin is responsible for ensuring that ESPUG are innovating in the integration of green and smart technologies into new networks, while ensuring that these networks are optimised for current demands and the changes that will inevitably occur through their lifecycle.