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Lecture

Best practice sustainability frameworks for improving better outcomes for tunnels

Event organised by The British Tunnelling Society Young Members

Date
06 March 2025
Time

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Overview

This lecture will help to demystify sustainability by firstly identifying the core elements of what sustainability means. We will describe how these topics might be considered relevant from a tunnels and underground space perspective.

We will introduce BREEAM Infrastructure which is the world leading sustainability assessment, rating and awards scheme for civil engineering, infrastructure, landscaping and public realm projects.

We will demonstrate how this best practice framework can help in identifying the key sustainability topics to address, what does good and best practice look like.

We will illustrate the topic with examples of where we have applied the BREEAM approach on some interesting case studies including in the Antarctic for the British Antarctic Survey and our work for High-speed rail.

Following the lecture, there will be a networking session, with food and drinks sponsored by Ramboll at the ICE Kendal's Cafe.

Ramboll

Ramboll

Ramboll is a globally leading engineering and consultancy company. In the UK our 1,400 experts are at the heart of designing and implementing sustainable change that creates a lasting impact for both our clients and society at large.

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British Tunnelling Society

British Tunnelling Society

The BTS is a dynamic group of tunnelling professionals sharing knowledge within the industry.

Speakers

Emma Jones

Emma Jones

Ramboll

director

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Emma Jones

Emma Jones is a director in the Ramboll Environment and Health, Sustainability and Carbon Team.

She is an expert on infrastructure sustainability and has worked with numerous organisations on maximising sustainability within infrastructure strategies, programmes and projects across a number of sectors. 

She has been a BREEAM for Infrastructure assessor since 2003 when she was involved in piloting the original CEEQUAL scheme. 

She was also a verifier (auditor) for many years and has worked on BREAM for Infrastructure assessments for projects including Crossrail, the Olympic Park and various road, rail and defence projects.

Emma was also the assessor for the first ever BREEAM for Infrastructure project in the Antarctic (Rothera Wharf) and is a recent WICE (European Women In Construction & Engineering) award winner.

Rachel Jones

Rachel Jones

Ramboll

engineer

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Rachel Jones

Rachel Jones has worked in the engineering consultancy sector for most of her 30 year career.

Her work has focused on creating more sustainable solutions for clients embedding sustainability into plans, strategies and projects to influence decisions and culture.

She has particular technical experience in development of sustainable engineering design, Environmental Social Governance (ESG) strategy development and reporting, implementation and review, circular economy practices, training and facilitation.  

Rachel is a trained BREEAM Infrastructure assessor and has applied her knowledge of best practice sustainability frameworks to support better sustainability outcomes.

For more information please contact:

Shelly-Ann Russell

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