South West Infrastructure Partnership
SWIP supports cross-sector collaboration in South West England to help bring a more joined up approach to regional infrastructure.
- Date
- 11 June 2025
- Time
- 09:30 - 16:30 BST (GMT+1)
- Location
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Chancellors’ Building (Level 2) University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY United Kingdom
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Enabling Better Infrastructure in the South West
https://www.ice.org.uk/events/upcoming-events/enabling-better-infra-sw/
Chancellors’ Building (Level 2), Bath
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As part of his presidential visit to the South West, Professor Jim Hall, ICE President will give a keynote address at the event on his presidential theme - improving infrastructure strategy for a sustainable future.
The day will focus on the ICE’s Enabling Better Infrastructure (EBI) programme, which helps governments around the world to identify and deliver infrastructure needs so that their people and the planet can thrive.
Through expert panels and case studies, you’ll explore how the South West region can use the guiding principles of EBI to strengthen strategic infrastructure planning.
And you’ll have your chance to contribute through breakout groups. Tell us how you think the region should put the EBI principles into practice.
The South West Infrastructure Partnership (SWIP) and ICE South West are hosting the event, sponsored by WSP, to raise awareness of EBI and generate regional discussion and cross-sector collaboration.
This is your opportunity to engage with the ICE President and be part of a discussion on how the region can plan infrastructure strategically to meet the needs of the whole community.
The event is open to ICE members, SWIP contributors and infrastructure professionals and stakeholders across the South West.
For more information about attending or speaking, email [email protected].
Lifts and accessible toilets are available at the venue.
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Venue
Chancellors’ Building (Level 2)University of BathClaverton DownBathUnited KingdomBA2 7AY
Programme
09:30 - 10:00
Registration with refreshments
10:00 - 10:15
Welcome and workshop introduction
10:15 - 10:45
Address by Professor Jim Hall
10:45 - 11:15
The end user perspective – speaker panel
11:15 - 11:30
Break & refreshments
11:30 - 12:00
Policy, governance, and investment viewpoints - speaker panel
12:00 - 12:30
Through the client lens – speaker panel
12:30 - 13:00
Focus on the supply chain – speaker panel
13:00 - 13:45
Lunch and networking
13:45 - 14:00
Introduction to the breakout sessions by Professor Colin Taylor
14:00 - 14:45
Breakout session 1
14:45 - 15:00
Break & refreshments
15:00 - 15:15
Highlights from breakout session 1 & introduction to session 2
15:15 - 16:00
Breakout session 2
16:00 - 16:15
Breakout review & plenary
16:15 - 16:25
Workshop & table discussions
16:25 - 16:30
Closing remarks & event close
Speakers
Prof Jim Hall
Institution of Civil Engineers
President 2024-25
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Prof Jim Hall
The ICE’s 160th President, Jim Hall is professor of climate and environmental risks at the University of Oxford. He is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis in water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and climate change adaptation.
Hall is a member of the prime minister’s Council for Science and Technology and a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC). He also served on the adaptation committee of the independent Climate Change Committee from 2009 to 2019.
Hall led the development of the national infrastructure systems model the NIC used in producing its first National Infrastructure Assessment. He invented the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure in 2017 and remains chair of its strategy board.
Among his many accolades, Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018. He also contributed to the Fourth Assessment Report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Professor Colin Taylor
University of Bristol
emeritus professor
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Professor Colin Taylor
Colin is emeritus professor of earthquake engineering at the University of Bristol. He is an ICE policy Fellow for sub-national infrastructure decarbonisation, and is champion of the South West Infrastructure Partnership’s net zero route mapping activities. He has over 40 years' research and practice experience on the impacts of natural hazards on all kinds of infrastructure systems.
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