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Lecture

Net zero: sustainability and technology

Event organised by ICE

Date
28 May 2025
Time
18:00 - 20:10 BST (GMT+1)
Location
Bryden Wood Limited
101 Euston Road
London, NW1 2RA
United Kingdom
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Overview

Sustainability starts with Strategic Planning > No build > Refurbish and so on, where the highest ability to influence the impacts (e.g. cost, carbon, environmental) at the earliest stage of infrastructure delivery. Economic, ongoing geopolitical uncertainties, affordability, society’s changing demands on environment are making net zero plans more complex and adapting decarbonisation strategies ever more challenging. Can we harness the power of technology even more than ever?

Join us as we explore how barriers in reaching net zero can overcome through harnessing technologies and deploying current best practice while we live more sustainably.  Our distinguished, engaged professionals across multiple industries will present current best practice and inspire us on what to look out for reach net zero more sustainably.  

We would like this to be an engaging session and audience’s contributions to the discussion are highly encouraged to make a difference and be part of the solution to the world that we live in.  A discussion note will be produced post-event to reach wider audience across multiple industries. 

The discussion session will consist of distinguished panels actively working towards a net zero world from multiple industries:

  • Dr. Ciarán Lynn, from the Net Zero Bridges Group
  • Paul Perry, from the Net Zero Tunnelling Group, technical engineering director in AECOM, Transportation: Tunnelling and Underground Structures
  • Mel Alwood, Director and Sustainability leader for Arup London's Building group
  • Raj Pathak, ICE London Regional Committee Chair and Senior Director at Amentum.  
  • Kay Tor, Chair, Energy, Environment and Sustainability Group, IMechE

This will be an engaging session and audience’s contributions to the discussion are highly encouraged to make a difference and be part of the solution to the world that we live in.

Why attend?

  • Participate in live Question and Answer
  • Exchange Ideas and gain insights with industry peers
  • Unlock new opportunities

A discussion note will be produced post-event to reach wider audience across multiple industries. 

This is an in-person event only.

Open to all. Hosted by ICE London region and supported by Bryden Wood.

Bryden Wood is an award winning, multi-disciplinary global company of creative technologists, designers, architects, engineers and analysts. The company has offices across London, St Albans, Italy, Spain and Greece. We are shaping the future of construction by bringing integrated expertise, innovation, deep experience, open minds and creativity to unravel the most complex problems and create exceptional, sustainable design solutions – all for a better built environment. 
https://www.brydenwood.com/

Venue

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Bryden Wood Limited
101 Euston Road
London
United Kingdom
NW1 2RA

Programme

18:00 - 18:30

Registration, networking and refreshments

18:30 - 18:40

Sustainability VC Siu to introduce chair and the panel members

18:40 - 20:00

Panel discussions and Q&A - chaired by ICE London Chair Raj Pathak

20:00 - 20:10

Event close

Speakers

Paul Perry

Paul Perry

AECOM

Technical Engineering Director

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Paul Perry

Paul is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer and the member of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers.

He is part of the Net Zero Tunnelling Group.

A technical engineering director in Transportation: Tunnelling and Underground Structures in AECOM, Paul recently wrote a discussion paper on the lessons learnt from the New London Museum, published by the ICE Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2024.

Dr Ciarán Lynn

Dr Ciarán Lynn

Hewson Consulting

Senior Engineer

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Dr Ciarán Lynn

From the Net Zero Bridges Group, Ciarán is a senior engineer from Hewson Consulting.  He published papers on sustainable construction materials and gained his Doctor of Philosophy qualification from the University of Birmingham

Mel Allwood

Mel Allwood

Arup

Director and Sustainability leader

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Mel Allwood

Mel Allwood is a director and sustainability leader for Arup London's Building group. She and her team currently work with a number of the world's leading property asset owners, investors and developers on net zero carbon strategies at both the portfolio, urban district and individual building level. A number of these projects relate to London-based assets.
 
Mel is an environmental engineer and chartered environmentalist. Her team have a reputation for innovative and market-leading use of environmental assessment tools such as BREEAM, LEED and WELL and have achieved a number of UK and global 'firsts' in the field of sustainable building certification.
 
Mel is skilled in developing workable solutions across the project lifecycle and in engaging project team members to deliver these solutions effectively within budget and programme constraints.

Raj Pathak CEng FICE

Raj Pathak CEng FICE

Amentum

senior director

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Raj Pathak CEng FICE

Raj Pathak is a senior director at Amentum. He leads the Advisory and Digital business within energy and environment internationally.  

With over 25 years of experience, Raj has successfully delivered some of the most complex infrastructure projects in the UK (such as the Crossrail Southeast Section project, High Speed Two and significant initiatives within the defence and energy sectors) and oversea.  

He was also the project director for the HS2 Washwood Heath Depot and Network Integrated Control Centre through the project design development, procurement and planning approval.
 
Raj is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineer (CEng FICE), a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a Chartered Project Professional (ChPP FAPM). 

Raj holds a BEng in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Construction Management and an MBA. He is completing doctoral research on megaproject governance at Cranfield School of Management.

Kay Tor

Kay Tor

IMechE

chair - energy, environment and sustainability group

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Kay Tor

Kay is currently the Chair of IMechE’s Energy, Environment and Sustainability Group, which aims to equip engineers to enable trainsition to sustainable practices. She has a background in engineering and managing inter-disciplinary teams to deliver complex engineering projects.
 
Kay is passionate about on transforming project delivery and engineering to solve complex problems and deliver solutions and outcomes that meets the needs of society and nature, whilst emphasising people-centred transformation in driving the evolution of technology to enable change.