Resilience Community Forum: PAS 3090 – climate adaptation pathways for infrastructure systems

Fiona Barbour

Fiona Barbour has been working for more than two decades to reduce the impact of climate change through flood risk management, mostly at Mott MacDonald, which she joined in 2011. She is currently supporting the development of Anglian Water’s new reservoir programme.

An ICE Fellow, Barbour has been active in the institution – including chairing its Edinburgh Area Branch – since graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. She became chair of its Flooding Community Advisory Board in 2020 and now co-leads the Resilience Community Forum, representing the ICE at conferences and in interviews with the media, including BBC Radio 4’s PM programme. She is a member of the ICE’s Learning Society Committee and has recently been appointed Scottish regional representative for the ICE Council.

John Dora

John Dora has more than 40 years’ experience in infrastructure at levels ranging from operations to policy, mainly covering railway asset management and flood risk.  

He is also a climate adaptation and resilience expert whose clients have included the UN, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Office of Rail and Road, Network Rail and Électricité de France. 

A visiting professor at the University of Surrey, Dora works to embed climate and sustainability topics in engineering curricula. His presentations focus on approaches to asset management and adaptation that mitigate the risks posed by climate change to infrastructure and society. 
 
In 2009-16 he was the UK rail industry’s lead on adaptation research as technical expert for the Rail Safety and Standards Board.  

As the global strategic lead for adaptation for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Dora won an award for drafting ISO 14090:2019, the first international standard on adaptation to climate change. He continues to work on adaptation standards with the ISO, the British Standards Institution and European standard-setter CEN-Cenelec.

  
Dora has chaired the UK Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Forum since its inception in 2012 and has contributed to the UN’s annual climate conferences since COP21 in 2015. 

Adrian Johnson

An ICE Fellow with 30 years’ professional experience, Adrian Johnson has worked mainly in the water sector, specialising in climate risk and resilience, sustainable development and carbon management.  

Also a member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, he has supported several capital programmes for water companies and led consultancy and research commissions on topics including carbon accounting, renewable energy appraisals and natural capital assessments.  

Johnson provides consultancy support and training for several of Stantec’s water clients in the UK and Ireland, focused on their net zero commitments. This has included developing tools and guidance; embedding sustainability criteria into decision-making; and helping them to assess climate risks and formulate adaptation plans.  

He co-chairs the technical advisory panel (TAP) for PAS 3090, having previously chaired the TAP responsible for the development and subsequent update of carbon management standard PAS 2080. 

An honorary professor at Heriot-Watt University’s School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Johnson is also a member of the UK Green Construction Board’s infrastructure working group.  

Alison Walker

Alison Walker is a pioneering leader in climate change, carbon management and sustainability with over three decades’ experience of driving transformative change. At HS2, she leads on climate change adaptation and resilience, ensuring one of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects is prepared for a changing climate. 

Walker co-founded the Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Forum (IOAF) and is involved in shaping national standards as part of the BSI committee on greenhouse gas management. She also serves on the oversight board for DARe – the UK’s national hub for decarbonised, adaptable and resilient transport infrastructure – helping to create transport systems that are fit for the future.