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Ecobuild 2014
Confirmed conference and seminar sessions
NORTH ARENA
Thursday 6 March: 13.30 - 14.30
The Ecobuild debate; do we have a blueprint for the resilient city of
the future?
Professor Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director, LSE
Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London
Peter Madden, Chief Executive, Future Cities Catapault
Peter Guthrie OBE, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development,
University of Cambridge
Herbert Giradet, Co-founder, World Future Council
FUTURE CITIES
Wednesday 5 March: 10.30 - 12.00
The resilient city - understanding and overcoming the challenge
Chair: Stephen Cook, Associate Director, Arup, Energy and Climate Change
Consulting
City visions and resilience: developing future-proof thinking
Professor Tim Dixon, Chair in Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment,
School of Construction and Engineering, University of Reading
Designing with climate - building resilience
Dr Tristan Kershaw, Lecturer in low carbon design, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath
Nature as a partner in resilience - Innovative modelling of blue green
infrastructures’ interactions with spatial planning for quantification of
impacts and multiple benefits
Professor Cedo Maksimovic, Head of the UWRG-Urban Water Research
Group and Lead of the Blue Green Dream project, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London
Risk and resilience in retrofit city futures
Professor Malcolm Eames, Low Carbon Research Institute, Welsh School
of Architecture, University of Cardiff
14.30 - 16.00
Water sensitive urban design (WSUD) - managing urban water
Chair: Sue Illman, President Landscape Institute
Creating liveable cities with water sensitive urban design
Tony Barrett, Principal Consultant Water, Aecom
Why water sensitive urban design is relevant in the UK
Justin Abbott, Director, Arup
The North West Cambridge development: water sensitive design in the
University of Cambridge’s urban extension
Heather Topel, Deputy Project Director, NW Cambridge Development,
Univeristy of Cambridge
Water based design
Robert Barker, Director, Baca Architects
16.30 - 18.00
Delivering integrated, resilient green and grey infrastructure - strategies for success
Chair: Chris Rogers, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, University of
Birmingham; Principal Investigator Liveable Cities Programme Grant and
Principal Investigator Assessing the Underworld - an integrated model of
city infrastructures
Resilient infrastructure - designing the underworld
Professor Chris Rogers
Valuing Green Infrastructure - not just a pretty place
Tom Butterworth, Natural England
Trees in Hard Landscapes - a new guideline from the Trees and Design
Action Group
Martin Kelly, Land Planning Director, Capita Property and Infrastructure and
Chair, Trees and Design Action Group
Multiple demands, tensions and trade offs
Jon Sadler, Professor of Biogeography, University of Birmingham
WATER, WASTE & MATERIALS
Tuesday 4 March: - 12.15
The value of green infrastructure and water management
Chair: Michael Henderson, Associate Director - Sustainability, Aecom
The ripple effect: establishing the business case for water sensitive
urban design
Michael Henderson, Associate Director Aecom
How a green infrastructure audit led to the installation of a multifunctional living wall
Gary Grant, Consultant Ecologist
Urban ecosystems - the role of sustainable drainage design
David Fortune, Director of Innovation, XP Solutions
Trees and SuDS - an integrated approach for win-win outcomes
Johanna Deak Sjoman and Dr Henrik Sjoman, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences
Wednesday 5 March: 10.45 - 12.15
Future resilience - floods, droughts and implications for development
Chair: Dr Craig Jones, Circular Ecology Ltd
Water, flooding, scarcity and the impacts on business and property
Colin Harrop, Director, Jones Lang LaSelle
Water footprinting: the concealed impacts of water in the supply chain
Dr Craig Jones, Director, Circular Ecology Ltd
From sanitation to sanity - the changing perception of water from
threat to lifeblood of our cites
Peter Wilder, Director, Wilder Associates
Thursday 6 March: 12.30 - 14.00
Integrated joined up thinking on water - a briefing for