Engineering Nature’s Way

Community Outreach for Surface Water Management

25 May 2012

Written By: David Schofield Associate Director, Hydro Consultancy

image courtesy of Paul Cone, Bureau of Transportation, City of Portland

The US is providing excellent examples of community engagement in SuDS projects or ‘outreach’ as the term is widely referred to there, from which we in the UK have much to learn. I was asked by Paul Shaffer of CIRIA if I would capture the essence of surface water management community outreach for a CIRIA [...]

At Last we have National SuDS Standards…

12 Jan 2012

Written By: Alex Stephenson Director, UK Stormwater Division, Hydro International

Photo Courtesy of Cole Easdon

DEFRA served up an extra treat for us to digest over the Christmas holidays.  The National Standards for SuDS were published for consultation on December 20.  For the complete industry reaction, I suspect we’ll need to wait until the New Year is well underway. The National Standards are designed to provide a structure for the [...]

Engineering Nature’s Way – an exciting new initiative

11 May 2011

Written By: Alex Stephenson Director, UK Stormwater Division, Hydro International

FMWA

There has arguably never been a more interesting time to be involved in surface water drainage in the UK. That’s why we believe Engineering Nature’s Way is a timely and challenging initiative…
By Alex Stephenson, Director of Hydro International’s Stormwater Division and Chair of British Water SUDS Group.

Towards an Urban Blue/Green Network

10 May 2011

Written By: Prof.Richard Ashley EcoFutures Ltd, Universities of Sheffield, Bradford, UNESCO IHE and Luleå

Richard Ashley presents a joint post with Tony Wong, Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash University, Melbourne.