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 Flooding is expected to be one of the biggest threats the UK faces in coming years, with changing weather patterns and the wider implications of climate change meaning flooding will be more frequent and sea levels will rise significantly. ‘The Duke of Gloucester Lecture Series: Flood Risk and the Built Environment’, organised by the Inter-Institutional Flood Risk Management Group, aims to address these issues with a particular focus on the built environment.
David Balmforth, Institution of Civil Engineers vice president and chair of the Group says that we must take an innovative approach to our future flood management strategies. “The UK can no longer continue to rely solely on flood defences. We need to apply fresh thinking to find sustainable solutions, placing flood risk management,” he said. “It is our hope The Duke of Gloucester Lecture Series will help bring to the fore the challenges facing the UK.”
The inaugural lecture will be given by Robert Runcie, Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management at the Environment Agency, and will discuss the medium and long-term strategy for managing flood risk and enhancing flood resilience in the United Kingdom as well as addressing the implementation of the recommendations made by The Pitt Review.
The Inter-Institutional Flood Risk Management Group aims to promote flood management and flood resilience across all sectors of the built environment. It is formed by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), the Landscape Institute and the Chartered Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).
For more information or to register attendance please go to www.rusi.org/events
•Date: 3rd March 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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