Designing for adaptation, resilience and decarbonisation

To improve resilience to the effects of climate change, engineers will need to consider how to incorporate new principles into their designs (credit: iStock)

A panel discussion recorded at the ICE's Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters conference in April 2023, exploring the principles that engineers should be adopting when approaching adaptation, resilience and decarbonisation in their designs. With participants:

  • David Porter, director of engineering, Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure
  • Lewis Barlow, decarbonisation technical director, WSP
  • Fiona Barbour, business development manager, Mott MacDonald
  • Savina Carluccio, executive director, ICSI

We need to recognise that there's a real emergency and that we have a part to play in adapting and changing our infrastructure to make it more resilient

David Porter

How engineers can respond to more extreme and challenging weather

Engineers need to design infrastructure that is able to withstand extreme weather incidents (Credit: iStock)

In conversation at the ICE's Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters conference in April 2023, William Allsop, director, William Allsop Consulting, discusses how engineers can design for adaptation and resilience to tackle increasingly challenging weather conditions.

In the big breakwater community, we need people to come together and realise that by working together they will be stronger

William Allsop, director, William Allsop Consulting

Collaborative and technical challenges on Humber 2100+ 

The Environment Agency and local authorities are working together on a tidal adaptation strategy for the Humber estuary (Credit: iStock)

In conversation at the ICE's Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters conference in April 2023, Sue Manson, Humber Strategy technical manager at the Environment Agency, talks about Humber 2100+, a tidal adaptation strategy being developed in collaboration with 11 local authorities in the Humber area, and why such partnerships are important.

Politics often focuses on the short and medium term, and that can be challenging when you are looking at a long-term strategy

Sue Manson, Humber Strategy technical manager, Environment Agency

Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Programme

San Francisco Bay is at increasing risk from a variety of flood hazards (credit: iStock)

In conversation at the ICE's Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters conference in April 2023, Darren Milsom, programme manager at Jacobs, discusses the Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Programme, which aims to make the port better at withstanding earthquakes and flood hazards, including a rise in sea levels.

We’ve done a lot of reaching out to other cities and resilience programmes, trying to share knowledge with them and learn about best practice

Darren Milsom, programme manager, Jacobs

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