Diversity in Marine Development: Exploring the weird and the wonderful in UK Coastal Waters
This webinar moved the focus away from the typical ‘headline grabbers’ in marine development and considered some of the more unusual marine development which takes place around our UK coastline.
The UK’s major successes in the field of Offshore Wind mean it is a topic frequently considered by our professional community. Closer to shore, there is a diverse range of fascinating marine development; this webinar considers three specific topics and the collective challenges – and opportunities – related to ‘niche’ inshore development.
This webinar is perfect for practitioners working within marine development – or with an interest in it – who are keen to expand their knowledge of the more ‘unusual’ activities taking place in our marine environment.
Engage with this webinar to gain an increased understanding of the role that our seas can play in supporting a diverse range of activities. You will also learn about some of the topic-specific challenges that our speakers have encountered during the development and marine consenting process for a range of more ‘unusual’ topics, including marine-cooled data centres and fish farm development.
Our speakers come from a varied background spanning aquaculture, marine power and transport and included:
- Ed Walker, Principal Environmental Consultant, AECOM
- Seren Dussuyer, Principal Consents and Environment Manager, Transport for London
- Ben Johnson, Environment Development Manager, Cooke Aquaculture
- Dr Rufus Howard, Impact Assessment Policy Lead at IEMA
Presentations
Diversity in Marine Development: Exploring the weird and the wonderful in UK Coastal Waters, webinar slides - CLICK HERE
South West: Sustainable Wines Of Great Britain
This special IEMA event was hosted by the South West regional network and looked at sustainable wines in the UK.
In this webinar, we highlighted some of the key challenges in construction, measures that are being implemented across large scale construction projects; and highlight what effective mitigation looks like. The session profiled the role of innovation, presenting leading case studies with transferable learning points.
Our East of England event heard from the Environment Agency who provided an update of their East Anglian activities focusing on regulated and non-regulated business. They also gave an overview of the EAs work as a whole and the opportunities that a EU exit and post-Covid-19 pandemic world may allow for this Area in terms of environmental improvement.
This webinar moved the focus away from the typical ‘headline grabbers’ in marine development and considered some of the more unusual marine development which takes place around our UK coastline.
Our Yorkshire and Humberside regional event explored the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the environment, attitudes towards public transport and ways in which public transport operators are responding to the crisis, one year on.
Our East of England and Milton Keynes Regional coffee morning, welcomed guest speaker Alan Tinline Head of Environment at Associate British Ports (ABP) who explained how they are responding to the challenge of building back better, post Covid-19, in order to create a more sustainable and zero carbon business.
On this session we look at the measures which have been put in place due to COVID-19 and how have they changed our impact on the environment and what we can learn from this
From heightened supply chains risks to the development of a resilient and adaptive network, there are numerous drivers for making the transition to a circular economy within road infrastructure projects. Join us during this session to gain an overview of: - The opportunities and challenges in adopting a circular approach to road infrastructure projects; - Concrete examples of successful projects; - Recommendations on how to make this transition, including the design of CE route maps.
