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Alistair Kean, environmental director at COWI, explores how engineers can help lay the path towards net zero
The inaugural address to members of the Institute of Civil Engineers from incoming President, Rachel Skinner, was stark. “The way we, as civil engineers, have planned, designed, constructed and operate our infrastructure systems have been part of the (climate change) problem,” she said. “It hasn’t been intentional but it’s time to recognise that we need to do things differently.”
From the address, what was clear is the outsized role that civil engineers will play in society’s response to climate change. The carbon impact of the infrastructure that we create is twofold; firstly, created by the design, materials and construction choices we make, and secondly through the behaviours that we enable – be they energy, transport, buildings, water, waste or digital. Altogether it means that 70 per cen
Flood and coastal resilience innovation programme
How to submit an expression of an interest to become part of innovative action on flooding and coastal change.
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EOI) forms has been extended from 15 January 2021 to 29 January 2021.
In the 2020 Budget, the government announced a £200 million fund for this programme. The flood and coastal resilience innovation programme will help meet the aims set out in the:
The programme will allocate £150 million of the £200 million to 25 local areas. For some, a local area might be a county, city, town or village. For others, a place could mean a river catchment, a tidal estuary or part of the coast. On average each area will receive £6 million between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2027.
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Birthday Tribute
Don Gunasena Athukorala:
I would like to pay tribute to Don Gunasena Athukorala for his contribution to Sri Lanka’s civil engineering profession as an early practitioner, setting high standards for engineers technically and ethically.
Don Gunasena was one of the pioneering engineers who joined the State Engineering Corporation (SEC) at its formation in January 1962. He soon rose to become deputy to the eminent A.N.S. Kulasinghe, founding chairman and general manager. Together with other engineers, the Kulasinghe-Athukorala duo grew the Corporation to become the most admired employer-of-choice for aspiring young engineers. Don Gunasena went on to become chairman of the SEC himself. He was also the founding Director of the Headworks division of the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka.
Inside Track - latest update from our President 17 Dec 2020
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