Dear All,
We still a few places available on our Symposium on "Sustainable Infrastructure: Challenges for Design in a Changing World", to be held on Tuesday 20th April at 12.30pm.
venue: UCL, Roberts Building, room G08
This symposium will bring together stakeholders, engineers and policy makers to explore the challenges that must be faced when designing infrastructure for the 21st century. We'll be questios such as:
- How long can we design infrastructure to be sustainable for?
- What are the technical challenges in designing sustainable
infrastructure?
- Can we design infrastructure from the cradle to grave?
- Who pays for sustainable infrastructure?
- What makes infrastructure sustainable?
- Is 'sustainable' good?
Confirmed speakers: Prof David Cope (Director, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology), Prof Brian Collins (Chief Scientific Advisor for DfT Department for BIS; Cranfield University), Prof. Ayaho Miyamoto (Yamaguchi University, Japan), Naeem Hussein (Arup Fellow and Director, Arup), Dr. Paul Greening (UCL). The Event will be chaired by Prof Nick Tyler (UCL).
Registration: £50 (£30 for employees of charities and non-profit organisations).
To register, for the schedule, speaker bios and abstracts please visit:
http://www.cege.ucl.ac.uk/events/choshu5symposium
Kind regards,
Bhupinder
Ms. Bhupinder Sehra
Graduate Development Officer
Dept. Civil, Environmental
and Geomatic Eng, UCL
Tel: +44(0)20 7679 4428
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