19-20 OCTOBER 2016
AMERICA SQUARE CONFERENCE CENTRE, LONDON
WORKING SMARTER TO DELIVER
BETTER RESILIENCE, RESISTANCE,
RESPONSE AND RECOVERY
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WORKING SMARTER TO DELIVER BETTER RESILIENCE,
RESISTANCE, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY
New Civil Engineer is pleased to announce the 12th annual Flood Management
Forum – the annual industry gathering for the who’s who of the flood risk
management sector.
Taking place on 19-20 October, this year’s event provides a perfect opportunity for
the entire industry to meet to reflect on the critical lessons from the winter floods
and discuss new approaches to flood risk management.
The 2016 event will focus on three core themes:
• The winter flooding: assessing response, recovery and lessons learnt
• New flood risk management strategies: focusing on resistance and resilience
• A joined up approach: community engagement and funding mechanisms for
better flood risk management
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REASONS TO ATTEND THIS YEAR’S FLOOD MANAGEMENT FORUM
1
Be part of this critical and timely discussion with influential leaders and
decision-makers on the reassessment of flood risk management strategies,
climate resilience and the lessons we should learn from the winter flooding
2
Hear from Defra and the Environment Agency as they share their strategic
vision for the UK-wide flood risk strategy and funding plans for the next
investment cycle
3
Uncover the emerging trends, from catchment-wide approaches and natural
flood management to funding paths and stakeholder engagement
4
Take home tangible learnings from a diverse range of practical case studies
showcasing innovative, new approaches to flood risk management
5
Meet with the leaders and decision-makers from the entire industry all under
one roof, from the Environment Agency, lead local flood authorities, drainage
boards and water companies, to consulting engineers, contractors and the
supply chain.
An interesting review of the breadth of work carried out to mitigate
flooding; from minor catchment improvements at one end of the
cost scale, to major engineering protection schemes at the other
Ken Fowler | principal water engineer | Canal & River Trust
WORKING SMARTER TO DELIVER BETTER RESILIENCE,
RESISTANCE, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY
2016 SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Ian Allison
Ken Allison
Gary Collins
Mott MacDonald
Environment Agency
Yorkshire Water
global head, climate
resilience
Dominic Donnini
corporate director,
environmental and
community services
Cumbria County
Council
Ian Hope
group engineer, flood
risk management
Leeds City Council
Ian Russell
senior engineer
Enfield Council
Philip Winn
acting Humber Manager
Environment Agency
director, allocation & asset
management
flood risk & engagement
manager
Mike Gallop
Mark Hagger
Network Rail
Environment Agency
director, route asset
management
Neil Hornby
deputy director, head of
flood risk and coastal erosion
Department for
Environment Food
& Rural Affairs
Innes Thomson
chief executive
Association of
Drainage Authorities
Craig Woolhouse
deputy director, flood
incident management,
flood and coastal risk
management
Environment Agency
commercial strategy
manager
Matt Kuhn
programme manager,
TEAM2100
CH2M
Steve Williams
service manager, Thames
Estuary Asset Management
Programme 2100
Environment Agency
Steve Wragg
flood risk manager
City of York Council
19 OCTOBER 2016: PRE-EVENT SEMINAR
DRIVING RESILIENCE IN ASSET MANAGEMENT
13:15
13:45
13:50
Registration and refreshments
Chair’s opening remarks
Mark Hansford, editor, New Civil Engineer
Leading from the top: the Environment Agency’s vision for more resilient flood risk assets
• What critical lessons have been learnt from the damage to and overtopping of existing flood
defence assets in the 2015-16 winter floods?
• Reviewing the investment and funding priorities for flood defence asset management
• Combining OPEX and CAPEX to maximise efficiencies and drive whole systems thinking in flood
risk management
• The role of local land owners and communities in managing and maintaining assets
Craig Woolhouse, deputy director, flood incident management, flood and coastal risk management,
Environment Agency
14:10 Question and answer session
14:20 Asset panel: What have we learnt from the winter flooding events?
The multi-client panel brings together different experiences from the winter floods, debating and
exploring the key lessons that clients and industry need to take forward to ensure flood assets are
more resilient in the future.
Mike Gallop, director, route asset management, Network Rail
Gary Collins, flood risk & engagement manager, Yorkshire Water
15:00 Incident management – The Cumbria story
• An overview of the flooding events in Cumbria: the event timeline, incident management
and asset recovery work in the aftermath
• Responding to a flooded and damaged network – learning from the events of winter 2015
• The importance of multi-agency working and community engagement
• Managing drainage assets and ensuring infrastructure assets remain resilient to events such as flooding
Dominic Donnini, corporate director, environmental and community services, Cumbria County Council
15:25 Question and answer session
15:35 Networking and refreshments break
16:00 Update on TEAM2100 – Assessing the progress one year on
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Reviewing objectives and current milestones for the scheme
Developments to date:
o Detailed engineering and structural investigations into the conditions of tidal flood defences
o Plans for the 10-year programme of refurbishment and replacement and management of
the system of defences
• The role of technology in the scheme – BIM, data management, monitoring technology
Steve Williams, service manager, TEAM2100, Environment Agency
Matt Kuhn, programme manager, TEAM2100, CH2M
16:30 Using Building Information Modelling to optimise flood management assets
• Understanding the role of BIM in driving efficiencies in flood and coastal defence management
• Making use of the data and managing multiple tools across a programme
• An overview of schemes that have implemented BIM and the lessons learnt so far and overcoming challenges
to implementation of BIM
16:50 Question and answer session and roundtable discussions
What role can technology, from data to monitoring and drone technology, play in managing flood
defence assets and other critical infrastructure?
17:10 Chair’s closing remarks and end of seminar
20 OCTOBER 2016 : MAIN CONFERENCE
8:50 Registration and refreshments
9:20 Chair’s opening remarks
Mark Hansford, editor, New Civil Engineer
KEYNOTE SESSIONS: REASSESSING OUR NATIONAL FLOOD RISK STRATEGY
9:25 Opening keynote: Reassessing the national flood risk strategy in the light of the winter flooding
The opening keynote will set the scene with a reflection of the lessons learnt from the winter flooding events,
touching on the Government’s flood reviews, how flood risk should be calculated, and the future impact of
climate change.
Neil Hornby, deputy director, head of flood risk and coastal erosion, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Key lessons the Environment Agency has taken from the winter floods and how these will be incorporated
into the £3.2bn investment plan over the next six years
• How will the Agency’s policy evolve and where will investment be prioritised?
• Highlighting major projects in the pipeline of work
Ken Allison, director, allocation & asset management, Environment Agency
9:40 Environment Agency: Rethinking the way we deliver flood risk management
10:00 Question and answer session
DELIVERING DIFFERENTLY, DELIVERING EFFICIENTLY
10:15 Reviewing the Water and Environment Management (WEM) Framework to date and
thinking ahead to WEM 2
• How has the WEM framework been received by the industry and framework partners?
• What learnings will be passed on to WEM 2 and how might it look differently to the first WEM?
• How the next WEM might take forward procurement strategies to deliver further efficiencies
• Working in the Government’s 6-year investment plan across two WEM cycles – what this means in
practice for current and future WEM suppliers and how packaging will fit into this
Mark Hagger, commercial strategy manager, Environment Agency
· Outlining the scheme – scope of the challenge, level of protection and the funding strategy
· Understanding the challenges and benefits in delivering a multi-funded scheme – collaborative working
between the Environment Agency and Northumberland County Council
· Introducing the flood alleviation approach – creating a large-scale upstream storage area whilst
protecting the environment, maintaining connectivity to the river and supporting the local economy
Anthony Myatt, project manager, Morpeth FAS, Environment Agency
• Outlining the variety of delivery mechanisms available to authorities – regional framework contracts,
public sector co-operation agreements, delivery by other organisations such as IDBs
and Community groups
• How more locally focussed delivery frameworks and solutions can deliver significant savings
for projects
• The advantages of choice of delivery mechanisms – highlighting examples of different delivery solutions
and project success stories around the UK
Innes Thomson, chief executive, Association of Drainage Authorities
10:30 The £26m Morpeth flood scheme – driving partnership funding and a mult-purpose,
multi-benefit approach
10:50 Exploring alternative methods for delivering flood risk and water management schemes efficiently
11:10 Question and answer session
11:20 Networking and refreshments break
NEW APPROACHES TO FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT
11:50 Working with nature to alleviate flood risk – Slowing the Flow at Pickering
• Adapting land management and managing upstream channels to slow down flood flows and increase flood
storage
• Building a strong partnership – engaging local communities and land owners to successfully deliver a
‘Slow the flow’ strategy
• The results so far – how are the benefits being measured?
• Applying the strategy to approach beyond Pickering – what limitations have been met and what lessons
have been learnt?
Jeremy Walker, chair, Slowing the Flow Partnership
12:10 Introducing the proposed Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme
• Addressing the flood risks in Oxford - outlining the challenge, gathering the data and findings from initial
ground investigations
• Introducing the proposed scheme and scope of flood alleviation works involved, including the flood relief
channel
• Outlining funding strategy with Oxfordshire LEP, Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee and
local councils
Richard Harding, project executive, Oxford FAS, Environment Agency
• What should catchment management look like and how can we deliver real catchment
style management?
• What are the challenges to a catchment approach and what does government need to put
in place to facilitate and deliver more holistic flood risk management?
• Exploring best practice for engaging multiple stakeholders
• Catchment success stories and lessons learnt for future schemes
Steve Wragg, flood risk manager, City of York Council
Patrick Goodey, flood risk manager, Bristol City Council
Ian Russell, senior engineer, Enfield Council
Ian Hope, group engineer, flood risk management, Leeds City Council
12:30 Question and answer session
12:40 Local authority panel: Driving a holistic, catchment-wide approach to flood risk management
13:20 Networking lunch
BUILDING CLIMATE RESILIENT CITIES
14:20 Afternoon keynote: Living with our climate – City living – Climate survival
• Urbanisation as an effective response to climate change
• Considering the inter-connectivity of services in addressing climate vulnerabilities
• Climate sensitive cities and factoring in flooding as a key climate impact
• Integrating climate response into city planning
Ian Allison, global head, climate resilience, Mott MacDonald
14:40 International case study
The session will introduce an international project which showcases innovation in its approach to flood risk
management, providing an overview of the innovative design and delivery involved in the project.
15:00 Question and answer session
15:10 Roundtable discussions
Do we have the right balance between resistance, resilience, response and recovery? What can we learn from
other countries?
15:40 Networking refreshment break
16:05 UK case study – update on the Humber Flood Risk Management Strategy
• Outlining the strategic issues and progress to date on the scheme
• Managed realignment and the Habitats Regulations, and the potential role for flood storage
• Assessing the current state of the defences
• Next steps and future milestones
Philip Winn, acting Humber manager, Environment Agency
16:25 Question and answer session
16:40 Industry leaders’ panel – How can the industry work together to make assets and
communities more flood and climate resilient?
The day will close with a panel of cross-industry leaders reflecting on the lessons from the winter floods and
debating what is needed to make communities and assets more resilient, from stakeholder engagement and
alternative funding approaches to evolving trends towards response and recovery.
Innes Thomson, chief executive, Association of Drainage Authorities
Philip Winn, acting Humber manager, Environment Agency
Ian Allison, global head, climate resilience, Mott MacDonald
Allan Rogers, WEM framework director, BAM Nuttall
17:25 Closing remarks and close of Forum
Great people with similar aims
discussing the future of flood management
Paul Constantine | partnership and strategic overview team leader | Environment Agency
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Environment
Agency
T1 Contractors
Lead local flood
authorities
Community
stakeholder
groups
Consulting
engineers
Cost consultants
Internal drainage
boards
Sub and
specialist
contractors
Insurance
and legal
professionals
Water
companies
Product
manufacturers
and suppliers
Software and
technology
providers
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