Materials, Opportunities & delivery of scalable Blue Green Infrastructure
Date: 05 February 2026
Time: 09:30 - 16:00
Location: Engineers House, The Promenade, Clifton Down, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3NB
Parking: Attendees will be met by one of the venue's car parking attendants, this will either be one of car parking spaces within the car park or on one of the surrounding roads using a permit.
Target audience: Anyone who wants to learn to create solutions for sustainable drainage.
Items to bring: notepaper, pencil, laptop and packed lunch
Speaker: Owen Davies
The days training will look at different elements and approaches for delivering sustainable drainage, Blue Green Infrastructure (BGI) predominately at a small scale though easily scalable looking at materials, opportunities and delivery. The day will be interactive and
hands on.
The day will cover the following topics;
- What is wrong?
- Legislation,
- Guidance statutory and best practice
- Challenging the ‘Norms’
- Materials and the benefits they can bring
- Examples of interventions from the simple to the creative to the ridiculously fun!
- What opportunities could you deliver?
Owen Davies is a Civil Engineer with 27 years local government experience of Highways, Drainage, Flood Risk management across 5 London Boroughs and currently at Havant Borough Council. Designing and delivering projects ranging from a few hundred pounds to over £m from complex highway reconstruction through to simple green infrastructure and everything in between.
Owen has been designing and delivering SuDS and green infrastructure since 2007, his approach is to deliver simple projects using everyday ‘off the shelf’ products and materials ensuring simple maintenance, not always necessarily conforming to the usual norms and approaches by simply challenging and asking why?
This event is brought to you by your South West Regional Co-ordinator Hannah Rickards