Few places left - Choshu 5 Symposium on Sustainable Infrastructure (20th April, at UCL)

 

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From: Bhupinder Sehra <b.sehra@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: 2010/4/11
Subject: Few places left - Choshu 5 Symposium on Sustainable Infrastructure (20th April, at UCL)
To: ENGINEERING-ALL@jiscmail.ac.uk


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
Email: b.sehra@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

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Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory

Institute for Manufacturing

Cambridge University Engineering Department

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