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Life Cycle Costs of Blue-Green Infrastructure
December 5, 2014
Life Cycle Costing (LCC) or Whole Life Costing (WLC) is a discipline that aims to identify and manage the costs of a product or service by taking into account all cashflows throughout its life. Costs are typically grouped into capital and operational costs, meaning those that are incurred before an asset is operational (typically design …
Piloting Bayesian Networks as a technique for the participatory modelling of flood risk in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: Part II
November 19, 2014
Part II: Using the model – the final three workshops A project has been underway in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire to develop and pilot a methodology to involve stakeholders in modelling flood risk to their local catchment, and embed their local knowledge and understanding into flood risk management. The project, which is now coming to …
Enhancing impact through effective stakeholder engagement; an ARCC event for early career researchers
November 5, 2014
Blog post by Emily Lawson, University of Nottingham. On the 9th October I headed up to York to participate in a workshop on stakeholder engagement. The event was hosted by the Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate (ARCC) network and was aimed at improving the skills of early career researchers and imparting ideas on how …
Hydroinfomatics Conference (HIC 2014) in the Big Apple ~ New York
October 15, 2014
Sangaralingam Ahilan took part in the 11th Hydroinfomatics conference (HIC2014) hosted by New York City College, USA on 17th-21st August 2014. The biennial conference theme focused on ‘Informatics and the Environment: Data and Model Integration in a Heterogeneous Hydro World’, and brought together 300 scientists from the all over the world to the Big Apple to …
International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD) 2014, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
September 25, 2014
To be in a room filled with like-minded, enthusiastic, interested researchers here just to discuss SuDS (sustainable urban drainage systems), WSUD (water sensitive urban design) and urban drainage was a privilege During 5 days over 500 urban drainage specialists delved into the details, dynamics, processes, implications, consequences and benefits of WSUD and integrated urban water management …
Summer research in Boulder and Portland
September 3, 2014
1. Uncertainty in climate change research Lan Hoang from the Blue-Green Cities team recently attended a workshop on “Uncertainty in climate change research: an integrated approach”, organised by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA (NCAR). The workshop gathered various notable speakers from across the field of climate change research, as well as participants from …
Managing climate risks to well-being and the economy: ASC progress report, 9th July 2014
August 4, 2014
Blog post by Emily Lawson, University of Nottingham. On Wednesday 9th July I attended the Adaptation Sub Committee (ASC) annual report launch at the satellite event in Nottingham, organised by Climate UK and Climate East Midlands. The report, titled “Managing climate risks to well-being and the economy”, was summarised in a presentation from Lord John Krebs, …
Clean Water for All research in Newcastle March 2014; What Multi-Disciplinary Work Looks Like
July 16, 2014
Guest blogger Maya Jarrad‘s (Reed College, Oregon) take on Clean Water for All and Blue-Green Cities research experienced as part of co-location working in Newcastle and an exciting site visit. “For me, the strongest take-away from the intensive week-long collaboration period in Newcastle was watching the many researchers explore the SuDS (Sustainable Drainage Systems), human-made …
7 pm in the lobby…
July 2, 2014
May 2014 saw research associates and students from the Blue-Green Cities team visit Portland to conduct co-location research with counterparts from several US institutions, led by Alan Yeakley at Portland State University. This was the Clean Water for All project (CWFA). During the first week of the project, the UK co-investigators visited Portland to provide …
Ahilan’s first trip to America
June 18, 2014
This post describes Sangaralingam Ahilan’s personal and research experiences during his first visit to Portland, Oregon. As part of the ‘Clean Water For All’ (CWFA) research initiative, Ahilan travelled for the first time to the U.S. on 3rd May for two weeks for co-location research with U.S. academics in Portland State University (PSU) and Reed College. Personal Experiences …
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