CSEI Seminar Series A Systems Approach to Net-Zero Infrastructure

On 27 June 2019 the UK became the first major economy to pass a net zero emissions law requiring that all greenhouse gas emissions are  brought to net zero by 2050. The new law poses major economic, scientific and engineering challenges, and a complete transformation of the way we think of and deliver infrastructure, including Net Zero cities, as well as several hundred billion pounds of investment.

A large body of evidence, from both research and industry, sets out what needs to be done, and by whom, in order to reduce both infrastructure and industry’s carbon footprints. It is in this context that the Seminar Series will explore how a systems approach to infrastructure and seeing infrastructure as a system of systems are key to achieving climate change mitigation and a reduction in carbon and other forms of pollution. The seminars will also highlight the broad challenges we face to achieve our carbon reduction and sustainability ambitions, and the significant opportunities these ambitions yield, as well as new sustainable approaches to infrastructure design, planning, operation and delivery. The series aims to offer different perspectives – from academia, industry and policy – and to be very interactive.

Speakers

• National Infrastructure: a Societal Leverage Point for a Sustainable, Resilient Net Zero Pollution Economy. Dr Tom Dolan, UCL – 26 May 2021, 13:00-14:00
• Delivering systems solutions for improved human and ecological health. Professor Peter Head, Ecosequestrust – 2 June 2021, 13:00-14:00
• A Systems-Based Approach to “Resilient as a Service”. Paul Eastwood and Graham Bleakley, Costain – Wednesday 9 June 2021, 13:00-14:00
• Systems engineering and infrastructure - opportunities and challenges. Dr Ana Mijic, Imperial College London – 16 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Registration page here.