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10Jul 2025
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SuDS Champions Awards 2025 photo gallery

The 2025 susdrain SuDS Champions Awards wrapped up in Bristol on 18 June, shining a spotlight on the people and projects making real change through sustainable drainage. Here’s our gallery of photos from the day!

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08Jul 2025
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Reflections on a SuDS Journey

Jacqueline Diaz-Nieto, Associate SuDS Engineer, Environmental Protection Group, Dr Louise Walker Award for Outstanding Contribution to SuDS Winner 2025   Reflections on a SuDS Journey   This award means a lot to me, especially as I found out about Louise’s sad …

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24Jul 2024
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Reflections on Gateshead business park blue-green corridor winning Highly Commended at susdrain 2024 Awards

Helen E Smith, Technical Director – Landscape Architecture, JBA Consulting,  helensmith1@jbaconsulting.com   When the JBA Consulting team traveled to Cardiff for the 2024 susdrain SuDS Awards on 26 June, we were thrilled just to be invited and absolutely delighted to be shortlisted! …

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08Jul 2024
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A blueprint for community rainwater management

The Towards Incentivisation for Community Centric Rainwater Management lead by Thames Water in partnership with Anglian Water, South West Water, our Rainwater, Indepen, and Isle Utilities, was initiated through Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge, an innovation competition which awards funding to projects …

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29Jun 2023
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Blue-green infrastructure for asset managers

Blue-green infrastructure for asset managers Louise Walker, Senior Research Manager, CIRIA/susdrain   CIRIA has been at the forefront of Blue-Green Infrastructure implementation for many years, with for example the widely known SuDS Manual being the go-to guidance for the sector. …

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06Aug 2021
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What lies beneath? Using infiltration SuDS on potentially contaminated brownfield land

Darren Beriro and Chris Jackson, British Geological Survey   [Download the PDF]   Urban infiltration   With predicted increases in the intensity of rainfall events under future climate, there is, of course, a need to reduce flood risk by ‘slowing …

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12Jan 2021
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Maximising the health and wellbeing benefits of blue and green infrastructure in post-COVID cities; incorporating a healthcare agenda

Anna Kenyon, Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Central Lancashire, akenyon10@uclan.ac.uk   It is well known that many types of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and blue-green infrastructure (BGI) can deliver multifunctional benefit to local communities, including health and wellbeing …

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25Sep 2020
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Rainwater Harvesting

Dr Christine Sefton, Community Engagement Researcher, The University of Sheffield   Just to be clear, this article is not going to tell you anything new about how rainwater harvesting works, or even why it is important; my skills lie in communication, community …

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28Aug 2020
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Urban drainage – A glimpse of the future

Chris Digman – Technical Director at Stantec   Lockdown – providing a rare insight into future opportunities to manage surface water   Many of the wider challenges and gauntlets that were present at the start of the year still remain, …

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06Aug 2020
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SuDS, natural capital and economic resilience: what does systems thinking tell us?

Fran Moore, Principal Environmental Economist at Black & Veatch   Urban systems are constantly adapting to change. They are not static; they need to ‘stretch and breathe’ (have resilience) – so that they can deal with unexpected events. SuDS promote resilience …

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