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Building an Urban Oasis Event
Building an Urban Oasis
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How to use Water Sustainably to make places fit for happy, healthy humans
at The Virgin Roof Gardens, Kensington, London
Monday 30th January, lunchtime seminar
- See how The Experts view the past with lessons for the future
- How we can use water successfully for both infrastructure and inhabitants
- ….Without compromising either
Our events are complimentary for industry professionals
AGENDA
| 11:45 | Registration | |
| Noon | Buffet Lunch | Kindly provided by The Virgin Roof Gardens, Kensington |
| 12:30 | Introduction | Neal Landsberg, Chair of SWIG & Marketing Director, Watermatic. Achieving Human Sensitive Urban Design (HSuD) |
| Welcome | Pilar Medrano Dell, Head Gardener, The Roof Gardens Introducing the Roof Gardens – Working in a Green Urban Oasis |
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| Speakers’ Presentations | ||
| What does balance look like? Planners, developers and communities |
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| Dan Epstein | Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation Lessons from the recent past informing the future The way forward with Zero Discharge |
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| Mathew Frith | London Wildlife Trust Local actions towards city resilience |
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| Cath Hassell | ech2o The powerful role of the individual |
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| 14:25 | Panel Discussion | |
| 14:45 | Formal Close | Attendees are welcome to remain to network and view the Roof Gardens |
- Directions: The Roof Gardens is located at 99 Kensington High Street, W8 5SA.
- Access to the building is via Derry Street which branches off Kensington High Street.
- Nearest tube is High Street Kensington •
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- The Purpose of SWIG
- To be ‘The Voice of Sustainable Water’ by applying ‘whole system thinking’ to sustainable water management.
- Our vision is to see water being used sustainably in all buildings and spaces and to implement sustainable water management wherever possible.
- And our approach is interdisciplinary encouraging best practice and influencing policies.
- From the SWIG website: www.sustainablewater.org.uk you will see we are about delivering practical realities on the ground and hope that water sensitive project design will become a key component of developing best practice in ecological engineering.
- SWIG Unit 6c Ivory’s Business Centre, Harper Lane, Radlett, WD7 7UH
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
17th January 2017
