Integrated SuDS Design Masterclass

Water Sensitive Cambridge and The Cambridge Room are hosting Kevin Barton from Robert Bray Associates, a leading expert in SuDS design and integration for a full day seminar.

Learn how to design integrated, multi-functional and multi-beneficial SuDS in this knowledge-packed, interactive and engaging one-day course

Learn how to design better SuDS and better places, from award-winning pioneers and recognised leaders in the field of SuDS.

This in-person masterclass dives right into how to adopt design approaches that will enable you to unlock the potential of integrated SuDS design on any project, no matter how challenging. These approaches consistently lead to better landscapes and developments that deliver more benefits for people, wildlife and the wider environment, more layers of meaning and more design fulfilment, as well as being more functionally effective, robust, cost-effective and easy to maintain.

By demystifying the hydraulic modelling and introducing techniques that allow you to easily design with and understand ‘the volumes’ as building blocks in your designs, you will learn to design SuDS more creatively, flexibly and intuitively – like playing with water flow on the beach!

We’ll explore the many guises and applications of the range of SuDS techniques and give guidance on how to choose which are appropriate where.

Together we’ll do some practical workshop exercises to apply what we’re learning through the day, and explore the added value that reuniting rain positively with landscapes can bring.

AND, we’ll empower you to challenge some of the blockages and barriers that get put in front of you in your projects.

Our aim: to inspire, educate and empower.

About the trainer:

Kevin Barton FLI : As Managing Director at Robert Bray Associates, Kevin has led and overseen the design and implementation of many successful and award-winning landscapes.

Kevin has been invited to present on climate resilient landscape topics at conferences and professional forums in the UK and Europe. He has also delivered lectures and workshops to universities in the UK and Czech Republic.

Kevin is a Design Council Specialist Expert for climate resilient design and SuDS, and has provided expert SuDS training and guidance documents to a number of councils and NGOs. Kevin also delivers the national Designing SuDS and SuDS Evaluation training on behalf of CIRIA.

More masterclasses:

This is one of two classes in the series, aimed at professionals to develop their knowledge about SuDS.

• 21 October, 9:00-17:30 - Integrated SuDS Masterclass (this one)
• 22 October, 9:00-17:30 - Retrofit Highway SuDS Masterclass