
CIWEM
Membership organisation to thousands of members and organisations in over 89 countries with a dedication to improving water and environmental management.
Event organised by ICE
Join us for an exciting event exploring the Belfast Tidal Flood Alleviation Scheme, a major infrastructure investment in Belfast City Centre by the Department for Infrastructure.
This session will explore the need for the scheme, the concept design approach, and the detailed design and construction of the circa 8km flood defence through Belfast City.
Owen McGivern, head of rivers development for DFI, will start by discussing the flood risk impacts to the city centre and the effect of climate change on flood risk estimations which raised the need for a feasibility study and ultimately set the requirements for the scheme.
Then, Julie Templeton, concept design stage project manager with AtkinsRéalis, will briefly describe the feasibility stage approach and the key decisions made to develop the concept design for the tidal defence.
We will then hear from Patrick Harney, director at Charles Brand, who will describe the contractors’ challenges with detailed design and construction methodologies of this significant scheme through the industrial port, commercial city centre and urban residential areas of Belfast.
Membership organisation to thousands of members and organisations in over 89 countries with a dedication to improving water and environmental management.
AtkinsRéalis
senior commercial manager
Julie is a chartered civil engineer with 19 years’ experience.
She is currently senior commercial manager for defence, energy and Ireland in the infrastructure division in AtkinsRéalis.
Department for Infrastructure
head of development
Owen McGivern is a chartered civil engineer with 27 years’ experience.
Owen is currently the head of development for DfI Rivers.
Owen is the SRO for the Belfast Tidal Flood Alleviation Project
Charles Brand
director
Paddy is a Chartered Civil Engineer with 30 years’ experience. He is currently a director for Charles Brand the scheme contractor. Paddy was the project director on the Belfast Tidal Flood Alleviation Scheme in the Pre-Construction and Construction Phases.
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