Join Professor Anusha Shah, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor, to explore the challenges facing cities. 

" We are in a climate & ecological emergency where we are already experiencing profound impacts on people, biodiversity and on our infrastructure; with floods affecting our homes, travel, utilities and environment and high temperatures impacting rail lines, roads and extreme weather causing disruption to our daily lives. Our infrastructure is complex, multifaceted and interdependent, failure of one part leads to the failure of the whole system, therefore we need to connect the dots using a ‘systems approach’ that requires diverse professionals working collaboratively at multiple levels. We have a huge opportunity to lead, innovate and not only make our infrastructure resilient to present and future impacts of climate change but also re-design it and our cities in general for the benefit of all sections of our society.

My presentation will explore real blockers to cities becoming sustainable, resilient and inclusive and also provide recommendations on how to break down silos and embed sustainability thinking from the outset of a project and how infrastructure professionals can work across sectors to create a sustainable, resilient and inclusive nation"