Integrated SuDS Design Masterclass - BRISTOL

Schedule

Tue Nov 11 2025 at 09:00 am to 05:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Forge, Bristol | Bristol, EN

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

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 trainers:

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.

Judith Puckmayr : Judith has been working as a Landscape Architect for over 19 years in several landscape architecture practices both within the UK and Austria. During her professional career she has worked on a diverse range and scale of projects from large-scale urban regeneration masterplanning projects to small- scale detail design schemes within a wide range of sectors such as housing, schools, health care, mining landscape regeneration and river and floodplain restoration. Judith has led the design and implementation of a number of successful landscape schemes integrating SuDS.

She also delivers advanced SuDS Design training on behalf of CIRIA, and has delivered bespoke SuDS training to the Transport of London, Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks & Highland Council. Judith has contributed to the production of the SuDS Design & Evaluation Guide (sudsguide.uk) for twenty local authorities and London Boroughs.


Agenda

🕑: 09:00 AM
Welcome breakfast
What is integrated, landscape-led SuDS?
Integrating SuDS into the Design Process
The Palette of SuDS Techniques
Designing for community
Designing for wildlife
Collecting, directing and controlling water flow
Planting in SuDS
Main workshop exercise
Myths and legends
Discussion and reflection
🕑: 05:00 PM
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The Forge, Bristol, United Kingdom

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