Urban Drainage Group

Our vision and aims

The CIWEM Urban Drainage Group (UDG) sustains the excellence of people professionally engaged in urban drainage management now and for future generations. It continues the work of WaPUG which was established in 1984.

The aims and objectives of the Urban Drainage Group are aligned with CIWEM’s Royal Charter. They are to:

• Advance the science and practice of urban drainage management for the public benefit.
• Promote education, training, study and research in urban drainage management and to publish the results of such research.
• Establish and maintain appropriate standards of competence for urban drainage management Professionals.

Please contact us at udg@ciwem.org

UDG community page

Get more involved with the Urban Drainage Group! For the latest announcements and discussions, please visit your UDG community page by logging into your account.

Call for Papers: Spring and Summer Conferences 2019

In 2019 CIWEM Urban Drainage Group continues its series of highly regarded events for professionals concerned with all aspects of Urban Drainage Management throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.This ‘call-for-papers’ is your opportunity to put forward your project, research, innovation or leadership so that it may be showcased to industry peers at these strongly attended one-day conferences in Spring/Summer 2019.

We are holding a conference at IET Birmingham, England on 8 May and on 27 June at Dunblane Hydro, Scotland.

Papers are invited on any topic related to urban drainage management. Topics might include: sustainable drainage systems, combined sewer overflows, condition assessment, rehabilitation, river or marine water quality, bathing water and shellfishery directives, infiltration, misconnections, data analytics, FOG management, smart cities, modelling, customer behaviour, community engagement, Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans (DWMP).

Please find full details, including submission deadlines here.

Diary Dates 2019

Training Day

Tuesday 19 February 2019

IET Birmingham: Austin Court

Spring Conference

Wednesday 08 May 2019

IET Birmingham: Austin Court

Summer Conference

Thursday 27 June 2019

Double Tree by Hilton: Dunblane Hydro

Autumn Conference & Exhibition

Monday 04 – 06 November 2019

The Nottingham Belfry, Mellors Way, Nottingham

The Margetts Bursary in Urban Drainage Engineering 

The Margetts Bursary in Urban Drainage Engineering bursary is sponsored by CIWEM and RPS Environmental Management Ltd (RPS) to recognise the significant contributions made by Jamie Margetts in the field of urban drainage engineering, both in the UK and internationally.

Jamie was a technical director of RPS and chaired CIWEM’s Urban Drainage Group at the time of his death. As well as being part of the team that developed one of the UK’s most innovative Urban Drainage consultancies he made significant contributions to raising the technical capabilities of the UK Urban Drainage community. In particular, he always placed great emphasis on the education, mentoring and training of young urban drainage professionals.

This bursary has been set up to continue this work, by supporting young professionals (early career graduates, or final year undergraduates) to improve their capabilities in the field of urban drainage.

The bursary is of a value of £3,000, and will be awarded annually.

The purpose of the bursary is to:

• To provide financial support for a young professional to obtain a postgraduate qualification which can support a career in the field of urban drainage.
• To provide financial support to allow a young professional to carry out a period of research-based study that would significantly contribute to their career development in the field of urban drainage.

This bursary is now closed for 2019 applications. We will be contacting the winner in March/ April 2019.