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.

Your opportunity to lead on updating the CIWEM Urban Drainage Group (UDG) Integrated Urban Drainage Modelling Guide (IUDMG)

An exciting opportunity has come up for a contractor to lead on the management, authoring and delivery of a refreshed Urban Drainage Group Integrated Urban Drainage Modelling Guide guide, working in partnership with a Project Steering Group. CIWEM is partnering with the Environment Agency to make available a budget of £30,000 subject to satisfactory completion of the project.

The objective is to develop updated integrated urban drainage modelling guidance which will support clients and suppliers scope, deliver and understand appropriate integrated urban drainage flood risk management modelling projects.

The contractor is obliged to make use of the wider CIWEM UDG community through two industry workshops to help develop, test and refine the revised guidance. CIWEM will contribute through provision of a project executive, project steering group and workshop venues. The project steering group will include representation from at least the Environment Agency, CIWEM UDG, CIWEM Rivers and Coastal Group (RCG) a water utility and a lead local flood authority. The published guidance will be free of charge for public benefit and agnostic on software products or services. It will be written in accordance with the Environment Agency’s Plain English standards.

The timetable is to commence the project in July 2019 and complete in March 2020.

Please download this document for further information.

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

With thanks to our 2019 event sponsors

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.