Engineering Sustainable Cities: A Policy Challenge & An Innovation Opportunity
Lecture by Professor Brian Collins, Professor of Engineering Policy, University College London
Organised by the UK-Singapore Partners in Science programme
Date: Monday 19th of March 2012
Time: Registration 6:00pm Lecture starts promptly at 6:30pm
Venue: Eden Hall, 28 Nassim Road, Singapore 258403
There will be a short networking reception after the lecture.
There is an ever increasing economic and social dependence on cities as the engine room of growth. However, with the constraints of climate change mitigation and resource scarcity, innovation in the technologies and processes for modernisation are essential, as are new ways of governing their use in design, procurement and operation of city infrastructure and services.
The UK Government has set up programmes to address all of these factors and the lecture will discuss what has been achieved so far and what the plans are for the future.
Speaker
Professor Brian Collins
Chair of Engineering and Interdependency Expert Group for Infrastructure UK and Professor of Engineering Policy at University College London
Professor Brian Collins took up the position of Professor of Engineering Policy at UCL in August 2011. Prior to that he was the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) from October 2006 and CSA for the Department for Business innovation and Skills (BIS) from March 2009 after being CSA in Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) from May 2008, during which time Energy policy was in his remit. He left both positions at the end of May 2011.
He is also currently chairing an Engineering and Interdependency Expert Group for Infrastructure UK, led by Lord James Sassoon, Commercial Secretary in Her Majesty’s Treasury.
He was bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen the Honour of Companion of the Bath (CB) in the 2011 New Years Honours list. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2009, and is Vice President of the British Computer Society.
Brian is an Emeritus Visiting Professor at City University London, a visiting professor at Wollongong University, NSW, Australia and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University.
He was educated as a physicist at Oxford University, from where he also holds a D.Phil in astrophysics.
