26 Sept 2022 – InstRE Sustainability Conference

The day went well and the resulting presentations and information can be found here.

Conference Programme and details.

Event scope.

Background: Defence is presently trying to understand its impact of the environment at home as well as on operations. One key area identified as present, is Defence does not really understand this question and needs to educate and co-ordinate its approach with industry and partners to be able to quantify its impact and adapt its processes. This event is focused on the operational part of the question looking at the problem from the military, industry and partners where possible perspective, to enable UK Defence to be a world leader in this area on humanitarian, aid and reconstruction missions. The event is split over two days (26/27 Sept), each day has a set focus. Day one the understand and today’s solutions, Day two training and research to meet long-term aims.

Objective: the objective of the event is to understand what actions Defence needs to undertake today and, in the future, to reduce its engineering impact, and help facilitate the UK’s sustainability objectives overseas, as a leader and supportive partner in this field.

Goals: This event aims to identify impact areas, clash points with other organisations, short- and long-term engineering strategy areas, and most importantly internal and external training/research requirements to enable these outputs.

Attendees:
This is a targeted event aimed at capturing senior military staff and key enablers. We have capped the event at 100 people set at a mix of Military, Defence partners and industry.

We have several key budget and equipment programme SRO’s attending from across Defence departments ranging from 1* to 3* (Richard Nugee), Academic leads, and senior industry leaders in attendance. Defence Climate Change Strategy holders are attending as this event will help shape and inform the next series of policy documents. The event also has a drinks event on the 26 Sept in the Royal Engineers Officers mess which you of course will be welcomed to take part of, as a networking and discussion piece.

The event will be followed with a series of articles in Defence publications on the events finding and our next steps, all sessions will be recorded and displayed on the InstRE website for sharing to the large audience.

Location: RE Museum, Chatham, ME4 4UG. Local train station is Gillingham. Doors open each day at 0830hrs.