Tuesday
18 July 2017
12 noon – 3pm

£40 +VAT

includes a welcome drink and
two-course lunch 

The Restaurant Bar
and Grill
14 John Dalton Street
Manchester
M2 6JR

 

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The next property professionals lunch organised by TheBusinessDesk.com will be at The Restaurant Bar and Grill, on John Dalton Street in Manchester on Tuesday, July 18.

Our guest speaker will be Sean Ford, associate in the transportation team at professional services and engineering consultancy WSP in Manchester.

The company, formerly WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, rebranded to WSP in May this year following the recent acquisition of Mouchel, and is now one of the largest engineering businesses in the city employing more than 900 staff across three offices.

WSP has provided services for a number of major schemes across the North West including the Transport for Greater Manchester consultancy framework and recently helped developer, Renaker, achieve planning permission for Manchester’s new tallest building; the planned 64-storey Owen Street skyscraper.

The Mouchel team also developed the “City Centre Cycling Infrastructure Plan” (CCCIP) for Manchester for TfGM.

Sean will be speaking about the hot topic of air quality and pollution in Greater Manchester which is high on the agenda of new Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, there are major ambitions to improve air quality through its published Greater Manchester Air Quality Action Plan.

Sean has a specialist interest in air quality, and will talk about how the property sector can play a key role in looking at both short-term and long-term solutions to address the issues.

He will outline the main causes of air pollution in the city, and ways in which businesses working in the built environment sector can look to tackle these – from introducing ‘green infrastructure’ and biodiversity to ‘green’ existing buildings, to changing our approach to development and infrastructure schemes with the aim of reducing car use in the city.

He will also talk about WSP’s specialist services which has seen them work with a range of public and private sector clients, including delivering Clear Air Zone frameworks across the UK, to improve air quality for those who live and work in our cities.

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