Blue Green Infrastructure – Learning from Successful Case Studies (On Demand)

Original Date: May 22, 2025
Speakers: Patrick Sullivan, Lead Water Engineer, GHD; Sarah Andrew, Senior Water Resources Engineer, GHD; Justine Bennett, Technical Director, Water & Environment, GHD
Sponsor: Contech Engineered Solutions
Credits: 1.0 PDH | 0.1 CEU | Approved for all Envirocert International, Inc. (ECI) Certifications: Approval #PDH-0143

With sustainable building practices playing a key role in developing and beautifying our cities and towns, Blue Green Infrastructure (BGI) has emerged as a strategic solution in the stormwater sector.

BGI aims to address sustainability and resilience challenges through a blend of natural and engineered systems, combining typical “green” spaces, such as parks and gardens, with “blue” spaces, such as rivers and wetlands. However, there are several challenges within the BGI space, including cost perceptions, lack of experience within the infrastructure sector, and a lack of evaluation of its long-term viability.

In this webinar, our industry leaders will examine these challenges and offer their experience-based solutions to help you design and develop BGI in different contexts. This webinar is suitable for engineers and designers, decision-makers and strategy writers, municipal infrastructure managers, urban planners, landscape architects and designers, architects, asset management leads, and anyone who would like to expand their knowledge of BGI.

Join us for a unique opportunity to:

• Learn about the range of BGI solutions available and how they can deliver sustainable outcomes.
• Discover best-practice design guidance that can be tailored to specific geographies and key project objectives.
• Discover key principles in the planning, design, implementation, monitoring & asset management of BGI, along with strategies to overcome common challenges.
• Learn from case studies about successful BGI adoption from the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Learning objectives

1. Understand what BGI is and what it can achieve

2. Identify what key design and performance elements are key to the success of a project

3. Recognize the importance of BGI in designing sustainable communities for the future

About the Presenters

Patrick Sullivan
Lead Water Engineer, GHD
Pat is a California-licensed civil engineer with over 25 years’ experience as a design engineer and project manager with experience in stream and wetland restoration design, green infrastructure design, hydrologic run-off analyses, open channel and pipeline hydraulic design, erosion and sediment control, bridge/culvert design, and construction management/oversight. He specializes in hydrology and hydraulics, groundwater, and the surface water-groundwater interface, with an emphasis in numerical modeling (air, hydraulic, and hydrogeologic), mathematical optimization, and applied geostatistics. Pat will present case studies from Northern California such as the City of Trinidad Area of Special Biological Significance (ASBS) Stormwater Project and the City of Eureka Watersheds Stormwater Resource Plan.

Sarah Andrew
Senior Water Resources Engineer, GHD
Sarah is an Associate, Senior Water Resources Engineer, and Project Manager for GHD’s Ontario Integrated Water Management team based out of Waterloo. She has over 17 years of experience in stormwater management related design, including both municipal and industrial green infrastructure. She has developed numerous surface water monitoring programs, managing both small and complex large-scale field and data monitoring programs using manual and real-time data collection methods. Her experience with performance monitoring and meteorological systems has led to Sarah designing climate resilient SWM infrastructure using both traditional and green.

Justine Bennett
Technical Director, Water & Environment, GHD
Justine is an environmental practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in the water sector in New Zealand. Her work has focused on urban and peri-urban catchments earmarked as strategic growth or redevelopment areas. She is experienced in water management, helping develop integrated cities and realizing the potential for enhanced community and environmental outcomes through the use of nature-based systems. Justine prefers to take a long-term, strategic, and multi-benefit approach to assisting clients in planning for the future in a flexible and responsive manner. She enjoys collaborating with diverse groups of stakeholders to generate innovative and adaptive approaches to addressing their concerns.

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