The annual Society of Public Health Engineers (SoPHE) Technical Conference take place on 26 March.
Titled ‘Engineering Beyond Compliance’, the one-day conference, which will be held at One Birdcage Walk, London, will explore issues of compliance, safety, and public health.
Session 1: Circular Economy, Water Circularity & Public Health Engineering
Reimagining Public Health Engineering Circular Economy and Its Role in Future-Proofing Water & Health Systems
This session will define how circular economy principles can be applied to Public Health Engineering while protecting hygiene, safety, performance, and resilience, establishing clear boundaries between acceptable innovation and unacceptable public health risk.
Session 2: Public health Engineering and Water Safety Planning
Embedding Water Safety Planning within ‘Circular’ Public Health Engineering
This session will demonstrate how formal Water Safety Planning embeds hygiene, safety, and risk control into building design, providing a rigorous, structured framework to manage water safety from concept through operation.
Session 3: Engineering Under Examination
When Compliance Isn’t Enough: Engineering Judgement Beyond Long-Held Assumptions
This session will challenge long-held Public Health Engineering assumptions by examining real-world performance, failure modes, and emerging technologies, strengthening professional judgement where compliance alone is insufficient to manage risk and complexity.
Session 4: Mind the Gap
Bridging Design and Installation for Real-World Performance
This session will explore how gaps between design intent, installation practice, commissioning, and operation lead to underperforming systems, and to identify practical actions designers can take to improve buildability, verification, and long-term performance.
For further details and to book your place visit: SoPHE Technical Conference.