Theme:
4. People of the Present – Peopling the Past
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Megaprojects and Historic Environments: A Sustainable Road Map to Mega Legacy?
Content:
Megaprojects are transformational temporary engineering projects, characterized by large investment, vast complexity, and long-lasting impact on the economy, environment, and society.
This session, organised by: Landward Research, TII, Arcadis Netherlands, HS2, Rubicon Heritage, Jacobs, and Red River Archaeology, will examine the interconnectivity between infrastructure projects and finite heritage resource.
Examples of megaprojects include: the TII programme, Suedlink, Canal Seine Nord Europe, Heathrow T5, HS2, Dike reinforcement Afsluitdijk, LUAS Dublin, and ViA15 Highway Netherlands.
However, projects which leave mega-legacy don’t have to be mega in size. Smaller agile investigations can also yield mega-impact.
Such projects provide the opportunity to continually improve on:
• Innovation
• Sustainability and green procurement
• Cross disciplinary cooperation
• Practice and management
• Holistic approaches to heritage (landscape, monuments, geography)
• Learning lessons and seeking opportunities for improvement
These opportunities should allow for long-term sustainable transformation of our industry and heritage management by building skills, capacity, and inter-institutional communication while also conserving heritage infrastructure and landscapes.
Many megaprojects will be publicly funded and as such pressure is always present to ensure value and sustainable outcomes for the people who are both funding and benefiting from the project. Long term change can be challenging to affect even through the largest projects and often there is a need to recognise the benefits derived will be realised in the future. These pressures drive innovation and the adaption of new approaches to manage the challenges and scale of these projects.
Bearing this in mind:
• How do we deliver our works to maximise our impact?
• How can we understand the challenges and opportunities of megaprojects?
This session invites papers which examine the practice and management of delivering sustainable heritage works or which offer case studies about:
• Approaches before or during investigation programmes
• Lessons learnt
• Challenges and how these were overcome
• Threats and opportunities of sustainable heritage
Keywords:
Practice, Engineering, Heritage Management, Innovation, Sustainability, Resources
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Emily Plunkett (United Kingdom) 1,2,3
Co-organisers:
Kenneth Aitchison (United Kingdom) 4,5,6
Enda O'Flaherty (Ireland) 7,8
Karin Wink (Netherlands) 9
Holger Schweitzer (Germany) 10
Affiliations:
1. High Speed Two (HS2)
2. MCIfA Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA)
3. Transport Infrastructure Ireland
4. Landward Research
5. Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers (FAME)
6. University of Liverpool
7. Rubicon heritage
8. Red River Archaeology
9. Arcadis Netherlands
10. Jacobs, Suedlink
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