Welcome to season 5 of AECOM’s Talking Infrastructure podcast. Talking Infrastructure delves into the industry’s hot topics, key projects, and the ground-breaking innovations that are helping to solve some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges.

Protecting heritage, powering renewal

Protecting heritage while powering renewal is a challenge facing communities and organisations across the UK. As historic buildings and places are adapted to meet modern needs, the question is how to preserve what makes them special while ensuring they remain relevant for future generations.

Collaboration is increasingly at the heart of that challenge. By bringing together different organisations, skills and expertise, it is possible to develop practical and affordable solutions that protect heritage, preserve traditional craftsmanship and support modern requirements.

How can historic buildings be modernised without losing their character and significance? What does effective collaboration look like in complex, live environments? And how can heritage assets help strengthen local identity while enabling places to respond to social and environmental change?

In this special panel discussion recorded at UKREiiF, host Toby Sadler is joined by:

Sophia Negus (Regional Director, Business Engineering, AECOM)
Alasdair Travers (Design Partner, Purcell)
Christine Davis-Worth (Head of Heritage – Conservation Architect and Heritage Consultant, BDP)
Richard Jessup (Associate Chartered Building Surveyor, AtkinsRéalis)
Tom Foxall (Regional Director – London and South East, Historic England).

Together, they explore how heritage can be protected while unlocking new opportunities for growth and renewal, sharing examples of how partnership, innovation and traditional skills can help historic assets continue to serve communities for generations to come.

Listen to the full discussion and discover how protecting heritage can help power renewal.

Listen to our latest Talking Infrastructure episode over on: https://aecom.com/podcasts/talking-infrastructure-podcast/

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