Programme

Please note: GE Sustainability 2026 has been cancelled. The conference will no longer be taking place on 8 September 2026. The programme below is shown for reference only. We apologise to all speakers, attendees, and partners for the disruption caused.

GE Sustainability

This conference is not only a celebration of best practice. It is a challenge to the status quo. Sustainability in ground engineering can only scale if it is commercially viable, insurable, and buildable. Climate change, political uncertainty, constrained public budgets, and global supply-chain instability are already reshaping what clients commission and what delivery partners are willing, or indeed able, to deliver.

Yet at the same time, the ground is already demonstrating the impacts of ignoring sustainable practices. Rising flood levels, more frequent extreme rainfall, prolonged droughts, shifting groundwater tables, and unpredictable soil behaviour are already affecting sites around the world, increasing construction risk, maintenance costs, and programme uncertainty. This programme is designed to focus squarely on how sustainability can survive delivery.