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Emeritus Director, MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge
Dick Fenner is Professor of Engineering Sustainability in Cambridge University's Engineering Department and is the Director of the taught MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.
Dick's research interests focus on water, sanitation and sustainability issues in both developed and developing countries, with a focus on urban drainage and water industry asset maintenance. His research has included published work on: the asset maintenance of sewerage infrastructure, developing scale laws for hydrodynamic separation, developing algorithms for leak detection in water mains, applying sensor arrays for monitoring sewage odour, modelling UV disinfection of greywater and recycling for single home use, building a simplified climate impact assessment tool to evaluate the impact of climate change on water treatment plant operation, and examining the impacts of coupled resource management of water, energy and land on food security. In addition he has written extensively on issues relating to engineering education. He is joint editor (with Charles Ainger) of Sustainable Water, a book published in February 2016 and also co-author of Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice (published by ICE Publishing in 2014).
He is currently working on research council funded projects on urban flood resilience, rural water supply in Africa and environmental hazards in Bangladesh. Dick has published over 100 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers and has served on a number of editorial panels for the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers and also on Steering Groups for the Environment Agency, Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) and the Building Research Establishment (BRE). He is a Fellow of Wolfson College and serves on the college's Carbon Reduction Committee.
Dick is the recipient of several awards from the ICE including the George Stephenson Gold Medal, R A Carr Prize and James Watt Medal, the Senior Moulton Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a University of Cambridge Pilkington Teaching Prize.
