Sue Illman, Illman Young

Sue Illman, Managing Director, Illman Young and CIC Champion for Flood Mitigation and Resilience
Sue Illman is a landscape architect by training and the Managing Director of Illman Young, a company that has a broad project base from commercial and industrial, to education and leisure, alongside housing at all scales, from new urban extensions to individual houses to historic landscape conservation. Sue is Construction Industry Council (CIC) Champion for Flood Mitigation and Resilience, a Past President of the Landscape Institute, and a Trees and Design Action Group (TDAG) Trustee. Sue’s particular expertise and specialist knowledge and advocacy is around the use of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). She contributed to the CIRIA SuDS Manual and was lead author for the SuDS Construction Guidance for both new developments and retrofitting. Sue believes our urban landscapes must embrace the broadest extent of climate change, where water, trees, SuDS and landscape as a whole can make a major contribution towards reducing the effects of climate change.