Below is a list of upcoming events:
Four Key Leadership Takeaway Messages Webinar
Date: 22nd Oct, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
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Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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In this webinar, Celine will be sharing key learnings and tools from the 9-month award winning Water Leadership Program from the International Water Centre that she recently completed. As a mum of two young children, partner and group manager, she like many others is navigating challenging situations and is needing to develop the skills and behaviours to lead positive changes in her environment. Much like the pandemic health crisis that we are finding ourselves in, the challenges in advancing integrated water management projects requires leadership skills and behaviours from individuals to exert influence and positive changes.
Speaker
Celine Marchenay - Water Technology
Celine is an environmental engineer with over 10 years’ experience in the water industry. She migrated to Australia from France in 2006 looking for a safer and growing environment to develop herself professionally and personally. She started settling and drawing her first connections in Hervey Bay (QLD) for a couple of years working for a local council to improve the water quality of treated effluent ponds.
She then relocated to Melbourne where the climate and culture aligned closer to what she loves and grew up with. Celine started a family and continued to grow her technical skills in computer modelling by assisting water corporations and local councils in operating and planning for the future of potable and sewer networks considering population growth and aging infrastructure. Over the last eight years, Celine has been working at Water Technology as part of the Integrated Stormwater Management group that she now leads, delivering surface water management strategies to secure the health and safety of the community and environment that we live in.
Celine’s professional experience within various areas of the water industry gives her an understanding of the constraints and challenges the different water beneficiaries and managers are facing in planning and managing for the future.
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Understanding and applying Victoria's stormwater planning requirements
Date: 28th Oct, 2020 - 28th Oct, 2020
Time: 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Venue: Online - Zoom
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Organiser: Clearwater Victoria
Phone: 9679 7711
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This training will support planners and engineers to understand the new stormwater objectives in Victoria’s amended statewide planning controls. Session will explore how to receive and assess applications to best achieves stormwater outcomes. The course will be valuable for Local Government statutory / strategic planners and engineers, who have a role to play in implementing stormwater planning requirements, and any other professionals who need to understand stormwater and planning links. The session will be delivered by subject expert presenters Sara Lloyd (E2Designlab), Kate Matthews (Tract Consultants) and Mandy Bolton (Senior Policy Advisor, DELWP).
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City Shaping in a Post COVID World - International Keynote Showcase
Date: 5th Nov, 2020 - 5th Nov, 2020
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Registration Fees
Member rates
Full Access - $150
Per Webinar - $50
Non Member Rates
Full Access - $190
Per Webinar - $65
Event Overview
The series kicks off starting at home in Melbourne, and examines the liveability, city shaping in a post-covid world presented by Dr Melanie Davern from RMIT University. Dr Melanie Davern is a Senior Research Fellow, Director of the Australian Urban Observatory and CoDirector of the Healthy Liveable Cities Group within the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University. Her research interests focus on liveability, community and individual wellbeing with specific expertise in the development and use of indicators as a measurement tool for policy development, program evaluation and community engagement.
In this week’s session, we will also meet with Dr Sivajanani Sivarajah from Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University to see how cities in Canada can provide accessible green space into the future. Dr. Janani Sivarajah is an urban forestry, urban greening, and plant biology researcher, educator, and consultant. Her transdisciplinary research explores the environmental services of urban trees for human well-being, including UV protection and mediation of ultraviolet exposure by urban trees.
We will discuss policies and approaches that are required in both countries to improve landscape design and move us beyond reactively adding green space to existing grey infrastructure.
Speakers
Dr Janani Sivarajah, Brock University
Dr. Janani Sivarajah is an urban forestry and greening researcher, educator, and consultant. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University and Vineland Research and Innovation Centre. She has a Master of Forest Conservation and Ph.D. in Forestry from the University of Toronto. Her transdisciplinary research explores the ecosystem services of urban trees and public greenspaces, and finds greening solutions to improve the socio-ecological resilience of cities. She is particularly interested in building multifunctional landscapes and proposing nature-based solutions to global environmental challenges (e.g., climate change, heatwaves). Her work has found direct and relevant applications in both public health and environmental fields. She is the President of the Ontario Urban Forest Council, Research Associate at the Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University, and member of the Ontario Professional Foresters Association and the City of Toronto's Shade Policy Steering Committee. She also lectures at Daniel’s Institute of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Toronto. She enjoys public engagement, science communication, and hiking through the woods.
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Exploring Green Roofs in Europe - International Keynote Showcase
Date: 12th Nov, 2020 - 12th Nov, 2020
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Registration Fees
Member rates
Full Access - $150
Per Webinar - $50
Non Member Rates
Full Access - $190
Per Webinar - $65
Event Overview
In the second week, Dusty Gedge brings to Victoria the lessons learnt on promoting Green Roofs around Europe. He speaks on the successes he’s experienced in the adoption of green roofs, and discusses the challenges the continent faces in the future. Dusty is the current President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and Founder of Livingroofs.org. Dusty is a recognised authority, designer, consultant and public speaker on green roofs. He has worked on GI (Green Infrastructure) Projects in the UK for the last 17 years.
Green Roof policy approaches vary across Europe depending on the planning system. Take London as a starting point this presentation will provide an overview of how selective cities across the continent take forward the delivery of green roofs. The talk will also cover design approaches to biodiversity biosolar (solar green roofs) and how creation of wetland green roofs have potential for storing rainwater.
Speaker
Dusty Gedge, European Federation of Green Roof Associations
Dusty is a green infrastructure consultant working in London, UK and Europe. He is the current President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and founder of Livingroofs.org.
Though he has a particular interest in biodiversity and urban nature, his work in the built environment is focused on climate resilience and the promotion of greener cities through multifunctional green infrastructure. He has recently been an external advisor to the Greening Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2030 project.
A recognised designer, technical and policy advisor on green roofs and urban green infrastructure., has worked on GI Projects in the UK for the last 20 years. Some of these are recognised as seminal projects, especially in London through his consultancy Qirm the Green Infrastructure Consultancy [GIC]. He is currently working on a number of design projects to deliver wetland green roofs and is part of the team working on Blue roof guidance for CIRIA.
He also co-wrote the online small-scale green roof guide, with John Little www.greenrooftraining.com
He has also a published author and has been instrumental in writing strategic reports on green roofs and green infrastructure, the most recent of which is the new London green roof report.
Dusty has also been a TV presenter and is a recognised speaker at conferences and events around the world.
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Planning for Sustainability - International Keynote Showcase
Date: 19th Nov, 2020 - 19th Nov, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Registration FeesMember rates Full Access - $150 Non Member Rates Full Access - $190 Event OverviewFor years Portland, Oregon had an incentive program to encourage the use of green roof technology to manage stormwater in the downtown. In 2018, ecoroofs became a requirement. Why did Portland move to a requirement instead of an incentive? And how did they get a requirement approved? In the third week of the showcase, Mindy Brooks presents insights from City of Portland's "Central City 2035". This is the city's comprehensive plan for creating new guiding policies and urban design for the Central City and the Willamette Riverfront area. The session will examine how urban planning and design is used to foster creativity, innovation and productivity. Mindy Brooks Experienced City Planner who has worked at the City of Portland for over 15 years. Speaker
Mindy has worked for the City of Portland since 1999, first as an Environmental Technician then as a City Planner. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from Washington State University and Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Portland State University. She has managed environmental program updates for major comprehensive plans including Airport Futures, a policy and zoning update for the Portland International Airport and surrounding industrial lands, and Central City 2035, a policy and zoning update Portland’s downtown and Willamette River. In her free time she likes to hike around Mount Rainer and the Goat Rocks wilderness and is an avid skier in the winter. Sponsored By
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Mindy Brooks, City of Portland (USA)Flood Resilience in the Netherlands - International Keynote Showcase
Date: 26th Nov, 2020 - 26th Nov, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Registration Fees
Member rates
Full Access - $150
Per Webinar - $50
Non Member Rates
Full Access - $190
Per Webinar - $65
Event Overview
The showcase is capped off with a presentation by Prof. Chris Zevenbergen on Flood Resilience of Urban Systems in The Netherlands. He discusses innovative concepts used to mitigate urban flood and methods to flood-proof building designs that have been trialled in The Netherlands.
Many countries are currently revisiting their flood (disaster) risk management strategy. There is a shift in focus from reacting to and preparing for singular, extreme events to (also) anticipating trends in these type of events. This long-term focus is inherently coupled with large uncertainties about how physical (climate change) and economic conditions will change, what research and innovation will bring, how societal preferences will develop etc. Moreover, long lead times of flood protection infrastructure and city transformations are prompting governments to take a long-term horizon. Governments are increasingly aware of these implications to be relevant for decisions they make today.
Speaker
Prof Chris Zevenbergen, Water Engineering Department of IHE Delft
Chris Zevenbergen is professor at the Water Engineering Department of IHE Delft and at the TuDelft, The Netherlands. He is a visiting professor at the Southeast University (SEU) and at the North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWU), China. He has published/edited five books and more than 150 scientific publications in the field of environmental engineering and urban flood management. Currently, he is Head of the Flood Resilience Chair Group (FRG) of IHE Delft. He participates/has participated in various national and international advisory boards of governmental and scientific institutions and programs related to climate adaptation, resilience and urban planning (such as IPCC EM Infra, Rotterdam Climate Proof, Environmental Science Group Wageningen, iBuild, DLR Future Mega Cities, EPSRC, the Dutch Knowledge for Climate Program).
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Stormwater 2021 National Conference
Date: 14th Apr, 2021 - 16th Apr, 2021
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Crown Promenade Melbourne
Address: 8 Whiteman Street Southbank VIC 3006
Organiser: Stormwater Australia
Phone: +61 2 9744 5252
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New Frontiers for Stormwater: Into the Next Decade
On behalf of Stormwater Australia and the Conference Working Group, we invite you to join us at STORMWATER 2021, the 6th National Conference on Urban Water Management convened by Stormwater Australia, to be held from Wednesday, 14th to Friday, 6th April 2021 at the Crown Promenade Melbourne, VIC.
With over 300 delegates anticipated, it will be the one stop shop for industry professionals looking to keep abreast of contemporary practice, share ideas with their peers and make new contacts that can be invaluable in their everyday work.
The 2021 Conference theme is: New Frontiers for Stormwater – Into The Next Decade.
We face profound challenges to manage our co-dependent urban and rural areas into the next decade. Population growth and climate change is driving rapid changes to the natural and human environment including declining waterway health and increasing flood risks. These challenges involve behaviours, policy settings and society expectations in linked economic, social and environmental systems. A systems approach is needed to transform our science, governance, practice, policy and culture to resolve these continually evolving problems and understand the trade-offs. How can we explain these complex challenges to our colleagues and instigate change within society?
Does increased urban density provide sustainable outcomes or result in declining liveability? Our knowledge, experience and culture are also rapidly evolving into the next decade. Perhaps these evolving opportunities will meet to challenges of the next decade and transform our urban and rural areas. How will this happen? The evolution of systems thinking, recognition of circular economies and the connectivity of scales, increased diversity, better connected networks of people, digital twins and legacy knowledge from our first peoples are the new frontiers. This might influence local actions to deliver global benefits to people and ecosystems.
As with previous years, we will be holding our National Excellence Awards at the Conference Dinner, and will be rounding the event program with a number of social and networking events.
We look forward to working together with all of you "into the next decade". See you in Melbourne in April 2021!