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Early Bird Registration for ISHS2014

The NCWE 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering will be held in conjunction with the IAHR 5th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures. The combined event has the theme of “Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes”, and will focus on the role of hydraulic structures in meeting the challenge of extreme events typical in Australia while addressing the requirements imposed by our growing population, the environment, agriculture, industry, and tourism for current and future generations.

Keynote lectures will include:

Scour at Hydraulic Structures, Professor Bruce MELVILLE, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Hydraulics of stepped weirs and dam spillways: engineering challenges, labyrinths of research, Professor Jorge MATOS, IST Lisbon, Portugal

Early bird registration is now open with full details available at: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/ishs-2014

PDF of Slides from The CARM Presentation

Dan has kindly made the PDF of his PowerPoint of his presentation “CARM – Water when and where it matters” available for download.

CARM – Water when and where it matters

The Sydney Division, Engineers Australia Water Engineering Panel is pleased to announce that the first presentation of the year will be titled CARM – Water when and where it matters and will be jointly delivered by Brett Tucker, CEO, and Dan Berry, Manager Basin Planning, both of the State Water Corporation. If the name for this sounds familiar it is because this project has been nominated for, and received, numerous awards, including:

2013 Sydney division Engineering Excellence awards
- Winner – The Bradfield Award
- Winner – Engineering for Regional Communities
- Highly Commended – Software and Embedded Systems
2013 Australian Engineering Excellence awards
- Winner Environmental Engineering Excellence
2013 Australian Water Association Infrastructure and Innovation Award
2013 NSW AWA Infrastructure and Innovation Award

The project, the first of its kind in Australia, will recover water savings of which 33GL will be returned to the Snowy/Murray systems and the remainder used to improve reliability in the Murrumbidgee valley. In addition, the system will reduce excess releases from the dams by up to 200GL on average.

Schematic map of the CARM projects. — CARM Overview

The presentation will be given at the EA Auditorium, Chatswood, on Thursday, 6th March 2014, with light refreshments from 5:30pm for a 6pm start. RSVP is requested via the EA booking system.

A full PDF printable flyer is available for download and further questions can be directed to Chris Thomas.

ISHS 2014 Paper Submission: 2 December 2013

This is a reminder that papers for next year’s National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering are due on 2 December 2013. I would urge you to consider submitting a paper to this important event on the calendar for the hydraulic engineering community. Please see below for more information, and feel free to forward this message to others.

The 5th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures and the 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering will be held in Brisbane, Australia on 25–27 June 2014. The symposium has the theme of “Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes”, and will focus on the role of hydraulic structures in meeting the challenge of extreme events while addressing the requirements imposed by our growing population, the environment, agriculture, industry, and tourism for current and future generations. More information.

Keynote lectures will include:

Scour at Hydraulic Structures
Professor Bruce MELVILLE, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Hydraulics of stepped weirs and dam spillways: engineering challenges, labyrinths of research
Professor Jorge MATOS, IST Lisbon, Portugal

RESCHEDULED: What’s happening in flooding in Australia

We’ve had to reschedule the full day event “What’s happening in flooding in Australia” to 27th November 2013. Full details are still available in our original post and registration is via EA’s website.

Full Day Event: What’s happening in flooding in Australia

UPDATE: this has been rescheduled to 27th November 2013 at the same venue.

The Water Panel is pleased to announce, despite the late notice, that the next event on its calendar will be a full day event titled What’s happening in flooding in Australia. This will be held at the UTS Aerial Function Centre on 23rd October and will cost $70, students are free but must pre-register. The cost will include full catering for the day.

Update 2013-10-02: the event registration and payment gateway is now up an running.

Abstract

There is a lot going on in the flooding space in Australia at the moment. This includes the National Flood Risk Information Project (NFRIP), updating of Australian Rainfall and Runoff and the National Flood Manual. A number of projects underway are being funded by Geoscience Australia. This seminar will include an update on the upcoming milestones and deliverables of these projects. NFRIP which will undertake three core activities:

Work towards making flood study mapping information freely available from a central location through an online flood information portal.
Analyse Geoscience Australia’s historic archive of satellite imagery to derive water observations to help understand where flooding may have occurred in the past.
Improve the quality of future flood information by completing the revision of the Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR).

Presenters

Geoscience Australia Representative (TBC)
James Ball, Editor ARR, UTS
Janice Green, Project Manager ARR Project 1 –IFD revision, BoM
Duncan McLuckie, Editor “Managing the Floodplain”, NSW OEH

Details

Time: 10am to 4pm

Catering: included (if you have special needs please contact us)

Cost: $70 to cover catering and venue hire. Full time students free subject to registration prior to the event (email: arr_admin@arr.org.au) Registration can be made at: https://events.engineersaustralia.org.au/ei/getdemo.ei?id=1881&s=_70S0ZGDRN

Venue: UTS Aerial Function Centre

Enquiries: Mark Babister (babister@wmawater.com.au) or Peter Brady (peter.brady@uts.edu.au)

Printable Flyer: a PDF printable flyer is available for download.

WSRG Stormwater Presentation

The Western Sydney Regional Group is running a presentation titled “Integrated Water Cycle Management – From Modelling to Delivery on Ground”, on the 25th September. If you are interested please see the full pdf flier.

Speakers:

Tony Weber:

Tony is an Associate at BMT WBM with over 25 years’ experience in the water industry. In his current role, Tony provides expert advice, peer review, mentoring and business development support for water sensitive urban design, catchment modelling, integrated water cycle management, policy, planning and practical capacity building amongst government and industry across Australia, the UK, Europe and Asia. He has been a co-author in many water quality and WSUD guideline documents across Australia, especially those around stormwater quality modelling and integrated water cycle management. Tony has a degree in chemistry from QUT, is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Fenner School and was awarded Fellowship of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand in 2012.

Reid Butler:

Reid is nearing 20 years in the water industry in Sydney, and during that time has been involved with numerous projects which have achieved significant water conservation, runoff quality improvements, flood mitigation and sustainable outcomes.
He has been the manager of the Sydney office of BMT WBM for the past six years and before that worked in state and local government as well as a stint project managing the innovative WSUD in Sydney capacity building program.

Call for Papers: Brisbane Hydraulics Conference

A call for papers is now open for the 5th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures and the 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering, which will be held in Brisbane on 25–27 June 2014. The symposium has the theme of “Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes”, and will focus on the role of hydraulic structures in meeting the challenge of extreme events while addressing the requirements imposed by our growing population, the environment, agriculture, industry, and tourism for the current and future generations. Abstract submissions are due by 2 Dec.

More information: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/ishs-2014

ANCOLD Workshop for September

The Australian National Committee on Large Dams is running a a series of workshops around the country titled “ANCOLD Hydrology, Dambreak and Consequence Workshops”. They are two day workshops with the full details available on a PDF flyer.

The dates and locations are:

Melbourne: 2-3 September, Rydges Exhibition Street
Brisbane: 5-6 September, Rydges South Bank
Sydney: 9-10 September, Rydges World Square

ARR Update July 2013

Project 1 – IFD Release

The Bureau of Meteorology has been working to develop new Intensity–Frequency–Duration (IFD) design rainfall estimates. We’re pleased to inform you these new IFDs have now been released.

The new IFDs are based on a more extensive database, with nearly 30 years’ additional rainfall data and data from 2300 extra rainfall stations. IFDs are part of a larger suite of design flood estimation inputs currently being revised though the ARR research project, to be released progressively over the next two years. Until all components of ARR are revised, the new IFDs can only be used in specific circumstances. Please read the guidance provided by Engineers Australia prior to using the new IFDs.

Visit the Bureau’s website to access the new IFDs, along with technical information about the new estimates and answers to common questions.

Please email ifdrevision@bom.gov.au if you have any further questions or feedback about the new IFDs.

Draft Terminology Section Release

The section in ARR that defines the terminology to be used has been released. It aims to provide three things:

Clarity of meaning;
Technical correctness; and
Practicality and acceptability

This section defines terms such as Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) and Annual Recurrence Interval (ARI).

Call for Reviewers

Those interested in officially reviewing projects should email arr_admin@arr.org.au briefly describing which projects they are interested in reviewing and what qualifications/experience they have in those practice areas. Please include a brief CV. Those wishing to review project reports in an unofficial capacity can download project reports from the website and email comments to arr_admin@arr.org.au.

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