SENG Vic AGM
SENG Vic 2019 AGM and preceeding committee meeting.
Urban Development Impacted by High Groundwater
This session will provide an overview of the hydrological processes which determine high groundwater conditions. The topics include hydraulic conductivity, specific yield, Darcy’s Law, recharge rates, rainfall regimes, climate change and appropriate models and parameter values.
Specifically the talk will address hydrological engineering design of (i) sizing of infiltration basins and (ii) subsoil drainage for control of groundwater levels.
The presentation is based on over 30 years of WA experience in urban hydrology applied to major subdivision projects.
Engineers Australia provides input into the Climate Change Authority consultation process
Create: 09/02/2019 - 15:09
Engineers Australia thanks the Climate Change Authority (CCA) for the opportunity to provide input to updated advice to government on the policy responses needed to meet Australia’s emissions reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement. We note the CCA’s task focuses on mitigation (not adaptation strategies). The link to EA"s submission can be found here
Building Information Modelling - The future of designing green buildings and infrastructure
Tough Is Not Enough
Steve Posselt FIE, author, adventurer and current chair of the Sustainable Engineering Society (SENG), will take you on an incredible journey with his wheeled kayak. The only person to have paddled up the Mississippi in a flood, Steve will have you spellbound as he makes his way to Paris for the COP21 Climate Summit.
Restorative Engineering - Rebuilding the Environment
Overview
Restorative engineering is a new approach to engineering of ecosystems to manage complex and endangered ecological communities. It uses a multi-disciplinary approach to understand natural systems so that they can be reconstructed biomimetically.
Join William Glamore, Water Research Laboratory UNSW and Kylie Russell, Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, as they demonstrate how restorative engineering has been successfully used in Australian projects.
Speakers
Energy Storage, Marine Permaculture, Food and Border Security, Ecosystem Regeneration, Oceanic Carbon Sinks
Brian Von Herzen, Ph.D will be speaking on the topic of needing affordable energy storage globally to allow for greater penetration of renewables, particularly photovoltaic, and then describe underwater compressed energy storage (UWCAES) and pumped thermal energy storage (PTES), how it relates to the 50% renewable energy usage commitment Queensland has committed to by 2030. Even 100% renewables will not be enough to restore a healthy climate. We will need to accelerate the removal and sequestering of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Life Cycle Analysis in Engineering
Life Cycle Analysis is a design and project management process that encourages stakeholders to consider whole-of-life factors when making project decisions. It challenges us to consider all life cycle aspects, not restricting us to market costs but also considering reuse, location of source materials, transport, maintenance and support functions, and end-of-life processes such as closed-loop recycling or upcycling.
Transitioning Built Environment to Zero Net Emissions by 2050
This event explores emissions from infrastructure materials and how we might transition the sector to net zero emissions by 2050.
Built infrastructure transitions to net zero emissions by 2050 to meet a 2 degree centigrade target require major changes to material use. The initial speaker will provide updates on climate change issues and policies, followed by two speakers with substantial research experience who will focus on likely construction material and process changes for an orderly transition to meet the 2050 target.
Future Earth Australia
Future Earth Australia welcomes submissions from government, practitioners, industry, the private sector, NGOs, civil society and academia on our 'Urban Systems Transformation for Sustainable Development Outcomes' consultation process. Your submission will inform our collective strategy due for publication in June 2019.
We are looking for submissions that engage with one of more of the following themes:
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