Conference Program
IPWEA NSW Division 2014 Annual Conference
Conference Program ‘An Engineering Tool Box’ th
Wednesday 15 October 2014 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Site Tour
Meet at reception 1:50pm. Bring boots
Spagnolos Road Storm water Detention Basin – a high A flood consequence category dam. Two completed basins and one under construction and the cutting edge early warning system for flooding.
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Registration commences
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Welcome Reception
Attire: Smart casual
John Roydhouse, Chief Executive Officer, IPWEA NSW (House Keeping) Bill Woodcock, Events and Roads, Transport and Road Safety Director, IPWEA NSW
Exhibition Area
Thursday 16th October 2014 8:00am – 9:00am
Registration commences
9:00am – 9:15am
Welcome & Opening Greg Moran, President IPWEA (NSW)
9:15am – 10:30am
Dr. Craig Emerson
Jetty & Harbour Room
An economist’s and former politician’s guide to funding public infrastructure
10:30am – 11:00am
Morning Tea
11:00am – 1:00pm
Technology in Engineering Jetty & Harbour Room
Road Safety - Making a Difference Marina Room
11:00am – 11:30am
Matt Potter Implementing mobile solution – blink mobile
Iris Dorsett Kindy Kits
11:30am – 12:00pm
Bill Woodcock & Gordon Hooper New technology for the collection of asset condition data
Melanie Suitor & Jayne Bleechmore The ‘free cuppa for the driver’ scheme
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Rod Eckels Achieving engineering accuracies using mobile laser scanning
AAPA AAPA strategies and positioning against these objectives and planned future directions.
12:30pm – 1:00pm
IPWEA NSW 2014 Annual General Meeting
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Chairs:
Jetty & Harbour Room
IPWEA NSW Division 2014 Annual Conference
Conference Program ‘An Engineering Tool Box’ 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Engineering Innovation Jetty & Harbour Room
Best Practice and Management Marina Room
Engineering beyond our Borders Boardroom 2
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Gary Pearse Environmental removal of oil spills without damage to infrastructure materials
Ben Lawson Talking apples and apples about infrastructure
Paul Gallagher The overseas perspective on local government engineering
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Peter Shields Alliance contracting – delivering differently
John Earls Asset stewardship – defining asset ownership
Greg Blaze Transportable engineering skills – Mogadishu to Maitland
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Ian Grieves & Paul Knox A new face, a new approach – Auburn Town Centre Redevelopment
Mike Brearley Writing successful grant applications for infrastructure projects
Iris Dorsett Kitaku-Konnan-Kuiki
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Chairs:
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Can we do it better? Jetty & Harbour Room
Projects Great and Small Marina Room
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Anthony Ogle Compliance – affordable? Sustainable? Right? Our technical standards are failing us and what we can do about it
Hamish McLauchlan Waverly and Woollahra administration and depot facility – designing from the ground up
Will Barton Young engineersof today: developing tomorrow’s leaders
4:30pm – 5:00pm
Ben Lawson Why are we here?
Rolly Lawford From little things, big things prosper
Panel Q&A Young engineers of today: developing tomorrow’s leaders
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Young Engineers Showcase Boardroom 2
Chairs:
6:30pm – 11:30pm
Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner
The Reef Room
After dinner speaker Sebastian Terry – has a list of 100 things to do before he dies
6:30pm
Pre dinner Drinks
Exhibition area
IPWEA NSW Division 2014 Annual Conference
Conference Program ‘An Engineering Tool Box’ 7:30pm
Dinner
Attire: Formal Business Suit or Black Tie Optional
Engineering Excellence Awards *Category 1: Design and Construction of a Local Government/Public Works Project *Category 2: New or Improved Techniques including: Innovation and/or Introduction of Techniques or Outstanding Management Initiatives or Outstanding Achievement in Asset Management *Category 3: Innovation in Water Supply and Wastewater *Category 4: Workplace Health and Safety *Category 5: The Three R’s: Recovering, Recycling and Reusing Award *Category 6: Excellence in Road Safety Engineering *Category 7: Environmental Enhancement Project or Initiative *Category 8: Local Government Excellence in Road Safety Awards *Category 9: COMPLETE Multi-Disciplinary Project Management *Category 10: The David Abbott (Under 35) Award *Category 11: Public Works Leader of the Year
Friday 17 October 2014 9:00am – 10:30am
Road Innovations Jetty & Harbour Room
Regional Airports Marina Room
Water Solutions Boardroom 2
9:00am – 9:30am
Mick Raby Searching for financial sustainability in road building
Ross Ioakim Christmas Island runway resurfacing
David Sheipouri Planned maintenance capabilities of ‘split stator’ progressive cavity pumps
9:30am – 10:00am
Trevor Distin Development of long life structural asphalt
Dave Steller Armidale Airport
Mike Brearley & Gary Woodman Sustainable solution for critical infrastructure in a western NSW shire
10:00am – 10:30am
John Lysenko Fibre Reinforced Seals – a cost effective maintenance option for Local Government roads
Josh Devitt Crash and burn or learn to fly? The Orange Airport update
Simon Cassidy Yass Dam upgrade
10:30am – 11:00am
Morning Tea
11:00am – 12:00pm
Road Management Jetty & Harbour Room
Chairs:
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Storm water Management Marina Room
Aquatic Centres Boardroom 2
IPWEA NSW Division 2014 Annual Conference
Conference Program ‘An Engineering Tool Box’ Chairs: 11:00am – 11:30am
Kylie Kerr & Renee McMillan Community consultation with the heavy vehicle industry
Prof. James Ball Australian rain fall and runoff
Bill Twohill Grenfell Swimming Pool
11:30am – 12:00pm
Bernard Drum Retrofitting roundabouts to existing local road intersections
John Gould Adventures in storm water
Stephen Johansson Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre – a new age of design
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Jetty & Harbour Room
1:00pm – 1:45pm
Terry Alford Innovative infrastructure maintenance delivery - preparing for the future
1:45pm – 2:30pm
IPWEA Q&A, Forum Panel session An opportunity for delegates to bring forward issues, areas for discussion or concerns that IPWEA can assist with into the future. (Delegates will be encouraged to pre submit their questions, ideas, discussion topics during the Conference)
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Moderated by John Roydhouse, Chief Executive Officer, IPWEA NSW IPWEA NSW Board Members 2:30pm – 3:00pm
Afternoon Tea
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Keynote address Mr Andrew Fraser MP Member of the Legislative Assembly Member for Coffs Harbour Assistant Speaker Member of The Nationals
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Closing Ceremony President IPWEA (NSW) Clr. Keith Rhoades AFSM President Local Government NSW
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Conference Program ‘An Engineering Tool Box’ th
Wednesday 15 October 2014 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Site Tour
Meet at reception 1:50pm. Bring boots
Spagnolos Road Storm water Detention Basin – a high A flood consequence category dam. Two completed basins and one under construction and the cutting edge early warning system for flooding.
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Registration commences
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Welcome Reception
Attire: Smart casual
John Roydhouse, Chief Executive Officer, IPWEA NSW (House Keeping) Bill Woodcock, Events and Roads, Transport and Road Safety Director, IPWEA NSW
Exhibition Area
Thursday 16th October 2014 8:00am – 9:00am
Registration commences
9:00am – 9:15am
Welcome & Opening Greg Moran, President IPWEA (NSW)
9:15am – 10:30am
Dr. Craig Emerson
Jetty & Harbour Room
An economist’s and former politician’s guide to funding public infrastructure
10:30am – 11:00am
Morning Tea
11:00am – 1:00pm
Technology in Engineering Jetty & Harbour Room
Road Safety - Making a Difference Marina Room
11:00am – 11:30am
Matt Potter Implementing mobile solution – blink mobile
Iris Dorsett Kindy Kits
11:30am – 12:00pm
Bill Woodcock & Gordon Hooper New technology for the collection of asset condition data
Melanie Suitor & Jayne Bleechmore The ‘free cuppa for the driver’ scheme
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Rod Eckels Achieving engineering accuracies using mobile laser scanning
AAPA AAPA strategies and positioning against these objectives and planned future directions.
12:30pm – 1:00pm
IPWEA NSW 2014 Annual General Meeting
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Chairs:
Jetty & Harbour Room
IPWEA NSW Division 2014 Annual Conference
Conference Program ‘An Engineering Tool Box’ 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Engineering Innovation Jetty & Harbour Room
Best Practice and Management Marina Room
Engineering beyond our Borders Boardroom 2
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Gary Pearse Environmental removal of oil spills without damage to infrastructure materials
Ben Lawson Talking apples and apples about infrastructure
Paul Gallagher The overseas perspective on local government engineering
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Peter Shields Alliance contracting – delivering differently
John Earls Asset stewardship – defining asset ownership
Greg Blaze Transportable engineering skills – Mogadishu to Maitland
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Ian Grieves & Paul Knox A new face, a new approach – Auburn Town Centre Redevelopment
Mike Brearley Writing successful grant applications for infrastructure projects
Iris Dorsett Kitaku-Konnan-Kuiki
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Chairs:
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Can we do it better? Jetty & Harbour Room
Projects Great and Small Marina Room
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Anthony Ogle Compliance – affordable? Sustainable? Right? Our technical standards are failing us and what we can do about it
Hamish McLauchlan Waverly and Woollahra administration and depot facility – designing from the ground up
Will Barton Young engineersof today: developing tomorrow’s leaders
4:30pm – 5:00pm
Ben Lawson Why are we here?
Rolly Lawford From little things, big things prosper
Panel Q&A Young engineers of today: developing tomorrow’s leaders
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Young Engineers Showcase Boardroom 2
Chairs:
6:30pm – 11:30pm
Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner
The Reef Room
After dinner speaker Sebastian Terry – has a list of 100 things to do before he dies
6:30pm
Pre dinner Drinks
Exhibition area
IPWEA NSW Division 2014 Annual Conference
Conference Program ‘An Engineering Tool Box’ 7:30pm
Dinner
Attire: Formal Business Suit or Black Tie Optional
Engineering Excellence Awards *Category 1: Design and Construction of a Local Government/Public Works Project *Category 2: New or Improved Techniques including: Innovation and/or Introduction of Techniques or Outstanding Management Initiatives or Outstanding Achievement in Asset Management *Category 3: Innovation in Water Supply and Wastewater *Category 4: Workplace Health and Safety *Category 5: The Three R’s: Recovering, Recycling and Reusing Award *Category 6: Excellence in Road Safety Engineering *Category 7: Environmental Enhancement Project or Initiative *Category 8: Local Government Excellence in Road Safety Awards *Category 9: COMPLETE Multi-Disciplinary Project Management *Category 10: The David Abbott (Under 35) Award *Category 11: Public Works Leader of the Year
Friday 17 October 2014 9:00am – 10:30am
Road Innovations Jetty & Harbour Room
Regional Airports Marina Room
Water Solutions Boardroom 2
9:00am – 9:30am
Mick Raby Searching for financial sustainability in road building
Ross Ioakim Christmas Island runway resurfacing
David Sheipouri Planned maintenance capabilities of ‘split stator’ progressive cavity pumps
9:30am – 10:00am
Trevor Distin Development of long life structural asphalt
Dave Steller Armidale Airport
Mike Brearley & Gary Woodman Sustainable solution for critical infrastructure in a western NSW shire
10:00am – 10:30am
John Lysenko Fibre Reinforced Seals – a cost effective maintenance option for Local Government roads
Josh Devitt Crash and burn or learn to fly? The Orange Airport update
Simon Cassidy Yass Dam upgrade
10:30am – 11:00am
Morning Tea
11:00am – 12:00pm
Road Management Jetty & Harbour Room
Chairs:
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Storm water Management Marina Room
Aquatic Centres Boardroom 2
IPWEA NSW Division 2014 Annual Conference
Conference Program ‘An Engineering Tool Box’ Chairs: 11:00am – 11:30am
Kylie Kerr & Renee McMillan Community consultation with the heavy vehicle industry
Prof. James Ball Australian rain fall and runoff
Bill Twohill Grenfell Swimming Pool
11:30am – 12:00pm
Bernard Drum Retrofitting roundabouts to existing local road intersections
John Gould Adventures in storm water
Stephen Johansson Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre – a new age of design
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Jetty & Harbour Room
1:00pm – 1:45pm
Terry Alford Innovative infrastructure maintenance delivery - preparing for the future
1:45pm – 2:30pm
IPWEA Q&A, Forum Panel session An opportunity for delegates to bring forward issues, areas for discussion or concerns that IPWEA can assist with into the future. (Delegates will be encouraged to pre submit their questions, ideas, discussion topics during the Conference)
Exhibition area Poster presentations
Moderated by John Roydhouse, Chief Executive Officer, IPWEA NSW IPWEA NSW Board Members 2:30pm – 3:00pm
Afternoon Tea
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Keynote address Mr Andrew Fraser MP Member of the Legislative Assembly Member for Coffs Harbour Assistant Speaker Member of The Nationals
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Closing Ceremony President IPWEA (NSW) Clr. Keith Rhoades AFSM President Local Government NSW
Exhibition area Poster presentations
