EPW December 2019

Co nf er e nc e feat ur e F EATU RE ARTICLE P ro j e c t o f t h e Y e a r ME MBE R N E W S

#IPWEAQ19 HIGHLIGHTS

STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE

PROJECT OF THE YEAR NOOSA COUNCIL!

MEMBER PROFILE: CHRIS LAWSON

Highlights of the recordbreaking IPWEAQ Annual Conference including stats, Tech Tour reports & photos! p.13-23

Winner of the 2019 IPWEA NZ Hynds Best Paper award, James Thorne on strategic infrastructure decisions. p.60-61

Congratulations Noosa Council – winner of the 2019 IPWEAQ Project of the Year for the Noosa Park Road Boardwalk. p.28-32

Congratulations Chris Lawson who celebrates 40 years as a member of IPWEAQ. p.10

ENGINEERING FOR PUBLIC WORKS

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Project of the Year: Noosa Council..........................................................34 Resurrecting an Australian Icon..............................................................40 Applying Safe Systems Principles to Priority Crossings......................52 Intuition, Infrastructure and Overcoming Bias.....................................62 Places of Refuge – Resilience through Coastal Engineering..............68 ARRB Smart Pavements Conference..........................................................71

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Thanks to our Sponsors!............................................................................16 Thanks to our Exhibitors!..........................................................................20 Best Paper Award........................................................................................28 Komatsu Wacol Facility Tour.....................................................................26 Futures Challenge......................................................................................44 Student Reflections...................................................................................48 Great Debate.................................................................................................51 Design Thinking: Strategy for Innovation................................................76

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President’s Report........................................................................................4 MS Queensland...............................................................................................7 Community News............................................................................................8 Member Profile: Chris Lawson..................................................................10 Membership Milestones..............................................................................11 New members................................................................................................13 CEO’s Report..................................................................................................14 Member Profile: Sean Rice..........................................................................30 Welcome PelicanCorp!................................................................................55 Emerging Leader: Kirsty Bilton.................................................................58 SWQ Branch President’s Report................................................................78 CQ Branch President’s Report...................................................................80 NQ Branch President’s Report...................................................................82 SEQ Branch President’s Report.................................................................84 From the Vice President.............................................................................87

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Professional Development: Year in Review.............................................33 Next Generation Report..............................................................................86 People & Capability Report........................................................................90 ADAC Report..................................................................................................94 Knowledge Centre Report..........................................................................95 Street Design Manual Update....................................................................97 Meet the Teams............................................................................................98

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» CONFERENCE FEATURES

» COMMUNITY NEWS

» IPWEAQ UPDATES

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CEO’s Report............................................................................ 100 Mackay Water Top in Australia........................................... 102 New Regulations to Affect Communities in Reef Catchment...................................................................... 104

COMING UP this QUARTER

December 4 Managing Lower Order Roads KINGAROY 4 Native Title and Cultural Heritage ROCKHAMPTON 5 IPWEA Introduction to Asset Management GATTON 9 Stakeholder Engagement Training BUNDABERG 12 Native Title and Cultural Heritage BRISBANE February 5 QUDM YEPPOON 7 President’s Breakfast BRISBANE 11-12 RSA BRISBANE 12 Sprayed Bitumen DALBY 13 RSA Refresher BRISBANE 16-22 Engineers Week Introduction to Asset Management BRISBANE Native Title and Cultural Heritage CAIRNS 20-22 SWQ Branch Conference STANTHORPE 25 Stakeholder Engagement MACKAY 26-27 Supervisor Workshop CLONCURRY

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INFORMS. CONNECTS. REPRESENTS. LEADS.

2019 IPWEAQ ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The 2019 IPWEAQ Annual Conference was our highest attended conference to date with 525 delegates from 45 councils and 144 organisations with 55 exhibitors. Please see our highlights video.

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David was the 43rd Premier of the Australian State of Tasmania from 2008 until 2011. During his parliamentary career he also held the positions of Minister for Innovation, Science & Technology and Minister for Education & Skills. His time as Premier was characterised by bold reforms designed to lift Tasmania educational outcomes and capitalise on Tasmania’s natural advantages in water, food, high speed telecommunications and renewable energy. For his work in promoting innovation and broadband infrastructure David was named by The Australian as one of Australia’s Top 50 most influential people in technology.

This is the fourth year we have attended now and every year it gets better and better. This is one of the best.

Steve Latimer | Interflow

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president’s Report Firstly, thank you for the opportunity to become the 25th IPWEAQ President. I was declared elected at the AGM held 24 October 2019 after serving on the Board as Vice President (2017-2019) and as CQ Branch President (2015-2017).

The IPWEAQ Board for 2019-2021 comprises: • Re-elected Board members • Vice President: Angela Fry, GHD (2017) • CQ Branch President: Celisa Faulkner, Gladstone Regional Council (2017) • SEQ Branch President: Raad Jarjees, Cardno (2017) Newly elected Board members: • NQ Branch President: Glenda Kirk, Mareeba Shire Council • SWQ Branch President: Andrew Johnson, Somerset Regional Council • Sarah Hausler, McCullough Robertson • Trevor Dean, Fraser Coast Regional Council I’d like to thank retiring Board members Gerard Read, Andrew Ryan and Bruce Gardiner for their contributions over the past 2-4 years, and Seren McKenzie who completed 10 years’ service on

the IPWEAQ Board in various roles including SWQ Branch President, Vice President and as our President. Seren is one of the longest-standing Board members in IPWEAQ history and we are delighted that she is continuing her involvement on the SWQ Branch committee.

At a General Meeting of members held 24 October, it was resolved to transition to a Company Limited

by Guarantee – a more formal and appropriate structure given the nature of our activities, and a supporting constitution was adopted. Many thanks to the 126 members who voted in person at the meeting or by Proxy. 125 votes were received in favour.

The new Board met for the first time Friday 25 October, technically and officially, for the first time, as a Board of Directors under Corporations Law as opposed to a Management Committee under state based legislation. Not much changes in terms of our operations – our ABN remains the same and all our structures remain in place, and we continue to be governed primarily by ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-forprofits Commission) legislation since we are a registered charity.

However, the new structure and ASIC oversight does offer a more robust governance framework which offers those we trade with more security and confidence in their dealings with us.

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Congratulations to all the projects and people nominated for awards at the 2019 IPWEAQ Excellence Awards. It was a great night of celebration with a respectful mood amongst the almost 600 delegates present.

I wish you all a safe Christmas and I look forward to catching up with everyone at our branch conferences and other events in 2020 but firstly, I invite members and Partners to join us at the first event for 2020 – the annual President’s Breakfast to be held at the Victoria Park Garden Marquee in Brisbane, Friday 7 February 2020. This event gets bigger and better every year so please be sure to join us to kick off another exceptional IPWEAQ year.

Craig Murrell President

Craig on the Kokoda Trail.

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About Me

Craig Murrell BEng, MTech, RPEQ, RPEng, MBA, GAICD Career Wave International, Principal Civil Engineer (RPEQ), March 2018 – Present M1 Consulting, Director and Senior Civil Engineer (RPEQ), November 2013 – February 2018 Gladstone Regional Council • Manager, Technical Services, September 2011 – October 2013 • Manager, Infrastructure Planning, October 2008 – September 2011 • Special Projects Manager – Infrastructure Planning, May 2008 – October 2008 Calliope Shire Council • Manager, Water Services, November 2002 – May 2008 Wagga Wagga City Council • Engineering Assets, Senior Engineer, January 2002 – November 2002

Welcome to #IPWEAQ19.

• Waste Management, Asset and Services Engineer, May 1998 – January 2002 Forbes Shire Council • Asset and Urban Engineer, August 1996 – April 1998 • Roads and Rural Engineer, June 1994 – August 1996 Branch Challenge at the Mackay Conference 2015

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BREAKFAST

In appreciation of the valuable contribution of our Partners and sponsors, we invite you to join us for the 2020 President’s Breakfast.

Please celebrate with us at this VIP and members-only event. We look forward to welcoming you!

RURAL AID

Friday 7 February 2020, 7.00am - 9.30am Garden Marquee, Victoria Park Cost: $50 plus GST Register now at: 2020 President's Breakfast In support of the President’s Charity, Rural Aid.

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PRESIDENT’S CHARITY

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MS QUEENSLAND

PRESIDENT'S CHARITY

Each President nominates a charity for us to support during their term. Seren McKenzie chose MS Queensland and we are delighted to announce that $22,568.60 was raised during the two years of Seren’s presidency, a record donation for a President’s Charity.

Fund raising initiatives over the past two years included raffles, lawn bowls, merchandise sales, charity auctions, bike rides and the constant consumption of Freddos by staff in our office.

Team IPWEAQ raised enough from the Brissie to Bay ride to purchase an electric bed for an MS sufferer ($3,868) while the auction of Col Chandler’s beautiful seascape raised $3,800.

During Seren’s two-year presidency, she nominated MS Queensland as the President’s Charity. Our commitment to raising awareness and funds for this illness was vital, as there is currently no cure for the disease. #IPWEAQ19 finished Seren’s inspiring presidency and with that, an incredible $22,568.6‬0 was raised!

The finale for our MSQ fundraising was the #IPWEAQ19 Charity

Auction. Thank you to Scott Williams of Complete Urban who secured the winning bid for the ‘Magnificent Melbourne trip for two’! This very generous prize was donated by Pickles and included two nights at the luxurious InterContinental Rialto in Melbourne with all the trimmings.

One lucky door prize winner also walked away with a car care pack valued at over $1,000.

with Craig Murrell who has chosen Rural Aid as his President’s Charity. As one of the largest rural charities in Australia, Rural Aid’s focus is twofold: provide support to farmers and rural communities in times of natural disaster and support the sustainability of the agricultural sector. We look forward to supporting Rural Aid for the next two years.

Thank you for everyone who has supported this deserving cause over the past two years!

We look forward to creating new and exciting fundraising initiatives

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community news

Congratulations, Andrew Johnson (IPWEAQ Board member) who was appointed CEO for Somerset Regional Council Director having served as Director Operations since 2018.

Andrew joined Somerset in 2008 as Works Manager. Best wishes for your ongoing success, Andrew!

Craig Young, Manager Civil Asset Management moves from the Sunshine Coast Council to Somerset Regional Council to become Director, Operations.

Congratulations, Craig.

We’re sure you and Andrew will make a formidable team!

Sean Rice (see Member Profile pages 28-30) is currently Acting CEO at Paroo Shire Council.

Sean is otherwise Managing Director of the Proterra Group (an IPWEAQ Partner). Enjoy your new role, Sean!

Congratulations Sandra Burke who is now based in Brisbane at the Department of Housing and Public Works as an Executive Director.

SEQ Branch Christmas Party Members of the SEQ Branch gathered at the Ship Inn to celebrate another year. Congratulations to Tyrone Toole of ARRB Group who won the prize for the best Christmas Dress for discovering a new use for a Bon Bon. Runner up for merely wearing a Santa’s hat went to David Milling, also of ARRB Group. We’re not sure our engineers are taking Christmas seriously (unlike our staff). Thanks to everyone for joining us!

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Welcome to the final issue of EPW for 2019 and for this decade From all of us at IPWEAQ - Board members and staff - thank you for being a part of our community and for your involvement and support during the year. We will continue to grow and develop your Institute to guarantee it's position as the premier body representing the interests of professionals in our sector.

Our offices in Albion will be closed from Monday 23 December to Friday 27 December (inclusive) as we celebrate Christmas with our families.

From all of us at IPWEAQ, Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

And Christmas is here at the IPWEAQ offices. Congratulations to Monica who defeated some serious contenders to win the best dressed desk competition!

Monica again in Christmas attire - at least someone takes Christmas seriously.

Merry Christmas to all our members, Partners, colleagues and friends of IPWEAQ!

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memership feature

Congratulations Chris Lawson who celebrates 40 years as a member of IPWEAQ My career in local government began when I was awarded a cadetship in 1971 by Townsville City Council to study civil engineering at James Cook University. I still count those years in Townsville and at JCU as amongst the best of my life where I made many life-long friends.

I’m also grateful to my various mentors at TCC for throwing me in the deep end but with support and for giving me a love for engineering which lasts to this day. I interrupted my time at TCC with 2 years in the USA studying and undertaking research into soil stabilisation.

On my return to TCC I was soon charged with the normal stuff of roads, pavements, stormwater drainage, water and sewerage, and added roles in computerised mapping (predecessor to GIS) and asset management and these have carried me through my entire career. It was in 1979 when I prepared a paper for the Local Government Engineers and Overseers Association conference in Townsville that I first joined our august organisation.

In all, I served 23 years in local government with TCC, then Logan and later Warwick and Beaudesert.

My time with local government was interrupted by 5 years at Neville Jones and Associates where I was fortunate enough,

with the late Neville Jones, to write the Queensland Urban Drainage Manual and be heavily involved in the Standard Drawings and the first Qld Streets. Any of these publications might be considered career highlights in my time in or around local government but there are others.

Amalgamations have been a challenge for many of us. I was fortunate enough to be involved after the first amalgamation at Warwick and was given a significant role in bringing together four disparate workforces, with widely varying work practices. With the willing help of the workforce we created something new and the outcome at the time was exhilarating. We downsized our plant fleet, modernised fleet operations, standardised fleet purchasing, introduced fleet leasing, introduced planned maintenance and works orders, introduced structured training and career path planning, achieved QA, Safety and Environmental accreditation, introduced GIS and asset management. It was great fun and I remain grateful to those at Warwick who allowed me the professional freedom and provided the support for this to happen. It was satisfying and exciting to see the development of all staff as they embraced new opportunities.

With my experience from USA and from Townsville with stabilisation, while employed at Warwick undertaking a job for Main Roads, I managed to convince Main Roads

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through their Peter Evans (once an Ipswich City Council employee) to once more undertake insitu lime stabilisation, something they had dismissed as ineffective following a couple of failed projects which in hindsight were never designed to work. The collaboration of two local government engineers paved the way for a process that almost everyone now implements.

After Beaudesert, I moved back into consulting with Connell Wagner (now Aurecon). This move was an entirely different experience. I came face to face with much larger and more complex projects than I had ever experienced in local government.

Such projects included tunnels (for Brisbane City Council), busways, passenger and heavy rail, bulk materials handling and ports, hospitals at the Gold and Sunshine Coasts and road projects such as Toowoomba Range Second Crossing. In many of these projects

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I was able to use my experience in local government for the benefit of projects and clients. With the complexity and size of some of these projects (in the range of $100M to over $1B) came the need for more sophisticated design techniques and software (including 3D modelling), document control and management, project control and management. In the couple of years prior to my retirement as Regional Manager of Aurecon in 2015, the push for BIM came to the fore but its promise seems to be just as far away now as it was then while IPWEAQ with its ADAC remains leading practice.

I was lucky enough to be elected to serve IPWEAQ on a number of occasions in the early 1990s and remained in contact as it transitioned from the organisation run by the late Ray Moore to Suzannah Barnes-Gillard at the time of the Beaudesert Conference in 2001. With my move to Connell Wagner in 2005 I was unable to maintain that same involvement although I managed to review a few changes to QUDM.

Engineering Advisory Board at Griffith University. I see my involvement on the Board at GU as an opportunity to participate in keeping engineering contemporary into the future.

I feel honoured to have been able to serve our local communities either directly or indirectly and to have served our members in IPWEA. Local Government and engineering have been good to me.

In retirement I remain involved through advisory boards to two local governments and a water authority and I chair the

Congratulations to our members who have achieved a milestone membership!

40 years • Chris Lawson, Retired.

See the feature on Chris’ career on page 10 25 years • Craig Murrell, Wave International Pty Ltd and IPWEAQ President!

• Philip McKone, Retired 15 years • Warren Smith, Stabilised Pavements of Australia 10 years • Jason Crase, Global Synthetics Pty Ltd • Stephen Mow, Somerset Regional Council • Sam Wakeford, Mareeba Shire Council

• David McKinley, McKinlay Shire Council 5 years • Brendan Pearce, Cloncurry Shire Council • Michael Eastwell, Toowoomba Regional Council • Geoffrey Smart, Cassowary Coast Regional Council • Kylie Munn, GHD Pty Ltd • Mark Vignale, McMurtrie Consulting Engineers • Mark Glazebrook, MRG Project Solutions •S tephen Muhldorff, Baker Rossow Consulting Engineers

• David Quinlan, Toowoomba Regional Council • Luke McKee, Department of Transport and Main Roads • Chris Grummitt, Grummitt Consulting Pty Ltd Thank you all for being a valuable part of our IPWEAQ community.

We look forward to your continued involvement. And as a token of our appreciation, we would like to present you with a small gift at your next branch conference.

Congratulations from all of us at IPWEAQ!

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INFORMS. CONNECTS. REPRESENTS. LEADS.

IPWEAQ Membership Join us today!

Why become a member?

As an IPWEAQ member, you’ll have all the networks, resources, support and representation you need to succeed and grow in your career in the public works sector.

Member benefits:

Everything you need to know about our industry and your career with regular updates, invitations, newsletters and our quarterly journal, Engineering for Public Works

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Discounts for our highly-regarded professional development program

Discounts on our leading-edge technical products and publications

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Access to industry-specific content in our globallyrecognised Knowledge Centre

Contribute to our renowned technical Working Groups delivering solutions for Queensland communities

We represent your interests to government ensuring your voice is heard

Who can become a member?

Membership is open to anyone actively involved in the delivery of public works and services in Queensland including technical officers, supervisors, fleet managers, project managers, finance and HR professionals, councillors and consultants.

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Student membership

We now offer Student membership for full-time civil engineering students and related disciplines for the duration of their university studies. See page 85.

For enquiries, please contact Relationship Manager Johanna.Vanling@ipweaq.com or 07 3632 6803

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New Members in 2019-2020 •Ben

Anderson •Claudia

Anton •Peter

Bilton •Mitch

Blyth •Chris

Borg •Ken

Bott •Matthew

Bower •Gladstone

Brohier •Mark

Bunch •Rob

Calligaris •Lyle

Capel •Ella

Carter •Danny

Chau •Robert

Colagrande •Darren

Cook •Robert

David •Andrew

Douglas •Peter

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Emerson •Hootan

Fartash •Karen

Field •Katie

Fletcher •David

Fletcher •Isabella

Freeman

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Fulton •Joshua

Gnocco •Adam

Gorham •Neil

Graham •William

Green •Xiao

Hu •Michael

Luna Juncal •Natasha

Kelly •Saman

Khajehzadeh •Ronald

King •Philip

Krisanski •Bill Link •Annabel

Liu •John

Lockton •Shahid

Mahmood •Victor

Mantilla •Jackson

March •Chris

Pipe-Martin •Peter

McNamara •Jean-Eudes

Monger •Michael

Montague •Craig

Moss •Richard

Mould •Alex

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Norman •Sidney

Olive •Sally

O'Neil •Callan

Paige •Adam

Paton •Pedro

Pascon Da Paz •Tagarajan

Perumal •John

Phillips •Aaron

Pianta •Mick

Pointing •Bikram

Poudel • Subathra Ramachandram •Katherine

Reynolds •Khaled

Sagar •Graham

Scott •Joel

Scott •Peter

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Smith •Amanda

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Bere-Streeter •Leonard

Strub •Dan

Sullivan •Timothy

Sunner •Khee

Tan •David

Thilwind •Sam

Thorpe •Steve

Twohill •Josue

Valez •Jim

Wagner •Onkar

Wani •Jared

Webster •Ruwan

Weerakoon •Michael

Williams •Kevin

Williams •Timothy

Williams •Ben

Wood •Derek

Wright •Brooke

Young •Alex

Zelenko •John

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Thanks to exhibitors and delegates who participated in the inaugural IPWEAQ Amazing Race!

157 delegates at #IPWEAQ19 participated in the inaugural IPWEAQ Amazing Race with more than 2,000 prizes donated by 39 exhibitors! 1,886 QR codes were activated during the three days with a vast array of prizes redeemed including VR headsets (Treadwell), Scale models (Komatsu), Doran HD360 TPMS (LSM Technologies), Lego Lifters (VacuWorx), solar lights (Star 8), NQ Cowboys prize packs (LGIA Super), High Vis shirts (Ramsetreid/Danley), Dan Murphy vouchers (Delnorth), Bunnings vouchers (Earthlok), Anaconda vouchers (McBerns) and much much more!

Shahid Mahmood, Utilities Project Manager at Western Downs Regional Council was the inaugural Amazing Race winner amassing an impressive 6,538 points out of a total 6,600!

The Race will continue at #IPWEAQ20!

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CEO’s Report I had thought 2018 was fastpaced but 2019 now makes 2018 feel like a Sunday walk in the park. It has been another successful year for IPWEAQ with strong financial results (a net profit of $111,993), membership growth of 12% (13% growth for younger professionals) and recordbreaking conferences with over 2,000 delegates attending an IPWEAQ conference or course over the past 12 months. With almost 600 delegates at the Excellence Awards dinner/ ceremony and 525 delegates at the 2019 Annual Conference, we can lay claim to the biggest, most attended, premier event for professionals in our sector in Australasia.

We also expanded our capability with four new roles created this year focussing on campaigns for younger professionals, rural/ regional communities (Go West), professional development and technical solutions. Plans are underway to recruit two more employees in the New Year and to relocate to larger offices since we outgrew our current premises earlier this year.

A number of new courses and new technical solutions were launched this year and reviews initiated of governing structures (ADAC) and publications (Supervisor’s Handbook). And there is much more planned or in progress for launch in 2020 as we continue to

listen to you and focus on your needs.

awards and our President’s Charity, Rural Aid.

We’ve collaborated extensively with state government and other professional associations and peak bodies developing joint initiatives across the sector. We engage regularly with the QRA and QAO and we’ve signed cooperative agreements with the Local Government Financial Professionals (LGFP) and AAPA, and continue to work closely with the ARRB Group.

We have seven more key events following the Breakfast commencing with the SWQ Branch conference in Stanthorpe, 20-22 February, a new Asset Management Symposium in Brisbane in April, the CQ Branch conference in Maryborough late April, the second Rural Roads & Maintenance Forum in Dalby in May, the SEQ Branch Conference in Caloundra also in May and the NQ Branch conference in Townsville in June. The Annual Conference next year will be in Cairns in November.

We are already well into planning mode for 2020 with the President’s Breakfast in February recognising the contribution to our successes from our Partners and sponsors. The Breakfast will also launch the 2020 excellence

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A huge thank you to all of you who enabled our ongoing progression by endorsing the new

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corporate structure – a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLBG) with a supporting constitution that ensures we are in a position to respond to whatever challenges come our way. It was a proud moment to see the Institute effectively grow up – a CLBG is a more respected corporate structure which offers confidence and security to those who trade with us.

So while 2018 seemed fastpaced and 2019 sped past like the Shinkansen, there is no sign that we will be easing up with 2020 on approach. I would like to thank the amazing people who come to work for us every day – in engineering and water – and for

their commitment to our members (individual and corporate) and to our sector. See our team of highachievers on pages 98-99 of the journal.

you knew it is past memory. So please take care on the roads this Christmas and make your New Year all about the people who matter to you.

Christmas is a reminder about the importance of family but is often forgotten as soon as the normal pattern of life takes control again. As I discovered in August this year, in a heartbeat you can find yourself losing someone you cannot accept losing and life as

Thank you all for being a part of our community. It is a privilege to be working for you.

Leigh Cunningham Chief Executive Officer

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#IPWEAQ19 FEATURE

Thank you TO OUR SPONSORS!

Without your support and participation, we would not be able to continuously deliver the premier event in public works in Australia. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Cairns for #IPWEAQ20 (FYI: we’re taking sponsorship bookings now – get in early!)

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This year we were excited to introduce Leading Roles as our sponsor for the IPWEAQ 2019 Excellence Awards and gala dinner.

What a magical evening it was! Great company and a great night spent celebrating Queensland’s amazing achievements in public works engineering.

Congratulations to all the nominees and award winners. And thanks to our sponsor for the evening, Leading Roles! Thanks also to Pickles who helped us raise an amazing $4,000 for MS Queensland.Â

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Thank you to A2K Technologies our sponsors again this year for the Welcome Function!

The Welcome Function is always a highly anticipated start to any IPWEAQ conference as delegates gather again to catch up with colleagues and make new connections.

Our thanks to Hari Wijeratne, Scott Ferguson and A2K Technologies for ensuring #IPWEAQ19 started with a bang!

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#IPWEAQ19 SPONSORS PLATINUM

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STREAM 4: WATER UTILITIES

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PROJECT AWARDS

U35 DESIGN THINKING SESSION

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WELCOME FUNCTION MORNING TEA

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EXCELLENCE AWARDS CLOSING FUNCTION

FUTURES CHALLENGE

PEOPLE’S AWARDS ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

SILVER COFFEE CART

CHARITY AUCTION

WOMEN IN PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERING MASTER CLASS

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ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY IN WATER

WOMAN IN ENGINEERING $5MIL - $10MIL

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Thank you TO OUR EXHIBITORS! You are a critical part to the success of our conferences!

And thank you to exhibitors and delegates who participated in the inaugural Amazing Race which offered delegates a vast array of great prizes.

We look forward to seeing you in Cairns, 10-12 November 2020. Register your trade exhibit with Monica today!

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KOMATSU Wacol FACILITY TECHNICAL TOUR

Josh Flanders Civil Engineer, Capital Project Delivery Cairns Regional Council, IPWEAQ Ambassador If I were to tell you 20 years ago that the future of the construction industry is in the use of drones, autonomous vehicles and remote-controlled construction equipment, what

would you say? It would have been hard to imagine in a world where even the iPhone didn’t exist. The simple fact is that smart construction is here, and Komatsu is leading the charge.

All great IPWEAQ annual conferences kick off with a selection of Technical Tours on day one, often the highlight for many delegates. This year’s 2019

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annual conference in Brisbane was no different. Delegates faced the difficult decision of choosing between four excellent tours, with one of those being the Komatsu Wacol facility tour. Being interested in large, bright, yellow construction machinery since a young age, this tour was an easy pick for myself. It turned out to be much more than this however.

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The site, approximately 30 minutes outside of the Brisbane CBD, contains six large buildings across 61,000 square meters of land and is responsible for the sale, service, assembly, and remanufacturing of mining and construction equipment throughout Queensland.

The tour commenced with a short presentation highlighting all the latest innovations developed

by Komatsu. This included their advanced survey techniques, which are fast becoming common practice. Drones and 3D laser survey scanners quickly and accurately scan the land topography at multiple stages in the project from the first initial survey to continuous monitoring during construction.

Intelligent Machine Control (iMC) was another notable point from the presentation due to the wide range of benefits it can

deliver on construction sites. New construction machinery such as dozers and excavators can be optioned with iMC and the 3D design surface of the project can be loaded in. The iMC system in excavators will physically not allow the bucket to extend beyond the design surface, and in dozers, the system automatically controls blade elevation and tilt according to target design data. The result is improvements in work efficiency by up to 60% due to more efficient machine use and less rework.

Lastly, the aspect that appealed to everyone’s inner gamer is the ability to ‘log in’ to work by putting on a virtual reality headset and being able to control construction equipment remotely from the other side of Australia.

The tour continued into the oil analysis laboratory, where hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment analyse customers’ valuable oil samples.

The laboratory operated like a well-oiled production line (pun intended) where each oil sample is analysed by each of the many machines present. Regular testing is critical to ensure any possible problems in the oil are discovered early. I was amazed to hear that approximately 500 samples are

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tested daily and there is constant demand. This conveys just how large the customer network is.

Finally the moment we had all been waiting for had come, a walkthrough of the workshop.

There were many excavators, loaders, graders and other equipment. The stars of the show however were a large mining spec bulldozer as well as a wheel loader built for mining. Seeing factory workers on these large machines truly put their size into perspective.

The main workshop was adjacent to the largest spray booth of its type in the southern hemisphere, which we were able to have a quick look into. During the tour we were also shown an excavator with iMC control and the group was informed how system knows exactly where the bucket is at all times and how much material has entered and exited the bucket.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time during the tour of the Komatsu Wacol facility and would like to extend my thanks to John Tannhill and Komatsu for the opportunity. It was very interesting to learn about and see the current and future happenings in the construction industry and I am excited to see what is to come in this space in the next 20 years.

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BEST PAPER AWARD

Congratulations to Clarrisa Campbell from Moreton Bay Regional Council for winning the Geoff Wilmoth Best Paper Award at #IPWEAQ19.

Clarrisa’s paper on ‘Stormwater Pipe condition assessment - if only animals could talk’ was voted on by conference delegates.

Moreton Bay Regional Council (Council) has nearly 250,000 stormwater assets valued at around 2.0 billion dollars. The large majority of these assets are buried underground and form part of a network, making them very difficult to inspect. To combat this, Council utilises CCTV technology to inspect their buried stormwater assets.

Council invested in their own van and camera unit to conduct inspections of stormwater pipes in 2015 and added a second in 2017. The data from these inspections was used to support the creation of a five million dollar per annum renewal program, as well as informing the ongoing maintenance program.

Clarrisa’s paper described the history of Council’s CCTV inspection, renewal, and maintenance programs, provide a number of examples of interesting projects Council has come across over the years, compare some of the alternative pipe inspection technologies, and discuss some of the lessons learnt; including that stormwater pipes are a favourite hideout for a myriad of animals.

Clarissa is also our YIPWEAQ representative on the national YIPWEA committee participating on a national level to share ideas and to bring these back to IPWEAQ. You can read more on Clarissa’s award winning paper in the September 2019 issue of EWP.

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IPWEAQ 2019 EXCELLENCE AWARDS The IPWEAQ community celebrated Queensland’s achievements in public works engineering at the 2019 Excellence Awards and gala dinner on 23 October 2019 at the Royal International Convention Centre in Brisbane.

The awards recognise public and private organisations and individuals who have demonstrated best practice and innovation in public works infrastructure and services across Queensland.

The 2019 awards had attracted a record number of nominations, with 69 nominations across 14 categories and a total of 22 awards were presented at the gala dinner and awards ceremony, where more than 500 of the state’s leading authorities on engineering gathered for the annual conference.

EXCELLENCE

AWARDS 2019 NCE IN PUBLIC WORKS

CELEBRATING 17 YEARS OF EXCELLE

Please enjoy this Excellence Awards Commemorative Booklet which celebrates all the nominees and winners in the IPWEAQ 2019 Excellence Awards.

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SEAN RICE

MEMBER PROFILE

Sean Rice (Ricey) is the Managing Director of Proterra Group. He is a qualified Civil Engineer graduating with Honours from the University of New South Wales (NSW) in Sydney, holds an MBA (TechMgt), CPEng, RPEQ, NER and is a fellow of IPWEAQ. He is very much your stock standard engineer for regional local government and has worked for most of his career as a project manager on public works infrastructure projects for regional councils.

Ricey has worked in local government for over 20 years and is passionate about encouraging councils to collaborate on their projects to ensure they aren’t continually reinventing the wheel, and repeating mistakes already made by other councils. He is a country boy at heart and is always up for a yarn so if you’re ever chasing some info or looking for a referral on who can do what in your region, give him a call.

EPW: Please tell us about yourself: where are you from, what are your interests, what makes you tick?

SR: My wife Mel and I along with a bunch of kids have called Goondiwindi home for the past 14 years, although we actually live on the NSW side of the border

on a farm so I can wake up each morning with that beautiful fresh NSW air! I am a heavy, yet humble Blues Supporter.

My favourite things are hard work during the week to pay the bills, then hiking, travel, red wine and amazing foodie experiences, adventure bike riding on my KTM690 and spending time with my kids (six) and foster kids (two).

We’ve got a fairly funny farm at our joint and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Luckily, I have a very supportive wife, or perhaps she has a very supportive husband.

EPW: Please summarise your career to date in your own words.

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SR: I was born and raised in the Back O’Bourke NSW, then a couple of years boarding school in Bathurst before doing a Civil Engineering Degree at the UNSW in Sydney. Mel and I had two kids by the time we finished Uni, and aside from all my efforts to head to London for work Mel (who was from Sydney) said she loved Bourke, so we went back there for 10 years. I worked in local government for eight of those, finishing as the Director of Engineering in Bourke Shire before moving into private industry where I was the General Manager of an Irrigation and Agricultural Chemical/Fertiliser Business.

Due to ongoing drought, around

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2005 we made the decision to leave town and ended up working in Construction in Goondiwindi for Sudholz. The work was great, and I ended up in Airlie Beach and Mackay most of the time building dams and subdivisions. Although I enjoyed the work, being away wasn’t good for Mel and the kids as they were missing out on footy training and hugging their Dad, so I took a short-term job back in Goondiwindi to be home more. I still remember Dave Burges, the Waggamba Council Engineer at the time asking me if I wanted to go on a salary for the 6-month gig, or as a contractor. I’d not really thought of it until then but said let’s have a crack at being a contractor. In hindsight, that was a definitive life decision.

EPW: What’s been your most significant career highlight to date?

SR: I think the coolest thing was winning the 2002 Engineers Australia Young Engineer of the Year Award, however my highlight would have to be starting Proterra Group. We originally started the business just so I could be home more (I was working away in Construction, and that wasn’t good for our six young kids). What started as a family decision turned into a nice little business that has ensured we’ve had vegemite for our toast each week ever since.

Actually, Proterra Group landing the Balonne Shire Council Flood Restoration Project back around 2011 for $120M of works was

pretty cool too. We brought it in 20% below budget using all local contractors with the help of Balonne Shire Councillors and staff. I don’t think I’ll top that in this lifetime, but I can assure you I won’t die wondering.

EPW: What do you find most satisfying about working as an engineer in public works?

SR: I do have a genuine interest in helping improve the communities where we live. I live in the bush and probably always will. Nothing irritates me more than seeing ratepayer money wasted on big city firms coming to our area with gold plated solutions that we just don’t need. My greatest satisfaction comes from helping councils develop practical

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solutions using their existing local resources as much as possible, right across the 35 councils we currently service in NSW and Queensland. Sure, we take our bit, but the majority of funds stays local and I’m extremely proud of it.

EPW: Tell us about your experience as an engineer providing technical services to local councils?

SR: This is an interesting one for me, as I’m probably the least technical engineer in IPWEAQ, although I do think I can still build a good piece of road. I pride

myself on my management and leadership skills in being able to locate, and bring together the right resources to deliver practical, cost effective projects for our communities. I have other staff who can provide you with technical advice if you want it - they are far more competent than me and I keep their mobile numbers handy.

help. You’re wasting your time and our community’s money.

EPW: What do you appreciate most about your involvement with IPWEAQ? SR: The body of knowledge associated with IPWEAQ is amazing. There isn’t a single public works engineering question that I couldn’t ask to our group that wouldn’t result in an immediate answer, or at the least a referral onto someone who’s knows what I’m chasing. It doesn’t get better than that and I love it.

2. I reckon I’ve learned some great stuff in my career from really good people, and a whole lot of what not to do from others. You need to take note of both.

PS – there’s still a bunch of you people out there reinventing the wheel on projects that have been done before. STOP IT and ask for

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EPW: What would be the one piece of advice you would give to others early in their career?

SR: 1. Never tell a grader operator how to do his job. We are all part of a big team here so never feel you are better or know more about something than one of your team.

3. If you haven’t got the communication skills to sit down with your team at smoko and have a yarn about the weekend, you’re in the wrong game.

EPW: Any other comments/ thoughts/wisdom to share?

SR: It costs you nothing to say G’day to someone, or wave to a vehicle as you drive past. That stuffs free and we should sprinkle it everywhere.

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Professional Development

YEAR IN REVIEW INFORMS. CONNECTS.

2019 has been another amazing year for Professional Development at IPWEAQ with over 1,100 delegates attending 75+ courses and workshops on almost 30 different topics throughout 22 different areas of Queensland. It has certainly been a highly educational year.

There are also a number of new and exciting courses coming in 2020 including: • Street Planning and Design • Finance for Technical Professionals • Bridge Asset Management – Data Driven Decision Making • Introduction to Urban Stormwater Design • Design of Intersections and Roundabouts Please keep an eye out for launch dates along with other courses under development.

Aside from our public course offering, we also offer in-house tailored private courses for companies and councils looking to upskill their employees while creating a team environment.

With the takeup of private courses almost tripling in 2019, this is a cost effective and efficient way of providing vital training to employees across the state.

Please contact Kate O’Riordan or Craig Moss to discuss how we can bring your much needed training directly to you!

REPRESENTS. LEADS.

Our courses are usually full a week or two prior to the event so please don’t delay before registering for the following courses scheduled for 2020: February • Stakeholder Engagement MACKAY • RSA BRISBANE • RSA Refresher BRISBANE • Sprayed Bitumen DALBY • Introduction to Asset Management BRISBANE • Native Title and Cultural Heritage CAIRNS March • Introduction to Asset Management CAIRNS • QUDM BRISBANE • QUDM Refresher BRISBANE April • 2-3 Asset Management Symposium BRISBANE • Sprayed Bitumen TOWNSVILLE • Native Title and Cultural Heritage MAROOCHYDORE • Stakeholder Engagement BRISBANE • Demystifying EDD BRISBANE May • 12-14 Rural Roads Forum WESTERN DOWNS – DALBY • BIW BRISBANE Link to courses page HERE Link to course content brochures HERE *Dates are subject to change*

Onsite & customised courses to meet your needs.

INFORMS. CONNECTS. Road Safety Audits REPRESENTS. LEADS.

Overview

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Road Safety Audits are a pro-active People will be proved with a Certificate of Robert Morgan approach to road safety, forming Attendance for this program.

Traffic & Road Safety Consultant. an integral part of the safe system To become a registered Road Safety With over 30 years’ experience, approach at all stages of the road Auditor, the Department of Transport and Robert is not only one of Australia’s construction and maintenance Main Roads requires that you have: eminent road safety engineers. process.  a minimum of five (5) years’ relevant He is also the principal author of IPWEAQ is offering a two-day experience in road design, traffic the Austroads Road Safety Audit workshop that has been developed engineering, road safety engineering guide and other national guides on to provide attendees with the CPD or other closely related road safety traffic engineering and roadPoints safety knowledge and skills required discipline; and engineering topics. for CPEng when conduction or responding to & RPEQ  successfully completed an approved Dr Judd Epstein a Road Safety Audit. This program 8 hours road safety auditors course (this course).

A.B. Syracuse, JD Stanford, Senior will work through the Austroads Lecturer in Law, Monash University Guide to Road Safety Part 6: Road Dr Epstein was the Chief Investigator Safety Audit, utilising case studies Drainage control achieving successful revegetation Overview “Theand Legal Implications of and practical exercises including day Points CPD for Design construction standards on all sites The Erosion and Sediment Control Frangible Poles, DOT,and Office of and night time inspections that will for temporary drains diversions for an CPEng awareness of water quality Level 2 course will provide participants andwater a Consultant provide practitioners and decision& RPEQ (turbidity, TSS, pH) Road Use ofSafety clean1984, and dirty monitoring with thewith knowledge skills to assess, Points CPD makers ways to and formally Technical Writer Safety Audit diversion drains“Road to manage runoff hours of inspection and  16 knowledge identify with requirements CPEng forgeneration addressand roadcomply safety issues before (AustRoads) Guidelines. and control erosion auditing requirements related to managing Erosion and RPEQoptions & lining accidents occur.  Comparison of drain Ross Guppy & Sediment Control (ESC) on their Who should attend 6 hours and rock check dams Consultant Strategies Who should worksites. courses toattend meet your needs.Learning course has been specifically Ross Works a waterway and haswithin over 30 years’ experience in This Lectures This program has been designed The content of this course is based on temporary crossings for workers responsible for the road and transport infrastructure designed Case studies for people who are responsible the “Best Practice Erosion and Sediment civil infrastructure projects. sector,and including 28 years with Erosion Revegetation delivering Group Discussions for, or interested in road safety.

Control” (IECA, 2008) and will provide the Using erosion control techniques to TMR including specialised Typical In-classattendees activities include: This includes people involved at all practical instruction on current best Engineers manage soil and stockpiles, stabilised engineering senior executive  Site inspections (day & night) stages of the project’s development, practice requirements, compliance  Project Managers site access, temporary work areas roles across various technologies. from planning and design through requirements along with an appreciation Content  Supervisors and to achieve final site stabilisation to the construction and maintenance  The mechanics of Road Safety Audits of how to manage the risk to both the  Comparison of various erosion  Inspectors of a road.

Register online at  Legal liabilities environment and the project. control products performance, Typical attendees include: Content The safe road environment www.ipweaq.com suitability for nominated works  Planners and designers Introduction The audit process Learning outcomes /courses and installation and maintenance  Traffic Engineers  Report writing Participants will gain: Erosion risks and soils requirements or contact Project Managers Land use developments  an awareness of the impacts of poor  Overview of relevant legislation Delivery (1 3632 day) 6800  onsite Road Safety officers  Roadside ESC management on the Forms ofHazards erosion and erosion drivers Phone 07 This course is delivered in partnership  receiving Consultants  Roadwork Traffic Management environment Erosion risk assessment (RUSLE) info@ipweaq.com with Terry Clark of the Topo Group.  an understanding of relevant  Key soil properties, sodic & Overview Outcomes Facilitator Terry has trained over 1,000 public legislation and requirements dispersive Road Safety Audits are a pro-active People will besoils proved with a Certificate Robertpersonnel Morgan within QLD, NSW works  knowledge of problem soils and  Soils as a growing media approach to road safety, forming of Attendance for this program.

Traffic & Road Safety Consultant. and NT. Terry holds the internationally management an integral part oftechniques the safe system Sediment To maintaincontrol registration as a Road Robert is notaccreditation only one of Australia’s recognised ‘Certified  an awareness of current approach at all stages of thebest road  RoleAuditor, of sediment control measures Safety the Department of most experienced roadand safety Professional in Erosion Sediment practice for managing ESC and the construction and maintenance process. and compliance Transport and Main requirements Roads requires that engineers, but also principal author Control’ (CPESC) and has many years of associated limitations  IPWEAQ is offering a one-day youReview have: of sediment control of the Austroads Road Safety Audit experience in planning, implementing  an appreciation of thedeveloped effectiveness measures - performance and workshop that has been guide and other national guides on and managing ESC aspects on a wide • current registration with the different erosion and sediment to provide attendees with the traffic engineering and projects. road safety limitations of Transport and Main Department variety of public works control techniques opportunity to refresh their knowledge engineering topics.

He has amassed Roads Basic as construction and maintenance a Road Safety Auditor; and  anskills understanding of construction and for conducting or responding over 40 years’ experience requirements for sediment controls Register online at in traffic either: maintenance requirements for to aand Road Safety Audit.

This program engineering, road safety engineering •Overview ofasediment design completed minimumbasin of one (1) www.ipweaq.com/courses measures willcontrol reference the Austroads Guide to and transport planning, including local standards, treatment road safetyoperation, audit per year; or and or contact  knowledge of6: sediment basinAudit, Road Safety Part Road Safety government, federal government, •maintenance successfully completed an Phone 07and 3632 utilising case and exercises to consulting with a6800 UK New Town. design andstudies operation approvedtreatment road safety auditors  Emerging technology provide practitioners of and decisionFor the past 25 years, Robert has  an understanding how to info@ipweaq.com refresher course (this course). makers with techniques to formally operated his own Melbourne-based Learning Strategies Overview address road safety issues before traffic and road safety consultancy, and • Lectures The Queensland is an engineering guideline that addresses technical, legal, regulatory accidents occur. Urban Drainage Manual (QUDM) beenthe involved in road safety audit and • Case studiesIt provides details of appropriate crash investigation workshops and environmental aspects of effective drainage systems. design methods training and computational Who should attend Group discussions across Australia, as well as in the UK procedures, both hydrologic and•hydraulic procedures.

This programand hascovers been designed and USA. on During time he • In-class activities Thisroad workshop presents an overview of the fourth edition (2016) of QUDM. Discussion is provided eachthat chapter, andhas also for safety audit practitioners acted as the main presenter of Road includes dialog ona sufficient updates from theContent previous edition (2013) of QUDM. who havespecific not conducted Safety Audit Training in QLD, NSW, • Review of road safety auditing number of road safety audits to WA, Tasmania, the Northern Territory allow them to remain on the register • Accreditation and the ACT. of accredited auditors. The course • Roadside hazards and treatments quality treatment. Steve is a Registered  improve Queensland’s resilience to Who should may also be usefulattend for others who, • Applying standards and achieving Professional severe storms and climate change This course been designed RegisterEngineer onlineofatQueensland while havinghas maintained their for safety – isthe there a difference?

(RPEQ) and Charted Professional through proper design and workers involved in technical planning www.ipweaq.com/courses accreditation, wish to hone their skills • Utilising checklists Engineer (CPEng) and is a senior management of urban drainage and knowledge. design of major and/or minor and If you have previously or contact engineer at Storm Water Consulting.

• Deficiency systems. identification drainage systems completion that impact on: been accredited, of this Phone 07 3632 6800 • Report writing urban planning Jack is a civil engineer with expertise in course will allowand youdevelopment; to apply to remain Content info@ipweaq.com • Responding to the audit report asset and infrastructure the fields of stormwater management, on themanagement register of accredited auditors.

Discussion topics will include: development; environmental hydrology, hydraulics, flood risk  Stormwater Planning considerations; and community assessment and water quality treatment.  Legal aspects expectations.

Jack is a senior engineer at Storm Water  Catchment Hydrology Typical attendees include: Consulting.  Stormwater Detention and  Engineers Retention systems  Planners  Determination of design storms  Designers  Design of pipe and drainage systems  Hydrologists CPD Points for  Design of stormwater outlets  Asset managers CPEng & RPEQ  Design of waterway crossings  Environmental professionals – 7 hours  Stormwater quality issues  Use of safety screens on Learning outcomes stormwater inlets Participants will gain a practical understanding of QUDM that will: Delivery (1 day)  encourage uniformity in urban This course is delivered in partnership drainage design practices with Steve Hughes and Jack Hu of Storm throughout Queensland Register online at Water Consulting.

Course Learning outcomes  provideOverview information on current www.ipweaq.com/courses Stevehas is abeen civil engineer with significant Understanding of current construction Thebest Typepractice A, B & D sediment basin design course developed urban drainage or contact experience theupdated fields of stormwater phase to support the draft Appendix B (IECA, documentinand sediment control standards, per management, with the exception of 2016) management, hydraulics, State Planning (Qld). Thewhich 1 day course is focussed athydrology, practitioners updated SPP07 (Qld) and Appendix Phone 3632 6800 B water qualityPolicy management, is flood assessment and water responsible forwithin the design and/or construction ofrisk sediment basins.  Appreciation of design inputs and process addressed other publications info@ipweaq.com The program will provide attendees with valuable design, construction and for sizing Type A, B and D sediment basins operational insight into sediment basins including the newly adopted Type A  Ability to size Type A, B and D sediment & covered will include how to size sediment basin varieties, & B basins. Aspects basins using the sediment basin sizing tool howcourses to select appropriate coagulants and flocculants, how to maximise basin to meet your needs.  Understanding of key design considerations performance and efficiency and how to adapt to constrained site conditions. to maximise basin performance and Attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of key design and operational efficiency, including basin configuration and parameters. The course will also provide guidance on construction and use of baffles and flow controls structures operation of Type A & B sediment basins, building on performance  Improved knowledge of basin construction assessment and troubleshooting tools provided in the draft Appendix B and operational aspects to improve document. effectiveness and reduce cost and risk Each attendee will be supplied with a copy of a sediment basin sizing  Skills and tools to select coagulents and tool as well as a jar testing kit to assist in selection and use of coagulants flocculants suitable for site conditions and flocculants. The presenters will provide insight based on experience  Ability to monitor basin performance of designing and operating Type A, B & D basins to assist designers and Overview implement adaptive management to operators in improving design and effectiveness of sediment whilst network. and Bridges and other structures are crucial asset elements of the basins infrastructure It is essential that their condition is trouble shoot poor performance reducing risk and cost. monitored and repairs are planned and completed in an efficient and timely manner. The systematic inspection, condition rating and monitoring of these assets are vital components to managing the lifecycle of these structures.

A Level 1 routine maintenance inspection is required to check the general serviceability of the structure, particularly for the safety of road users, and identify any emerging problems.

A Level 2 condition rating inspection is a key step in assessing the effectiveness of past maintenance treatments and identifying current maintenance needs to assist in the forecasting future changes in condition and estimating future budget requirements of structures across the network.

This course will provide attendees with the knowledge and skills required to conduct Levels 1 & 2 structures inspection in accordance with the Department of Transport and Main Roads Structures Inspection Manual.

Erosion & Sediment Control INTERMEDIATE TRAINING Level 2 INFORMS. CONNECTS. REPRESENTS. LEADS.

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Road Safety Audits Refresher INFORMS. CONNECTS. REPRESENTS. LEADS.

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NATIVE TITLE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE – compliance for infrastructure projects INFORMS. CONNECTS. Who should attend

unit will be required to submit a minimum of two (2) completed inspections This course has been designed for CPD Points demonstrating the requisite knowledge workers involved in the maintenance for CPEng and skills to an RTO with this unit on their and rehabilitation of bridges and major & RPEQ scope of registration. IPWEAQ can assist in structures.

18 hours this process.

Program overview Typical attendees include: Learning Strategies  Engineers Native Title and Cultural Heritage legislation can best be described as complex. Increasingly, those involved with the planning, construction and management of infrastructure assets are required to understand the legal basis of native title and cultural heritage  Lectures  Supervisors issues.

Effective management of native title and cultural heritage  Case studiesis critical to the timely delivery of infrastructure projects.  Inspectors  Group Discussions This one-day program has been designed to provide attendees with an understanding of native title and cultural heritage compliance  Consultants requirement’s tenure dealings, as well as offering additional strategic learning specific to land In-class activities  Contractorsrelated to infrastructure projects and regional challenges, in-house compliance systems.  Siteand inspections  Leading hands government policy developments

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Content  Introduction toTitle structures inspections • Native compliance • Identify opportunities to work with government agencies and  Structure types andthe their components • Detailing compliance • Introduction and Identifying Local Issues Certificate of Attendance for this Registergroups online at indigenous to achieve requirements  Identifying common defects • How are public works projects affected? program. strategic objectives.

• Discussing therequirements compliance  Access and equipment www.ipweaq.com/ • Distinguishing native title and Indigenous cultural This course provides the underpinning  Inspectionoptions Forms and Data Recording • Understand courses how native title heritage for the national unit of knowledge • Practical tools for achieving compliances have to be met in  The Inspection Process • Legal Compliance and native or contact competency RIICGS405D Carrytitle compliance relation to land tenure dealings  Reporting • Legal Compliance and Indigenous cultural heritage Phone 07projects, 3632 6800 out inspections of civil structures. and strategic such as Native title compliance  Safe work•practices • What sortwishing of publictoworks projects Participants complete thisare affected? town expansion, affordable checklist info@ipweaq.com • Native Title – future acts housing and land release.

• Guide to Indigenous land use • Cultural Heritage – activities causing harm agreements Points Who shouldCPD attend?

• Guide to other future act • Policy Developments for CPEng • Engineering and Technical compliance alternatives • Direction of Commonwealth native title policy & RPEQ professionals • Guide to compulsory • Township expansion and land release policies 16 hours • Planning and Design staff acquisition of native title • Local government ULIA program • Works Officers • Example of a future act notice • Strategic “tenure resolution” policy • Elected members • Reconciliation Action Plans  an understanding of relevant Overview Who should attend Outcomes • Continuation on Policy Developments legislationAtand The Erosion & Sediment Control Level 3 This course has been specifically therequirements end of the programs, Delivered in partnership • Indigenous cultural heritagewith compliance course will provide attendees the designed for people tasked withwith participants should able to:  knowledge of soil types, properties Marrawah Law • Detailing the statutorytheir compliance requirements opportunity to improve decisionand management • Identifytechniques on a regional and local preparing, implementing or assessing • Discussion on with compliance making process regardsoptions to erosion basis, projectsbest and operational erosion and sediment control plans.  an awareness of current • Practical tools for achievingatcompliance and sediment management all stages Typical attendees include: where practice foractivities managing ESCconsideration and the • Cultural compliance checklist of the projectheritage from concept through should be given to satisfying  Planners associated limitations • Guide to identifying the right Aboriginal Party compliance obligations. to completion. Participants will gain  Designers  an appreciation of the effectiveness • Guide toand searching Heritage knowledge skills toCultural develop and/ Register • Undertake practical risk  Auditors different erosion and sediment and Database or assess an Erosion and Sediment management and legal Attendees must have an existing control techniques • Guide to cultural heritage Control (ESC) plan against theagreements compliance steps in relation to understanding and experience with • Guide to Cultural Heritage Plans  an understanding of construction those projects and operations. requirements of the IECA 2008Managements “Best erosion and sediment control. A base and maintenance requirements for Practice Erosion and Sediment Control” level of knowledge surrounding soils control measures (including cost guideline.

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IPWEAQ 2019 PROJECT OF THE YEAR

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ICONIC NOOSA PARK ROAD BOARDWALK IS IPWEAQ PROJECT OF THE YEAR Noosa Council took out the top accolade at this year’s IPWEAQ Excellence Awards for the iconic Noosa Park Road Boardwalk.

Project Description Noosa Council has created the iconic $7.5M Park Road Boardwalk nestled between world famous Engineering for Public Works | December 2019

Noosa National Park and Hastings Street.

The project is a model example of stakeholder engagement, working with environmental and geotechnical challenges, reducing operational costs yet not compromising on creating a world class public asset.

The 400 metre boardwalk is symbolically and positionally a

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major contributor to Noosa's near Billion dollar tourism industry.

The effort in its planning, design and execution has proudly been matched by the public accolades bestowed upon it.

Planning Replacement of the Park Road Boardwalk aimed at delivering public infrastructure to cater for an ever increasing demand, add to the visitor experience by connecting users to the natural environment, improve accessibility and reduce the burden of maintenance costs to the community.

The previous boardwalk was approximately 25-30 years old, in a deteriorated condition with many footings exposed, uneven levels and decaying timber. Ongoing maintenance and replacement costs were at a premium and increasingly accelerating over time due to the corrosive conditions,

cost of hardwood timbers, difficult access and high levels of use. The boardwalk structure had passed its serviceable life and was due for replacement.

Due to the iconic nature of the site, highlighting the importance of the natural environment as an integrated part of the Noosa region tourism drawcard, Council was unanimous that this project was to demonstrate holistic, sustainable design and innovative construction solutions. In turn it was seen that this would elevate the long term social, cultural and environmental benefits of the area, and provide for a jewel in the crown of the Noosa region.

A community project reference group was established to ensure community aspirations for this iconic status were achieved. This team sourced members from local environmental and community groups to review and provide feedback for the overall project

development, planning, design and construction.

In order to gauge community expectation of the project a set of parameters were set up for discussion. These included the extent of habitat protection, design features, roadway alterations and the locality of access points to the main structure. These discussion points provided a weighting of the importance each was to the community reference group. The value of this group to assist in decision making provided this project a lot of community good will and support.

As the Park Road Boardwalk is a very high profile site, the boardwalk replacement project generated a significant ground swell of community interest.

The presentation of options to obtained community input from the Community Reference Group was inevitable and in turn

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structure and construction. Project options were then evaluated on community preference, environmental impacts, durability, constructability, traffic and roadway requirements, cost, timing and ability to meet overall project objectives.

Of major consideration by Council was material selection and the engineering design of the boardwalk to obtain a minimal environmental impact target.

provided for valuable community support relating to design, environmental values, timing and traffic disruption.

By considering the values of the Community Reference Group it provided Council with a set of guiding principles for concept and preliminary design development of the boardwalks alignment,

Material Selection As previous boardwalk sections had created a burden to maintenance crews, the project team place significant effort into the researched of construction materials that met the durability and structural requirements of a subtropical coastal environment.

Key findings from researching construction materials proposed the use of:

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• Hardwood for the structure to allow for site adjustments around trees; • Accoya Timber for the timber decking and handrail due to its dimensional stability and durability in harsh • environments; and • the use of structural aluminum for the balustrade due to ease of use in the field to respond to alignment changes and avoid conflict with tree and root positions.

Once at detailed design phase had been conducted, a Net Present Value (NPV) analysis was undertaken to test the most costeffective material section for the structural design. This analysis determined that the use of the selected materials, listed below, whilst incurring higher initial capital cost, over time the choice was considered more cost effective as a whole of life design.

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The use of micro-piles covers the majority of the boardwalk substructure for its 750m length. This piling system allowed for the ability to manoeuvre around tree root systems as well as improve the speed of construction and reduced noise and vibration impacts.

For the entire length of the renewed boardwalk, several types of sub-structure were used to support the walking platform including free standing boardwalk, cantilever construction and slab on grade construction using micropiles.

For the Park Road Boardwalk to become an iconic jewel in the Noosa Council crown, construction had to be in harmony with the natural environment, involve the community, provide sustainable design features and display innovative construction techniques.

Listed are the main project outcomes, and how each was achieved:

Having selected a concept design that achieved the community project reference group objectives, Council embarked on constructing a number of prototypes to allow a better visualisation of the concept shape, verify techniques for achieving the curves and provide for a durability assessment of material choices within a similar environment for a period of one and a half years prior to construction. Over this time the Accoya performed as per manufacturer’s claims, and also extended to matching the rock batter at the shoreline to those

rocks found naturally.

Engineering Design The design of the sub-structure for the Park Road Boardwalk required a mechanism that would be able to navigate the lay of the land and avoid the presence of trees and their root systems as assessed in the field. The need for this type of flexible design that was sensitive to its surrounds and able to navigate contouring terrain was a significant required outcome from both Community and Council perspectives.

1. C reating an iconic tourism attraction: This outcome was achieved by: a. Highlighting innovative design features such as rest areas and viewing platforms with the natural features of the landscape and tree canopy; and b. The use of high-quality finishes and innovative construction materials.

These achievements have been proven a successful as Park Road Boardwalk images are now a key feature of regional marketing as it provides for an elevated experience compared to previous infrastructure, with Council receiving a flood of positive feedback from residents and local

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businesses traders.

addressed by the new boardwalk.

2. E nhance the economic value of the boardwalk to the region by providing an improved tourism experience: This outcome was achieved by: a. Improving the peak capacity of the boardwalk with a wider deck, viewing platforms and seating;

The new boardwalk also provides high standards of safety that considers falls, crowd loading, trips and lighting. Review of these items was carried out by range of consultants including; Building Certifiers, Engineers, Architect and Arborist.

b. P roviding improved accessibility for people with disabilities and prams from the Hastings Street to the Noosa National Park.

Now the Park Road Boardwalk caters for pedestrians, joggers, parents with prams and surfers carrying surfboards and those with a range of impairments.

The economic development assessment of the boardwalk build on the local community estimated an increase in tourism spend by $1,200,000pa.

3. I mproved site accessibility and safety: Council’s attention to detail in the development of design ensured that attention to detail was focused on the multitude of accessibility standards. Whilst wheelchair compliant access is not environmentally possible along the full length of the boardwalk, many other accessibility issues have been

4. Reduce the financial burden of rising maintenance costs to Council: Research into the types of materials to be used in the construction of the Park Road Boardwalk required thorough attention to provide for a high level of infrastructure durability in an ocean front environment.

High grade stainless steel finishes and the use of pressure treated Accoya wood has significantly improved the boardwalks durability against environmental elements, which was further assessed field tested prototypes.

This has also provided for a significant extension of the life of the boardwalk asset.

Currently there are no maintenance requirements of the boardwalk, and due to the expectation of the Accoya to turn a uniform grey, as designed for

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and therefore requiring no further wood treatment, which in turn has provided saving regard the cost of maintenance.

The Noosa Park Road Boardwalk demonstrates a very comprehensive planning, consultation, planning, design and construction project in a very environmentally sensitive area.

And the judges commented that: The Noosa Park Road Boardwalk project overcame many challenges during the planning, design, delivery and operation phases of the project. Key to its success was the close involvement of a Community Project Reference Group engaged two years prior to commencement of construction.

The project was successfully delivered in a high-profile, high value environmental area using a detailed project management plan which considered the economic and social benefits of the project, the protection of the environment, and delivering the project within budget and ahead of time.

This iconic project achieved more than just a structure but the provision of another jewel in the crown for the Noosa attraction package.

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2020 EXCELLENCE AWARDS BENEFITS OF NOMINATING FOR AN IPWEAQ AWARD:  Nominees and winners featured in the annual Commemorative Awards Book with the winning project featured on the cover  Winners featured on the IPWEAQ website www.ipweaq.com/2019award-winners  Project of the Year featured in the excellence awards campaign the following year  Gala awards ceremony and dinner attended by more than 450 invited guests and VIPs  Photos of award winners available for publicity purposes  Media releases on all winning projects and individual award winners issued

by IPWEAQ.  Invitations to present award winning projects at key events including branch and annual conferences

Contact Events & Marketing Manager Monica.Robertson@ipweaq.com or

IPWEAQ EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2019 The awards program, now in its eighteenth year, places a spotlight on the projects and people who deliver exceptional outcomes for our communities.

Nominations open 7 February 2020 and close 2 July 2020 Gala Awards Ceremony and Dinner, Cairns Wednesday, November 11 2020 Sponsorship opportunities available.

Contact monica.robertson@ipweaq.com or

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Resurrecting an Australian Icon: Rebuilding the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Outback Queensland #IPWEAQ19 FEATURE

The 2019 IPWEAQ Excellence Awards recognised the reconstruction of the Waltzing Matilda Centre as the winner of the best public works project over $10 million. The judges commented that the modernised and enhanced home for Australia’s unofficial national anthem delivered on the legacy and guarantees a memorable visitor’s experience.

Funded collaboratively by Winton Shire Council and Queensland and Australian Governments, the rebuilding of the Waltzing Matilda Centre was a project of major national significance that delivered a $24 million architectural project with an integrated world class museum experience in outback Queensland.

Project Manager and now Director, Asset and Project Services for Peak Services, Brian Jackson described the managing the rebuild of the Waltzing Matilda Centre as a career highlight. Mr Jackson also noted that process and sound management practice aside, the project could not have achieved

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such success without strong leadership, a vision, a can-do attitude, hard work, advocacy and resilience of all parties involve from inception through to completion.

According to Alan Rayment, former Winton CEO, the length and uniqueness of the project demonstrated how setting clear and simple objectives helped the team make decisions for the good of the project without getting sidetracked. “You’d be naive to think you could build a $24m project in the middle of Australia that would not have some issues.”

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Centre) located in Winton, QLD originally opened in 1998 and was subsequently expanded to meet increasing visitor demand in 2004. The Centre included the story of Waltzing Matilda, as well as exhibiting the collection of the Qantilda Museum (of the Winton Historical Society) and providing a venue for touring displays and exhibits. It is the first museum in the world dedicated to a song.

Prior to the fire which destroyed the Centre, several themes were integrated (incorporating a museum area) to provide a multifaceted education and tourism experience.

Strong relationships were forged with various tourism and education providers. The Centre was well attended by tourists visiting Winton, attracting around 18,000 visitors per annum. This is an iconic Queensland outback tourist attraction and a vital part of the tourism infrastructure of the Winton region.

An electrical fault in the ceiling caused a fire that soon spread in early hours of 18 June 2015. The Winton Shire Mayor at the time, Butch Lenton said the loss of the original Waltzing Matilda Centre was a heavy blow during a major

drought but the community and visitors rallied together to ensure it wasn’t lost forever.

The initial scoping of the project identified that improvements could be made in reconstructing the Centre. A functional area relationship diagram was developed and this informed preparation of the initial concept options for the project. Council investigated in detail three options for progressing the project. The analysis, research and investigations allowed for development of a comprehensive multi option business case for

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reconstruction of the Centre. The options considered in the business case included: • Option 1: Reconstruct Centre Like-for-like • Option 2: Modernised Centre • Option 3: Modernised and Enhanced Centre While it quickly became evident that Option 3 would best meet the vision and goals of Council, Option 2 could meet a compromised Project vision and goals which could be enhanced with future stages of work and funding. A funding shortfall of $8.0M existed to achieve Option 3.

Option 3 included the reinstatement of pre-existing functions and functional spaces while delivering additional functions and dual/multi use functional spaces to modernise the layout. In addition, this would enhance and support the regions credentials as a tourist, education, business conference and film destination. This option provided opportunity for delivering an alternative and expanded layout of functional areas and built form, a grander street presence, integration of the use of new technologies, expansion of operational capacity (day and night events), thus provided

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enhanced future-proofing benefits.

This option was considered to deliver the greatest economic, social and environmental benefits for Winton and the region.

The business case supported Option 3 and in February 2016 a grant application of $8.0M under the National Stronger Regions Fund Round 3 (NSRF3) was submitted to the Federal Government. At this time, the Project was sitting on a knife edge in development between Option 2 and Option 3 scope. Council had positioned the project in a way that maximised opportunity for a Modernised and Enhanced Centre to be delivered. The reality

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was that Council had formed the position through early and mid2016 that it was not going to settle for anything less than Option 3.

In early September 2016, the Federal Government approved NSRF3 funding of $8M towards the Centre.

A vital strategy for success was to ensure the key resources involved in the planned and design elements understood and appreciated the vision for the project – the project needed experts who “got it”.

The competitive open market process identified the best team nationally to design and document the Project. The design and documentation of the project was monitored and controlled to ensure cost, quality and scope were maintained within acceptable tolerances of the Business Case and Project Management Plan requirements.

One of the key inputs to the design of the Project was understanding the good and the bad of the previous Centre’s operation and maintenance. These enabled lessons learned from its operation to be incorporated into the Project design philosophy and design outcomes. Many lessons from the previous Centre’s functional layout and functionality were identified, including how staff operated the Centre and how visitors responded to the Centre.

This gave great insights into how the Project could improve in terms of operation, maintenance and visitor experience.

Construction of the Centre required a Building Contractor capable of delivering such a project in a remote location and Interpretive Contractors capable of

being able to fabricate installations off site for installation in a building under construction. Considerable planning was required to enable the main exhibition area to be practically complete 8 weeks prior to the remaining building works for bump in of interpretive contractor fit-out and multimedia installations. This required clear construction contract provisions and requirements to be established prior to contract formation for respective works.

Winton community and the region, however it will be years before the overall impact of the new Centre can be fully realised.

To learn more about this project, the full conference paper and presentation is available through the IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre.

The Contractors delivered their respective works under the Contract successfully to enable delivery of a finished project that is as visually impressive as it is functional. The detailed planning, execution, monitoring and control evolved to create a state-of-theart modern facility designed by industry leading designers in their respective disciplines.

The new Waltzing Matilda Centre was officially opened Friday 20 April 2018 following three years of planning and construction to much fan-fare and celebration. It boasts state of the art interpretation, telling the story of Waltzing Matilda. Thousands of people made the trek to Winton to attend the opening. The first full year of operation coincides with final construction contract completion and the operational results of the Centre are outstanding. It is a stunning construction, both in form and interpretive installation and a multi design award winning Centre, with many more Project awards anticipated.

Since reopening, visitor numbers have far exceeded what was originally anticipated - 59,000 visitors in the first 14 months of trading. The economic impact of this outcome is significant to the Engineering for Public Works | December 2019

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#IPWEAQ19 FEATURE

Futures Challenge 2019

The Futures Challenge invites final year students studying engineering and related disciplines to present their thesis or research project at the IPWEAQ Annual onference.

Students are asked to prepare an A1 poster board which outlines the key elements of their thesis or research project and present their conclusions, recommendation and outcomes to conference delegates.

Participants also deliver a 10 minute presentation to delegates with the winner chosen using the conference app. The Futures Challenge offers participants an opportunity to be involved with our community, meet industry leaders and build their personal profile. And the winner receives a complimentary registration to the 2020 IPWEAQ annual conference.

This year we had four impressive candidates presenting varied topics. We asked them to share their Futures Challenge experience and learnings, and why students should become involved in the Futures Challenge program.

Mark Tomarchio – winner of the 2019 Futures Challenge University of Southern Queensland Industry considerations for truck stability at roundabouts The three highlights of the conference for me were: discussing my project with experienced

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engineers and receiving genuine interest and acknowledgement for my work (which I spent a year working on), meeting lots of new contacts and attending genuinely interesting and inspiring presentations and finally the Gala dinner!

I would definitely recommend the Futures Challenge to other students. It is a great experience and I encourage all who get the opportunity to challenge themselves and develop their communication and networking skills. I gained valuable insights into real-world issues, and innovative solutions that experienced engineering professionals are dealing with on a day-today basis around the state.

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FINAL YEAR STUDENTS STUDYING ENGINEERING AND RELATED DISCIPLINES ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2020 FUTURES CHALLENGE Register your interest on our website For all inquiries, please contact Nadia Marks, Director, People & Capability

#IPWEAQ19 FEATURE Lucy Bombardieri James Cook University

Benjamin Chappell Central Queensland University Quantitative Analysis of Coal Fouling in the Stanwell Power Station Balloon Loop Final Year Project: Benjamin Chappell Academic Advisor: Jerome Egwurube – Central Queensland University Industry Advisor: Ryan Bell – Aurizon Contact Information: E: Benjamin.chappell@cqumail.com M: 0456 707 111

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• 100% solar powered • Saves 194 tonnes of CO2 annually • Generates 175,000 kWh per year (equivalent to over 20 households)

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Introduction

Ballast is a rock aggregate that forms one of the main layers of the train track structure. The voids present in the ballast provide drainage and lateral support to the track and allow for the load of the train to be dispersed over a large area. On the journey from mine to port, coal falls off the wagons and fills the voids in the ballast. As the voids become increasingly ‘fouled’, the ballast’s ability to drain and provide a stable foundation is reduced.

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This ultimately becomes the root cause of a number of track geometry issues and formation failures (due to the poor drainage) hence leading to reactive maintenance efforts as opposed to preventative maintenance efforts from Aurizon. A preventative maintenance program would allow for increased productivity and capacity of the network as there would be less closures and speed restrictions due to coal fouling related issues.

Currently, ground penetrating radar (GPR) is used as a non-intrusive means to determine the extent and severity of ballast contamination. This project proposes a ‘rain gauge’ type device that is installed into track to enable quantification of external fouling sources in order to complement, validate and supplement GPR data and establish fouling rates.

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Results

1 – Design, Approve and Construct the ‘rain gauge’ type containers for implementation into the track profile.

2 – Implement containers into pre-determined locations around the Stanwell Power Station Balloon Loop 3 – Analyze data to determine what locations have accelerated rates of fouling 4 – Compare fouling data gathered to existing fouling information 5 – Propose how the project can be further utilized and refined to aid Aurizon’s understanding of the track asset

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Conclusion

The following conclusions could be drawn based on the experimental data obtained: - Comparing data from locations 1 and 2 showed that the containers placed closest to mainline track fouled at a higher rate than the containers placed in the middle and far side of the sleeper bay. Demonstrating that trains travelling past Stanwell to the port are also contributing to fouling in this location and not solely the trains entering/departing the Balloon Loop.

- The fouling experienced in locations 3 and 4 was exceptionally slow and consistent across the left, middle and right of the track profile.

- It was expected that locations 3 and 4 experienced low fouling rates as that particular section of track is straight, has good track geometry, is not located near any points and only experiences loaded rail traffic. Suggesting that loaded trains do not contribute as much to the fouling experienced as empty trains.

- Locations 5 and 6 fouled at an extremely high rate, highlighting that the unloading techniques of the wagons are responsible for a large majority of the fouling right after the unloader.

- On average, a majority of the fouling experienced at locations 5 and 6 were in the middle container. This shows that the Kwik-Drop Doors underneath the wagons are leaking residual coal onto the track.

- In this investigation, it was found that empty trains foul at a much higher rate than loaded trains, meaning that the coal unloading practices are contributing a significant amount to the fouling experienced across the network.

Figure 6: Container Layout at Location 5

Recommendations

From the data that was gathered, the following recommendations were drawn: - Results suggest that the unloading practices of the coal wagons foul the track directly after the unloader at a high rate, therefore to further diagnose the source of fouling it would be beneficial to install the containers at the mine loader to determine if more fouling is experienced during the loading process or unloading process.

- Implement the containers around other assets such as bridges, level crossings and different types of turnouts to determine where the coal is falling off the wagons at these fixed points.

- Conduct a sieve analysis on the samples that have been collected to further diagnose the source of fouling from the wagons (leakage through doors, parasitic coal on sills, shear plates, and bogies of the wagon) as the particle sizes will help identify where the coal is falling from the wagon.

Figure 7: Top View of Containers at Location 5

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During underground mining ore is removed from the ground, producing large voids. These voids are backfilled to ensure regional stability during blasting and excavation of the nearby orebodies. The fine grained backfills are placed in the mine voids in the form of slurry so that they can be transported through pipelines and boreholes over a large distance.

A small dosage of a pozzolanic binder is added to the backfill to enhance the strength. Portland cement (GPC) is the most common binder, but contributes significantly to cost, in the order of 8 to 15% of the total mining budget. GPC production releases significant quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

METHODOLOGY Utilising paste fill tailings from George Fisher Mine (GFM), Mt Isa at 74% solid content, 27 mix designs were trialled with different binder material: • 40% GPC & 60% Slag • 75% GPC & 25% Fly Ash • 100% GPC The percent mass of each binder mix: • 3%, 5% and 7%.

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To determine the strength of the mixes unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests and indirect tensile strength (ITS) tests were conducted at 7, 14, 28 and 56 days of curing. With flow characteristics evaluated through the use of viscometer.

Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) were utilized to determine the grain shape and chemical composition/mineralogy of the GFM tailings

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• The E/UCS ratio mainly falls within a 100-250UCS range.

• Three mixes satisfied the selected threshold values of yield stress and UCS: ▪ Mix 26 - Binder 7% (GPC: SL 40:60), PC admixture 4% ▪ Mix 28 - Binder 7% (GPC:FA 75:25), PC admixture 0% ▪ Mix 33 - Binder 7% (GPC:100), PC admixture 6% • Mix 26 and 28 recommened as the most ecconomically and environmentally conscIious successful mixes.

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OBJECTIVE Determine a more economically and environmentally conscious mix design of paste fills by partially replacing cement with cementitious waste products slag and fly ash.

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Mix design of paste backfill for underground mining I would recommend the Futures Challenge experience to other students as it provides an opportunity to see the theoretical and technical skills taught at university put into practice to solve everyday problems. The highlight of the conference for me was getting the opportunity to present my thesis. Although it was a nerveracking experience, it allowed me to practice my public speaking skills and speak with experienced professionals about my topic. The feedback was invaluable.

From engaging and networking with experienced engineering professionals at the conference, I learnt that having a good mentor during the early stages of my career will provide me with the tools for success.

Quantitative analysis of coal fouling in the Stanwell Power Station Balloon Loop A highlight was the vast number of delegates from different backgrounds who were more than happy to prove advice and guidance on my career.

Another highlight were the presentations. In particular, it was extremely interesting to hear about the future of engineering and fields I'm not involved with in my current role.

I would tell future student thinking of participating to throw themselves into the deep end and go for it! I am not a fan of public speaking but I gained a lot from the experience. The next time will now appear less daunting and this is a very useful skill to have. Being able to speak publicly is also a very useful skill to have in your career.

After speaking to a number of experienced engineering professionals, the main thing I learnt was that diversifying throughout your career and experiencing new challenges is what ultimately makes a great engineer. Becoming a specialist in a field is important/necessary but if you are working in a team and you understand the role of each professional you work with, this will help you become a better engineer.

• Rice Husk Ash (waste product) substitute for fly ash (concrete) • Potential for 20% increase in compressive strength of concrete • Capitalising on waste products & empty freight vehicles for transport

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• Controls heat transfer through glass rom direct solar irradiance • Facilitates natural lighting

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Mix Design of Paste Fill for Underground Mining

• Native or European breeds • Source of honey but also positive wellbeing for employees

INTRIGUING STAIRWAYS

• Integration of green technology • Stockholm experiment inspired

• Monitor humidity and temperature throughout the office

After installing, retrieving, weighing and drying the coal samples collected in each container the data was then analyzed and compared to draw the following conclusions: - Locations 1 and 2 fouled at a relatively high rate - The containers closer to the mainline track at location 1 and 2 (containers A and F) fouled at a higher rate than the containers furthest away (containers C and D) - Locations 3 and 4 (located before the unloader) experienced a small amount of fouling across the left, middle and right containers.

- The fouling experienced in locations 5 and 6 were extremely high - On average, at locations 5 and 6 the container in the middle of the track consistently collected more contaminates than those on the ballast shoulders - Empty trains fouled at a much higher rate than loaded trains as locations 2, 5 and 6 collected much more coal than locations 1, 3 and 4.

Figure 2: Average coal weight collected by Location and Orientation

Figure 3: Coal Fouling Raw Data

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Figure 1: Heat Map of fouling rates in Stanwell Balloon Loop

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• Acknowledgeme nt of traditional owners (The Turrbal and Jagera People) • Engaging in the commission of aboriginal artwork • Ongoing project aiming to promote student engagement with cultural heritage • Increased mindfulness of the land they use every day

DEDICATED EV CHARGING

• Dedicated EV parking spaces • Basic AC Charging - Level 2, Mode 3 • Chargers use solar panel energy • Free parking incentive • Paid parking for gasoline vehicles (14P, Red Zone, $2.50/hr for up to 14 hours).

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• Bike Box facility encouraging staff to cycle to work • End of trip facilities • Coffee incentive program • Reduced number of carparks to encourage cycling

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• Providing homeless / financially struggling students with laundry services • Safe environment for those who • Redirects water from taps to toilet systems feel disconnected to be listened to • Connection to UQ lakes for remaining effluent to be used • Utilising empty space at night as a source of irrigation (e.g. Great Court) time • Cleans rainwater for taps and showers

GREYWATER TREATMENT PLANT

Design proposal for sustainable futures building at the University of Queensland.

I learnt a lot more then I was expecting, primarily around the future direction of the industry and key challenges faced by professionals. By being exposed to this type of thinking, I hope it helps me to become more aware of such challenges when I’m at work and university. And one day I may have the privilege to be a part of solving them.

It was rewarding to attend and to keep up to date with key industry challenges but most importantly, I enjoyed seeing a lot of familiar faces and meeting new people! I also loved being able to meet the other students undertaking the futures challenge as well.

I would definitely recommend the IPWEAQ Futures Challenge to students thinking about participating - it offers a rare opportunity to practice your public speaking in a safe setting, and the opportunity to network with other students and professionals that you might end up working with some day!

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Improved theory for the design of highspeed roundabouts to suit heavy vehicles School of Engineering and Surveying Author: Mark Tomarchio Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (Civil) Supervisor: Dr Soma Somasundaraswaran, USQ

Project Aims & Objectives

• Analyse and evaluate the commonly available standards and guidelines for high-speed roundabouts

There is a perception in the road design industry that heavy vehicles have trouble negotiating roundabouts, particularly in high-speed areas with reverse-curve approaches.

• Identify where improvement in the standards may be required

The problem in general is that there is insufficient clear and comprehensive guidance in the current Australian road design standards regarding the specific requirements for safe operation of highspeed roundabouts by heavy vehicles.

• Develop a document that clearly and comprehensively details the design standards specifically required for heavy vehicles on high speed roundabouts, in the format of a supplement to current Austroads Guide to Road Design (AGRD) standards.

Therefore the aims and objectives of this project are to:

Figure 1: Roundabout Ahead and Truck Tilting Signs. MUTCD (2018)

Methodology • The maximum coefficient of side friction tolerable by a heavy vehicle is much lower (f=0.25) than that of a car, (f=0.5) which results in larger curve radii being required to prevent heavy vehicle roll overs • Current AGRD central island radii and circulating carriageway widths are analyses and critically reviewed against specific heavy vehicle requirements

• Case study of an existing roundabout is carried out, including speed survey, simulation of travelled path, crossfall analysis, and calculated side friction factors

Figure 2: Case Study RB1 Travelled Path Analysis

Conclusions & Recommendations • Curve radii specified in current examples are insufficiently sized for heavy vehicles, resulting in side friction factors that induce instability when driven at intended speeds • Insufficient lengths of straights are specified in the current examples, which does not allow heavy vehicles to decelerate to appropriate speeds to safely negotiate the curves • Insufficient advanced warning is provided to heavy vehicle drivers to warn them that a potential hazard (ie the reverse-curves) are ahead / before the roundabout • A supplement is developed including examples of recommended approach geometry and signage

Figure 3: Recommended Approach Geometry & Signage

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Contact: Mark Tomarchio mark.tomarchio@ghd.com

CRICOS QLD00244B NSW 02225M TEQSA:PRV12081

• Current recommended examples of reversecurve approach geometry from various jurisdictions are analysed; AGRD, Main Roads Western Australia, Florida Department of Transport

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STUDENT MEMBERSHIP We are delighted to invite full-time civil engineering students and related disciplines eg urban planning, design and surveying to join us for the duration of their university studies

Benefits of Student Membership A ccess to industry-specific content in

our globally-recognised Knowledge Centre including papers and videos of presentations delivered at conferences and symposia. A ccess to our quarterly e-journal, Engineering for Public Works, valued for its technical and industry-relevant content. R eceive regular newsletters with the latest happenings in our sector including jobs, placements and other opportunities for students and recent graduates.

S pecial student offers to attend

our conferences and networking opportunities.  J oin us for a special Meet & Greet at our annual conference specifically for members under age 28.  J oin us for various opportunities and initiatives in our university engagement program.

Note: proof of current enrolment is required upon joining and each year for renewal.

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#IPWEAQ19 FEATURE

Student Reflections

Martin Luna Juncal IPWEAQ's first Student member Being an undergraduate student, finding opportunities to develop my network as an engineer and get real world experience is difficult to come by. A lot of my focus is always directed at my university study, and it’s difficult to realise that developing engineering skills extends to more than just what you study at university.

When I was presented with the opportunity to attend the IPWEAQ Annual Conference in October, it was an event that I was keenly interested in attending. I knew it was a big event and I relished the opportunity to get involved with other engineers and members of the public works community.

I went in early with my younger brother, Michael, having travelled up to Brisbane from the Gold Coast, and the immediate reception was spectacular; friendly

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faces with a massive IPWEAQ arch really set the tone for the day. Once inside the main venue we were fortunate enough to have a bit of a look around at the different stalls that were embedded in the main hall which was set up and ready to welcome 525 delegates this year. It was quite fascinating to see a range of different companies and boards from a very broad range of public works and engineering disciplines.

I took this opportunity to speak to a few of the people at the stalls

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Year, Marita Cheng. She simply inspired the room with her efforts to promote women in STEM, and her story about overcoming adversity was simply spectacular.

Marita highlighted just how important robotics and technology in general can be to our lives, and just how vital a simple vision can be to success. and learn about some innovative designs that they were developing, ranging from new, lightweight, cheap composites to cold-pour asphalt. Really, there were so many different companies that it’d be hard to not find something that’s interesting or applicable to undergraduate students.

After this introduction session however, the real highlights of the annual conference began.

Kicking off the day, the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner, began proceedings by sharing his vision for the growth of the region and the significance of continuing to invest in developing our regional economy. This keynote was enough on its own to ensure that I was going to enjoy the day, but it was followed up with another incredible speech by the 2012 Young Australian of the

After the two keynotes, morning tea was served, where I took the opportunity to go around and talk to more of the people behind the stalls that were offered at the event. Again, it was great to see the hard work and innovation that is being contributed to Queensland by the public works and engineering firms. This was followed by even more brilliant papers and an insightful panel discussion relating to planning in Australia for the year 2050, including the challenges, hurdles and opportunities that we have as a nation to grow and really develop, based on our strengths and core values.

After another networking packed lunch break, the conference was split into several streams. As a student keen on water studies, I went along to the ‘Delivering Surface Water Solutions’ stream.

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session covering some of the typical water topics, such as rainfall modelling, flood mapping and mitigation; but also some interesting and unconventional spins, such as using waterways as a social aspect, rather than solely as a means to transport water throughout a city.

Finally, towards the end of the day, there were even more amazing talks in the main room, where important topics such as future innovations for road networks and traffic management challenges were discussed. Fittingly for me, the day ended with student presentations as part of the IPWEAQ Futures Challenge, which really summarised the experience for me: it was about learning, networking and sharing. I really think that I was able to come away from the conference with some more experience about critical and key issues that future engineers such as myself will face. Overall, it was an event that I would love to recommend to all undergraduate and graduate engineers.

Experience and networking is paramount in our field, and events like this are the perfect opportunity for young engineers to really get involved and network as well as learn from experienced members in the region.

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INFORMS. CONNECTS. REPRESENTS. LEADS. PROMOTE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY REGIONAL AND REMOTE REGIONS • Document journeys and stories from student placements, graduates, accompanying partners and family.

• List benefits to Go West that can be used by regional employers when promoting work opportunities.

• Go West video.

• Flyers / brochures – ‘Get to know your Queensland’, ‘Make a real difference to communities’.

• Dedicated Go West page on IPWEAQ website.

IMPROVE THE EASE AND TIME NEEDED TO SCOPE MEANINGFUL WORK PLACEMENTS • Coordinate collection of successful industry work projects throughout Queensland.

• Create a collaborative library accessible to stakeholders.

CONNECT UNIVERSITIES AND EMPLOYERS • Collate from universities information on best ways to reach students for placement / employment opportunities. Produce guide for regional employers.

• IPWEAQ university talks promoting public works and GO West campaign.

• Facilitate university and industry connections through video conferences and dedicated campaigns.

• Feedback from universities on what students are looking for and potential blockers to considering going west.

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ENCOURAGE BEST PRACTICE PLACEMENT EXPERIENCE Create a useable and practical tool-kit for regional employers to assist in facilitation of placements: • Budget considerations • Housing options vs remote working • Transport • Introduction to the region • On-boarding checklist • Suggested placement milestones

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the great debate

(Logan City Council) proved that, while they may not have been convincing on the question of adaptability (according to delegates), they were well prepared to undermine their opposition’s credibility.

Rural/regional engineers are more adaptable than their city counterparts A highlight of the IPWEAQ Annual Conference each year is the Great Debate which wraps up the final day of the conference program.

This is an entertaining session featuring plenty of humour, cheap shots and some key points and issues are also addressed.

Both teams agreed on one point - engineers from anywhere are innately flexible and capable of managing and resolving multiple issues simultaneously. But who are more adaptable? Engineers in the city or engineers in rural and regional areas?

The winners this year, voted by delegates via the conference app, was the Affirmative team of Glenda Kirk (Mareeba Shire Council), Ben Ash (George Bourne & Associates) and Andrew Johnson (Somerset Regional Council).

Perhaps delegates were persuaded by the Affirmative team’s demonstrations of how they deal with every possibility always equipped with the right tools at the right time.

Not to be outdone, the Negative team comprising Joe Bannan (Brisbane City Council), Jessica Kahl (Aurecon) and Paul Wilson

The Great Debate, introduced in 2016 has now been won twice by the Affirmative team and twice by the Negative team. If you would like to participate in next year’s debate, please contact our CEO, Leigh Cunningham. And if you have a topic, please also contact Leigh.

For the first time, the Great Debate was available via live streaming expanding the voting pool, perhaps in favour of the Affirmative team which won with 83% of the vote.

Thank you to our teams for such an entertaining end to #IPWEAQ19!

Do you have a topic for the 2020 Great Debate? Please send your suggestions through to the CEO, Leigh Cunningham

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Applying safe systems principles to priority crossing for pedestrian and cycle paths

CONFERENCE PAPER

Prudence Oswin Sidelines Traffic Abstract: Safe systems principles have been incorporated into technical guidance and practical examples of cycling infrastructure in Queensland.

Providing crossings at side roads that give pedestrians and bicycle riders priority over vehicles is one way of ensuring that shared pathways are more direct and comfortable for users.

However, the key concern of many practitioners and users is whether these facilities are safe.

Results of observational studies into existing raised priority crossings were used to identify key design attributes for priority crossings on side roads. The design guidance was also tested against safe systems principles to ensure that facilities allow for human error but are unlikely to result in serious injury or harm to users.

The results of this work demonstrate that priority crossing treatments can be developed, consistent with safe systems principles to deliver

Figure 1: Raised Priority Crossing, Goonawarra Drive, Mooloolaba

safe, convenient and more direct cycling facilities where more users are comfortable to use shared pathways.

Where pathway users are given priority across a road using regulatory Give Way or Stop signs and line marking, it is referred to as a priority crossing (TMR, 2019) (see Figure 1). Providing raised crossings at side roads that give pedestrians and bicycle riders priority over vehicles is one way of ensuring that shared pathways are more direct and comfortable for

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users. However, the key concern of many practitioners is whether these facilities are safe.

The Safe Systems philosophy for road safety has been adopted

by Queensland and Australian Governments in their road safety strategies published in 2015 and 2011 respectively (TMR, 2019; Australian Transport Council, 2011). Despite this, the most recent review of the National Road Safety Strategy found that “the Safe System approach has been adopted but not ingrained or

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Table 1: Safe System Principles Safe System Principle

General Safe Systems Description

Functional

Single function of roads as through, distributor, or access road in a hierarchically structured road network

Path facility has same priority as parallel road, such that cyclists are attracted onto the separated facility, and not delayed at lower order roads.

Homogeneous

Equality in speed between users sharing space, and mass and medium and high speeds

Equitable speeds between path users and vehicles at crossing point (<30km/h). This allows users to see each other and opens up time to react and avoid crashes.

Predictable

Road environment and road user behaviour that support road user expectations through consistency and continuity in road design

Areas where vulnerable road users and vehicles come into conflict are clearly delineated. Signage and line marking used to clearly indicate priority.

State of awareness

Ability for network user to assess oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capability to handle the task

Unlicensed users not relied upon to avoid conflicts and make complex decisions. Road design reinforces responsibility of licensed road users to give way to pedestrians and bike riders at side roads.

Forgiving

Injury limitation through a forgiving road environment and anticipation of road user behaviour

Motor vehicle speeds reduced such that, consequences of crash probably not serious or fatal. Aim to provide vehicle speeds of 20km/hr at pedestrian crossings.

Vulnerable Road Users/Pathway Users

Figure 2: Attributes of raised priority crossings

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mainstreamed within government business by federal, state, territory or local governments.” (2019 DTCRD) The central premise of the Safe Systems philosophy to road safety is that people should not be killed or seriously injured as result of traffic crashes (Austroads, 2015).

It also recognises that people will make mistakes and puts an onus onto designers to create infrastructure that is forgiving to these mistakes, so that crashes do not result in serious injuries or fatalities.

There are 5 key principles to Safe Systems philosophy. They provide a framework that can be used to assess whether infrastructure is consistent with the philosophy. They are broadly described as functionality, homogeneity, predictability, state of awareness and forgivingness.

Table 1, Column 2 describes how the Safe Systems Principles apply to planning for all users in traffic networks as described in Austroads (2015). Column 2 describes how the principles can be more specifically applied to protect vulnerable road users at side roads.

To assess whether environments are ‘forgiving’, critical impact speeds are used. Critical impact speeds have been calculated for different crash types and users (Austroadsb, 2015). They represent the speed of a bullet vehicle in a crash which results in a 10% chance of severe injuries or death. For crashes involving pedestrians (and cyclists), this speed is approximately 20km/hr.

For adjacent direction crashes the critical impact speeds is 30km/ hr and for rear-end crashes it is 55km/hr (Austroadsb, 2015).

The preferred attributes of raised priority crossings are defined in the TMR Guideline, Raised priority crossings for pedestrian and cycle paths (TMR, 2019). These attributes were developed following observational research on existing facilities, and to be consistent with the Safe Systems framework and critical impact speeds. A general overview of the attributes and their links to Safe Systems is provided in Figure 2.

The Safe Systems principles provide an effective framework for designing infrastructure to avoid crashes that might result in serious injuries or fatalities. Understanding critical impact speeds for the crash types that might occur, and uses involved, is an important component of the assessment.

Acknowledgements CDM Research for providing video footage TMR for undertaking project to develop technical guidance for raised priority crossings J. Giles for teaching me how to apply Safe Systems to vulnerable road users M. Langdon and McDonald for guidance in this project References • Australian Transport Council, 2011. National Road Safety Strategy, 2011-2020 • Austroads, 2015. Research report AP-R488-15 Safe Systems in the Planning Process • Austroadsb, 2015. Improving performance of Safe Systems infrastructure • CDM Research. 2015 "Observational study of cyclist priority cycleway crossings".

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Prepared for Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads • CDM Research. 2018 "Evaluation of the Mann Street Cycleway, Cairns". Prepared for • Department of Transport, Cities and Regional Development, 2019.

Review of National Road Safety Governance Arrangements, Final Report. Commonwealth of Australia • Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads • CDM Research. 2016 "Evaluation of the Mooloolaba to Minyama Separated Bikeway, Stages 1, 3 and 4a". Prepared for Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads • Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads TMR, 2019. Raised priority crossings for pedestrians and cycle paths.

The State of Queensland • Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads TMR, 2015. Safer Roads, Safer Queensland. The State of Queensland • Last name, First initial. (Year published). Title. Edition. (Only include the edition if it is not the first edition) City published: Publisher.

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Welcome to our newest IPWEAQ Partner, PelicanCorp

PermitAccess special promotion for IPWEAQ during Jan-Mar 2020.

Contact John for more info.

PelicanCorp is considered the industry leader in the asset/infrastructure protection and business continuity space. PelicanCorp has its Global Head Office in Melbourne, Australia. There are Australian Offices in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. We also have a presence in New Zealand, Singapore, UK, Ireland, USA and Canada.

PelicanCorp’s customer base is very similar to IPWEAQ’s membership base; including utilities, councils, road authorities, engineering companies and contractors.

5 key solutions currently make up the PelicanCorp Platform:  TicketAccess is a full lifecycle management and response system for the automated processing of Dial Before You Dig (DBYD) responses.  PermitAccess provides management of ‘Excavation’ and ‘Non-Excavation’ road permit applications. For Excavation permit applications PermitAccess combines and automates the process of submitting a Dial Before You Dig (DBYD) enquiry and applying for a Permit when the intended work site is in the road corridor. When requiring a Non-Excavation permit CorridorAccess provides an automated application and approval process consistent amongst Permit Authorities.  OneCallAccess API is a web service which provides organisations a simple and cost-effective method to integrate their business processes with the Dial Before You Dig (DBYD) service. The automation provided by the API is controlled by you and the system that you integrate with for automatically submitting DBYD enquiries, resulting in significant savings of both time and resources.

 PlanAccess is an online service that manages and automatically collates your Dial Before You Dig (DBYD) responses into individual Job Packs providing significant cost and time savings by eliminating what has traditionally been a resource intensive process.  WorksAccess is an online collaboration solution to share, plan, schedule and forecast public and utility works. It is the meeting place for Utilities, Municipalities and Road Authority works. It brings together all parties involved in Public Works with the aim of reducing the number of road openings, reducing the cost involved in road openings and improving the ability to schedule works.

Contact: John Lockton – john.lockton@pelicancorp.com 0418 508 178

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We welcomed our new Partner PelicanCorp at #IPWEAQ19 and they were there with us when we said goodbye to our friends for another year.

The Closing Function is an important event on the IPWEAQ Annual Conference calendar, providing participants one final occasion to cement those new connections and relax with colleagues. It was our pleasure to have John Lockton and PelicanCorp with us for the first time and a special treat to have them sponsor and host the Closing Function at Welcome to Bowen Hills.

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KIRSTY BILTON

EMERGING LEADER PROFILE

Kirsty Bilton is a traffic and transport engineer with over 15 years’ experience in the private and public sector including work in the US. Kirsty has experience in all facets of traffic engineering and transport planning. Kirsty has a Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and Graduate Certificate in Transport and Traffic and is a RPEQ.

EPW: Please tell us about yourself: where are you from, what are your interests, what makes you tick?

KB: I was born in Perth, Western Australia and spent the first 10 years of my life moving every couple of years as my father was in the RAAF. We moved to Brisbane in 1989 and my parents are still in that house. I think that because of this change as a child, I have

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developed a love of travel and have lived interstate and overseas (Japan and the United States of America) for extended periods of time as an adult.

Thanks to family connections with North Queensland, I have been a passionate North Queensland Cowboys supporter since the beginning in 1995. I was fortunate to have been able to attend the

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2015 Grand Final when they beat the Broncos in Sydney. I can’t wait to attend a game in the new stadium in Townsville sometime in 2020.

EPW: Please summarise your career to date in your own words.

KB: I got my start in traffic and transport in Melbourne in 2000 working for Transurban and Transfield on the CityLink road network. When I returned to Brisbane, I worked for Brisbane City Council for a couple of years in the Traffic Management Centre, and also did a couple of stints of vacation employment and completed my thesis with the Road Use Management team while I finished my degree and then headed overseas for three years.

I nearly didn’t come back to engineering. My time overseas opened up a can of wanderlust and I seriously looked into becoming a travel agent. Instead I found a graduate traffic engineering role at Cardno Eppell Olsen in late 2005. At Cardno, I was involved in a broad range of traffic and transport work including traffic impact assessments for large shopping centre expansions and a number of projects for the resource sector in both the Bowen and Surat Basins. I also undertook a 10 month work exchange to the United States where I worked as a traffic analyst for Kittelson and Associates.

In 2011, I made the move to Ipswich City Council (ICC) as the Traffic Signal Engineer and over time ended up being involved in every aspect of traffic and transport from signs and lines, to development application reviews and strategic transport planning.

I value the time at ICC because I was able to obtain a detailed understanding the range of traffic engineering and transport planning in a local government context. I feel that it would have been much harder to get the same level of exposure and experience at a larger Council.

In April 2015, I made the move to the City of Gold Coast to strengthen my knowledge and experience in traffic signals and ITS. In early 2016, an opportunity

came up for me to move into the City’s Commonwealth Games team where I was initially a part of the Integration team and later moved into the Network Operation and Traffic Management areas.

After the completion of the Games I started working for Brisbane City Council in the Congestion Reduction Unit as a Traffic Network Engineer, responsible for the efficient operation of the road network, largely through the operation of traffic signals.

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In September 2019, I started as the Acting Maintenance Delivery Manager in the Traffic Network Services team. I am responsible for leading a team of about 20 people who maintain and deliver the traffic signal, ITS, CCTV, fibre and network infrastructure and services on a 24/7 basis.

EPW: What’s been your most significant career highlight to date?

KB: Being involved in the planning and delivery of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (GC2018) Road Events (triathlon, race walk, road cycling and marathon) and the Queens Baton Relay was an incredible opportunity that will be difficult for me to top. As Council’s Traffic Manager for Road Events and Queens Baton Relay, I was responsible for providing input into the preferred routes, determining the network impacts of the road closures and identifying diversion routes, overseeing the development of and implementation of the traffic management overlay.

I also got to ride in the front of a Police car for the four days of Queens Baton Relay, which was lots of fun.

EPW: What do you find most satisfying about working as an engineer in public works?

KB: One of the appeals of the traffic and transport sector is that the work is tangible and the outcomes of our work can be see in relatively short timeframes. It’s very easy to explain to people the work that I do. In public works this is even more visible, and you know very quickly the impacts of the work you have done, for better or for worse. I really enjoy travelling

around a city and knowing that I was involved in making things better and often safer for the broader community.

EPW: Have you faced any particular challenges as a woman in public works engineering? And if so, how do you overcome them?

KB: Many of the challenges that apply to being a woman in engineering apply regardless of whether you are in the public or private sector. Having said that, I find that when I am working in more operational areas (like my current role) then the limited number of women is far more noticeable. This is something that I would love to see changed.

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There are some great programs being done to get more girls and young women interested in STEM at the primary and secondary school level that we will hopefully start to see the benefits of in the coming years.

In the shorter term, programs to encourage more women to consider moving into leadership positions may help stem the flow of women leaving the industry mid-career and provide younger women with more examples of women in leadership positions that can act as role models. The benefits that the public sector offers such as more flexible working conditions could also be promoted more to encourage

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some of these women to shift from the private to the public sector.

EPW: What do you appreciate most about your involvement with IPWEAQ? KB: I appreciate how IPWEAQ provides a forum for collaboration between the different agencies and organisations involved in delivering public works engineering. The different activities like conferences, training and publications allows people from across the state an opportunity to share what work they are doing which can result in the promotion and roll out of some great ideas and projects across Queensland.

EPW: What would be the one piece of advice you would give to others early in their career?

KB: Don’t be afraid to ask questions, try new things and

don’t be afraid to make mistakes.

We all learn and grow through being outside of our comfort zone, and while this is difficult, it is so worth it. Also take your time to work out what area of engineering you enjoy and if you are not enjoying what you are doing look for opportunities in other areas. While my degree is in Electrical Engineering, for much of my career I have worked with civil engineers in the traffic and transport area. One advantage of being an engineer is that many of the skills are transferrable between disciplines.

EPW: Do you have any particular advice you would offer to young women thinking of a career in public works engineering?

KB: Do it. Public works engineering is full of diverse opportunities and is incredibly fulfilling. Working in

the public sector offers you the ability to deliver work that will make a difference to the lives of people in the community that you live and work in which brings meaning to the work we do.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself, especially if you are in the minority as a female engineer. This allows you to bring new perspectives to a workplace and ways of solving problems which are critical for ensuring that the outcomes we deliver are relevant to the broader community.

Reach out to other women in industry to share experiences, ask questions and seek advice. There are some incredible female leaders in public works engineering that I have found are very generous with their time and are more than happy to help others out.

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intuition, infrastructure and overcoming bias

CONFERENCE PAPER

James Thorne WSP, Christchurch, New Zealand Masters of Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Dr Eric Scheepbouwer Director of Construction Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Abstract: Who can we trust to make the strategic infrastructure decisions that our communities desperately need? Wisdom tells us to first look to the industry experts. But how well are we cultivating this intuitive expert knowledge? Does the decision-making process hold up to scrutiny and is it conducted in a framework of continuous improvement?

This article is adapted from the 2019 winning IPWEA NZ Hynds Paper of the Year and showcases the results of James’s master's thesis research examining "Intuitive Decision-making for Wastewater Pipe Networks".

1 Introduction The principles of integrated asset

management are well understood and implemented in our region.

New Zealand and Australian local governments have led the way through the development and publication of the International Infrastructure Management Manual (IIMM) which promotes a Total Asset Management Process.

The IIMM forms an important benchmark for integrated asset management systems around the world and is regularly referenced in academic papers.

The strength of the IIMM is the focus on developing integrated organisational strategies and having a decision-making process that is aligned with the overall plan and takes into account all of the various stakeholders.

There are numerous standards, guidelines, computational models and support tools that assist the development of integrated asset management frameworks by describing the decisionmaking process from a rational perspective. For example, capital expenditure strategies may focus on the “hard” network data such as pipe size, age, material, and perhaps camera footage from inside the pipes. Reliance on this “hard” data for decision-

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making is problematic due to the complexity of wastewater networks and uncertainty regarding the relationships between data, performance and causality. Poor data quality is another reason to be wary of deterministic decisions based on “hard” data.

In contrast to the numerous support tools using “hard” data, little formal guidance is available on how to appropriate operational deficiencies into the decision process. And potentially more significant, is the omission of formal methods of including intangible factors such as political, economic, environmental and social influences. It is often these intangible influences that have the greatest bearing on capital expenditure for wastewater networks.

A next step in wastewater asset management, perhaps, is to provide decision-makers guidance for practically implementing a process of weighing up intangible and often competing influences to make transparent and robust decisions.

Investment decisions for wastewater networks are complex and take into account a broad

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Figure 1 First level of decision tree

system of influences. The wide range of influences supports the idea that wastewater networks are complex and deterministic decisions based on “hard” data alone are not appropriate. Instead, decisions require the use of “intuition” to weigh up the various factors in order to make a best fit decision so that investment and construction actions can proceed. Good intuitive decisions rely on the relevant knowledge and experience of the decisionmaker(s) and also on processes that reflect the complexity of the system. Current research and guidance for intuitive decisionmaking is not well developed, thereby leaving local governments potentially exposed to risks of bad decisions.

This study addresses the problem by investigating intuitive decisionmaking processes and develops a new methodology to quantify and document decision data.

2 Intuitive decision-making 2.1 What’s so complex about wastewater networks?

The complex nature of wastewater networks comprises the following categories: Socio technical The influences are a mix of the technical (pipe attributes, hydraulics, loading demands etc.) and social (financial impacts, stakeholders, public safety, environmental protection, political interests and regulation).

Network complexity There is an important connectedness where each individual element is part of the wider system and there is an inherent interdependence. As pipe networks grow in size and number, the complexity of the connectedness also grows.

Unknown causality Causation is the “cause and effect” relationship where a network performance state can be shown to be the result of a particular characteristic. Due to the complexity of the network there is a high degree of uncertainty as to what characteristics caused a particular issue of failure.

Missing data Local Governments struggle with asset data that is either altogether missing, incomplete or unreliable.

This issue is confounded by the nature of wastewater networks being buried underground assets, effectively invisible. This data issue is a barrier to the prediction of outcomes using calculative models.

2.2 Why intuition?

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman describes two distinct modes of thinking: System 1 and System 2.

System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little effort and without the requirement of voluntary concentration.

This mode draws on relevant experience, knowledge and “gut”, and is fundamentally important for intuitive decision-making.

System 2 allocates attention to effortful mental activities, tracing mathematical and logical solutions to the task at hand. This mode is relied upon heavily when adopting rational decision-making processes.

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Figure 2 Factors to determine overflow risk

The field of engineering has a practical outlook and could be viewed as the application of science and mathematics to provide some societal need. It follows that these scientific and mathematic fundamentals require that engineers rely heavily upon the System 2 mode of thinking and rational decision-making. Rational decision-making works when problems are well defined and can be broken down so that the mathematical System 2 approach can be applied.

However, System 1 thinking is more useful where problems grow increasingly large, complex and less well understood.

The complexities of wastewater networks provides an opportunity for System 1 intuitive thinking to shine.

2.3 Intuitive pitfalls There are however some associated pitfalls to understand when using expert intuition.

Transparency There is a transparency issue as decision-makers use their own expert knowledge to jump from A to E in a decision without necessarily being able to articulate or document the skipped calculations of B, C and D. Bias Unconscious bias is present when using intuition and undermines decisions accuracy. Bias can appear in; anchoring, confirmation bias, groupthink, information bias, and loss aversion.

Institutional knowledge

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Knowledge is gained through experience and our senior expert staff have accumulated great insight. However, our aging society presents a risk of losing intuitive expertise and institutional knowledge of retiring staff.

One way of overcoming pitfalls and bias is by documenting the intuitive decision-making process.

This gives a reference point; a chance to audit and challenge assumptions, and provides an opportunity for learning so that intuitive decisions can be improved over time.

3 Industry survey to document intuition 3.1 The decision system model The developed method focusses on relevant factors and their levels

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Figure 3 Example industry survey question

of importance. This importance weighting or “significance” of factors comes from an industry survey of wastewater network experts.

The context question for the decision model is: “which pipe should I replace/repair?”

The decision tree used to answer this question considers how each factor contributes to the overall network performance. The tree branches down into the five main network failure categories and includes factors that contribute to the likelihood or consequence of each failure risk.

3.2 Quantitative assessment For each factor the various factor scores and significance weightings can be used to quantify the impact to network performance.

Factor score A factor score of 5 is bad and a

factor score of 1 is good. “Bad” is also synonymous with high risk and “good” with low risk.

was taken by 43 participants between 7 February 2017 and 27 February 2017.

Significance weighting The significance of each factor is determined from the industry survey. The survey frames the questions from the perspective of a wastewater network asset manager tasked with having to determine which pipes in their network to repair or replace. The weightings are quantified using a 1-5 Likert-type scale.

4 Results

Survey participation The survey was distributed online and circulated to Water New Zealand and the Institute of Public Works Engineers of Australasia, with some direct requests to Council and engineering consultant contacts.

Participants who were experienced in wastewater network renewal decisions or investigations were asked to self-select. The survey

Typically the significance scores from the experts were in the 3 – 4 range. A “Top 2 Box” calculation is useful for Likert scale survey methods. Top 2 Box results are the percentage of all results on the 1 – 5 scale that were reported as 4 or 5, that is, Very Significant or Extremely Significant.

These results provide the input for the significance weighting for each of the factors. Further analysis was done to determine how much of an influence each factor has on the overall network performance score.

This was conducted by creating a model where each factor score is combined with its significance weighting and connected together using the format of the overarching decision tree.

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Unsurprisingly, those factors appearing near the top of the decision tree had more of an impact on the overall network performance compared with those that appear as sub factors at lower levels of the tree. The impact of each factor and the ranking is provided in the full paper.

to refine and simplify the decision tree model to only use the highest scoring factors.

5 Conclusions

Targeted effort for setting 1 to 5 factor score categories and thresholds Similar logic also applies to the task of setting the 1 to 5 factor score thresholds. The knowledge of which factors are most significant can help to hone the effort applied when coming up with the 1 to 5 factor score categories and thresholds.

The industry survey and overall method of documenting intuition provides insight into several benefits: 5.2 Benefits Provides prioritisation scores The method provides prioritisation scores once the significance weights are combined with the factor scores. The method is adapted from existing techniques and theories and provides a workable solution. Documenting the prioritisation scores allows improvement of intuitive decisionmaking over time.

Identification of the factors to include or not include in decision-making The Top 2 Box results provide clear indication of which factors are significant or not for the renewal prioritisation decision.

These observations can be used

Targeted data collection The significance weightings also show the most important factors to concentrate on for data collection.

Qualitative decision-making and prioritisation Numeric representation of a decision tree may be beyond what an asset manager is capable of at a given point in time but nevertheless the significance weightings could still be referred to. Using a qualitative high/med/ low significance would provide useful prioritisation.

Testing the decision tree structure and hierarchy The process of completing the survey and applying the method provides a chance to analyse the

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results and then go back and challenge what was originally assumed as the appropriate decision tree.

Can be applied across a network Once set up, the method can be applied at scale allowing the computational benefit of process repetition to apply scoring across the network.

Provides a documentation trail The documentation allows auditing of the decision quality and also gives a starting point for refining the method over time to facilitate continuous improvement.

Links individual factors with ultimate decision outcome For each factor it is possible to see which other factors are influenced by it and also to see how those factors ultimately affect the decision outcome.

Used as a shortlist It may be that the asset manager wishes to retain the autonomy of the ultimate decision-making, and even in this case the method provides assistance. This method could be used to shortlist pipes as candidates for action still allowing room for the asset manager to apply their own expert intuition at the end of the process.

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Places of Refuge – Building Resilience through Coastal Engineering

Places of Refuge – Building Resilience through Coastal Engineering

By Lana Maki (Peak Services) and Simon Kochanek (Bligh Tanner) Mornington Island is an extremely unique part of Queensland with a strong cultural heritage and proud people who are intimately connected with their place and their heritage. It is a remote island situated in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Many challenges confront the community such as isolation, access to goods and services and exposure to natural disasters.

All aspects of life on the island are impacted by these factors and many more, that would be hard for many on the mainland to fully appreciate. The only way to and from the island is by air, which adds an extreme layer to the fundraising efforts of the local premiership rugby league team and financially impacts all who live and work on Mornington Island in terms of accessing specialist healthcare and seeking shelter from seasonal weather events.

Every item on the island must be barged across once a week, there is no hardware store or chemist.

Mornington Shire Council (Council) takes a lead role in supply of

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essential services to the community with much determination and ingenuity. Bakery, hairdressing, civil services, airport, service station, mechanical workshop, concrete batching plant, accommodation are but a few of the services Council provides to the community and visitors. This is provided at a minimal margin to ensure these services are affordable for a community already fiscally constrained due to a high cost of living and limited employment opportunities. The Mayor, Elected Members, CEO and Council Executives advocate on behalf of the community for continuous

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improvement to liveability and opportunities on the island.

Peak Services (Peak) have been assisting Council in writing grant applications to achieve their goals.

The community is in desperate need of a cyclone shelter as the island is threatened several times a year and with no shelter, many people must be flown off the island at great expense to Council and the community. Council have been advocating for some time across all tiers of government for assistance to build an integrated hub to house many essential services, a training facility and

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event centre that can double as a maintainable cyclone shelter, so far to no avail.

In desperation and with inherited degraded assets, council looked at other ways they might help protect their community and successfully applied for a small NDRP grant.

This grant was to investigate the suitability of Council owned assets to withstand cyclones and determine which buildings could be readily engineered to meet the required resilience to cyclonic wind speeds for the region. Peak on Council’s behalf engaged engineering consultants Bligh Tanner to undertake the works of inspecting over 100 buildings, over a five-day period to then produce a 280-page recommendation report. This report provided the basis for utilising Works for Queensland (W4Q) funding for a project aptly named ‘Places of Refuge’.

Bligh Tanner worked closely with Peak’s Project Manager Lana Maki and the Council to identify building structural deficiencies and recommend critical repairs to existing buildings on the island.

The region is regularly exposed to cyclones which necessitates

the evacuation of members of the community, who do not have access to cyclone resistant buildings. The lack of a cyclone shelter on the island places all on the island in a vulnerable position each cyclone season.

The project initially involved the assessment of the buildings to resist the cyclonic winds that the region is regularly exposed to.

The subsequent phases of the project involved the development of engineering solutions to repair and improve the buildings’ ability to resist cyclonic winds.

Simon Kochanek, one of Bligh Tanners Principal Engineers who has extensive experience in the

remediation of existing structures completed structural inspections and audits of more than 100 buildings on Mornington Island at the end of 2018. The investigation works included the inspection of all accessible components of the buildings, including subfloors and roof spaces. The inspection works identified numerous existing buildings with significant deficiencies making them unsafe if exposed to even moderate wind speeds. Some of the building deficiencies identified included: • Limited or inadequate roof tie down.

• Inadequate bracing, or structure for lateral stability

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disuse for 10 years and is being refurbished and reopened. The engineering solution will not only equip the building with cyclonic tie down suitable for the region, it will have the added benefit of making the building more secure outside of business hours and support a modern open airy interior that connects with the outdoor dining areas when operating as a tavern restaurant.

• Inadequate tiedown to prevent overturning or uplift.

• Structures with inadequate member sizes to resist impose wind actions • Corrosion, decay or termite damage which reduced the capacity of members to resist required actions.

• Previous modifications resulting in the removal of structural members required to resist the imposed wind actions.

The engineering audits allowed the buildings to be rated and categorised to determine their likely ability to resist cyclonic winds with recommendations for repairs and strengthening to improve capacity. Bligh Tanner senior staff used their experience in working in remote areas and communities to develop practical engineering solutions to repair the structural deficiencies identified.

Solutions were tailored to suit the local community, accessible materials, and skills available on the island.

‘Places of Refuge’ seeks to restrain buildings that are not securely tied down to prevent them becoming airborne projectiles, but more importantly provides some surety

for Council that several buildings could be used for shelter in the event of a moderate cyclone.

Whilst not providing the level of protection a cyclone shelter would, this project will have a dramatic impact on the island and the community. The project will reduce Council’s financial risk during the cyclone season, allowing funds to be spent on essential services and will enable Council to retain staff due to the high level of risk posed from cyclones without access to suitably engineered buildings. The most important benefit will be the safety and retention of people on the island to help recover and make safe for the community in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

It has been several weeks after recent events before it has been possible to return clean up crews to the island.

Peak have been providing ongoing project management services to Council to assist with several grant funded projects, including this W4Q ‘Places of Refuge’ project and further engaged Bligh Tanner’s expertise to solve complex and multi-layered engineering challenges. One such challenge has been the re-engineering of a large old tavern that has been in

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The key upgrade that makes this all possible is the introduction of cyclone shutters to all external openings. The shutters when open provide a clear unobstructed view to the outdoors which is currently completely obscured by permanent steel framing and boarding. The current steel and boarding are not proving secure as the building has been broken into several times. The cyclone shutters will be tamper-proof and resistant to break-ins. Most importantly the shutters will exclude wind during moderate cyclones which has enabled the building to be cost effectively tied-down due to the reduction in internal pressures.

Bligh Tanner responded quickly to address remediation requirements to allow repair works to be completed prior to the 2019/2020 cyclone season. The engineering repairs and solutions that were developed were detailed to allow for flexibility with installation and cost effective to install, to ensure the local community could undertake as much remediation works as possible with the limited funds available.

Peak Services and Bligh Tanner have been delighted to be part of the project and to work closely with this remote community to deliver safer buildings for Mornington Island.

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ARRB SMART PAVEMENTS NOW CONFERENCE

In our recent IPWEAQ competition, four lucky people won conference tickets valued at $2,295 each to the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Smart Pavements Now Conference in Melbourne in September. Steve Forbes, BernieAnne Freeman, Leon Surawski and James Tayler attended the three-day masterclass event which was aimed at pavement industry professionals, covering topics such as Pavement Design and Smart Materials, Asset Measurement Devices, and Sustainability and Safety.

Bernie-Anne Freeman Senior Engineer (Civil), Downs South West Region Program Delivery And Operations Branch, Infrastructure Management and Delivery Division, TRM Thanks to IPWEAQ and ARRB, Bernie-Anne Freeman attended the Smart Pavements Now Masterclass,

at the National Transport Research Centre in September 2019. The three-day workshop focused on all things Pavements, including innovative materials and design, asset management, sustainability and safety aspects. Delegates from international, state and local road authorities, contractors and pavement consultants took part in the masterclass.

The masterclass showcased the range of initiatives the Australia Road Research Board (ARRB) are involved with across Australia, including Austroads Guides, testing and asset management devices, and partnerships with

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Five Fun Facts, quoted from Smart Pavements Now Conference Research focus: Reclaimed Asphalt Pavements (RAP), Crumb Rubber, Glass and Plastics are the four main innovative pavement materials being researched and utilised.

1. A ustralia is 14th on the global ladder for Connected Automated Vehicles (CAV) readiness (Data source: KPMG) 2. 907 000km of roads connect Australians – of which 63% is unsealed 3. Within the transport industry, 85% of Greenhouse Gas emissions is due to the road transportation sector, making the industry the 2nd largest contributor to emissions in QLD. 4. I n Australia, 56 million equivalent passenger unit (EPU) waster tyres produced in 2017. This equates to about 2 tyres per person. Currently, this is mostly exported, stockpiled or landfilled. state authorities like QLD Transport & Main Roads through NACoE and WA Main Roads through WARRIP. Presenters kept the delegates engaged through use of menti.com to allow interactive sessions from delegates smartphones.

Day One: Pavement Design The ARRB office and laboratories are based in the National Transport Research Centre. Delegates were able to tour the laboratories to see where testing is undertaken and observe tests such as

Austrack (slab compactor and wheel tracker), which is used to measure permanent deformation characteristics in unbound granular materials. Asphalt testing of various materials such as highmodulus asphalt, crumb rubber in asphalt and recycled asphalt (using Glass and RAP) were visible in the laboratory.

From the recycled material presentations, it is evident that having state authority and national specification are key to the mainstream use of these materials.

The use of recycled materials in pavements varies between road authorities within Australia and globally, with the USA allowing up to 15% of recycled glass in asphalt pavements, compared to much lower thresholds in Australia (up to 2.5% in NSW). Recycled glass used in asphalt pavements passes the 4.75mm sieve.

Crumb rubber currently used within Australia is solely truck tyres, which have a greater natural rubber and metal content then car tyres. Car tyres are not currently used due to truck tyres suppling current demands of crumb rubber, having less rubber content and requiring a separate processing plant produce crumb rubber from car types, due to the much higher presence of nylon fabric compared to truck tyres. Use of crumb rubber in sprayed seals is well established in Australia, with crumb rubber in asphalts emerging. With increased demand of crumb rubber in sealing, asphalts and other technologies, use of car tyres for production of crumb rubber is viable given suitable processing.

Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is currently used in mixes up to 15% (by mass) in Australia, and current investigations are

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underway to explore how greater proportions of RAP can be utilised in asphalt mixes. Trials have been undertaken to see how crumb rubber asphalt would perform as RAP, and results have indicated that these pavements are also suitable for RAP. Day Two: Asset Management Devices Delegates were introduced to two data pickup vehicles, the iPAVe and the iSSAVe. Both vehicles are available for road authorities to complete data pickup of their road network, and both vehicles have travelled around Australia.

The iPAVe calculates deflection, automated cracking, GPS, imaging, rutting, pavement texture and roughness. The vehicle runs at 80km/hr providing a safer data pickup mechanism. The iSSAVe collects skid resistance data primarily, as well as GPS, imaging, rutting and pavement texture and roughness. Currently, the iSSAVe collects data at 50km/hr, however testing to run at higher speeds is currently being investigated.

Auditing of roads for CAV readiness is underway in Australia, with assessments of existing road infrastructure such as linemarking, signage, and other road features being surveyed in real-time.

This process simulates how CAV machine vision systems work and determines the readiness of Australian roads to support this technology.

Day three: Sustainability and Safety The final day of the conference focused on improving safety and sustainability of pavement treatments. Use of materials is moving away from the current linear economy, working towards a

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circular economy where reuse and recycling can continuously occur.

With QLD the largest carbon producing state in Australia, NACoE have assessed the effect of innovative pavement solutions on Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Emissions generated throughout the pavement lifecycle were analysed, from production of materials through to maintenance and end of life. Pavement technologies evaluated include: • High Modulus Asphalt (EME2) • Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) • Crumb Rubber Binders (using recycled Truck tyres) • Foam Bitumen Stabilised (FBS) Pavements • Use of marginal materials (locally sourced materials where standard materials require long haul distances)

All innovative pavement solutions found an emission saving over 40-year life cycle. The model presented a 3.7% reduction in emissions through use of EME2, 5% reduction through RAP and FBS pavements, up to 17% for crumb rubber binders and up to 22.7% for locally sourced marginal materials, compared to traditional pavements. Comparatively, utilisation of electric vehicles can reduce emission by up to 45%.

To find out more about some of the topics mentioned, check out Austroads, ARRB, NACoE and WARRIP publications. Thanks to IPWEAQ for the opportunity to attend the Masterclass. The topics were very relevant my work, and great to meet those who have written and worked on publications that my team and I use on a regular basis.

Leon Surawski BEng (Civil), Grad Cert Build & Const Law, MIE, MIPWEA Senior Engineer – South, Infrastructure Services Group, Toowoomba Regional Council I thank IPWEAQ and Toowoomba Regional Council for the opportunity to attend the Australian Road Research Board’s, ARRB, Smart Pavements Now Masterclass. I thank the staff of ARRB who delivered a thought provoking and interesting masterclass.

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The Masterclass was held at ARRBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new National Transport Research Centre in the Port of Melbourne. A purpose-built research centre with offices and laboratories co-located. The presenters knew the content of their presentations in great detail.

I commend them on their ability to distil, months and years of research and knowledge into, one to one and half hour presentations.

The subject of greatest interest to me was how local authorities may utilise waste materials, diverting them from landfill by diverting them from the waste stream and incorporating them into road pavements. There were presentations on the reuse of asphalt pavement as recycled asphalt pavement into new asphalt pavement, recycled tyres into bitumen binder and asphalt.

The challenge went out on how to divert 56 million passenger equivalent tyres from landfill.

Toowoomba Regional Council will use approximately 12,000 tyres in this resealing program.

It is possible to incorporate waste products, tyre rubber, steel fibre and glass, into asphalt pavements while maintaining the recyclability of these asphalt pavements.

Recycled Asphalt Pavement, RAP, is able to be incorporated into new asphalt pavements up to 50% of new asphalt. There is, currently, not enough RAP available to allow this level of use. Crumb rubber is able to displace other polymer additives and achieve similar performance criteria. Binders incorporating crumb rubber is more suitable for open graded asphalt than dense graded asphalt. Research on the performance of crumb rubber binders in asphalt is ongoing.

Crumb rubber currently used in

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asphalt binders is derived from truck tyres that have a higher proportion of natural rubber, 65%, and 35% synthetic rubber than is present in passenger vehicle tyres that have 35% natural rubber and 65% synthetic rubber. Truck tyres are being used as they have a greater rubber content than passenger vehicle tyres. It is more difficult to separate rubber from other materials, steel and polymer fabric, contained in tyres.

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reseal program last year and is continuing to use crumb rubber binder this year.

The constraints of temperature and the narrow, effective window of optimum benefit for the digestion of crumb rubber were explained.

The further development of intelligent compaction was interesting. The example of an experienced roller driver who was only able to achieve 60% coverage without the equipment but quickly learnt to achieve 90% coverage by

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using the equipment was good.

The use of the equipment has cost and quality benefits especially for new roller operators. Convincing the Department of Main Roads that this technology is able to reduce the level of testing required is likely to be a challenge.

The Veta software will assist in providing the evidence for the technology to be adopted especially with side by side testing.

The introduction of iPave is an interesting development because of its ability to assess pavement condition at a road’s posted speed. The machine will allow an assessment program to be conducted faster and the data provided more quickly than current methods of data acquisition. It will allow the assessment and prioritisation of needs when planning next year’s rehabilitation program.

The field visit to ALF was a highlight of the masterclass combined with the explanation of how cement modified pavements react under loading confirmed why they are subject to early onset potholing. The test strip of chip sealed cement modified pavement had potholed in the same manner that I have observed

with cement modified pavements in our Region. The pavement material performs well under asphalt but not under chip seal.

The upward cracking under load degrades the pavement to a noncohesive granular material after only 30,000 loading cycles. The degraded pavement is unable to withstand the shear stress of tyre loads resulting in potholing.

Under asphalt the pavement is not subjected to the shear stresses and remains confined.

I am looking forward to the publication of the Best Practice Guides presented by Dr Michael Moffatt. They will be of great benefit for the instruction of new and old road maintenance and construction workers. There has been no similar publication that I am familiar with in my 25 years of experience that has covered these subjects. I currently use the Main Roads Western Australia publication “The Effective Use of Plant” 1983 for instruction but that publication is becoming dated with the technology that is now available.

research and months of available reading. It is a good reference, in its fifteen parts, for the Best Practice Guides that are, as yet, unpublished.

The presentation of the National Road Safety Partnership Program was good as I had attended the first webinar of the four scheduled as part of the program.

The program presents the lived experience of various operators and how they have addressed their particular road safety issues.

Having now attended the second webinar in the series, I have gained greater insight into the complexity that is road safety. I have been on the Safe Systems journey for thirteen years and am still learning the intricacies of how to make our road network a safer place to work.

I recommend the ARRB to all road asset owners as a research organisation and repository of knowledge for road maintenance and construction and how to achieve value for money outcomes in an ever decreasing resource environment.

The presentation by Dr Tim Martin of the Austroads’ Guide to Asset Management was good, a one hour precis of many months of

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#IPWEAQ19 FEATURE

Design Thinking – a strategy for engineering innovation

Computers and the internet have accelerated the path for engineers to advance at a scale that would have been unprecedented 30 years ago.

Automation is on the rise, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a mega-trend and digitisation is already influencing the labour market’s prosperity. Combined with a more diverse workforce, engineering will not only advance to autonomous cars and affordable UberEATS via drones but to a concept we can’t imagine today. The future is here whether we’re ready or not.

Technology trends such as AI have the potential to solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges in areas like transportation, healthcare, education, communication and manufacturing. And with predictive technology on the rise, our future is set to become more efficient and change will have a profound impact on how we all live, work, and play.

As engineers, our designs have the potential to explore and leverage these opportunities. Through empathy and experimentation, the way we think about design can help identify some of the risks and opportunities early in the creation process. For example, ensuring AI

remains unbiased and inclusive.

While the potential upside of AI is profound, there’s a need to be extra thoughtful when creating designs so that the end-result is one which is a meaningful humanity-centred solution.

Steve Jobs was an innovator who was passionate about being able to “think different”– he didn’t consider design as a thing or a product; he thought of it as a practice, as a manner of thinking.

He instilled this mindset in his company from the top down.

“Design isn’t what it looks like and feels like,” he said. “Design is how it works.”

Empathy in Design We spend our engineering careers translating human needs and desires into solutions that fulfil them — and I’m convinced: the human-centred design process demands empathy so that the solution is one which is sustainable for our end users. Empathydriven inspiration helps us understand the known parameters of the challenge and how best to approach and interpret the information on hand – and so the understanding of how we do this better is imperative to how we approach complex challenges.

A tool which has proven successful in helping engineers to practice

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empathy, test and validate ideas is Design Thinking – a concept popularised by Stanford’s d.school and IDEO. The tool has taken the world by storm as its unique approach provides professions in the design process with useful tactics for achieving innovative processes which minimise risks and costs of change and result in superior solutions.

The term ‘Design Thinking’ has a textbook definition but for engineers, it essentially places the vast potential of human creativity inside a highly functional, structured methodology. It encourages teams to generate innovative ideas that come to market with low risk, and rapid iterations – so that the end result is feasible, desirable and viable.

Design thinking is a humancentered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s

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U35 Design Thinking Workshop at the IPWEAQ 2019 State Conference.

toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.

Tim Brown, Executive Chair of IDEO Design Thinking in practice Having recently presented at the IPWEAQ 2019 Annual Conference on behalf of Aurecon and with Engagement Plus Associate, Marion Lawrie, we have seen firsthand results of how the approach of Design Thinking can help us empathise with the challenges being faced by our engineering professions across Queensland councils.

In this session, we explored Design Thinking approaches with participants so that they could realise the value of using empathy to tackle the ‘wicked’ problems we face at work.

We took participants on a journey where we used design thinking tools such as ‘stakeholder mapping’ and the ‘facilitation toolkit’ to solve current challenges being faced by engineers. This

included exploring challenges such as managing up, getting chartered and integrating sustainability objectives into their work.

By having a human-centric approach, the participants were able to empathise and discuss meaningful steps which could be taken as ‘progressive leaders’ in their workplace which balanced a world of constrains and competing requirements, in a way which is positive, useful and viable. Most importantly, participants in the U35 Design Thinking Workshop were able to walk away with a commitment to being progressive leaders with 3 goals to action in the coming months.

What 'Back to the Future' Teaches Us About Innovation Predicting the future isn’t easy, even Back to the Future, the smash-hit movie trilogy, couldn’t do it for 2015. But don’t dwell on the fact that hoverboards and flying cars aren’t the dominant form of transport yet – be excited that the combination of empathy, design and technology enables us to create exponential value

for people’s lives. As we learn to better integrate human-centric design approaches into the way in which we work with technology, we will be able to realise the intangible and commercial value we can bring to the table as design thinkers who are future-ready.

So grab yourself some self-lacing trainers from Nike and use Marty McFly as a role model: Seize opportunity where it comes, never give up and always look to the future. We’re engineers, after all.

So, for where we’re going, we don’t need roads. We carve our own.

Jessica Kahl co-facilitating the U35 Design Thinking Workshop.

Jessica Kahl IPWEAQ Ambassador Civil Engineer, Aurecon

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SWQ Branch President’s Report I am very pleased to be your SWQ Branch President for the next two years and look forward to working with you and with our SWQ Branch committee.

Committee members include Dereck Sanderson (TMR), Luke Tanner (Goondiwindi Regional Council), Shelley Burchett (Proterra Group) and Maddy Stahlhut (GHD and IPWEAQ Ambassador). We are also pleased to welcome Seren McKenzie back to the SWQ Branch committee.

The Call for Papers for the 2020 SWQ Branch conference has been issued with speakers asked to submit an abstract of their proposed topic by Thursday 12 December 2019 with the program finalised by late December.

We encourage our younger professionals to submit an abstract and if accepted, your conference registration will be complimentary.

It is already less than three months until we meet in Stanthorpe, 20-22 February so registrations will open early in the New Year. Last year, we had a record-breaking 191 delegates in Gatton and we hope to break 200 delegates in 2020 in Stanthorpe. Given the size of the SWQ Branch conference bar tabs, we don’t expect to make too much of an impact on Stanthorpe’s water supply.

Last year in Gatton, we also launched a unique Tech Tour – a bike ride on the award-winning

Brisbane Valley Rail Trail. This also launched TEAM IPWEAQ, our very own bike club for the not so avid bike rider. We couldn’t visit Stanthorpe without spending time in its renowned wineries and so TEAM IPWEAQ (anyone can join) will ride out again this year.

More information coming soon on our 2020 ‘Tech Tour’ to be held Saturday morning, 22 February.

Grapes are involved.

The Brisbane Valley Rail Trail was a winner at the 2018 IPWEAQ excellence award in the Projects $2 - $5 million then went on to take out the top award, Project of the Year at the IPWEA awards in Hobart this year. Congratulations to the following SWQ Branch winners at the 2019 IPWEAQ Excellence Awards!

• Woman in Engineering, Kym Murphy. Kym is the Regional Director, Downs South West, Department of Transport and

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Main Roads • Young Engineer of the Year, Michael Shellshear from the Proterra Group • Futures Challenge winner – Mark Tomarchio, University of Southern Queensland (Bachelor of Engineering, Honours, Civil). This award was sponsored by Premise.

• Goondiwindi Regional Council & Proterra Group – winner Projects $1 - $2 million for the Goondiwindi Levee Bank Restoration Project.

• Toowoomba Regional Council – Highly Commended for the Road Safety award sponsored by Boral for its Toowoomba Regional Road Safety Strategy 2019-2023 All nominees and winners are featured in the 2019 Commemorative Book so please take a moment to check it out.

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We have a few opportunities coming up for CPD including: • Introduction to Asset Management (6 CPD hours), Gatton, 5 December 2019 • Managing Risks on Lower Order Roads (7 CPD hours), Kingaroy, 4 December 2019 And if you didn’t get to attend the record-breaking IPWEAQ Annual Conference in Brisbane in October, you can subscribe to the conference proceedings with 22 CPD hours for just $600 plus GST (members). The Proceedings include videos of all presentations together with the accompanying PowerPoint Presentations and papers.

Thank you for supporting IPWEAQ over the past 12 months. Have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to seeing you in Stanthorpe just 12 weeks from now!

Andrew Johnson SWQ Branch President

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CQ Branch President’s Report What a fantastic year for the CQ Branch including our record-breaking conference in Rockhampton in May. And congratulations to our winners at the 2019 IPWEAQ Excellence Awards including: Trevor Harvey who was presented with the President’s Award for his services to IPWEAQ’s business unit, the Queensland Water Directorate (qldwater). Trevor first joined the qldwater TRG as a councillor in 2005 and has attended the most qldwater meetings and events of any representative. He also served as its Chair from 2013-2014.

And I was very proud for Gladstone Regional Council to receive a Highly Commended for Projects $1 - $2 million for the Kirkwood Road and Lavender Boulevard Intersection Upgrade.

Our IPWEAQ Ambassador in CQ, Ben Ash (George Bourne & Associates) did us proud in the 2019 IPWEAQ Great Debate with the Affirmative team receiving 86% of the votes as they argued that rural and regional engineers are more adaptable than engineers in the city. Ben came well prepared with props including a shovel, umbrella and high-viz jacket to demonstrate just how adaptable engineers in regional areas can be.

Well done, Ben! I am delighted to confirm the location and dates for the 2020 CQ Branch Conference – please join us

in Maryborough, 30 April to 1 May 2020! And thank you to the Fraser Coast Regional Council for hosting.

Your support is most appreciated.

Would you like to join the CQ Branch committee? If so, please complete the form on our website.

I look forward to welcoming you together with committee members Stuart Grallelis, Adam Docherty and Ben Ash. Coming up early in the New Year is the annual President’s Breakfast and I invite councils and consultancies in CQ to register to host a breakfast, 7-9am on Friday 7 February 2020. You just need a room with a laptop (or two) with a camera and Internet to receive

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the live stream from Brisbane.

And breakfast could be as simple as McDonalds! The keynote presentation will be by Marie Gales, our 2019 Engineer of the Year and the first female engineer to win the award. We’ll also hear from Noosa Council, winners of the 2019 Project of the Year for the Noosa Park Road Boardwalk.

The 2020 IPWEAQ Excellence Awards will also be launched at the President’s Breakfast and I encourage all of you to submit your projects – at the very least, we would like to see them featured in the Commemorative Book for prosperity.

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see the launch of Craig Murrell’s President’s Charity, Rural Aid so it is a packed morning and an opportunity to get together with colleagues across the state.

Thanks to everyone for supporting IPWEAQ and your branch over the past year. Have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to seeing you in person or via live streaming for the President’s Breakfast in February.

Celisa Faulkner CQ Branch President

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NQ Branch President’s Report Firstly, thank you all for voting at the recent election for the NQ Branch President. I am honoured to be your Branch President representing the interests of our members and the sector in North Queensland over the next two years.

The North Queensland Branch includes Townsville, Cairns, Mackay and the Whitsundays but additionally, our branch encompasses 12 Aboriginal councils and 18 rural and regional councils. It is important that we involve our members in those smaller and more isolated regions in our activities, and keep their challenges foremost in our minds.

It was great to see so many NQ Branch members in Brisbane for the 2019 IPWEAQ Annual Conference. It was another outstanding event with quality papers and keynote presentations, and of course, our memorable social events. The 2019 Excellence Awards was one of those events with almost 600 delegates in attendance.

Winners from NQ were: • Winton Shire Council & Peak Services – Projects over $10 million for the Resurrection of the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton. This was a very popular winner on the night but was pipped at the post by the Noosa Council Boardwalk for Project of the Year.

•C assowary Coast Regional Council – winner for Projects under $1 million for the Cardwell Water Quality Improvement Project.

•D epartment of Transport and Main Roads – Highly Commended, Projects $5 - $10 million for the precast bridge building at Burketown: Beames Brook Bridge Project. This award was proudly sponsored by Pragmatic Thinking •T racy Greig, Project Officer at Trinity Engineering and Consulting – Team Member of the Year Congratulations to Tracy and the teams from Winton and Cassowary Coast for presenting some of the exceptional engineering projects delivered for our northern communities.

For those of you unable to attend #IPWEAQ19, the conference proceedings including the audio and video recordings, papers and PowerPoint Presentations are available for purchase at $600 plus GST (members) and $900 plus GST (non-members) for 22 hours of CPD. If you registered as a delegate for #IPWEAQ19, you can now access the recordings in the Knowledge Centre. It’s a great addvalue that we are able to access the papers delivered in the three streams we couldn’t attend plus revisit those papers that were of particular importance or enjoyment.

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I am looking forward to working with the NQ Branch committee over the next two years.

Committee members include: • Natasha Murray, Cairns Regional Council • Hari Boppudi, Flinders Shire Council • Danny Lynch, Townsville City Council • Neil Allen, Endgame Projects • Justin Fischer, Cassowary Coast Council • Joshua Flanders (IPWEAQ Ambassador), Cairns Regional Council The first IPWEAQ event for 2020 is the annual President’s Breakfast, Friday 7 February and once again this year, we want to include all of you. The Breakfast will be livestreamed and we encourage you to join with your colleagues to arrange your own breakfast 7am to 9am. Please contact Monica if you would like to be involved.

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2019 has flown by. Thank you to all our members, Partners and sponsors for contributing to our ongoing growth and successes, and to the wider public works sector for being a part of our community. Best wishes to you and your family for a prosperous and healthy 2020 and please stay safe on our roads this Christmas.

Glenda Kirk NQ Branch President

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SEQ Branch President’s Report Last week we enjoyed our first SEQ Branch social function at the Ship Inn, Southbank. 40 members and staff joined us for a casual, fun night to wrap up yet another highly successful year. Our best-dressed Christmas outfit for the night was hotly contested with Tyrone Toole of the ARRB Group. taking out the prize but you judge for yourself! (see photos on page 9). Thanks to everyone who came along for a great night of networking and celebration.

And speaking of celebrations, congratulations to the winners from the SEQ at the 2019 IPWEAQ Excellence awards including: • Noosa Council – Project of the Year for the Noosa Park Road Boardwalk. Congratulations to the team at Noosa for a project which rated greater than 96% by all judges. This project also won in the $5 - $10 million category.

• Engineer of the Year – for the first time in our history, this award has been won by one of our female colleagues, Marie Gales at Brisbane City Council. Marie was in Singapore on the night and accepted the award via video link.

• Brisbane City Council – winner, Road Safety (sponsored by Boral) for the Move Safe Brisbane Pedestrian Safety Review.

• Brisbane City Council was

also Highly Commended for Projects over $10 million for the Telegraph Road Stage 2 project.

• City of Gold Coast won the CR Kennedy Innovation project for its Palm Beach Shoreline Project Environment & Sustainability • Logan City Council – the Asset Management award sponsored

by Shepherd for the Ultimate Airtask – the Greenbank Reservoir Complex Renewal.

• Moreton Bay Regional Council’s Standard Drawings Suite Fauna Movement Infrastructure was the winner in Innovation & Sustainability in Water (sponsored by Komatsu) • Tod Consulting, Sunshine Coast

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Council, Alder Constructions & Place Design Group winner Projects $2 - $5 million for the Mooloolaba Walk & Ride Bridge • Queensland Urban Utilities and Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure/Obayashi Corporation (AOJV) were the winners in Innovation & Sustainability in Water (sponsored by SLR Consulting) for the Kenmore Jindalee CrossRiver Water and Sewer Pipeline Our city engineers didn’t fare so well in the 2019 IPWEAQ Great Debate, ‘rural and regional engineers are more adaptable than their city counterparts’ which was taken out by the Affirmative team (Glenda Kirk, Ben Ash and

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Andrew Johnson) who managed to convince delegates of their adaptability. Our team comprising Joe Bannan, Jessica Kahl and Paul Wilson did however show plenty of enterprise in attempts to undermine their opposition.

It has been a highly successful year for IPWEAQ including another exceptional Annual Conference.

On behalf of the SEQ Branch Committee, I would like to wish you all very happy and safe Christmas. We look forward to welcoming you to a SEQ Branch event in 2020 including our Branch Conference in Caloundra in May! Raad Jarjees

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BECOME AN RPEQ! Become a registered professional engineer through our approved assessment scheme in the specialist area of Civil Engineering - Public Works.

Why become an RPEQ?

Engineers occupy positions of trust and responsibility within the community, industry and across government.

Registration as an RPEQ recognises the qualifications and competency of a practising engineer.

Under the Professional Engineers Act, professional engineering services in Queensland or for a Queensland based project must be carried out by an RPEQ or at the least, those services must be carried out by an RPEQ or under the direct supervision of an RPEQ who takes full responsibility or carried out in accordance with a prescriptive Standard.

Who can apply?

There are three requirements: Q ualification: A minimum four year Bachelor of Engineering degree from an Australian university. For an overseas qualification not covered by the Washington Accord, an additional assessment is required (fee $250 plus GST) to determine equivalency.  C ompetency: minimum five years working as an engineer and carrying out professional engineering services. C ontinuing Professional Development: minimum 150 structured CPD hours completed over the previous three years.

Note: Technical Officers having completed MEPrac may also apply subject to having had a minimum five years supervised experience.

Contact Kate O’Riordan Kate.O’Riordan@ipweaq.com

How do I apply?

Apply online atipweaq.eventsair.com/ rpeq/rpeq-assessment together with the following information: E vidence of all relevant qualifications. C urrent, detailed CV. R ecord or statement of all CPD hours undertaken in the three years prior to application. T hree statements from Referees/ RPEQs who can offer an independent commentary on your work. S tatement of competency.

How much will it cost?

The following fees plus GST are payable with your application: • IPWEAQ members: $400 • Non-members: $700 • Qualification assessment fee if required: $250

How is my application assessed?

We will convene a panel of experts.

You will be required to attend an assessment hearing (in person at our offices or via teleconference). The panel will make a recommendation to our RPEQ Assessment Board who will then advise IPWEAQ’s CEO who

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will send you a letter to confirm the outcome.

The process takes between 4-6 weeks.

If you are successful, please complete the following steps: 1. Complete the Registration Application Form 2 2. On Page 2 of Form 2, complete the Fitness to Practise declaration 3. Submit the letter from IPWEAQ confirming your assessment and successful outcome together with the above documents.

BPEQ will advise you of your registration.

Registration is to 30 June with renewals issued in April each year.

Audits

Random audits are carried out each year to check the validity and relevance of CPD hours undertaken.

You can generate a CPD report via the IPWEAQ Online Portal at any time.

This will document dates and courses/ conferences attended and applicable CPD hours.

Career and Professional Development Planning

If you require assistance developing your three-year CPD Plan to achieve your career goals, please don’t hesitate

to contact Craig Moss, Kate O’Riordan or Nadia Marks.

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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT

I am delighted to become Vice President of IPWEAQ for the next two years. The role of the Vice President is primarily to preside as Chair of Board meetings in the absence of the Chair (the President). The Vice President, and the President are also ex officio members of all IPWEAQ committees and Working Groups. The Vice President also has roles under various policies, for example, the RPEQ Assessment Board Policy.

The IPWEAQ Board is committed to reviewing its representatives on all committees, Councils, Trusts etc – internal and external – at least

every two years. This is to ensure that there is constant renewal and all members are given an opportunity to be involved in any capacity from time to time.

A recent review of the RPEQ Assessment Board Policy modified the structure to provide for greater representation. Under Rule 2 of that Policy, the IPWEAQ Vice President is the Chair and under Rule 1, there are now eight Assessment Board members.

Those members are Craig Murrell, Tony Jacobs, Andrew Gibbs, Graeme Wills, Andrew Ryan, Moira Zeilinga and Kevin Bickhoff.

Manager has taken on the role of coordinator and I look forward to working with Kate and the members of the newly-formed Board to consider our role as an assessment entity under the legislation.

Kate O’Riordan, IPWEAQ Professional Development

Angela Fry Vice President

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next generation report We hear a lot about emerging professionals and the future of public works engineering but what do we know about the next generation?

1. The next generation have arrived!

Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) now constitute 35% of our workforce. The next generation, Gen Z or postMillennials (born late 1990s to early 2000) now occupy up to 10% of roles. So almost half our workforce is now â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the next generationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

And we are delighted so many of our future leaders were inspired to follow their parents into public works engineering and we look forward to seeing their development and contribution to our communities in the years to come. Please send in your photos!

2. Gender distribution may be trending towards 50/50 Statistics from the 2019 IPWEAQ Annual Conference suggests the next generation has a more even gender spread with an equal number of female engineers in those younger age groups. We are keen to track this trend to see if it sustains over the longer term and whether it is indicative of other sectors or unique to us. What will this trend mean for the future of our sector and our communities, our workplace and workplace practices? Will we see a greater take-up of paternal leave to raise families?

Adam and Ashleigh Doherty #CQ19

Ged and Matthew Brennan #IPWEAQ18 The Great Debate

We are however excited to support all our public works professionals and will continue to do this by regularly seeking your feedback

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and input to influence our developing priorities, solutions and services.

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We surveyed delegates who attended our inaugural U35 Design Thinking workshop at the Annual Conference, to discover what problems or challenges they encountered in their workplace and how these could be resolved utilizing the CASE framework.

The topic was, ‘leadership by design’ which combined multiple challenges on time management, dealing with expectations, balancing sustainability with current industry standards and costs, breaking silos within a company and feeling inadequate.

The Learning Hub Emerging Professional pathway covers nine topics of relevance to emerging professionals transitioning from university to the workforce:

3. They care about learning and their personal development

If you manage or supervise Emerging Professionals in your organization, please take time to discuss their development and the challenges they may be facing, and offer the guidance you received (or should have received) in the early stages of your career.

Demonstrating their potential!

The Geoff Wilmoth Best Paper award was won this year by Clarissa Campbell, Senior Engineer - Stormwater Infrastructure at Moreton Bay Regional Council.

Our 2019 Young Engineer of the year is Michael Shellshear, Manager Projects, Proterra Group who is also a regular contributor to articles in our journal.

We welcomed The Pretengineers to our community at the Annual Conference (see their video in the Knowledge Centre conference collection). Ryan Loomans and Jack Aubort shared their initiative launching Australia’s first podcast dedicated to supporting young engineers transition from university to the workplace.

And we are very proud of our four IPWEAQ Ambassadors (Jessica Kahl, Josh Flanders, Ben Ash and Maddy Stahlhut) who proactively engage with us to help guide strategy.

With emerging professionals such as these, the future certainly looks bright!

Emerging Professionals Knowing yourself

Your team

Meetings

Raad and Joseph Jarjees #IPWEAQ19

Working effectively

Fear

Goal setting for success

Creating a network

Growth mindset

Selfleadership

Jeff and Ella Carter #IPWEAQ19

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PEOPLE AND CAPABILITY REPORT Nadia Marks Director, People & Capability The IPWEAQ Learning Hub has finally arrived! This exciting new project has been under development for several months and we were delighted to launch the Hub at the Annual Conference in Brisbane in October. The Learning Hub addresses a need in our sector to develop non-technical skills.

In the March 2019 issue of Engineering for Public Works, I emphasised the importance of developing both technical and non-technical skills. Most people understand the importance of having a grasp of soft skills including influencing, selfawareness and self-moderation, designing strategic conversations, developing emotional intelligence, showing trust and authenticity as leaders, communication skills, business acumen, working efficiently, self-promotion etc.

The challenge was not why nontechnical skill development is important but rather, how to deploy training and opportunities for professionals to develop these skills. To address skill shortages, the preferred option for employers is often to upskill existing staff however the following challenges are often raised: • Finding quality trainers to deliver locally

• The costs of travel to send staff away to attend training is too high • Lack of time for staff to attend training • Course costs are often too high • Finding courses with relevant content offered by reputable organisations So there is a critical and desired need for non-technical training however there are obstacles to fulfilling this need. And that is the challenge we have addressed with The IPWEAQ Learning Hub. The Learning Hub is an online training portal designed and created specifically for the public works engineering sector.

This is the start of an exciting new journey to connect public works engineering professionals in their

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continuous learning journey.

We have created a number of courses in The Learning Hub called ‘learning pathways’ in modular format delivered over 10 weeks with each step focussed on one specific non-technical topic to avoid information saturation.

The learning pathways have been designed to suit engineering professionals at various levels of their career from Emerging Professional, to mid-career and senior leadership. In addition to the career pathways, we have also developed two pathways which focus on personal growth, development and mastery. These are for women in engineering and men in engineering.

Each module within a pathway has been carefully chosen and curated

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Emerging Professionals Knowing yourself

Your team

Meetings

Working effectively

Goal setting for success

Fear

Creating a network

Growth mindset

Selfleadership

High Potential Professionals Elevating Engineering

Changing behaviours

Feedback

Concepts across multiple skills

Strategic conversations

Financial acumen

Professional practice

Too busy

Impact

Senior Leadership Authenticy & Trust

Vision

Communication

Sector sustainability

Five generations

Culture

Managing the performance of other leaders

Promoting achievements

Broadening horizons

Men in engineering Self-mastery

Leading under pressure

Mental wellbeing

Energy & Focus

Understanding people

Practical diversity

The modern work life balance

The power of listening

Insight

Women in engineering Self-awareness

Biases

Drop the ball

The touchy subjects

Alliances

Pushback

Grit

The opportunities

Supporting other women

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Todd Battley

Ged Brennan

AECOM

GenEng Solutions

Angela Fry

Cameron Gillanders

Robert Hart

GHD

GHD

Zest Learning

Glenda Kirk

Petris Lapis

Mareeba Shire Council

Author, Presenter, Director

Kym Murphy Dept Transport and Main Roads

Jonas Ogonowski Being & Becoming Integral Coaching

based on sector feedback, industry needs and world class practices.

Inside each individual module, you will have access to a fiveminute learning video designed to stimulate your thinking and deliver key learning messages.

The videos are presented by experts in their fields such as psychology, leadership and organisational development as well as accomplished industry professionals working in our sector.

However, the real impact comes from utilising the resources and weekly checklist in the main part of the module. Resources include self-reflection questions, reference material, toolkits, work-based activities, recommended books, links to TED talks and more.

Beyond Blue

LGFP

The Pretengineers

Bernie Cavanagh

Radmila Desic

Teagan Dowler

Effectus Consulting

Dept of Employment, Small Business and Training

Stephen Hegedus

Andrew Johnson

Michael Kahler

Dr Jillian Kenny

Shepherd Services

Somerset Regional Council

Urban Utilities

Engineer & Speaker

Nadia Marks

Jason Mayer

Seren McKenzie

Jenny McMillan

IPWEAQ

Aurecon

Southern Downs Regional Council

Dept Transport and Main Roads

QAO

McCullough Robertson

Andrew Ryan Moreton Bay Regional Council

Pragmatic Thinking

Executive People Leader

Embedding world class soft skills is not easy. These all revolve around human psychology, meaning our mindsets, beliefs and ultimately our behaviours and this is why we have created a solution that is accessible for everyone regardless of location, employer or career seniority. The learning methodology is not intrusive you can choose when and how you want to learn to maximise your outcomes. The program is also affordable to ensure we can achieve our goal to up-skill Queensland. And finally, learning should be interesting and it should be enjoyable.

The IPWEAQ Learning Hub has involved 30 speakers from 26 companies to produce 55 learning videos which have created our first

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Strategy & Leadership Coach

five Learning Pathways. We are pleased to introduce you to our contributions and to thank them for their time and commitment.

There is a lot more under development for the Learning Hub including ‘skill deep-dives’ to be released next year.

Your feedback is critical to ensure the Learning Hub continues to develop and responds to your needs, so please be sure to complete the feedback form after experiencing the Learning Hub. We look forward to hearing from you.

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INFORMS. CONNECTS. REPRESENTS. LEADS.

Our Ambassadors: Jessica Kahl Joshua Flanders Benjamin Ash and Madison Stahlhut

Career Pathways Contact us to design a pathway to your career destination including RPEQ.

Discounts 40% discount on your annual membership subscription Up to 50% discount on your branch conference registration 20% discount on your annual conference registration.

Futures Challenge Final year students studying engineering and related disciplines are invited to present their thesis or research project at our annual conference. Read more about the Futures Challenge.

Student Membership One year complimentary membership for final year civil engineering students.

Tailored Sessions Conference sessions eg Design Thinking and webinars designed specifically to meet your needs.

Young Engineer of the Year At our annual excellence awards ceremony, we acknowledge a young engineer who has achieved excellence.

Next Generation & Emerging Leaders In each issue of the journal, we recognise impressive students and recent graduates and those developing into our future leaders.

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Conference Program Submit an abstract for any branch conference and if successful, your conference registration will be complimentary!

Welcome Function Join us for a special welcome at the annual conference where you have an opportunity to meet Board members, other young professionals and your Conference Buddy.

Buddy Program Your allocated Conference Buddy will help guide you on sessions to attend and introduce you to their colleagues.

Dream Big Project Jessica Kahl’s award-winning project to encourage high school girls to consider a career in engineering.

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adac REPORT Mark Lamont Director, Information & Resources The Strategic Reference Group (SRG) which shapes and directs the ADAC framework has met twice in this second part of the year with lots of progress on the restructuring of the Technical Reference Group (TRG).

We have now established seven Communities of Practice (COPS) focussed on their respective asset types: 1. Water and Sewerage 2. Transportation 3. Open Space 4. Stormwater 5. Cadastre 6. Buildings 7. Electrical/Communications These smaller focussed Communities are better positioned to respond to the needs of our 21-member ADAC Consortium.

Each COP will comprise experts in the particular asset type

with membership derived from Consortium member councils and utilities. The COPs will develop the detailed asset descriptions and will commence work early in the New Year.

The TRG will develop the Terms of Reference for the COPs and will meet regularly to consider the recommendations from the COPs In other ADAC news, IPWEAQ is pleased to welcome Shellharbour City Council and Ipswich City Council to the ADAC Consortium.

In-house induction days have been delivered with both new members attending the recent TRG meeting with commitments to participate in the newly created COPs.

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Shellharbour is the third NSW council after, together with Port Macquarie-Hastings and Tweed Heads to join the Consortium.

The growing interest from NSW councils offers an opportunity to further advance ADAC as it expands its integration with GIS and other databases saving time and costs for asset owners and developers.

If you would like to learn more about the benefits of ADAC and membership of the Consortium, please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate to contact Mark.Lamont@ipweaq.com on (07) 3632 6806. An ADAC information day can be arranged at your preferred location.

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knowledge centre report Mark Lamont Director, Information & Resources The weeks following IPWEAQ’s Annual Conference are always a busy time in the Knowledge Centre. Our conferences continue to go from strength to strength and the Proceedings from this year’s conference represents the largest collection of material to date. The Conference Proceedings include the audio visual of the presentation, the accompanying PowerPoint and a paper. While you are only able to attend in person a single session in a Stream, the Conference Proceedings offers an opportunity to view the presentations in all other streams.

The Conference Proceedings are accessible to all paid delegates however if you were unable to attend the conference, you may purchase the Proceedings for $600 (member) or $900 (non-member) offering great value for a total 22 CPD hours at $27 per hour.

Each year after the Annual Conference, we see a spike in Knowledge Centre activity as new users discover the extent of our globally recognised Knowledge Centre including content delivered at previous Annual Conferences and branch conferences. If you are an IPWEAQ member, you can access the Conference

Proceedings for all previous branch conferences. It is an exceptional resource and we hope you make the most of it. From Darren Shepherd, Shepherd Asset Management Solutions: “By the way the Knowledge Centre with material from past conference presentations is amazing. Such a great site. Well done.”

One of the essential development principles of the Knowledge Centre since inception has been the needs of the User and how they want to access information. As a result, we recently created a new Community in the Knowledge Centre for our Public Works Technical Subscription (PWTS). The PWTS subscription packages includes Standard Drawings, QUDM, Lower Order Roads Design Guide and the Supervisor’s Handbook.

These technical solutions continue to be available in separate collections for those who have subscribed to individual publications including QUDM. A NSW Coronial Inquiry arising from the death of a young boy in a stormwater inlet following heavy rains, led to a recommendation by the Coroner that the Public Works Advisory (NSW) develop guidelines for the safe design of stormwater inlets in NSW. In response, we were approached by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Public Works Advisory Division which sought to adopt QUDM as it

meets the criteria specified by the Coroner for suitable guidelines. In response, and given that this arises from a tragic situation, QUDM was offered to the NSW Department at a heavily discounted rate for access immediately to all NSW councils.

Several NSW councils have subscribed to QUDM directly. The review of QUDM in 2020 will take into consideration that it is now widely used in other jurisdictions.

Finally, the IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre has again been included in the International Register of Libraries by the Library Publishing Coalition in the United States.

This Register recognises the high standard of content published in a collection for specific users for a particular sector. The Register recognises that many learned articles are published firstly in the IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre eg papers submitted by presenters at our conferences and our role is to ensure the dissemination of articles of value to our sector by way of access to the Knowledge Centre.

Please do not hesitate to contact Mark.Lamont@ipweaq.com or 07 3632 6806 if you have any requests or issues accessing the IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre.

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INFORMS. CONNECTS. REPRESENTS. LEADS.

NATIVE TITLE & CULTURAL HERITAGE PORTAL AND RECORD KEEPING TOOL IPWEAQ’s new native title and cultural heritage portals help you comply with the law and avoid acts that will impact on cultural heritage and native title including impairment and extinguishment. The portals establish a methodical, documented, robust process and establish that an appropriate level of thoroughness was applied in determining whether or not to proceed with works.

Section 51(1) Native Title Act 1993 - an entitlement on just terms to compensate native title holders for any loss, diminution, impairment or other effect of the act on their native title rights and interests.

1. Resource to undertake complex assessments in a logical framework with templates, lists, registers and geo-spatial mapping.

i M P A C T i ntegrated M anagement

2. Detailed record keeping system which generates a PDF documenting all elements of the assessment including text, maps and photographic evidence which supports the reason for your decision.

P ortal for A sessment of C ultural heritage and native T itle

SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscriptions now open for the first year of iMPACT! Annual Subscription

Plus GST

One-off Project Assessment

$1,000

Councils with less than 25,000 constituents

$3,000

All other councils, utilities, consultancies and other industry entities eg mining, pastoral.

$5,000

Access to iMPACT including ongoing capability training to meet your changing needs.

$10,000

Public Works Technical Subscription Apply a 10% discount if your council is a PTWS subscriber.

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3. User friendly portal with a step by step process to ensure infrastructure and other projects comply with legislation which will save you time and money.

4. Interactive site which links to the latest information in government and other databases.

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street design manual Craig Moss Director, Professional Services IPWEAQ is pleased to introduce the Street Design Manual: Walkable Neighbourhoods which was launched at the 2019 Annual Conference by The Honourable Cameron Dick, Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning.

John Derbyshire also presented to delegates at #IPWEAQ19 on the history of the development of the new Manual, initiated in 2016 with surveys of our members. John emphasised that the Street Design Manual is a practical and relevant guide as it was developed by industry for industry.

The two project Working Groups (Planning and Detailed Design & Standards Working Group) have worked tirelessly to produce a draft of the Manual for industry consultation with detailed principles, objectives, strategies and guidance to be provided in the final document (following consultation).

The Street Design Manual has three parts: Part 1 – Planning and Design Guidelines Guidelines on the planning and urban design of neighbourhoods, incorporating community design, the movement networks, the open

space network, lot design and centres.

Part 2 – Detailed Design Guidelines Guidelines on the detailed design of neighbourhood infrastructure including traffic, streets, active transport and services.

Part 3 – Practice Notes Practice Notes offer additional information on Parts 1 and 2 with examples, supporting information and references.

All parts draw from and include material from other documents including the Economic Development Queensland (EDQ) guidelines and the Queensland Housing Code and Reconfiguration of a Lot Code.

with reference to Part 3: Practice Notes The videos of the various presentations are available in the IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre.

Workshop delegates were encouraged to provide input into the content of the Street Design Manual including solutions to the areas requiring additional information plus case studies to include as Practice Notes.

To be involved in ongoing discussions regarding content, you can join the Consultation Portal. To access this portal, please contact Craig.Moss@ipweaq.com.

STREET DESIGN MANUAL

The draft Street Design Manual can be accessed via the IPWEAQ website Following the official launch, Thursday 24 October, we hosted an industry briefing and workshop.

This event attracted 50 delegates with presentations from those pivotal to the development of the Manual including: • Background on the development of the Manual • The State Planning Policy and Model Code • Part 1: Planning and design guidelines with reference to Part 3: Practice Notes • Part 2: Detailed design guideline

WALKABLE NEIGHBOURHOODS A contemporary guide for the design and development of Queensland’s residential neighbourhoods

DRAFT FOR CONSULTATION

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meet the team - Engineering

LEIGH CUNNINGHAM

NADIA MARKS

CRAIG MOSS

Chief Executive Officer  Leigh.Cunningham@ipweaq.com

Director, People & Capability  Nadia.Marks@ipweaq.com

Director, Professional and Career Development  Craig.Moss@ipweaq.com

MARK LAMONT

MONICA ROBERTSON

JOHANNA VANLING

Information Resource Manager  Mark.Lamont@ipweaq.com

Events & Marketing Manager  Monica.Robertson@ipweaq.com

Relationship Manager  Johanna.Vanling@ipweaq.com

CELINE GILDFIND

SUZANNE GARDINER

KATE O’RIORDAN

Management Accountant  Celine.Gildfind@ipweaq.com

Bookkeeperr  Suzanne.Gardiner@ipweaq.com

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Professional Development Manager  Kate.O’Riordan@ipweaq.com

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meet the team - Water DAVID CAMERON

ROB FEARON

RYAN COSGROVE

CEO  dcameron@qldwater.com.au

Director, Innovation Partnerships  rfearon@qldwater.com.au

Project Coordinator and Researcher  rcosgrove@qldwater.com.au

CARLIE SARGENT

DAVID SCHELTINGA

DIANA KISLITSYNA

Project Coordinator – Skills  Carlie.Sargent@qldwater.com

Manager, SWIM  dscheltinga@qldwater.com.au

Project Administration  DKislitsyna@qldwater.com.au

DESIRÉ GRALTON

LOUISE REEVES

Manager, Communications  dgralton@qldwater.com.au

Program Coordinator & Technical Writer  lreeves@qldwater.com.au

qldwater is a business unit of IPWEAQ

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qldwater ceo’s report Dave Cameron CEO, qldwater With our major events program for 2019 now complete, our attention has turned to some key contracted activities, further developing the industry roadmap and planning for 2020.

The highlights reel: Environmental stewardship Sewage and Water Environment Advisory Panel met in October and hot topics for the group include the development of a consortium approach to progress work on emerging contaminants, which may include research collaboration, new recycling guidelines, point source offsets, Great Barrier Reef regulation and projects including the Reef Councils Major Integrated Project (stage 1). A further workshop was held with councils on this last activity in early November, aimed at assisting participating councils in developing project/ trial application for the next Life Cycle Analysis stage for treatment technologies and potential offsets.

The LGAQ program is funded by the Department of Environment and Science and managed by qldwater, with the intention being that the work will provide a fitfor-purpose investment strategy for best managing the way STPs reduce contaminants reaching the Reef.

3rd Party Equipment on Water Utility Infrastructure In simple terms, we are seeking to improve the way telecommunication carrier equipment is managed on infrastructure like water towers, with particular focus on safety – public health (contamination through rooves etc) and worker safety (electromagnetic radiation and access). The ultimate goal would see changes to the federal Criminal Code and Telecommunications Act, which currently stop water utilities “interfering” with equipment (powering down to undertake essential maintenance) and make it very difficult to object to a carrier wanting to access a

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site. In November, I briefed the federal Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts as part of its Inquiry into the deployment, adoption and application of 5G in Australia.

SWIM 100% of members used the State-wide Water Information Management system to report this year, a fantastic result for Dave Scheltinga who puts an enormous effort into coaching staff in their compliance reporting.

We have signed up a few new swimlocal subscribers as well, with hopefully some interest growing in NSW. This time of year is also for planning enhancements to the product.

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Skills Plenty on the agenda again with the next significant activity being the March Water Skills Forum, but in the meantime we are focussing on gathering data to develop a state-wide operator workforce plan. One of the most exciting developments is the growth in the regional Water Industry Worker Program, now looking increasingly likely to expand beyond the current active councils in Mackay, Whitsunday, Cairns, Townsville and Burdekin.

2020 Events Just two to highlight at this point – Redland City Council has kindly agreed to host our Annual Forum in September, but the other particularly exciting new one we are trialling is a “small communities solutions” event in Goondiwindi on 13-14 May. Split into thirds, the event will include a short tour, a chance for some innovative water and wastewater treatment solutions to be showcased, and a strategic planning session tackling some key sustainability questions for small communities.

Most Queensland service providers, even the big ones, have small communities to manage, so the topic is a great bridging activity. Details are still being finalised but it will also be supported by the NSW Water Directorate.

QWRAP The Queensland Water Regional Alliance Program has held Chairs and Coordinator - and Steering Committee meetings and most regions have commenced new collaborative projects. Given upcoming elections in 2020, we have commenced planning for advocacy to expand the program with LGAQ.

Other Events It was pleasing to see a successful IPWEAQ annual conference and I enjoyed catching up with people during the Luggage Point and Eagle Farm Pump Station technical tour and at the water presentations. Thanks again to Trevor Dean for stepping in at short notice to deliver a great presentation on qldwater strategy. We have contributed to several other industry events including WIOA interest days in Cairns and Ipswich, and QWater in Brisbane. The latter included sponsoring AWA to assist with live-streaming a panel session for members entitled Can we prevent Australia’s Havelock North - Learning lessons from other’s experiences.

Our last TRG meeting for the year is on 6 December.

I’d like to acknowledge with pride the enormous efforts of the qldwater staff over 2019 and wish our members the best for a safe festive season. If you are lucky enough to be at the Gabba in the next couple of months it’s fairly safe to assume I will be too, so drop me a line if you want to say gidday.

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MACKAY WATER TOP DROP IN AUSTRALIA

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Water from Mackay Regional Council’s Marian Water Treatment Plant was selected top drop in the fifth annual Ixom Best Tasting Tap Water in Australia Competition held at the 3 Peaks festival in Dunkeld, Victoria in October, where festival goers participated in a blind taste test of seven entries from across the country.

Mackay is on a winning streak, having won the qldwater on tap Best of the Best Queensland Water Taste Test at qldwater Annual Forum for the last two years in a row.

Stuart Boyd from Mackay Regional Council was pleased to accept the trophy on behalf of the Mackay water team.

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“In many ways having the community do this was a true test of the best tasting water rather than being conducted by a panel of industry professionals that might focus on other aspects of the water other than taste,” Stuart said.

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debate in the community about what they thought was the best tasting and why. The overall consensus was that they were all fine drops and there was increased awareness of not just the health and economic benefits of tap water but also the high quality of water that is available around Australia.”

Stuart said the win was a pleasant surprise, providing great recognition to the dedicated and professional Mackay Water Treatment Team.

The source of water is the headwaters of the Pioneer River which originates in the tropical rainforests of the Eungella National Park and the Crediton State Forest.

It is treated at the Marian Water Treatment Plant which provides water to more than 6,000 Marian and Mirani residents. The plant

uses clarification, filtration and chlorine disinfection processes to treat the water to meet the Australian Drinking Water Quality guidelines.

The other samples came from Nowra in New South Wales, Launceston in Tasmania, Swan Reach in South Australia, Geelong in Victoria and Perth representing Western Australia.

Mackay will now go on to represent Australia at the Berkeley Springs International Tap Water Tasting competition in the US next year, and will get to host the next national event on home turf.

sustainable service provided 24/7 by the staff of our local water utilities.

Previous Winners: 2018 2017 2016 2015

Hamilton, Victoria – Wannon Water Mt Kynoch, Queensland – Toowoomba Regional Council Barrington WTP, Tasmania – Tas Water Marysville WTP, Victoria – Goulburn Valley Water

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New Regulations Will Affect All Communities in Great Barrier Reef Catchments

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Communities in Great Barrier Reef catchments may find the advantages of living near a World Heritage Area to come with a down side as higher scrutiny leads to increased regulation.

Primary producers, point source industries and councils (including sewerage service providers) will bear the brunt of new Reef Protection Regulations that take affect from 1 December 2019. The draft legislation was introduced to Parliament in late April and passed on 19 September following extensive consultation between 2016 and 2019.

The Regulations introduce a raft of requirements for some primary producers including record keeping, minimum practice agricultural standards, nitrogen and phosphorous budgets for sugarcane farmers and Environmental Authorities for new cropping and horticulture activities. They set minimum practice standards for all sugarcane, beef cattle grazing, grains, banana and horticulture production in Reef regions along the coast of Queensland, excluding Cape York. This focus reflects the recommendations of the Reef Taskforce and ongoing science and research that highlight the

importance of addressing diffuse run-off to reduce stress on the Great Barrier Reef.

The Regulations also include specific requirements for "new, expanded or intensified industrial development" that applies to ‘point source’ discharges including sewage treatment, aquaculture or intensive animal industries.

A key element is that any new, expanded or intensified ‘Environmentally Relevant Activities’ must not increase nutrient or sediment pollutant loads flowing out of each reef catchment. For sewerage managers, this approach of “nonet-decline” means that activities must be managed so that they do not contribute nutrients in addition

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to those currently allowed in their Environmental Authorities (EAs). If this cannot be achieved through changes to design, operation or reuse – which will often be the case for large communities with advanced STPs - the only option is to rely on the new Point Source Water Quality Offsets Policy which was finally released in October.

Offsets aim to allow for discharges that cannot otherwise be managed by reducing nitrogen or sediment loads elsewhere so that the total loads reaching the Reef are reduced.

The Regulations have introduced significant new uncertainty for GBR communities. The focus on agriculture has been interpreted by some stakeholders as unfair for a sector that is already struggling

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in some areas. Some stakeholders including many primary producers have quickly adopted enhanced practices as a way to demonstrate their commitment to their industry and protecting the land they manage. Others have sought to discredit the well-established science underpinning the Regulations. Existing EA holders including some council sewerage services have interpreted additional requirements as inequitable because their sites are already heavily regulated and many have been upgraded over the past two decades. There is concern that “no-net-decline” means any growth of Reef communities must be addressed through expensive treatment alternatives or rely on a new and largely untested Offsets Policy.

Despite these challenges, the new Regulations could prove a benefit to urban communities as well as the Reef. The Regulations were initiated to avoid the GBR being ranked by the World Heritage Committee as ‘in-danger’ in their next review in 2020, but this has also brought some much-needed attention and increased investment.

While most funding will be directed to the agriculture sector, there is some hope for urban areas as well. The State has recognised the need to invest wisely in public sewerage systems and has partnered with LGAQ and qldwater in the Reef Councils Major Integrated Project to assess options to best fund improvements to council sewerage systems.

The Department’s “report card project” represents a genuine attempt to engage councils and industry experts to develop a meaningful assessment of the management of STPs and their networks.

The long-delayed new Offsets Policy demonstrates a willingness by the State Government to develop essential innovative alternatives to direct attention to catchments and diffuse contaminant sources and build an approach that can include councils and primary producers.

A recent joint press release by the State and Federal environment Ministers reflects the (welcome) collaboration by those two levels of Government on issues facing the reef. The Ministers jointly supported

the large body of peer-reviewed science that supports the need for change in the catchments, acknowledged climate change as the key driver of degradation while also recognising the role of Traditional Owners in protecting and managing the Reef.

In an unusual show of joint support, the forum “endorsed current reef management strategies and highlighted the importance of a coordinated Federal and State approach in protecting the Reef’s future”.

This collaborative approach is key to releasing appropriate funding to allow Reef communities to work collaboratively to ensure the sustainability of the World Heritage Area they manage for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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