Hold points assessments are an important part of the construction management process to ensure assets are constructed as designed and fully functional at handover.
This course develops the skills for Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) construction management and hold points processes, with a focus on stormwater biofilter / bio-retention systems and treatment wetlands.
You’ll learn how to conduct critical hold points assessments and prepare WSUD assets for handover. You’ll also gain insights into common WSUD construction issues and avoid or mitigate them.
Real-world case studies, tools and resources, and peer discussions will be used to develop a practical understanding of the content that you can apply to your work.
By the end of this course, you’ll have developed your skills and knowledge to oversee all stages of WSUD construction and prepare these assets for handover. You’ll gain a detailed understanding of how to apply this to stormwater biofilter and wetland assets.
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Designed and delivered in partnership with Clearwater and Melbourne Water.
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- Conduct critical hold-points assessments to ensure assets are constructed as designed
- Knowledge of common WSUD construction issues and how to avoid them
- Knowledge of technical components of WSUD design and construction
- Improved understanding of how to streamline the WSUD design-construction-handover process, including roles and responsibilities
Is this course for you?
This course is relevant for water industry professionals with experience in WSUD and designing or managing stormwater treatment technologies. Roles include:
- Civil engineer
- Mechanical engineer
- Structural engineer
- Environmental engineer or officer
- WSUD officers
- Landscape architect
- Site inspector
- Project manager and project management staff
Due to the technical content of this workshop, participants must have a sound understanding of WSUD principles and different types of stormwater treatment technologies and at least two years’ experience in this industry.
Topics
Session One: Stormwater Bio-retention
- Design checks and inception
- Biofiltration guidelines
- Hydraulic structures
- Material placement
- Practical completion
- Defects liability and handover
Session Two: Wetlands
- Design checks and inception
- Bulk earthworks
- Liner
- Hydraulic structures
- Rock work
- Topsoil
- Practical completion
- Defects liability and handover
Jamie is an Environmental Engineer and Urban Planner with over 16 years’ experience in sustainable water management. His experience encompasses a broad range of technical, strategic, policy and research areas of Integrated Water Management (IWM) and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD). He holds specialist expertise in stakeholder engagement, program design and integrating sustainable water management into land use planning.
His skills and knowledge have been reinforced through extensive experience in water corporations (including Melbourne Water), local government, large consulting firms and his own business – in Australia and overseas.
Naturally collaborative, Jamie is passionate about working collaboratively to improve liveability outcomes and ensure effective management of WSUD/IWM assets.
Ross is a Water Resources Engineer with Spiire consulting. He specialises in design of water quality assets to protect our creeks, rivers, and bays.
Ross has worked on water projects across Victoria, NSW, and the ACT, as well as abroad in Sweden and Tuvalu, and enjoys understanding local conditions and needs. His latest interest is upskilling in construction erosion and sediment control, and sees great opportunity for longer lasting WSUD assets as a result.
Great presenters, kept you engaged, didn't let you check out. Involved everyone in the whole course. The presenters knew a lot about the structures, great course all round.
The activities were good, they made you really look at the design or topic and think about what you were looking at. Even though it was about construction hold points, it also covered design, purpose, etc, so it gave a good all-round perspective on the structures.
Good tips and things to watch for in construction supervision. The focus is on the lessons learnt based on experience.