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Maintenance of WSUD Assets - Street-scale systems
Tuesday 25th Feb 2025 8:30AM - 3:00PM
Melbourne Water
990 Latrobe St, Docklands, 3008
Registrations are now closed
Overview
Clearwater’s much-loved maintenance training is back!
Join Jamie Comley and Jason Sonneman to learn about practical Maintenance of Street-scale WSUD assets. This is a one-day course, with a mix of theory and practical components.
The course will include:
- Maintenance theory: water sensitive urban design background, an overview of street-scale WSUD assets, their key components and maintenance requirements, the interplay between design and resulting maintenance, and guidelines for maintenance
- Local site visits: practical asset inspection exercises at three sites
- Facilitated group discussion: next steps for participants within their own organisations
Learning outcomes
After attending this training, participants should be able to:
- Understand the basic concepts of WSUD and Integrated Water Management (IWM)
- Explain the function, design and key components of WSUD assets
- Recognise the maintenance needs of different WSUD assets
- Carry out maintenance inspections of WSUD assets using supporting checklists
- Understand differences in WSUD asset maintenance strategies across participating organisations
In addition, participants should also leave the course with an expanded professional network of Melbourne maintenance staff and practitioners.
Audience
Anyone responsible for the hands-on maintenance, or influencing the maintenance of, street-scale WSUD assets.
For example, maintenance crews, supervisors and managers. Engineers and urban designers have often found this session very useful to gain an understanding of the maintenance practicalities and to improve asset design.
Inclusions
Light morning tea and lunch will be provided, as well as transport to site visits.
Requirements
The training will commence at 9am (8:30am registration) at Melbourne Water's Dockland office (990 La Trobe St, Docklands). Site visits will be held outdoors in the local area.
Some walking on uneven terrain will be required. Please let us know of any accessibility requirements.
On-site parking is limited. If you require an accessible car park on site, please get in touch via email.
All attendees are to wear sunsafe clothes, enclosed shoes whilst on the tour. If the weather is wet & cold please dress appropriately, as the event includes outdoor site visits. Please also remember to bring a water bottle for the tour.
Registrations
Registrations close on Wednesday 19 February 2025.
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