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Thursday, 16 May 2013
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Home>Council Services>Planning & Building>Planning>Saving Water with Smarter Design>WSUD Workshops on Bio-retention and Porous Paving Systems
| On Tuesday 28 June 2011 Knox City Council hosted three (3) Water Sensitive Urban Design workshops at the Rowville Community Centre, Rowville. The workshops covered practical design information on bio-filtration systems and permeable paving and included on-site demonstration of actual projects under construction with the community centre. The sessions commencing at 7:15am attracted a diverse audience of approximately 60 people ranging from consultants, builders, developers and contractors to internal staff and neighbouring Councils. It gave the different groups a great opportunity to liaise and discuss issues they faced in the implementation of WSUD systems.
Information was provided by contractors and consultants.
Dean Speldewinde representing Hocoka Landscapes Pty Ltd offered insight into the design and construction of raingardens (bio-filtration systems).
Rod Wiese, Managing Director of Storm Consulting Pty Ltd, drew on his extensive WSUD design experience providing practical and useful advice on porous paving.
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| Elke Lindner and Josh Coleman, from Organica Engineering Pty Ltd, introduced and discussed Council’s requirements when incorporating WSUD systems in planning applications, including examples of other WSUD systems and available tools.
The event was well received with question time and a group discussion at the end allowing participants an opportunity to present the most pressing issues they saw needed to be tackled to ensure WSUD systems are implemented appropriately and ideas on how to deal with them.
Education in all industry sectors, including councils and their communities, was the resounding issue that came across from the majority of participants. This is a dynamic area where Knox City Council hopes to continue building its knowledge and working relationships with other industries and water agencies to improve the effectiveness and practicality in implementing Water Sensitive Urban Design in Knox.
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