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22-23 August 2023 |
Conference Agenda |
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Day 1 - 22nd August 2023 |
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08:00 - 08:50REGISTRATION |
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08:50 - 09:00MC OPENS |
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09:00 - 09:30Speed Networking |
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09:30 - 10:00Address by the Chief Engineer
Adrian Piani, ACT Chief Engineer, ACT Government |
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10:00 - 10:30Keynote Address from the City Renewal Authority
Malcolm Snow, Chief Executive Officer, City Renewal Authority |
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10:30 - 11:00Placemaking and Integrated Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)
This presentation investigates how design for place can integrate with advanced methods of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA), while enhancing a city’s identity and character and addressing future challenges.
Transport infrastructure projects are often at a corridor scale and include stations and public spaces, bridges and viaducts, active transport links, stabling facilities, substations, dives and ancillary buildings, systems and signalling and the corridor itself. The impact of these projects upon a city is significant and long lasting. Designing for place and placemaking is rising in prominence within transit project dialogue and debate and designers need to respond to these challenges.
DfMA is often focused upon building method, and engineering with limited reference to impact upon the built environment. When DfMA is understood and benefits appreciated, DfMA principles can be incorporated to enhance a transport corridor’s identity, connection with place and enhance placemaking.
Kevin will refer to how specific design responses to place, and a city’s distinct identity, are coordinated with DFMA principles to deliver flexible,
enduring, and relevant design. He has played a leading role in the design of the following metro and light rail projects providing evidence to demonstrate these themes:
• Canberra Light Rail, Stages 1 and 2 • Melbourne Tram Network, Next Generation Gold Coast Light Rail, Stages 1-3
• Epping to Chatswood Rail Link, Sydney Metro Northwest
• Bilbao Metro, Line 1
Kevin Carrucan, Principal, Architectus |
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11:00 - 11:30TEA BREAK |
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11:30 - 12:00Commonwealth Avenue Bridge Renewal Project
Greg Tallentire, Project Director, National Capital Authority |
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12:00 - 12:30Keynote Presentation from Suburban Land Agency
John Dietz, Chief Executive Officer, Suburban Land Agency, ACT Government |
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12:30 - 13:00Measuring Urban Health Putting the urban health and wellbeing at the centre of major projects and infrastructure investment is now widely understood as being critical to maintaining the physical and mental health of both the current and future Canberra community. But how do we measure what good health and wellbeing means for the whole of that community? What indicators, methods and tools can be applied, and how can these work at both the Territory and individual project scale? We will look to our work within both the UN-Habitat Global Public Space Programme and here in the ACT to provide a framework for understanding this crucial goal.
Obelia Tait, Director, Inhabit Place |
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13:00 - 14:00LUNCH BREAK |
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14:00 - 14:20Introducing Bluebeam and it’s use across the project lifecycle
Ben Byrnes, Professional Services Lead for Structural Engineering, VinZero A2K Technologies |
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14:20 - 14:40Canberra’s Housing Growth Roadmap Housing affordability has become perhaps the single biggest problem that Canberra faces. Over the past 20 years, both house prices and rents have been growing at a faster pace than average income levels. This threatens the ideal of a fair go for all and drags on economic productivity as workers struggle to find suitable housing in locations close to employment and services. This 20-minute presentation would:
Mehra Jafari, Director, Policy and Analytics, Mecone |
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14:40 - 15:00Road Safety and Safer Road Infrastructure Priorities The ACT is engaged in a number of significant projects. Some of these are obvious: future stages of the light rail, War Memorial extensions, new hospitals and stadia. Others, such as electric vehicle charging and active travel infrastructure, and micro-mobility systems, are less widely discussed possibly because they are dispersed through the community and delivered with less public sector involvement. Each major project has an impact on road safety. Safety impacts of major projects, and measures to enhance safety in delivering projects, are discussed. This is in the context of our shared vision for zero road fatalities and serious injuries.
Dr Rod Katz, Chair - ACT, Australasian College of Road Safety |
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15:00 - 15:30TEA BREAK |
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15:30 - 16:00Time | Cost | Quality | Carbon | Community – the ‘how’ of delivering resilient infrastructure for the ACT City Infrastructure needs to sit in the built environment in a way that serves humanity. It needs to be visionary, cognisant of a resilient future, consider the whole of a society from the marginalised to the entrenched, whilst also being commercially responsible. In this presentation I will explore how to take the right steps at the right time to transform ambition, policies and plans into sustainable and resilient built outcomes. We will explore the time-old triangle of time | cost | quality and extend this to a circle that includes carbon | community. The ACT Govt has outlined the vision and the ambition for the Territory. The latest Budget and Infrastructure Plan/s have given clarity to ‘the what’. Next is ‘the how’.
Dr Therese Flapper, General Manager - Canberra Region, TSA, Immediate Past President Engineers Australia Canberra |
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16:00 - 16:30Gender Sensitive Urban Design Toolkit
Anna Chauvel, Co- Founder and Director, Place Laboratory |
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16:30 - 16:35MC CLOSES |
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16:35 - 17:35NETWORKING & DRINKS FUNCTION |
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Day 2 - 23rd August 2023 |
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08:50 - 09:20REGISTRATION |
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09:20 - 09:30MC OPENS |
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09:30 - 10:00Speed Networking |
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10:00 - 10:15Embodied Carbon in Construction
Maddison Fisher, Materials and Carbon Specialist, Footprint Company, TSA |
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10:15 - 11:00Molonglo River Bridge Crossing - Joint Presentation from the ACT Goverment and Delivery Partners BMD and pitt&sherry
Irene Scott, General Manager Bridges and Structural Engineering, pitt&sherry |
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11:00 - 11:30TEA BREAK |
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11:30 - 12:00Tackling Housing Affordability: The Architect's Role While architects may not have direct control over macro-level factors that influence housing affordability, they can play a crucial role in advocating for certain measures and implementing strategies that contribute to addressing the issue of housing affordability. Often it is not only about housing affordability. The challenge is often about densification and providing the missing middle for a new community. It’s about finding inner city locations and intensifying development in a sustainable way. It’s about the speed of construction, nimbleness and the ability to deliver diversified housing at scale. It’s about searching for innovation by looking at new housing typologies, innovative construction methodologies, and materials that can lower costs without compromising quality. This conversation will advocate for positive change and cover:
Gary Henighen, Associate Principal, Architectus |
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12:00 - 12:30Driving Canberra's Economic Growth and Prosperity through Business
Greg Harford, Chief Executive Officer, Canberra Business Chamber |
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12:30 - 13:00Hospital Projects: Bridging the Gap between Pre-Construction and Construction Time after time, all the important planning, risk mitigation, and option analysis done in the pre-construction phase to inform the reference design and assist the Principal in making decisions related to the project get sidestepped. More often than not this information does not make it to the Contractor because we insist on them 'informing themselves' only to incur additional costs, time blowouts, and ultimately to not meet expectations. Could we be doing things better?
Matthew Gygi, RPS Practice Lead, RPS Group |
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13:00 - 14:00LUNCH BREAK |
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14:00 - 14:30Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program (BSGIP)
The Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program (BSGIP) is undertaking research into battery materials and the development, integration, operation and optimisation of energy storage in electricity grids and electricity markets globally.
Professor Lachlan Blackhall, Entrepreneurial Fellow and Head, Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, Australian National University |
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14:30 - 15:10Panel Discussion
Dr Therese Flapper, General Manager - Canberra Region, TSA, Immediate Past President Engineers Australia Canberra |
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15:10 - 15:30Shaping the Future of Australia’s Construction Industry through Technology
Dr Saeed Banihashemi, Associate Professor of Building and Construction Management, University of Canberra |
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15:30 - 15:50Ministerial Address
Andrew Barr MLA, Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Climate Action, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Tourism, ACT Government |
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15:50 - 16:00MC CLOSES |
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Agenda is subject to change *Speakers to be confirmed |
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