Course Location = Wellington IPENZ - IPENZ CPD Course

Name of Event:
IPENZ Incorporating Climate Change Predictions into Engineering Design - Wellington

Description:
Climate change will affect the natural and built environments and challenge the ability of engineers to plan, design and construct infrastructure and systems that will protect people from harm and maintain acceptable standards of economic well being.

Engineers working in the fields of river, coastal, stormwater and water supply engineering are increasingly being called upon to incorporate climate change predictions into their investigation, design planning and asset management.

NIWA, Opus, the Ministry for the Environment and IPENZ have set up this seminar to cover:

• New legislative responsibilities contained within the RMA regarding climate change
• The most up to date climate change predictions for each region of New Zealand
• How to incorporate these predictions into the design and management of rivers engineering, coastal protection, stormwater, and water supply systems

This one day short seminar is suitable for engineers required to design works in these areas, inform long term planning and investment decisions for upgrades or new works and asset managers.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the seminar participants will have a clear understanding of:
• All aspects of the legislation (RMA)
• The most up to date climate change predictions for 15 New Zealand regions
• How to incorporate these predictions into the design and management of river and coastal works, and stormwater and water supply networks

Seminar linked to IPENZ Competence Standards
The learning outcomes are linked to the Competence Standards for Professional Engineers, Engineering Technologists, Engineering Technicians:
Elements 2, 3, 4, 11


Facilitators
Opus - Grant Webby
Dr Grant Webby has more than 25 years of hydraulic design and analysis experience including a background in both physical and computational hydraulic modelling. Currently his main areas of work include the investigation and design of hydraulic structures related to hydropower generation, the investigation of sediment problems in rivers, the design of river and coastal engineering works, one and two-dimensional computational hydraulic modelling of river and floodplain systems, sediment transport modelling of rivers, and dam break and natural flood hazard studies

Opus - Chris Breen
Chris Breen is a Partner with Opus International Consultants and has 30 years experience in most facets of Municipal Water Engineering, in particular water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure design, operation and asset management. Currently Chris is the technical team leader in the Sinclair Knight Merz - Opus Project Team which is providing detail design and construction supervision services for North Shore City's Trunk Sewer Network Upgrade programme under the city's Project CARE. Previously Chris was a Senior Engineer with Auckland's bulk water & wastewater provider Watercare, and with the Auckland Regional Council and Auckland City Council.

NIWA - Doug Ramsay
Doug Ramsay has 14 years experience in the areas of applied coastal geomorphology, coastal engineering and shoreline management, coastal hazard and risk assessment, environmental assessment, and community participation. He is currently the leader of NIWA component of the NIWA / GNS Natural Hazards Centre and responsible for the development and coordination of coastal related consultancy work. His present work involves assessing impacts of climate variability and change on coastal hazards both in New Zealand and in the Pacific Islands with ongoing projects in Tokelau and Tonga.

NIWA - David Wratt
Dr David Wratt is a Principal Scientist with NIWA in Wellington. He is Leader of the National Climate Centre, Chair of the New Zealand Climate Committee (Royal Society of New Zealand), and a Bureau member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was a Convening Lead Author for the Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Working Group II volume (impacts, vulnerability and adaptation) of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report. He has helped the New Zealand Climate Change Office develop material to assist Local Government staff with identifying climate change impacts and adaptation options.


NIWA - Brett Mullan
Dr Brett Mullan is a Principal Scientist at NIWA, and Manager of the Climate Variability Group on the Wellington campus. He has been a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand Climate Committee since 1990, and is a former President of the Meteorological Society of New Zealand. Brett has played a lead role in producing climate change scenarios for New Zealand, and also has many years experience in seasonal prediction and validation of climate models. He is one of the authors of a 2004 report to Ministry for the Environment, entitled "Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment: A guidance manual for local government in New Zealand", on which some of the course will be based.

NIWA - Rob Bell
Dr Rob Bell is Science Leader: Natural Hazards with NIWA. Rob graduated with a PhD in civil engineering at Canterbury researching floods in gravel rivers. Rob has specialised in coastal hazards and environmental engineering for over 25 years including the effects of climate change. He co-leads the NIWA/GNS joint-venture called Riskscape NZ that is developing a system to compare the potential structural damage and socio-economic impacts for several different natural hazards. Rob is a Chartered Professional Engineer and MIPENZ.

Locations Dates
Wellington 28 July
Terrace Conference Centre
Queenstown 7 August
Kingsgate Hotel Terraces
Christchurch 8 August
Copthorne Central Hotel
Taupo 14 August
Wairakei Resort
Auckland 15 August
Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre
Takapuna 16 August
Bruce Mason Centre

8.15am for 8.30am start
5.00pm finish

Register early to avoid disappointment. Registrations close one week before the start of the seminar in each location.

Cost: $495.00 incl GST IPENZ Members
$540.00 incl GST Non IPENZ Members

Register online at: http://www.ipenz.org.nz/ipenz/nzecal/ks.cfm
or contact CPD@ipenz.org.nz Tel: 04 495 1643

Event Begins:
28/07/2006 Time 8.15am for 8.30am start

Cost:
$495.00 incl GST for IPENZ Members and $540.00 incl GST for Non IPENZ Members

Website:
http://www.ipenz.org.nz/ipenz/nzecal/ks.cfm

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