Course Location = Wellington IPENZ - IPENZ CPD Course

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IPENZ Onsite Wastewater Management - Wellington

Description:

ONSITE WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT

Issues with the on-site management of wastewater are long-standing and affect communities and councils throughout New Zealand. The Ministry for the Environment’s recent Proposed National Environmental Standard for On-site Wastewater Systems indicates the national status of the issues. This one-day course has relevance to engineers, designers, planners, and anyone involved with onsite wastewater management either as individual systems or as assessments of communities dependent on onsite systems.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Understand the environmental effects of wastewater discharges
• Understand the principles of on-site system sustainability
• Utilise a comprehensive toolkit for on-site wastewater system design, which uses the New Zealand Standard 1547 and other design guides
• Prepare or review building consent applications for on-site systems
• Understand soil types and how these affect on on-site systems
• Apply a methodology to characterise soils and other key on-site variables
• Assess existing on-site systems

This course aligns with elements 3, 4 and 11 of the Competence Standard for professional engineers, engineering technicians and technologists.

Facilitator: John Cocks, BE, MEngSc, CPEng, IntPE, MIPENZ, MCIWEM
John has over twenty years experience as a wastewater engineer with a specific focus on small community and on-site wastewater systems. He has been involved with the planning, design and operation of such systems throughout New Zealand, and overseas. These systems include those for unsewered residential areas, high-profile recreational faculties and facilities in highly sensitive environments. He was an assessor and investigator under the Building Act 1991. He represents IPENZ and the Department of Conservation on the current combined NZ / Australian committee reviewing the onsite suite of standards, and was the IPENZ representative on the committee that prepared the standards. John has prepared guidelines and papers in New Zealand and overseas applications about on-site systems, and has been presenting courses and seminars on wastewater management since 2002.

Past attendees have said..

"Good review of onsite design."

"I found John's industry knowledge and practical experience most useful."

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