Please note: This training has been rescheduled to Wednesday 16 February 2022
Program (PDF)
Overview
This course offers practitioners knowledge and skills to plan and design streetscale raingardens to ensure long-term success, including selection and placement of vegetation. It includes raingardens site visits in the Cities of West Torrens and Charles Sturt.
Presenters
Dr Robin Allison, Director, Designflow
Ralph Williams, Senior Engineer, Designflow
Course content
- What is a biofilter?
- Expected system performance and criteria
- Designing for successful long-term operation
- Hydraulic design including inlets/outlets, overflow and underdrainage
- Sizing using MUSIC including treatment performance
- Filter media properties and specifications
- Saturated zone versus drained systems
- Dealing with site constraints, e.g. existing services, pedestrian trip hazards and integration with existing stormwater infrastructure
- Design for maintenance including access, scour protection and flushing
- Requirements for successful vegetation establishment, species selection
- Example installations including tree pits, street side pods and bio-retention basins
Community of practice
Raingardens – site visits
- Holland Street, Thebarton
- Ross Avenue, Flinders Park (local park)
- Cnr Collingwood & Greville Avenues, Flinders Park (roundabout)
- Hartley Road & Jarman Terrace (intersection)
- Sheriff Street, Torrensville (traffic calming)
- Hayward Avenue, Torrensville
Delivery method
- Face-to-face presentations
- Interactive discussions
- Site visits
Learning resources
- Presentation handouts
Cost
$250 + GST – Water Sensitive SA partners, Stormwater SA members, AILA members
$400 + GST – Others
About the presenters/trainers
Dr Robin Allison, Director, DesignFlow
Robin is a founding Director of DesignFlow, a specialist water sensitive urban design consultancy based in in SA, Victoria and Queensland.
He has more than 20 years’ experience in stormwater management and in particular integrating WSUD into urban spaces to protect aquatic ecosystems while enhancing people’s enjoyment and appreciation of water.
He has delivered projects from streetscape scale to regional wetlands and a focus is often on retrofitting systems within constraints of existing urban areas. All of the systems employed use vegetation as a key driver of water quality improvement and promote green infrastructure.
Ralph Williams, Senior Engineer, DesignFlow
Ralph is a Civil Engineer with a Masters in Hydrology and Water Resources and has 20 years’ experience in Australia and overseas. He has a particular interest in water treatment, recycling and aquifer storage and recovery.
His practical skills in design and construction supervision compliment his conceptual design and modelling approach ensuring that strategies and plans are practical and can be easily implemented.
Applying his highly technical design skills to help develop community orientated outcomes as part of broader water sensitive urban design objectives is a major focus for Ralph.