School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Annual Report 2010

Never Stand Still Faculty of Engineering ©2011 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA A very warm thank you to our co-funders of Academic Positions: Address School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (H20) Mr Gary Johnston for the The University of New South Wales UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 Gary Johnston Chair of Water AUSTRALIA Management Enquiries T +61 (0)2 9385 5033 F +61 (0)2 9385 6139 E [email protected] W http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/

Project Coordinator & Editor Mary O’Connell With grateful thanks to providers of text, statistics, stories and images including: Ian Acworth, Martin Andersen, Mario Attard, Cecilia Azcurra, Anna Blacka, Kate Brown, Helena Brusic, Ron Cox, Irene Calaizis, Kurt Douglas, Mike Gal, Ian Gilbert, Paul Gwynne, Karenne Irvine, Nasser Khalili, Ian McIntyre, Donald Macleod, Matt McCabe, Brett Miller, Melissa Mole, Stephen Moore, Elliot Nuberg, Bill Peirson, Tamara Rouse, Adrian Russell, Chongmin Song, Robert Steel, Richard Stuetz, Wendy Timms, Trisha Tesoriero, Ian Turner, Zora Vrcelj, David Waite and Betty Grateful thanks to our School Industry Partners: Wong.

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THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH THE BIG PICTURE ...... 4 TEACHING AND LEARNING ...... 53 TEACHING AND LEARNING Foreword from the Head of School ...... 6 Teaching & Learning Overview ...... 54 INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY Profi le ...... 7 Postgraduate Coursework Studies ...... 57 OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY The School Management Group ...... 8 Undergraduate Studies ...... 58  PAGE 3 Overview of School 2010 ...... 9 Undergraduate Student Awards and Prizes ...... 60 Highlights 2010 ...... 11 Year 4 Honours Theses Topics ...... 62 OUR PEOPLE ...... 21 Student Prize Winners ...... 64 Welcome New Staff ...... 22 Year 4 in Photos 2010 ...... 65 Staff 2010 ...... 23 The Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional and Technical Staff ...... 26 Society CEVSOC ...... 66 Research, Adjunct & Visiting Academic Staff ..... 27 School Teaching And Learning Facilities ...... 68 Centres and Research Staff ...... 28 INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY ...... 69 Ex Head of School Retires ...... 30 Industry Advisory Committee ...... 70 Farewell and thank you also to...... 30 Primary Maths Prize and Year 10 Bus Tour ...... 73 In Memory ...... 31 External Relations ...... 76 Level 3 Workplace Safety Committee ...... 32 Alumni ...... 77 OUR RESEARCH ...... 33 Staff Industry & Community Engagement ...... 78 Research Management ...... 34 Industry Reports ...... 80 Grants ...... 35 OUR RESEARCH CENTRES ...... 81 2010 Publications ...... 40 Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Research Students 2010 ...... 47 Infrastructure ...... 82 Civil and Environmental Engineering Connected Waters Initiative ...... 83 Research Student Association ...... 50 Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and School Research Facilities ...... 51 Safety ...... 84 UNSW Water Research Centre ...... 88 OUR HISTORY ...... 93  the big picture

Our mission is to develop well-educated graduates with the essential skills, attributes and knowledge that will enable them to practice as professional civil or environmental engineers; and to conduct research and development of international distinction to meet the needs of the discipline, industry and society both locally and internationally.

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About Us

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering was  THE BIG PICTURE one of the eight foundation Schools of the University when OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH UNSW was fi rst established in 1949. Today, it is the largest TEACHING AND and most successful School of its kind in Australasia and is LEARNING a dynamic and integral part of the Faculty of Engineering, INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY itself consistently ranked as the best in Australia. OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY With nearly eighteen hundred students, we play a leading  role in the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate PAGE 5 degree programs in civil and environmental engineering. Research activity - which includes both fundamental and applied research - is carried out by our internationally renowned academic and research staff and by postgraduate research students. School Statistics 2010

Academic Staff 28 Professional & Technical Staff 18 Research Centre Staff 95 Postgraduate Research Students 90 Postgraduate Coursework Students 398 Undergraduates 1307 Equivalent Full-time Students (EFTSU) 1172 Doctoral graduates 19 Postgraduate Coursework Graduates 192 BE Graduates 142 Grant Funding 16.75 mil Research Publications Refereed 267 Foreword from the Head of School

It is with some pride that I provide a front piece for the 2010 It was pleasing to see the School score a “5 out of 5” for research Annual Report and summarise key outcomes for this last year. High activity in the recent Australian Research Council’s Excellence on my list of important events was the launch of the School History. in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment. This assessment, While the event itself was memorable, particularly because of the using research indicators such as number of high quality journal coming together of so many associates and friends of the School, publications and citations of these publications, was based on even more so is the train of events represented in the book itself. analysis of 2002-2008 outputs. Pleasingly, the School’s journal The energy, creativity and dedication of the many individuals that publication output in 2010 increased by almost a third over the have made the School the powerhouse that it is today is clear from preceding year which augers well for the next ERA assessment the History with the characters of the people involved since the which will be based on outputs up to and including 2010. Key to School began in 1949 so ably captured by the School historian, Mary increasing output is increased funding and, in this regard, 2010 O’Connell. It is colleagues such as Ian Gilbert and Francis Tin Loi, was exceptional with around $17 million awarded to School staff. who retired during 2010 but remain active participants in the School Much of this was awarded to research being conducted through the through award of Emeritus Professorial status, who have truly set UNSW Water Research Centre, the UNSW Centre for Infrastructure the foundation for ongoing strength of the School. It is staff such as Engineering and Safety and the Connected Waters Initiative, all Mark Bradford and Ashish Sharma, awardees of an ARC Laureate of which are based within the School of Civil and Environmental Professorship and an ARC Future Fellowship respectively in 2010, Engineering. who will be key contributors in coming years. Recognition that civil and environmental engineering are important As we look forward, it is exciting to see companies such as Evans areas of endeavour and recognition that UNSW provides the & Peck contributing to the School through support of the Evans & strongest education in these areas in Australia is evident from the Peck Chair of Transport Innovation. The appointee to this position, extremely high demand for our key programmes of civil engineering, Professor Travis Waller, will join the School in 2011 and, in so environmental engineering and civil engineering with architecture doing, strengthen our contribution to research and training in the at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. My only concern is critical infrastructure area of transport. I expect to see support the strain the large numbers of students place on our staff. With the from industry for other named Chairs this year and would like to ongoing support, however, that is evident from industry, alumni and encourage other industry partners to consider this approach to friends, I believe that the School will continue to deliver education supporting the School and, in so doing, obtaining recognition for and training, research and service of the highest quality. their own activities in key areas of their business. T. David Waite

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 THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH Scientia Professor T. David Waite TEACHING AND LEARNING INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY

 PAGE 7 In 2010 Head of School Professor David has raised over $10 million in grants in the last decade, through 6 ARC Discovery, 14 ARC Linkage, T. David Waite was awarded 1 International Linkage and 3 Linkage Infrastructure a prestigious UNSW Scientia grants with 3 grants from other government (DEST Professorship which recognised his Australia-France and Australia-China schemes) and international eminence in research non-government (WQRA) sources. Since joining UNSW in mid-1993 he has supervised 35 students – in particular in physicochemical to completion of their doctoral programs – by far the transformations of species in natural largest amount of successful PhDs ever supervised and engineered systems. by any academic in the School’s sixty year history. Notwithstanding his many duties as Head of School The Scientia Professor Protocol supports what UNSW he is still currently supervising 9 PhD students. David most values as a University including academic has also raised funds for and supervised 18 Research freedom, leadership, innovation, initiative and creativity. Associates/Research Fellows since 2000. The term “Scientia” is drawn from the University’s coat of arms and refl ects the University’s commitment His current research projects include: ARC Linkage to the promotion of all branches of intellectual and — Physico-chemical Controls on Growth, Toxicity practical scholarship. Appointment to Scientia Professor and Succession of Microcystis and Anabaena is therefore a signifi cant achievement and recognition of (algae) Species in Sydney Water Supply Reservoirs; the outstanding contribution that David has made to the ARC Discovery — Resolving Critical Knowledge success of UNSW. Gaps Relating to Light and Free-Radical Mediated Transformations of Iron and Copper in Oxic Natural David’s stellar research publication performance Waters; ARC Linkage — Optimisation of nutrient currently stands at around 220 refereed journal removal, membrane fouling and excess sludge publications and book chapters - about 180 of these dewatering in hybrid coagulation/submerged since he joined UNSW in 1993. These have greatly membrane bioreactor (C/SMBR) treatment of assisted in raising the international profi le of the School wastewaters; ARC Linkage — Synthesis of Activated in his area of environmental research, particularly in Carbon Supported Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles and water quality issues. Application to Contaminant Degradation in Benthic Sediments; ARC Linkage — Biogeochemical Controls on He is especially well known for his publications on iron Effi cacy and Sustainability of Uranium Heap Leaching. transformations in both marine and freshwaters and for his studies of aggregation of colloidal oxides and his In addition to the studies described above, groundwork insights into implications of aggregate size and structure is currently underway on two additional research in separation processes such as membrane fi ltration. thrusts – the interplay between elemental silver solids Recent studies of oxidative processes mediated by exhibiting Surface Plasmon Resonance and oxygen, nanoparticulate materials have also raised awareness which research may lead to an exciting breakthrough of both the opportunities and dangers associated with on global water quality issues, and, in a new nanoparticles. synthesis of engineering and scientifi c knowledges – the application of kinetic modelling to iron-dopamine interactions and reactive oxygen species generation under neurological conditions relevant to Parkinson’s Disease. The School Management Group

Back L-R; A/Prof Chongmin Song, Prof Stephen Foster, Prof Nasser Khalili, Dr Hossein Taiebat, Prof Richard Stuetz, A/Prof Ian Turner. Front L-R: Prof Ian Acworth, Ms Betty Wong, Prof David Waite, Ms Karenne Irvine, A/Prof Mario Attard. Absent: A/Prof Ron Cox, Dr Kurt Douglas, Mr Paul Gwynne, Dr Adrian Russell

The School Management Group represents the peak Head of School decision-making body in the Professor T David Waite School with all key decisions Executive Management Group relating to fi nances, staffi ng Professor T David Waite (HoS) and overall direction debated Associate Professor Mario Attard (Associate Head - Academic) and ratifi ed by this group. Ms Karenne Irvine (SAO) The SMG is chaired by the Professor Francis Tin-Loi [to Aug 2011] Head of School and is made up of the Chairs of the School Management Group School’s major committees, Professor T David Waite (Chair) the Directors of UNSW Centres based within the Computing Services School, the Associate Head Associate Head - Academic Professor Francis Tin-Loi [to Aug 2010] (Academic) and the School’s Associate Professor Mario Attard Associate Professor Senior Administrative Offi cer. Chongmin Song External Relationships and Marketing Senior Administrative Offi cer The School Management Associate Professor Ms Karenne Irvine Group provides a forum for Ronald J Cox discussion of all aspects of School life and, with the Head Research Management Teaching and Learning of School, charts the future Professor R Ian Gilbert Associate Professor direction of the School. Professor Nasser Khalil [as of May 2010] Mario Attard Technical Services – -Kensington & Randwick UNSW Water Research Centre Heavy Structures Lab School Structure Dr William Peirson (co Director) Professor Stephen J Foster Professor Richard Stuetz (co Director) The School is managed by Dr Adrian Russell [as of May 2010] the Head of School, assisted Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and ACCARNSI by the School Management Safety Director Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Group and by various other Professor Mark A Bradford Network for Settlements & Infrastructure management committees as Professor Stephen Foster [as of May 2010] Associate Professor Ronald J Cox listed. Each committee has a Chair who reports to the UNSW Connected Waters Initiative Occupational Health and Safety Head of School. Professor R Ian Acworth (Director) Mr Paul Gwynne

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 8 Overview of School 2010 THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT 2010 In 2010 the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering was the largest and most successful School of its kind in Australasia, with 28 equivalent full-time academic staff, 18 professional, technical and administrative staff, and - within the School Research Centres- over 95 additional research, professional, technical and administrative staff. Postgraduate Coursework  THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE The School has been Australia’s leading provider of OUR RESEARCH postgraduate engineering education for over fi fty years. Our TEACHING AND LEARNING courses provide essential specialist knowledge, backed by INDUSTRY AND cutting edge research, to enable industry professionals to COMMUNITY improve their performances and advance their careers. We THE RESEARCH CENTRES train MEngSc students to the top level required nationally OUR HISTORY  PAGE 9 in eight specialisations: civil engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology, groundwater resources, project management, structural engineering, water resources (includes coastal engineering), water wastewater and waste engineering.

With 398 coursework students enrolled in 2010, a total of 45 postgraduate courses were offered by School staff either In addition to the Civil Engineering Building (H20) and its as internal weekly courses, in short course mode or in a laboratories in the Vallentine Annexe (H22) on the main distance education format, making the program large even UNSW Kensington campus, the School has two major off- by international standards. campus facilities: the Water Research Laboratory at Manly Vale (part of the Water Research Centre) and the Heavy The year also saw the continuance of a specifi cally designed Structures Laboratory at the Randwick Sub-Campus. MEngSc in project management, tailored by the School to meet the technical and professional needs of staff at Teaching and Learning Activities Leighton Holdings, Australia’s largest civil engineering project development and contracting group.

Undergraduate Studies School Research Activities In 2010 the School offered three undergraduate degree programs, the Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), the Bachelor In the fi rst Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2010 of Engineering (Environmental), and the Bachelor of National Report, the Australian Research Council gave the Engineering (Civil with Architecture). The curricula have School a 5 Star Ranking for its outstanding performance in proved a model for engineering educators and have been research, the highest possible ranking. Using a wide range widely benchmarked by other academic institutions. of research indicators, the School’s research performance is described as ‘well above world standard’. In the fi eld of Student undergraduate enrolments continued to increase Civil Engineering, UNSW achieved the only 5 star ranking with 1307 BE students enrolled at the School in 2010, amongst the Group of Eight Universities. This is refl ective of a doubling of student numbers in just fi ve years. The the heights of research excellence and research leadership continuing increase in student numbers has been that School staff have achieved in their work nationally and accompanied by a rise in the entry mark. In 2010 the ATAR internationally. (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) for the BE Civil and the BE Environmental degrees was 91.0 while the BE Civil with In 2010 School staff were involved in 33 research projects Architecture degree had a ATAR of 95.45. funded by ARC Discovery and Linkage Grants. Total income from ARC grants in 2010 was nearly $6 million. Our programs offer students a comprehensive civil and environmental engineering education and the opportunity The School also continued to attract major funding from to specialise in their fi nal year in a range of sub-disciplines, industry and government, largely through the Centre for including geotechnical engineering; structural engineering; Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, (CIES) the Water transport engineering; water and coastal engineering; Research Centre, (WRC) the Connected Waters Initiative project management; water quality and waste engineering. (CWI) and the Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure. A range of combined degree programs are also offered, (ACCARNSI). Applied and fundamental research income and a third of our students are enrolled in double degree from industry, business and government sources amounted programs, including BE BSc, BE BA, BE LLB, BE BE and BE to $16.75 million in 2010. BCom degrees. In terms of both DEST Publications and nationally competitive Members of the School’s staff continue to make contributions to the research income, the School’s performance is outstanding and profession by engaging in higher level consultancies for international leads the way in the Faculty and the wider UNSW. With 5 books or organisations, federal, state and local governments, private sector research monographs, 11 chapters in books, 183 papers in refereed firms and community groups. Staff also provided their expertise, journals, 68 refereed conference papers, and numerous research usually on an honorary basis, to international, national and local reports and reports to industry in 2010, the published output of the committees of various technical associations including Engineers School continues to be at a very high level. Australia.

With an increase of 50% in enrolments since 2009, 94 postgraduate research students were enrolled in Semester 2, 2010. The School Civil History provides a first class research environment for these students and, in turn, the students make an invaluable contribution to the School’s 2010 also saw the publication of the School’s History – research effort. commissioned as part of the University’s sixtieth birthday celebrations. The School was one of the eight founding Schools of UNSW, and the resulting history delineates the struggles and Industry and Community Outreach successes of staff and students over the six ensuing decades. Filled with photos, memories, statistics and some surprising twists and The School has a very active Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) turns, the History also lists all School alumni, BEs, MEngSc and with members drawn from major State authorities, and several of PhDs. It is a landmark publication in the engineering space. Australia’s top engineering companies. Quarterly reports from the Head of School provided IAC members with a detailed insight into School activities and allowed the Head of School to receive industry feedback.

Joint activities by the IAC and the School’s External Relations Committee (ERC) in 2010 included the introduction of a Year 10 work experience bus tour of engineering sites and a new Primary School prize in mathematics; both were significant in raising the profile of the School, the profession and UNSW in the wider community.

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Discovery Project 110103028  PAGE 11 Five out of Five - Best of Time-dependent stiffness of cracked reinforced the Best: Topping the G8 concrete Prof Raymond I Gilbert, Dr Gianluca Ranzi ($390,000) Universities in Research This project will quantify the time-dependent change Excellence in stiffness of cracked reinforced concrete and provide a clearer insight into the time-varying load sharing Announcing the outcomes of the first Excellence in Research mechanisms at the concrete-reinforcement interface. for Australia (ERA) 2010 National Report, the Australian Analytical models to simulate structural behaviour and Research Council gave the School a 5 Star Ranking for its reliable procedures for use in structural design will be outstanding performance in research (the highest possible developed. ranking). Using a wide range of research indicators, the School’s research performance is described as ‘outstanding Discovery Project 110102124 performance well above world standard’. Source - receptor analysis of lignin and lipid macromolecules in karst to quantify stalagmite In the field of Civil Engineering, UNSW achieved the only biomarker proxies of vegetation and temperature 5 star ranking amongst the Group of Eight Universities. change. This is reflective of the heights of research excellence and Prof Andrew Baker, Dr Stuart J Khan, Dr Alison Blyth (total leadership that School staff have achieved in their work $320,000) nationally and internationally. Cave stalagmites are archives of past climate and The ERA ratings, compiled in 2010 for the first time, are environmental changes. This project seeks to develop two based on a range of indicators, including publications and novel biomarkers, lignin and bacterial membrane lipids, citations, and expert review. UNSW was ranked as the from which we will generate new records of historic and state’s top performing university over all - with an average prehistoric vegetation and temperature change. ranking of 4.04. Discovery Project 110101176 ARC Grant Winners 2010 Bed shear stress on beach sediment and coastal structures under wave run-up. In the highly competitive ARC Discovery and Linkage Dr Chris Blenkinsopp, A/Prof Ian L Turner, A/Prof Tom E programs, the School of Civil and Environmental Baldock, Prof Hocine Oumeraci (Total $210,000) Engineering has once again been successful – in 2010 securing three new Discovery grants, totalling in excess of The aim of this work is to obtain critical new information $920,000 over three years, and two new Linkage grants of about the way waves interact with the coast and the $830,000. damage they can cause to beaches and coastal protection structures. This new data will provide the basis for improved ARC Discovery Projects aim to expand Australia’s knowledge predictions of coastal erosion and better coastal engineering base and research capability and foster the international design in the face of sea-level rise and climate change. competitiveness of Australian research. ARC Linkage Grants are collaborative research grants which fund research on a matching basis with contribution of cash and in-kind support from industry to enable the application of advanced knowledge to current problems. ARC Linkage Project 110100389 Linkage Project 110100480 Erosion of embankment dams and dam spillways. Exploiting natural processes to effectively remediate Prof Robin Fell, A/Prof Chongmin Song, Dr William L Peirson, Dr acidified coastal environments. Kurt J Douglas (Total: $480,000) Dr Richard N Collins ($350,000)

In excess of $250M is spent annually to maintain, upgrade, improve Working with local government, industry and communities, safety and monitor performance of Australian dams. Improved this project aims to identify how natural processes can best be methods for assessing both spillway and internal erosion, the cause manipulated to limit acid sulfate soil discharge in many Australian of 50 per cent of embankment dam failures and incidents requiring estuaries. The expected outcomes are systematic remediation of repairs, will be developed, maximising dam safety and minimising these areas and improvement in estuarine water quality. maintenance expenditure. Linkage Partners: New South Wales Cane Growers’ Association This project will use Burdekin Falls Dam (pictured) and others to Inc., New South Wales Sugar Milling Co operative Limited, Tweed research ways of predicting erosion of rock in unlined spillways and Shire Council. downstream of spillways such as at Burdekin Falls Dam. School staff Professor Mark Bradford, Dr Rita Henderson and Linkage Partners: Actew AGL, GHD Pty Ltd, Goulburn Murray Professor Ian Gilbert are also involved as collaborators in a Water, Melbourne Water Corporation, Murray-Darling Basin further 3 Linkage Grants to the value of over $1 million which are Authority, NSW Dam Safety Committee, NSW Public Works and administered by other universities. Services, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Australia Pty Ltd, SunWater Limited, Water Corporation of WA.

Burdekin Falls Dam

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the world’s 100 Top Young Innovators in Science and Engineering by MIT’s Technology Magazine in 2003, and an expert in transport systems and planning, Professor Waller also has extensive grounding in the fi elds of electrical and industrial engineering making him an excellent fi t for the new multidisciplinary Centre  THE BIG PICTURE that he will lead. Professor Waller will take up the OUR PEOPLE position in May 2011. OUR RESEARCH TEACHING AND LEARNING Head of School, Scientia Professor David Waite INDUSTRY AND believes the opportunities ahead are exciting as well COMMUNITY OUR RESEARCH CENTRES as challenging. ‘Particular scope exists in Sydney OUR HISTORY to couple the engineering aspects of transport infrastructure with the planning and management  PAGE 13 aspects of both transport infrastructure construction and operation’ he noted. ‘Applying our cutting edge research in areas such as advanced computational The new Evans & Peck Professor of analysis, upper-end technologies and stronger, safer Transport Innovation and greener infrastructure materials are all part of the story, as well as taking into account social, economic, A new Chair, the Evans and Peck Professor for Transport and ecological aspects of transport in a more Innovation will lead a new UNSW Research Centre for comprehensive manner.’ Integrated Transport Innovation (RCITI) based in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering which, along ‘We believe that we have an obligation to help with industry partner Evans & Peck – an international refocus transport planning onto the emerging needs infrastructure-based advisory company - has championed of people in the 21st century,’ commented Evans & the new Centre from the beginning. Peck Managing Director, Rob Aldis. ‘By funding the creation of this new Chair for Transport Research we RCITI will investigate sustainable approaches to transport hope to play a meaningful part in developing research, infrastructure and operations, with extensive liaison with strategies and innovative solutions appropriate to the industry and the government. It will combine the cutting establishment and ongoing development of integrated, edge research of several UNSW Schools for a more effi cient and sustainable transport systems.’ integrated approach to transport problems. Ian McIntyre, Evans & Peck Principal, will provide The Evans and Peck Professor for Transport Innovation is ongoing support to the initiative on behalf of Evans Dr Travis Waller, previously from the Department of Civil & Peck. Other fi nancial supporters of the new Centre Engineering at the University of Texas. Named as one of include NICTA and the Faculty of Engineering.

L-R Executives from Evans & Peck, Peter Byford, Director Australia & Asia, Ian McIntyre, Principal, and Rob Aldis, Managing Director, with Prof Graham Davies, Dean of Engineering and Prof David Waite, HoS. Scientia Professor Mark’s research interests in civil engineering include structures subjected to extreme actions; numerical methods; structural retrofi t; Mark Bradford design codes; dynamics and elasto-dynamic buckling. The aim of Professor Bradford’s project will be to develop a “green” sustainable ARC Laureate composite steel-concrete building frame system that reduces Fellow greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life-cycle of building construction, usage and deconstruction. The project will provide solutions to a major contemporary engineering challenge facing The Australian Laureates Australia. Fellowship Scheme, administered by the Australian Research Council (ARC), In 2007, Professor Mark Bradford established CIES - one of UNSW’s refl ects the Australian strong research Centres - and was the inaugural Director of the Government’s commitment to support excellence in research by Centre stepping down in 2010. With Professor Stephen Foster as attracting world-class researchers and research leaders to key the new CIES Director and, buoyed by Mark’s prestigious Laureate positions in Australia. award, the future for the Centre looks bright and the University’s national leadership in the area of Civil Engineering Infrastructure is set to continue. The Laureates are Australia’s most keenly sought fellowships and are recognized for their potential to expand Australia’s knowledge base by supporting ground-breaking, internationally competitive Mark’s Australian Laureate Fellowship is one of only 3 awarded to research that will result in economic, environmental, social or UNSW in 2010, with only 15 awarded nationally. cultural benefi ts for Australia. Referring to Mark’s fellowship, UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellor In July 2010 Professor Mark Bradford was awarded a prestigious (Research) Professor Les Field said the fellowship demonstrated ARC Laureate Fellowship and like his earlier ARC Fellowships, the the University’s research leadership in the key area of sustainable Australian Professorial Fellowship (2002-2004) and the Federation development. “Our researchers are making advances in areas of Fellowship (2004-2009), Mark’s Laureate Fellowship is the fi rst vital importance to our future and furthering the outstanding record ever in Structural Engineering and represents an outstanding of Australian research in the international arena,” Professor Field achievement for Mark and a great bonus for the Centre for said. Infrastructure Engineering & Safety (CIES).

Professor Ashish Sharma ARC Future Fellow

It was a great end of the year for This Award follows several years of research by Ashish and his the School’s leading researcher in hydroclimatology research group - which includes Dr Matt McCabe, hydroclimatology. A/Prof Ashish Dr Raj Mehotra and Dr Seth Westra - on understanding the causes Sharma was promoted to Professor of low-frequency variability bias in rainfall and streamfl ow, the in November 2010 and was then prime cause of mis-representation of drought and fl ood events awarded an ARC Future Fellowship. in stochastic generation for use in water resources planning and These prestigious fellowships are management. awarded to outstanding mid-career researchers for the promotion of research in areas of critical national importance. This research will provide improved models that take into consideration fl ood and drought trends under climate change Ashish was awarded the fellowship for his work on modelling conditions. The output of these models will enable water resource catchment specifi c rainfall and runoff under climate change planners and managers in Australia to more accurately assess future conditions. The fellowship will allow Ashish to focus specifi cally water conditions under a changed climate. on research for a period of four years where he will continue to pursue research on the topic ‘representing low-frequency variability in hydro-climatic simulations for water resources planning and management in a changing climate.’

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Dr Adrian Russell, PhD student Arman Khoshghalb, Prof Nasser Khalili, Professor Benjamin Loret (INPG - Grenoble) UNSW PhD students Saman Zargarbashi and Mohammad Pournaghiazar.

9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics

School staff Professor Nasser Khalili, Emeritus Professor computers and computational methods, the full utility of Somasundaram Valliappan and Dr Adrian Russell most of these models remained outside the reach of the were tireless organisers of the 9th World Congress on engineering communities. Since World War II, advances Computational Mechanics and the 4th Asian Pacific Congress in computational methods have transformed the way on Computational Mechanics (WCCM/APCOM 2010) which engineering and science is undertaken throughout the was held in Sydney in July 2010 and attracted around 1200 world. Today, theories of mechanics of solids and fluids, delegates from across the world. electromagnetism, heat transfer, plasma physics, and other scientific disciplines are implemented through computational In the early 1980’s, the International Association for methods in engineering analysis, design, manufacturing, Computational Mechanics (IACM) was founded to promote and in studying broad classes of physical phenomena. The activities related to computational mechanics and has made discipline concerned with the application of computational impressive progress. The use of mathematical models methods is now a key area of research, education, and of natural phenomena has underpinned science and application throughout the world. engineering for centuries, but until the advent of modern The most important scientific event of IACM is the World Congress on Computational Mechanics. WCCM/APCOM 2010, chaired by Professor Khalili, was organised under the auspices of Australian Association for Computational Mechanics (AACM), Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM) and International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). The WCCM/APCOM 2010 publications consisted of a printed book of abstracts given to delegates, along with 247 full length peer-reviewed papers published with free access online in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering.

Prof G R Liu of the National University of Singapore and Dr Adrian Russell The Facility includes a 72m2 classroom, break-out rooms and research accommodation equipped with internet capability via satellite, 3-phase power, air-conditioning, toilet, shower, kitchen facilities and will be supplied by a combination of rain water and mains water. In addition to providing fi eld teaching resources for the NCGRT, the Facility will also provide a base for research programs being undertaken.

The School’s Professor Ian Acworth, NCGRT program leader, who offi cially opened the site, said the fi eld of ground water studies would be increasingly critical in the future as the demand for safe, secure water supplies for domestic and agricultural use grew. “Students will be learning to make practical measurements of rainfall and climate, soil water, river water and ground water,” Prof Groundwater Facility Opens Acworth said. ‘They will be able to gain a better understanding of the region’s alluvium as well as the connection between On November 8, 2010 the National Centre for Groundwater surface water and ground water in order to practise better water Research and Training (NCGRT) teaching and research facility at management.’ Wellington, NSW was offi cially opened. The UNSW-owned 400ha farm at Wellington, about 250km north-west of Sydney, has a The fi rst fi eld training course ran at the site in the opening week. 2.5km frontage to the Macquarie River. The School is involved in The course provided detailed instruction to 24 participants on the NCGRT through its Connected Waters Initiative (CWI) – a joint use of geophysical, hydrochemical, groundwater hydraulics and initiative between two UNSW Schools: Civil & Environmental surface water techniques. It involved several School staff, CWI Engineering and Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences deputy director Dr Andy Baker, Matthew McCabe who specialises (BEES) in meteorological variables, hydrologist Martin Anderson, and site manager lecturing in geomorphology Peter Graham.

Biomimetics

The aim of biomimetics is to provide innovative, sustainable solutions to engineering problems, by studying biological modes and systems found in nature. In 2010 School senior lecturer, Dr Zora Vrcelj undertook part of her Special Studies Program at the University of Bath, UK, working with Professor Julian Vincent whose research covers a broad range of biomimetics and natural technologies. While biomimetics has attracted reasonable attention in the fi elds of mechanical engineering (robotics), materials science (intelligent materials) and biomedical engineering (prosthetics), it still remains a grey area in structural engineering design. By studying how natural structures/systems sustain loads and optimize resources used, existing structural design strategies can be improved or reinvented to achieve more effi cient and sustainable structures. Thus, biomimicry has a great potential to benefi t structural engineering design process. The research performed with Professor Vincent was on developing an ontology that will enable a systematic technology transfer from biology to engineering. It is well known that solutions to problems move very slowly between different disciplines. This transfer can be greatly speeded up with suitable abstraction and classifi cation of problems. Russian researchers working on the TRIZ (Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch) method for inventive problem solving have identifi ed systematic means of transferring knowledge between different scientifi c and engineering disciplines and this method has been adopted as a transfer tool in the proposed ontology.

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Global Water Futures

Growing populations, drought and desalination were among Rita Henderson, of the School’s UNSW Water Research urgent issues addressed by a conference of 140 young Centre said. “Water sanitation for developing countries water researchers and industry practitioners - the future of was one of the key points but there was also a common the global water industry - from around the world held at theme that greater education and awareness on water UNSW in early July. issues is needed,” Dr Henderson said. “There was also a lot of discussion about the importance of lowering the The 5th International Water Association Young Water carbon footprint of the water industry for desalination and Professionals Conference brought together the next treatment technologies. There is a lot of effort focused on generation of water experts who will deal with increasingly this area at the moment.” pressing issues across all aspects of water supply. The three-day conference included presentations by researchers Dr Henderson, whose own main research interests are in from Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom, Asia, Africa water treatment process science, is a Research Fellow at and the United States and visits to Sydney facilities including the UNSW WRC where she manages an Australian Research the Kurnell desalination plant. Council Linkage Project investigating fluorescence as a monitoring tool for recycled water systems. Dr Henderson “Australia is at the forefront of sustainable reuse, we was later the recipient of the IWA International Young have some of the most advanced water treatment and Water Professional Award at the biennial IWA World Water supply projects in the world here so there was a high level Congress (WWC) in Montreal, in September 2010. of interest among the delegates,” Conference Chair Dr Coonamble Creativity

Coonamble is a vibrant western NSW community of 3,100 people, 550km from Sydney. Each year, for the past 55 years, it has hosted the Coonamble Rodeo held on the June long weekend. The Rodeo is the largest gathering of its nature in the southern hemisphere and is the major event for the community, when the town population trebles. However the crowd currently exceeds seating capacity, and moreover the event is held outdoors, and is therefore subject to the capricious Australian climate. In June 2010 a community forum was held in Coonamble to discuss the building of an indoor multipurpose equine and community facility - in collaboration with a number of engineering organisations and the School.

ABC radio station, Dubbo, 24 November Five third year students Andrew Emery, Vicky Chen, Xiaojing Lu, Left to right: Ni Juner, JunJiang Liu, Nardarajah Gowri, Xiaojing Lu, Junjiang Liu and Tony Ni, were fi rst involved in late 2010 – their Vicky Chen, Andrew Emery, Dugald Saunders (ABC radio presenter) task was to develop a design brief for the Rodeo Arena Roof Facility. The brief included artistic, formal, functional, sitting, loading, sustainability, budgetary and other performance criteria. The students fi rst visited Coonamble for a week in November, inspecting the site and meeting with many locals including representatives from Regional Development Australia – Orana, a federal government agency which is facilitating the project, the Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Corporation (an aboriginal development organisation), EA and Coonamble Shire Council.

Engineering consultants GHD were also involved in the project - providing leadership and engineering expertise; not only for the students, but also as an outreach to this rural community. Also involved in a voluntary capacity was a local civil engineering consultant, Jillian Kilby, an active member of Engineers Australia – currently on the Board of the Sydney Division Committee.

Continuing to work on the project over the summer under the guidance of School academic Dr Nadarajah Gowripalan, the students explored three possible design concepts based on a budget of between $5-7 million, taking into consideration the use of new sustainable construction materials and methods such as modern composites, integrated water collection and solar power.

Their preliminary design report included various conceptual designs for the exterior, discussion of the available internal layout options, detailed site planning including car parks, traffi c movement, toilets, stable, and other necessary features, potential multi-functional designs to enable full usage of the arena, addressed energy and environmental sustainability concerns, water usage, drainage, recycling and cost-effective maintenance plans.

The full report is available online at http:// coonamblerodeoarenaunsw.wikispaces.com/

Short videos of the designs are available at http://www.youtube. com/user/CoonambleArenaUNSW

The Coonamble project will continue through 2011 as part of the fourth year design practice course in the BE Civil, BE Environmental and BE Civil with Architecture programs. The whole enterprise is not only about providing School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students with a real-life project to work on; but about building our community. The fl ow on from this initiative will increase employment and encourage more tourism for the Shire, and build stronger Back L-R : A/Prof Mario Attard, Dr Zora Vrcelj , Professor David Waite. Front L-R : Steve Boss (Brookfield Multiplex), Richard relationships between UNSW and the regional communities of Fechner & Steve Martin (GHD) + Jillian Kilby (Structural & Civil Panel – Western NSW. Already other Shires are indicating their interest in Engineers Australia) having our students work with them in the future.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 18 THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT 2010 From left: Prof Ma, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, NTU; Stephen Moore UNSW; Dr Leon Tzou, Director, and Cindy Chen, Group Leader - Environmental Technology Development Center, CTCI Foundation.

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Towards Sustainable Global Management of Hazardous Substances

In 2010 Stephen Moore, Director of Studies, Environmental m The international fl ow of these substances, largely Engineering, and a member of the School’s Sustainable in concentrates from Australia, to smelters and Engineering Systems Initiative (SESI), undertook project manufactures of goods in the Asian region, to defi nition studies on sustainable international material fl ow consumption globally to expand the system boundary management at National Taiwan University (NTU). of material fl ows beyond the country scale to include international trade related fl ows. This will enable global NTU and CTCI Foundation are two members of a new material fl ows methodologies to be developed. Promotion Centre for Sustainable Resource Management in Taiwan, set up to upgrade resource productivity in Taiwan, m The analysis of the decline in stocks of substances in and to apply Material Flow Analysis methods to develop ores, to the accumulation of substances in the stock of sustainable production and consumption policies. The Centre urban infrastructure, so that the future mines for these is establishing collaborative associations with universities in valuable substances can be explored from end of life China, Japan, Austria, and now UNSW in Australia, to share goods and infrastructure. information and enable comparative and trade linked studies on material fl ows to be undertaken. m The tracking of hazardous contaminants, including cadmium and arsenic, in concentrates exported Stephen has a well established collaboration with Prof Paul from Australia to examine the fi nal sink in the global Brunner from TUWien, (Vienna University of Technology) economy for these hazardous and low or negative value and more recently, with Prof Shinichi Sakai from Kyoto substances. University. Studies will be undertaken for selected substances of copper and zinc related to: This will enable the development of more comprehensive UN agreements, beyond the limitations of the Basel Convention on transfrontier movements of hazardous wastes, to more sustainably manage these substances. L-R: Prof Graham Davies, Dean of Engineering, Prof T David Waite, HoS, Dr Mary O’Connell, Dr Robert Care, Director, ARUP Group.

A History to be Proud of

The jazz played, the wine fl owed, and Leighton Hall was fi lled with the happy sounds of reunion and recognition as 260 people joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in celebrating the launch of its History and over sixty years of hard work and great achievements.

As one of the eight foundation Schools of UNSW, the School can rightfully be proud of the role it has played in establishing UNSW in the forefront of Australian universities. The School was the fi rst in the country to offer a postgraduate coursework masters, the fi rst to design a BE environmental engineering degree, and the fi rst to provide a BE Civil with Architecture degree program. Its publication and research ‘fi rsts’ are just as impressive.

From its humble yet visionary beginnings, the School has grown into the premier centre of civil and environmental engineering education and research in Australasia. It has done this through the efforts, enthusiasm and dedication of generations of academic, professional and technical staff and thousands of hardworking students. The recently published School History is both a record and a celebration of their collective endeavour. Staff and student experiences of each decade are featured, along with departmental histories, PhD students and research topics, BE program outlines over the decades and fascinating vignettes on topics such as student pranks, women in engineering, social justice, the innovative postgraduate coursework degrees and a section devoted entirely to the Future.

Speakers at the launch included Professor Graham Davies, Dean of Engineering, and Head of School, Scientia Professor David Waite. Three illustrious alumni shared their fond memories of the School - Emeritus Professor Bob Warner (BE ’55, ME ’57), Dr Robert Care, CEO Arup Australasia and Chair of RedR (BE ’73, PhD ’78), and Associate Professor Mehreen Faruqi (MEngSc ’94, PhD ’00).

As Robert Care declared, ‘The School has been, is, and will continue to be an excellent place to learn, to research, to fi nd a purpose and to enjoy oneself. I could say it is unique – of course it is. But more to the point it is ours, that’s why we are here! Ours to remember friends and colleagues, and to rejoice – the book will help us do that. Ours to cherish and infl uence for the better – there is plenty of opportunity for that. Ours to continue to help make a difference to our society, and our world.’

All School alumni are listed in the History, which can be ordered online See http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/about/our_history/index.html

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 20  our people

He aha te mea nui? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata!

What is the most important thing? It is the people, the people, the people!

(Maori proverb)

KMP Welcome New Staff

Professor Andy Baker, Ms Tamara Rouse is the new BSc, PhD Bristol, is Coordinator of the Australian Deputy Director of the Climate Change Adaptation Connected Waters Initiative. Research Network for His research interests Settlements and Infrastructure include karst hydrology (ACCARNSI). Tamara brings and geochemistry; the a wealth of experience to the paleoclimate reconstructions role, having worked as an from cave stalagmites; administrator at UNSW since isotope geochemistry; the 1993. characterisation of organic matter in rivers, ground waters and engineered systems, including potable and recycled water; and Mr Rudino (Rudi) Salleh joined the School as Senior Technical surface and ground water quality monitoring. Officer in 2010 – bringing his extensive expertise to the electronics workshop. Dr Ehab Hamed, BSc MSc PhD - Technion, previously Mr Greg Worthing joined the a Research Associate at the School’s Heavy Structures Laboratory Centre for Infrastructure at Randwick in June. Previously a Engineering and Safety (CIES) Senior Technical Officer at CSIRO has now been appointed to Division of Building Construction the academic staff in the area and Engineering, Greg has over 20 of structural engineering. His years experience with research and research interests lie in the commercial testing in the fields of developing area of lightweight masonry, structural assemblies, curtain construction materials, using advanced technology and composite wall, cladding, safety glazing, earth materials to repair, preserve and strengthen existing concrete and wall construction, sandstone preservation, cyclic and impact testing. masonry structures.

Mr Larry Paice joined the WRL team in 2010 as a specialist craftsperson, assisting both WRL project staff and academic staff with the design and construction of physical models. He is also responsible for assisting students with test structures and the set-up of their instrumentation. Larry comes as a highly experienced carpenter offering 15 years background in high- end residential carpentry and joinery.

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Acworth, R. Ian Baker, Andrew Director, Connected Waters Professor Initiative BSc PhD Bristol THE BIG PICTURE Gary Johnston Professor of  OUR PEOPLE Water Management OUR RESEARCH BSc Leeds, MSc PhD Birm, TEACHING AND FGS LEARNING INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY Research interests: climatology and OUR RESEARCH CENTRES Research Interests: Investigation of groundwater OUR HISTORY dynamics and hydrochemical processes in the paleoclimatology, karst hydrology; organic matter coastal zone: Development of field instrumentation characterisation in engineered and aquatic systems;  PAGE 23 and analysis methods in groundwater studies: and fluorescence technologies. Electrical methods in the investigation of Bradford, Mark groundwater and salinity: Relationship between Palaeoclimate and dryland salinity. ARC Laureate Fellow UNSW Scientia Professor Al-Kilidar, Hiyam BSc BE PhD USyd, DSc Lecturer UNSW, CPEng, CEng, MASCE, BSc MEngSc PhD UNSW FIEAust, MIStructE

Research Interests: Structures subjected to elevated temperatures, curved members, arches, steel structures, composite steel-concrete structures, Research Interests: Project Management: HR concrete structures, numerical methods, stability, Management: Ethical and Cultural Issues in viscoelastic effects, non-discretisation techniques, Management: Quality Management. design codes, structural retrofit. Andersen, Martin Carmichael, D G Senior Lecturer Professor MSc in Engineering, PhD at BE MEngSc USyd, PhD Cant, DTU, Denmark CPEng, FIEAust, MASC

Research Interests: Reactive flow and transport Research Interests: Management, systems modeling: Investigation of geochemical processes applications of optimisation, synthesis: Identification and groundwater dynamics in the coastal zone: and analysis: Contracts and disputes: Project Surface water groundwater interactions. delivery: Construction operations: Project management and management functional areas Attard, Mario including risk, economics, finances, people Associate Professor resources and scope: Construction management: Associate Head – Academic Problem solving and decision making. Chair, Teaching & Learning Committee Cathers, Bruce BE PhD MHEd UNSW, Senior Lecturer MIEAust, CPEng BE USyd, DipHE Delft, MEngSc UNSW, PhD Manchester

Research Interests: Finite Strain Isotropic and Anisotropic Hyperelastic Modeling: Fracture in Concrete and Masonry: Crack Propagation due to Creep: Ductility of High Strength Concrete Columns: Buckling of Sandwich Columns: Lateral Buckling of Research Interests: Numerical Methods: Thin-Walled Beams. Computational hydraulics: Physical and numerical modeling: Artificial neural networks applied to environmental problems. Cox, Ron Gao, Wei Han, Sangwon Associate Professor Senior Lecturer Lecturer Co-Chair, External Relations BE HDU, ME PhD Xidian, BEng WKU, MSc HYU, PhD Convenor, ACCARNSI MIIAV, MAAS UIUC BE PhD UNSW, CPEng, FIEAust

Research Interests: Climate change adaptation for Research Interests: Uncertain modelling and Research Interests: Dynamic Project Management settlements and infrastructure: Coastal engineering uncertain methods: Vehicle-bridge interaction (DPM): Hybrid Simulation Modeling:Lean and coastal zone management: Stability, design dynamics: Wind and/or seismic induced random Construction: Building Information Modeling (BIM): and safety of coastal structures: Application of vibration: Train-rail-sleeper-foundation-tunnel/ Genetic Algorithm (GA) / Artificial Neural Network sand filled geo-containers in coastal protection: bridge system: Stochastic nonlinear system: (ANN): Green Building / Sustainable Construction. Environmental monitoring and modeling: Vehicle dynamics and vehicle rollover: Structural Khalili, Nasser Desalination plant brine disposal: Hydraulics of optimization and control: Smart structures: Stability Professor water and wastewater treatment plants: Flood and reliability analysis. Chair, Research Management hydraulics and floodplain management: Life safety, Gilbert, R Ian BSc Teh, MSc Birm, PhD emergency warning and evacuation. Emeritus Professor UNSW Davis, Steve ARC Australian Professorial Lecturer Fellow BE PhD UNSW Deputry Director, CIES BE PhD UNSW CPEng FIEAust Research Interests: Mechanics of unsaturated soils: Flow and deformation in double porosity media: Numerical methods applied to geotechnical Research Interests: Reinforced and prestressed engineering: Pavement engineering. concrete structures; including serviceability McCabe, Matthew Research Interests: Stochastic Systems: (deflection and crack control, tension stiffening), Senior Lecturer Evolutionary Programming: Parallel Computing time-dependent deformation and the effects of BE, PhD Newcastle Applications to Civil Engineering creep and shrinkage on structural behaviour; ductility and the use of low ductility reinforcing Douglas, Kurt materials; and reactive powder concrete. Analytical Pells Sullivan Meynink Senior and numerical modelling of structures. Lecturer of Rock Mechanics Co–Chair External Relations Gowripalan, Nadarajah BE USyd, PhD UNSW Senior Lecturer BSc(Eng) Moratuwa, MSc PhD Research Interests: Applying remote sensing Leeds, MIEAust approaches to improve knowledge of the Earth System, focusing predominantly on water and energy cycles at the land surface, but broadly My main interests lie in the field of rock mechanics. interested in all applications encompassing Predicting strengths of large-scale rock masses terrestrial, atmospheric and oceanic components. (hundreds of meters) continues to be a major Moore, Stephen challenge. I am attempting to improve our Research Interests: Influence of micro and Senior Lecturer understanding using laboratory tests, field studies macro cracking on service life of HPC: Durability BE UNSW, MEngSc Adel., and numerical methods. of concrete structures in marine environments. CPEng, MIEAust Reactive Powder Concrete (RPC) for very high Foster, Stephen strength composites (200-800MPa): RPC in Professor prestressed concrete applications: Early age Director, CIES behaviour of concrete slabs: Plastic shrinkage BE NSWIT, MEngSc PhD cracking, flatness and levelness. Alternative UNSW, MIEAustdf reinforcements: Synthetic fibre reinforced concrete, FRP Fibre Optics and DIT for health monitoring of Research Interests: Development of environmental structures. material accounting techniques, such as Material Flux Analysis, for regional and corporate Hamed, Ehab environmental management systems; Simulation Research Interests: Non-flexural members in Lecturer and decision analysis applied to waste management Reinforced Concrete: Analysis and design of BSc MSc PhD Technion systems. reinforced concrete deep beams, corbels, and nibs: Oeser, Markus High strength concrete: Design of high strength Lecturer concrete columns. Design and analysis methods for MEngSc (Univ.Dipl.-Ing) & non-flexural members of high strength concrete. PhD (Dr-Ing.) Dresden UT Design with reactive powder concretes. Numerical modeling: Non-linear finite element modelling of reinforced concrete membrane structures, 3D finite Research Interests: Viscoelasticity of concrete and element modeling. composite materials, Creep buckling of concrete domes and shells, Strengthening of concrete and masonry structures with composite materials (FRP), Nonlinear dynamics of concrete structures. Research Interests: Numerical methods (FEM, BEM): Constitutive models for Pavements (elastic and viscose behaviour): Computational models for Pavement (geometrically and physically non- linear modelling of structural behaviour, thermic modelling, hydraulic modelling): Multi-scaling Methods, Bridging-scale Methods: Testing of Pavement Material (crack propagation, permanent deformation).

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Peirson, William Song, Chongmin Turner, Ian Senior Lecturer Associate Professor Associate Professor Co-Director, Water Research Chair, Computing Services BSc (Hons) USyd, MEnvEngSc Centre BE ME Tsinghua, DEng Tokyo UNSW, PhD USyd, MIEAust, Director, Water Research MAGU Laboratory BE BSc MEngSc PhD UNSW

Bill is an international expert in Civil and Research Interests: Scaled Boundary Finite-Element Research Interests: Coastal Engineering and Environmental Engineering fluid mechanics and Method: Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction: Coastal Management; Instrument development, undertakes specialist research in the fields of coastal Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering: analysis and modelling of rapid (wave-by-wave) bed engineering, air-sea and air-water interaction and Wave Propagation: Fracture Mechanics: Elasto- level erosion/accretion at the critical land-ocean exchange, fluvial hydraulics, estuarine processes Plastic-Damage Constitutive Modelling: Finite beachface boundary; Assessment of coastline and the hydraulics and mechanical behaviour of Element Method, Boundary Element Method. adjustment to a changing climate; Analysis of turbomachines. crescentic sand-bar behaviour; Sediment transport Stuetz, Richard mechanisms causing coastal inlet infilling; video- Peters, Greg Professor based methods to support coastal engineering and Senior Lecturer Co-Director, Water Research management. BE Chemical, PhD USyd Centre BSc, PhD UNSW Vandebona, Upali Senior Lecturer BSc (Eng) Ceylon, MEng AIT, PhD Monash

Research Interests: On-line instrumentation for Research Interests: Sustainability of the Australian monitoring water and wastewater quality: Biological agricultural sector: Development of sustainability monitoring for process control: Biotreatment of planning tools, including environmental life odours and volatile emissions: Bioprocesses for cycle assessment: Improvement of corporate water and wastewater treatment: Biodegradation of Research Interests: Modelling of Transport Systems: environmental reporting, including ecological micropollutants. Development of simulation and animation models footprint analysis: Nutrient fluxes in natural for light rail train systems and bus services. Facility Taiebat, Hossein environments. Location: Environmental considerations related State Water Senior Lecturer in to transport facility location: Demand Modelling: Russell, Adrian Dam Engineering Analysis of public awareness and attitudes related Senior Lecturer PhD USyd to transport systems: Air Transport: Intelligent Chair, Technical Services Transport Systems: Signage systems. BE, PhD UNSW, PGCert Bristol Vrcelj, Zora Senior Lecturer BE (Hons 1) W’gong, PhD Research Interests: Caisson foundations: Vertically UNSW loaded anchors: Shallow foundations under Research Interests: Unsaturated soils: Fibre combined loading: Numerical modelling and reinforced soils: Particle crushing in granular media: liquefaction analysis. In situ testing of soils: Constitutive modelling of Tin-Loi, Francis soils: Wind turbine foundations. Emeritus Professor Research Interests: Composite Steel-Concrete Sharma, Ashish BE PhD Monash, CPEng, Structures: Creep and Shrinkage: Innovation Professor MIEAust in Engineering Education: Structural Stability: ARC Future Fellow Steel Structures, Composite Plates, Biomimetics, BE Roorkee, MTech IIT Delhi, Engineering Education. PhD Utah Stat Waite, T David Scientia Professor Research Interests: Identification of quasibrittle Head of School fracture parameters: Smoothing of contact BSc Tas, GradDip RMIT, Research Interests: Stochastic hydrology: Synthetic mechanics problems: Limit analysis in the presence MAppSc Monash, PhD MIT, generation of seasonal streamflow; Medium to of constitutive instabilities: Large scale limit and FRACI long-term probabilistic forecasting: Stochastic shakedown analyses. downscaling of hydrologic variables under climate change scenarios: Radar rainfall estimation: Rainfall runoff model and parameter uncertainty assessment Research Interests: Separation processes involving in a Bayesian framework: Water Resources colloids and particles in water and wastewater Management: new developments in statistics to treatment; redox chemistry at the solid-solution solve water problems. interface; photochemistry in aquatic systems; hydrogeochemistry; theoretical and experimental studies on the fate and effects of chemical pollutants; interactions between trace elements and microbiota in aquatic systems. Professional and Technical Staff

Professional and technical staff play a Personal Assistant to Head of vital role at all levels of university life School and contribute significantly to a positive Betty Wong student experience. Efficient yet flexible administration, courteous student services External Relations and support of teaching and research Administrator activities in a variety of ways can bring huge benefits and assist the overall Dr Mary O’Connell, BA UNSW PhD CSU success of a School. The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has several ACCARNSI Coordinator long serving, dedicated and outstanding Tamara Rouse, BA UNSW professional and technical staff working in areas such as student administration, IT Computer Support Officer

support, external relations, finances, and Patrick Vuong, BIT managing and supporting the School’s teaching and research laboratories. Professional Officers Dr Gautam Chattopadhyay, BE PhD Jadavpur, MS School Manager Youngstown Karenne Irvine, BA UNSW Paul Gwynne, PDMPMR Sheffield Poly Student Services Manager Senior Technical Officers Former WRL Workshop Supervisor, Julijana Baric Anthony Macken John Hart, passed away in August 2010. Over the last 19 years John Administrative Officers Rudino Salleh dazzled engineers and research students alike with his ingenious William Terry Flora Fan, BA CUHK, MEd HKU, MLib-IM UNSW solutions to the difficulties of Patricia McLaughlin constructing large-scale measurement Technical Officers facilities and precision instrumentation. Angela Spano Richard Berndt, BSc Macq John trained as an instrument maker - the highest precision fabrication in Administrative Assistants Ron Moncay industry, and for several PhD students he was able to fabricate sub 0.1mm Les Brown Kelvin Chun H Ong, BEng MSciTech UNSW, Grad Dip NUS precision gauges and positioning devices. He also refurbished the 30m Alice Yau Larry Paice tank in Lab 2, the desalination tank Greg Worthing in Lab 1 at Manly Vale and built or Web/IT Coordinator refurbished all of the teaching tanks at Kate Brown, BArch, SU (Thailand), MArch(Comp) Foreperson Kensington including the one used to teach first year students about energy UNSW John Hart [deceased] from waves.

Visiting Fellow He will be sadly missed. Frank Scharfe

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THE BIG PICTURE  OUR PEOPLE Emeritus Professors Visiting Fellows OUR RESEARCH TEACHING AND John Black, BA, MTCP, PhD, CPEng, FIEAust Dr Carolin Birk, PhD Dresden UT LEARNING INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY Thomas Chapman, BSc Leeds PhD Southampton FIEAust Dr Manabu Fujii, BE PhD Tohoku OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY Robin Fell, BE MEngSc Qld. CPEng, FIEAust Dr Peter Hidas, MCEng DipTP PhD Bud  PAGE 27 Ian Gilbert, BE PhD UNSW, CPEng, FIEAust Dr Marion Minouflet, BSc Reunion MSc Metz PhD Geneva

David Pilgrim, AM BE PhD DSc CPEng HonFIEAust Dr Stephen Samuels, BE MEngSc Monash PhD Newcastle CPEng FIEAust MAAS MASA Francis Tin-Loi, BE PhD Monash, CPEng, MIEAust Dr Gareth Swarbrick, BE Adel, PhD UNSW GradIEAust Somasundaram Valliappan, BE Annam MS Northeastern PhD DSc Wales CPEng FIEAust FASCE FIACM Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Visiting Professors Dr Sawekchai Tangaramvong, PhD UNSW (pic right) Nicholas Ashbolt, BAgSc PhD Tas MASM Research Associates Visiting Associate Professor Dr Hoori Ajami, BSc Isfahan, MSc Tehran, PhD Arizona (pic left) A/Prof Ian Cordery, ME PhD UNSW Dr Chris Blenkinsopp, MEng, PhD Dr Shikha Garg, BE IIT Kanpur PhD UNSW Professorial Visiting Fellows Dr Robert Care, BE PhD UNSW Dr Kourosh Kayvani, BSc Teh., MEngSc PhD UNSW, MIEAust, CPEng, MIABSE, MIASS A/Prof Brian Shackel, BE Sheff, MEngSc PhD UNSW, CPEng FIEAust Centres and Research Staff

Australian Climate Change Dr Wei Gao BE HDU, ME PhD Xidian, MIIAV, Connected Waters Initiative MAAS Adaptation Research The Connected Waters Initiative is a joint initiative between Dr Markus Oeser, BE Dresden, PhD, Dresden the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the School Network for Settlements & Dr Adrian Russell BE(UNSW), PhD(UNSW), of Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences (BEES). PGCert(Bristol) Infrastructure Director Dr Hossein Taiebat BSc Isfahan M.E.S. PhD Syd Professor Ian Acworth Convenor Dr Zora Vrcelj BE(Hons 1) W’gong, PhD UNSW Associate Professor Ron Cox Deputy Director Postdoctoral Fellows & Research Professor Andy Baker Coordinator Associates Ms Tamara Rouse Associate Professor Yong Lin Pi, BE Tongji ME Super Science Manager Wuhan PhD UNSW CPEng MIEAust Mr Tony Woo Research Assistants Dr Zhen-Tian Chang, BE ME Hunan PhD UNSW Dr Philip Booth Dr Emre Erkmen, BE MSc PhD Ottawa PEng Academics Louise Gates (Ontario) Associate Professor Bryce Kelly Eytan Rocheta Dr Ehab Hamed, BSc MSc PhD Technion Dr Martin Andersen Centre for Infrastructure, Dr Amin Heidarpour, BSc Isfahan MSc Sharif Dr Mathew McCabe PhD UNSW Dr Wendy Timms Engineering and Safety Dr Xiaojing Li, BEng Wuhan PhD UNSW Dr Mindy Loo, BE PhD UNSW Researchers Director Dr Hoori Ajami Dr Zhen Luo Professor Stephen Foster, BE NSWIT, MEngSc Dr Anna Greve PhD UNSW, MIEAust Dr Michael Man, BE Mechatronic Eng, PhD Mechanical Eng Dr Cath Jex Research Director Mr Joshua Larsen Scientia Professor Mark Bradford, BSc BE Technical Officers Mr Andrew McCallum PhDSyd DSc UNSW John Gilbert Dr Gregoire Mariethoz FTSE PEng CPEng CEng MASCEFIEAust Greg Worthing Mr Gabriel Rau MIStructE MACI Emeritus Professor Mr Gyanendra Regmi Deputy Directors Somasundaram Valliappan BE Annam, MS Professor Ian Gilbert, BE PhD UNSW CPEng Northeastern, PhD DSc Wales, CPEng, FASCE, Professional and Technical Staff FIEAust MACI FIACM Ms Jodi Adams (Admin Assistant) Professor Nasser Khalili, BSc Teh MSc Birm Don Kelly (School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Mr Peter Graham (Wellington Farm Manager) PhDUNSW Engineering) Mr Sam McCulloch (Technical Officer - Geophysics) Administrative Officer Professorial Visiting Fellow Mr Hamish Studholme (Technical Officer – Irene Calaizis, BCom (Marketing) UNSW A/Prof Brian Shackel, BE Sheff, MEngSc PhD Drilling) UNSW, CPEng FIEAust Mr Mark Whelan (Technical Officer – Centrifuge) Academics A/Professor Chongmin Song, BE ME Tsinghua, UNSW Members DEng Tokyo Professor Alan Crosky School of Materials Science & Engineering A/Professor Mario Attard BE PhD MHEd UNSW, MIEAust, CPEng Dr Kurt Douglas BE Syd. PhD UNSW

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THE BIG PICTURE Water Research Centre Dr Rita Henderson Samuel McCulloch  OUR PEOPLE Dr Adele Jones Hamish Studholme OUR RESEARCH Co-Directors Christine Kaucner Joan Terlecky TEACHING AND LEARNING Dr Bill Peirson Dr Andrew Kinsela Wendy Thomason-Harper INDUSTRY AND Professor Richard Stuetz Dr Marcus Klein Robert Thompson COMMUNITY Andrew McCallum OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY Deputy Director (Manly Vale) Dr James McDonald Library Associate Professor Ian Turner Dr Rajeshwar Mehrotra Caroline Hedges  PAGE 29 Dr Xianhong Meng Jane Fortt Business Managers Dr Kate Murphy Brett Miller – (Manly Vale) Gavin Parcsi Volunteer Robert Steel – (Kensington) Dr An Ninh Pham Lance Bowen Eytan Rocheta Academics Gabriel Rau Visiting Academics Professor David Waite Dr Andrew Rose Professor Nicholas Ashbolt, University Professor Ashish Sharma Matthias Schulz of Cincinnati, USA Associate Professor Ron Cox Dr Michael Short Associate Professor Ian Cordery, Dr Bruce Cathers Dr Josiah Strauss University of New South Wales Dr Matthew McCabe Trang Trinh Dr Ben Van den Akker Dr Daniel Deere, Water Future, Sydney, Australia Senior Research Staff Dr Xianguang Wang Dr Richard Collins Dr Xiaomao Wang Dr Stuart Dever, GHD, Australia Dr Stuart Khan Dr Yuan Wang Associate Professor Jorg Drewes, Associate Professor Sven Lundie Dr Seth Westra Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, Dr Greg Peters USA Dr David Roser Project Engineers Dr Manabu Fujii, University of Tohoku Dr Eric Sivret Alexandra Badenhop University, Japan Matt Blacka Dr Bruce Jefferson, Cranfield University, Senior Project Engineers Ian Coghlan UK James Carley Alessio Mariani Dr William Glamore Sara Mehrabi Dr Marion Minouflet, University of Dr Wendy Timms Melissa Mole Geneva, Switzerland Steven Pells Duncan Rayner Dr Timothy Payne, ANSTO, Australia Grantley Smith James Ruprecht Dr Tom Shand A/Prof Andrew Rose, Southern Cross Research Staff Dr Laurent Tarrade University, Australia Dr Hoori Ajami Conrad Wasko Professor Mel Suffet, UCLA, USA Dr Xavier Barthelemy Dr Gareth Swarbrick, Pells Sullivan & Dr Sivakumar Bellie Technical and Administration Meynink, Sydney Australia Dr Chris Blenkinsopp Jodi Adams Dr Mark Bligh Anna Blacka Leearna Brown Bela Carvosso Dr Heather Coleman Kirra-Lee Dean Dr Chris Duesterberg John Hart Dr Beatrice Giambastiani Patricia Karwan Dr Shikha Garg Ross Mathews Dr Aurelie Godrant Dr Mitchell Harley Ex Head of School Retires

Long serving staff member research excellence. During his academic career of more than 35 Professor Ian Gilbert retired years, he has written over 300 publications including several key in 2010. Ian, a world expert educational texts. He has also provided expert advice to industry on concrete and composite on reinforced and prestressed concrete structures in numerous high structures, was Head of School profile projects both in Australia and overseas and he has been from 1996 – 2005, the second actively involved in the development of the Australian Standard longest serving HoS after the for Concrete Structures AS3600 for many years. In 1999, he founding head Crawford Munro received the Chapman Medal - awarded annually by the Institution and the only graduate of the of Engineers, Australia for the most significant contribution to the School to serve as its head. As science and practice of structural engineering. In 2005, Ian was HoS 1996 - 2005, Ian Gilbert awarded a five year research only appointment as an ARC Australian oversaw a major change in Professorial Fellow within the School. Since 2007, he has also School focus and priorities, served as Deputy Director of the School’s world class Centre for moving from the industry- Infrastructure, Engineering and Safety (CIES). Ian was granted an focussed consulting culture Emeritus Professorship by UNSW for his distinguished service and of the early years to one of contribution to the development of the University.

Farewell and thank you also to...

Dr Hiyam al-Kilidar, engineering construction Julie O’Keeffe retired in 2010. Julie joined the and management lecturer left to take up a School in the early 1970s and over the decades position as senior lecturer at UTS. she was a quiet, efficient and resourceful administrator, mainly supporting the water engineering group.

Dr Bruce Cathers – a popular and respected Professor Francis tin-Loi retired in July 2010, teacher of hydraulics, water quality and after joining the school in 1982. He was estuarine and coastal engineering took a granted an Emeritus Professorship by UNSW ridiculously early retirement in 2010. Bruce for his distinguished service and contribution to had been with the Water Research Laboratory the development of the University. since -1996. Research included numerical methods, computational hydraulics, physical and numerical modelling, and artificial neural networks applied to environmental problems.

Robert Hegedus, long time IT guru, joined the School in 1983 as an analyst programmer. Over the decades he assisted the School in managing the many cultural, technical and educational changes wrought by the advance of the new technologies. In 2010 Robert transferred to the new centralised Production Services, IT @ UNSW.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 30 THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL In Memory REPORT 2010

THE BIG PICTURE  OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH TEACHING AND LEARNING INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY OUR RESEARCH CENTRES Vale Rupert Vallentine Laurie O’Neill, who was a Senior Alexander Wargon OUR HISTORY

(1917 – 2010) Lecturer at the School from 1962 - (1926 – 2010) was a structural  PAGE 31 Head of School 1969 – 1974 1982, died on 15 January 2010. engineer who left his mark on Sydney with his work on more Rupert Vallentine, a core member O’Neill published his seminal than 4000 projects, including of the UNSW School of Civil and engineering construction management Centrepoint Tower, the Harbour Environmental Engineering’s text, Fundamentals of Estimating and tunnel, the American Express founding brotherhood, first director Construction Cost Control in 1966. building (now IAG House) and the of the Water Research Laboratory His colleague Vic Summersby called Nikko hotels at Potts Point and in Manly Vale (1959 - 1962) and him the most organised lecturer in the Darling Harbour. Co-founder of HoS(1969 – 1974) passed away in School, a man ‘who never wasted a the engineering consultancy firm September 2010. minute’. O’Neill was an entertaining Wargon Chapman Partners (now and enlivening lecturer, and many Hyder Consulting) Wargon shared Vallentine’s research interest lay alumni fondly remember both his his considerable experience with specifically in fluid mechanics and lectures and his leading student School students - giving occasional hydraulics, a subject which he excursions to the Snowy Mountains lectures at the School for several taught with the utmost clarity and Hydro project. Kees Ingerman (BE years. rigour, but his real passion was ’71) recalled: ‘By 1969 which was my engineering education. Generations year, Laurie was fast running out of In 2006 the Alexander Wargon of students fondly recalled Vallentine bus companies who would transport Prize for Academic Achievement not just for his ‘tour de force’ 60 unruly undergraduate engineers. in Structural Engineering was lectures, but also for his continual NSW Rail had already banned us. instituted. challenging of them to open their There weren’t too many hotels, motels minds to matters of history, culture or lodges within cooey of the Snowy and social justice. Rupert Vallentine Mountains that would have us either. was appointed Dean of the Faculty But somehow Laurie [always] conned of Engineering from 1978 – 1980, some unsuspecting bus company and and was Pro-Vice-Chancellor from motel’. 1981 before his retirement in 1982. In 2010 the School founded Laurie’s niece Elizabeth was the third the Rupert Vallentine Research woman to graduate from the School Fellowship Scheme in his honour, with a BE in 1978. She became Pro and to support emerging School V-C at CQU. researchers. Level 3 Workplace Safety Committee

The School system includes ‘RIPA’ (Registration, Induction and Project risk Assessment) documentation, which is a compulsory requirement for all laboratory users and projects, and provides the mechanisms by which safe systems of work can be implemented and monitored. The School’s system is closely integrated with the UNSW OHS Management System.

During 2010, the Committee had full voluntary membership, and met regularly every two months with excellent attendance. Several positions on the Committee are now shared to improve attendance and guarantee prompt feedback to each area. A number of issues were addressed and resolved, including approval for the purchase of essential safety equipment. The Committee organised regular workplace inspections, evacuation drills, funded various training courses for staff and students, and resolved Emergency Response Exercise. L-R: Osman Kaddour UNSW a number of other OH&S issues. Security, Patricia Karwan WRC and Paul Gwynne. 2010 has seen several laboratory and offi ce refurbishments The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has a Workplace take place, which can raise many OHS issues. We commenced Safety Committee in accordance with the NSW Occupational Health replacement of the old lifts in the tower block, and planning is now and Safety Act 2000. underway for the construction of a new gas bottle storage facility. The Committee liaises closely with Facilities Management on these As required by the OH&S Regulation 2001, the Committee projects. representation covers all occupational groups within the school, including the Head of School, Academics, Laboratory Managers, IT, The provision of a safe work environment for all School staff and Administration, Postgraduates and Undergraduates. Membership students remains the School’s highest priority. also includes Centre Representatives, a First Aid Offi cer, and the Chief Warden (School Emergency Response Team Manager). Committee Members and Representation:

The School consults with all staff and students on OH&S issues as David Waite (HoS), Paul Gwynne (pictured) – Chair (Infrastructure they arise, through the School Workplace Committee. Minutes of Lab and First Aid), Les Brown – Secretary (Admin and IT), Irene the meetings are posted on School noticeboards and on the School’s Calaizis – Secretary (CIES), Hamish Studholme (WRL), Gautam website. Chattopadhyay/Kelvin Ong (WQL and First Aid), Steven Davis (Academic and Chief Warden), Ron Moncay/John Gilbert (Heavy The School continues to implement and use the UNSW OHS Structures Lab), Patricia Karwan (pictured) (WRC), Noore Patwary Management System which contains six key elements; commitment, (Postgraduate Rep) Ahmet Kale/Immanuel Gacis (Undergraduate planning, consultation, implementation and review, for the continual Rep) and Veronica Mair (Faculty OHS Coordinator). improvement of safety, both in the School and in the fi eld.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 32  our research

Somewhere, Something incredible is waiting to be known.

(Carl Sagan, 1934-1996) Research Management

The School’s Research Management Committee (RMC) manages and only staff participated in the student review panels in 2010. Much supports research activities within the School, including research of the workload in this area is carried by the School’s Postgraduate undertaken by both the staff and the School’s postgraduate research Research Student Coordinator, a position filled very ably by students, and liaises with and contributes directly to the Faculty’s Professor Ashish Sharma. The student review process continued Research Management Committee. In 2010, the RMC met every relatively smoothly through 2010 with excellent administrative month to oversee and progress all research related aspects of the support provided by Pattie McLaughlin. School’s operation. The RMC provided funds to support each research program (a desk top and up to $1250 for each student for travel and consumables) Postgraduate Research Student in 2010,however the bulk of the funding to support research student Management projects in most cases comes from external scholarships and/or from research grants won by the student’s supervisor. An important aspect of the Committee’s work involves the management of the School’s postgraduate research student’s Research Grants program. In 2010, the School had about 115 postgraduate research students enrolled in either ME or PhD programs. Management of The RMC also provides input to the preparation and coordination this vital research activity within the School involves the assessment of research grant applications. This includes ranking the School’s of applications to undertake higher degrees within the School, the applications for internal Faculty Research Grants (FRGs) and UNSW formulation of specific research plans for each student accepted into Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative (MREIIs) the program, the nomination of a suitable supervisors, reviewing the and reviewing applications for competitive external grants. The progress of students at regular intervals, making recommendations School has been very successful in recent years in winning external on progress to the Faculty’s Higher Degree Committee, and finally grant income, particularly from the highly competitive funding nominating examiners when the thesis is completed and, where schemes of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and from industry necessary, following up on the examination process. through the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, Water Research Centre (WRC) and the Connected Water Initiative (CWI). Each student is assigned a review committee of three academic staff chaired by a member of the RMC. The review committee meets to The School continues to lead the way nationally in research and its interview the student and supervisor(s) at 6 or 12 monthly intervals, success in attracting external research income confirms the School’s depending on the student’s progress, and, at these reviews, the place as one of UNSW’s most successful research schools. student is invited to present a brief seminar outlining progress since the last review. Most academic staff and several research

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THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE  OUR RESEARCH TEACHING AND LEARNING INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY

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ARC Grant Winners 2011. Back L-R: Dr Bill Peirson, Dr Stuart Khan, A/Prof Chongmin Song, Dr Chris Blenkinsopp. Front L-R: A/ Prof Ian Turner, Em Prof Ian Gilbert, Dr Rita Henderson. Absent: Prof Andy Baker, Prof Mark Bradford, Dr Richard Collins, Dr Kurt Douglas and Em Prof Robin Fell.

School of Civil and Environmental ACCARNSI Research Grant

Engineering Research Grant Research Convenors Income 2010 R Cox, R Stuetz, W Peirson (Civil & Env Eng) B Randolph (Faculty Built Environment) In 2010 the School and its Research Centres received R Tomlinson (Griffith Uni) $16.75 million in research income from industry, business G Hugo (Adelaide Uni) and government sources. This included $5.9 million in funds M Taylor (Uni SA) from the highly competitive ARC Discovery and ARC Linkage Grant Schemes. Research Project/topic Nation wide network to support the coordination of the The School continues to lead the way nationally in research Australian research community in the field of Climate and its success in attracting external research income Change Adaptation – supporting multi-disciplinary research, confirms our place as one of UNSW’s most successful building research capacity, and promoting and supporting research schools. The School has been very successful in information exchange related to coastal settlements, urban recent years in winning external grant income, particularly planning, the built environment and infrastructure. from the funding schemes of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and from industry through the Centre for Funding organisation Infrastructure Engineering and Safety and the Water Commonwealth Department of Climate Change (DCC) Research Centre. through the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) plus Industry support from Sydney Water and NSW Dept Commerce.

Amount received in 2010 $ 441, 000 2010 CIES Research Funding Summary

Researcher(s) Research Topic Value at 2010 Granting Organisation

Long-term behaviour of thin-walled concrete curved members strengthened E Hamed, MA Bradford ARC Discovery $62,485 with externally bonded composite materials

A/Prof C Song, Dr W Gao, Prof W Non -deterministic fracture analysis of structures by extending the scaled ARC Discovery $132,698 Becker boundary finite -element method

Prof MA Bradford, Dr G Ranzi, Dr A Unified analysis of steel and composite frame structures subjected to static, ARC Discovery (incl. Australian $137,801 Heidarpour thermal, earthquake and blast loading Professorial Fellowship)

CO2 sequestration in deformable, chemically interactive, double porosity Prof N Khalili, Dr RK Niven, Dr M Oeser ARC Discovery $122,490 media

N Khalili, AR Russell Erosion of variably saturated soils - a fundamental investigation ARC Discovery $91,868

Anchorage of reinforcement in concrete structures subjected to loading and RI Gilbert ARC Discovery $96,971 environmental extremes

Quantitative analysis of dynamic performance of vehicles with uncertain N Zhang (UTS), W Gao ARC Discovery $25,000 system parameters and road inputs

Experimental investigation and constitutive modelling of thermo-hydro- N Khalili ARC Discovery $30,000 mechanical coupling effects in unsaturated porous media

Time Dependent Response and Deformations of Composite Beams with MA Bradford, B Uy, G Ranzi, A Filonov Innovative Deep Trapezoidal Decks ARC Linkage $106,559 Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s) BlueScope Lysaght

Strength of two‑way steel fibre reinforced composite flooring systems Prof MA Bradford, Prof RI Gilbert, Prof ARC Linkage Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s) $113,591 SJ Foster, Mr A Filonov, Mr R Ratcliffe BlueScope Lysaght and BOSFA

Time‑dependent in‑service behaviour of composite concrete slabs with profiled steel RI Gilbert, MA Bradford, R Zeuner, GR ARC Linkage Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s) $167,598 Brock Fielders Australia Pty Ltd; and Prestressed Concrete Design Consultants Pty Ltd

Enhanced Analysis and Structural Design of Pavements ‑ Virtual Laboratory for Advanced Pavement Design. ARC Linkage $276,995 M Oeser, AR Russell, N Khalili Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s) ARRB Group Ltd

Markus Oeser, Alan Pearson, Nasser Permeable Pavements with Concrete Surface Layers- Experimental and ARC Linkage $74,444 Khalili, Brian Shackel Theoretical Basis for Analysis and Design

Stephen J Foster, Vute Sirivivatnanon, A Re-evaluation of the Safety and Reliability Indices for Reinforced Concrete ARC Linkage $108,598 Mark G Stewart Structures

CRCSI (Cooperative Research L Ge Structural monitoring and modelling $55,456 Centre for Spatial Information)

CRC Bid: CRC LCBC&C Low Carbon Buildings and Cities CRC DVC Research UNSW $191,302

CRC ACS Advanced composite Structures Faculty of Engineering $12,087

H Taiebat FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering $25,000

Z Vrcelj FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering $25,000

E Erkmen FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering $25,000

M Attard FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering $15,000

RI Gilbert Goldstar Faculty of Engineering $30,000

MA Bradford UNSW contribution – Fed Fellowship DVC Research UNSW $115,100

MA Bradford Bridging Support – special funding Faculty of Engineering $22,524

MA Bradford CIES Central Funding DVC Research UNSW $27,706

CIES TOTAL RESEARCH FUNDING $2,091,273

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2010 WRC Funding Summary

Senior investigators and Value at Subject area Granting Organisation and/or Industry Sponsors advisers 2010 Michael Banner (UNSW Mathematics), Bill Peirson, Forecasting wave breaking in directional seas Australian Research Council – Discovery DP0985802 $ 93,728 Frederic Dias (ENS Cachan, France) NSW Department of Lands – Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Group (TRESBP); Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water; ACCARNSI; Warringah Council; NSW Crown Solicitors Office; Geoscience Australia; Clarence City Council; HWL Ebsworth Lawyers acting for Byron Shire Council; NSW Department Of Environment, Climate Change And Water (Hunter/Lower North Coast); Tweed Shire Council; James Carley, Ron Cox, Ian Byron Shire Council; Turner, Bill Peirson, Matt Blacka, NSW Department of Lands; $363,264 Coastal engineering and management Ian Coghlan, Alessio Mariani, North Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club; Pitt and Sherry for Crown Tom Shand, Melissa Mole Land Services, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment, Tasmania; W. H. Parsons & Associates; Frankston City Council; Australian Department of Water, Environment, Heritage and Arts; Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania; Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria), Environmental Policy and Climate Change Division James Carley, Ron Cox, Matt Aurecon; Aurecon Hatch; GHD; Parks Victoria; Department of Blacka, Tom Shand, Ian Coghlan, $361,492 Coastal structures and wave protection Environment, Climate Change and Water DECCW NSW; Geofabrics Alessio Mariani, Duncan Rayner, Australasia Pty Ltd Melissa Mole, Brett Miller NSW Department of Industry and Innovation; William Glamore, Grantley Smith, Manildra Group Pty Ltd; Department of Environment, Water, $70,658 Alessio Mariani, Duncan Rayner, Environmental restoration studies Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA); Jamie Ruprecht NSW Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries); NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) Bill Peirson, William Glamore, Hunter Water Corporation; Mid Coast Water; Water and Brett Miller, Grantley Smith Estuarine water quality and environmental flows Energy Team, Infrastructure Projects, Department of Planning; $101,805 Duncan Rayner, Ian Coghlan, Department of Water and Energy Jamie Ruprecht Molino Stewart for Newcastle City Council; Engineers Australia; Grantley Smith, William Glamore, Australian Rainfall and Runoff – Engineers Australia; Monteath & Steven Pells, Conrad Wasko, Flood modelling and floodplain management $107,429 Powys Pty Ltd; Infigen Energy Development Pty Ltd; Pitt + Sherry; Jamie Ruprecht, Ron Cox Penrith Lakes Development Corporation EWL Sciences Pty Ltd; Courtney Wong; Macleay Water; JP Environmental; St Vincents Foundation Pty Ltd C/- Tierney Property Services Pty Ltd; Cardno Young; WMA Water (Webb Wendy Timms, Martin Andersen, Groundwater studies , supply, monitoring, salinity and pollutant McKeown & Associates); UNSW Faculty of Science; Cotton CRC $288,335 Steven Pells, William Glamore, transport and Namoi CMA; Canterbury Regional Council; Queensland Brett Miller, Conrad Wasko Dept. Natural Resources and Water; Australian Department of Water, Environment, Heritage and Arts; ORICA; United Group Infrastructure; Vos Group Brett Miller, William Glamore, James Carley, Ian Turner, Bill Ove Arup Dan Rakan-Rakan; NT Department of Planning and Peirson, Duncan Rayner, Matt $152,700 Harbours and Sheltered Waterways Infrastructure; Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Blacka, Tom Shand, Alessio Authority; Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority Mariani, Ian Coghlan, Conrad Wasko, Melissa Mole Gunns Ltd; Veolia Water Australia; Christchurch City Council; Brett Miller, William Glamore, Parsons Brinckerhoff BECA Joint Venture; Department of Grantley Smith, Bill Peirson, Outfall Design and Sewage Disposal in Coastal Waters Commerce (For Clarence Valley Council); Sydney Water $612,987 Laurent Tarrade, Conrad Wasko, Corporation; Consulting and Expert Opinion Services for NT Power Duncan Rayner, Jamie Ruprecht and Water; Veolia Water; URS New Zealand; SKM for John Holland William Glamore, Brett Miller, Australian Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and The Grantley Smith, Laurent Tarrade, Water Resources $39,683 Arts; Department of Environment Water Heritage and the Arts Jamie Ruprecht SMEC; SMEC Holdings Limited; Parsons Brinckerhoff Beca Joint Brett Miller, Bill Peirson, Steven Venture (via Cardno Lawson Treloar); ATLANTIS; Sydney Water Pells, Laurent Tarrade, Grantley $353,184 Water/Wastewater hydraulics and turbomachinery Corporation; Outotec (Australia) Pty Ltd; UNSW Global Consulting Smith, Duncan Rayner, Jamie and Expert Opinion Services; B A Packer; Australian Department of Ruprecht Water, Environment, Heritage and Arts Various Clients; Mr and Mrs N Samodol, c/- de Soyres Malone James Carley, Matt Blacka Small Coastal protection works $7,421 Architects > 2010 WRC Funding cont.

Senior investigators and Value at Subject area Granting Organisation and/or Industry Sponsors advisers 2010 Fluorescence as a tool for sensitive detection of failures in ARC, Sydney Water Corporation, Gold Coast City Council, Sydney S Khan, R Stuetz, A Baker, M recycled water treatment and distribution systems ARC Linkage Olympic Park Authority, Melbourne Water, Water Corporation, $109,607 Storey Project LP0776347 South East Water, City West Water, Yarra Valley Water ARC Linkage Project LP0883561 - Physico-Chemical controls on D Waite, S Khan Growth, Toxicity and Succession of microcystis and Anabaena ARC, WQRA, Sydney Catchment Authority $150,000 Species in Sydney Water Supply Reservoirs Optimal Management of Corrosion and Odour Problems in R Stuetz ARC/UQ $342,134 Sewer Systems - ARC Linkage Project LP0882016 through U.Q ARC Discovery Project DP0987188 - Resolving Critical D Waite Knowledge Gaps relating to Light and Free Radical Mediated ARC $95,000 Transformation of Iron and Copper in Oxic Natural Waters ARC Discovery Project DP0987478 - Characterizing the M McCabe hydrological cycle using water isotopes, land+surface models ARC $100,000 and satelite observation ARC Linkage Project LP0989365 - Optimising Decentralised ARC, MidCoast Water, Bega Valley Shire Council, NSW Department R Stuetz $175,000 Membrane Reactors for Water Reuse of Health, Hunter Water Corporation A Sharma Project 4. Continuous Rainfall sequences at point locations NWC through Engineers Australia $100,000 Using satellite observation to investigate land surface - M McCabe CSIRO Flagship Postgraduate Scholarships $7,000 atmosphere interaction Australia-India Strategic Research Fund ST030111 - Managing change in Soil Moisture and Agricultural Productivity under A Sharma Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research $80,500 a Global Warming scenario using a Catchment Scale Climate Change Change Assessment Framework R Stuetz Postdoctoral Fellowship for Gavin Parcsi Australian Poultry CRC $14,897 ARC Linkage Partner LP0883296 - Integrated assessment of climate change, climate input errors and land-use change on A Sharma ARC, NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change $91,000 soil-moisture and carbon-balance in a catchment simulation framework ARC Linkage Project Grant 2009 Round 2 - LP0990189 R Henderson, R Stuetz, Optimising dissolved air flotation (DAF) for algae removal by ARC, Melbourne Water Corporation, United Water, SEQWater, V Bulmus, W Peirson, G $217,000 bubble modification in drinking water and advanced wastewater South Australia Water Company Newcombe, B Jefferson systems National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. Climate R Cox, W Randolph, W Peirson Change Adaptation Research Network - Settlement and ACCARNSI/NCCARF/DCCEE $72,000 Infrastructure Water Quality Research Australia - Scale formation and D Waite, R Collins, A Jones prevention in small water supplies reliant on groundwater WQRA $65,426 (1019/09) ARC Linkage project Shared Grant / Subcontract - A new M McCabe paradigm for improved water resource management using ARC/University of Melbourne $28,690 innovative water modelling techniques RIRDC / Research Priorities Program - PRJ-002342 Artificial olfaction system for on-site odour measurement: Gas Department of Employment, Economic Development and R Stuetz $3,636 Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry analysis for VOC Innovation (DEEDI) measurements ARC Discovery Grant DP1095722 Interdisciplinary G Peters, W Peirson, N Ashbolt greenhouse gas assessment - nitrous oxide emissions from ARC $110,000 marine wastewater disposal Olfactory Characterisation of Odours for Optimising Impact R Stuetz ARC $99,955 Assessment - ARC Discovery DP1096691 includes APDI Synthesis of Activated Carbon Supported Zero Valent Iron D Waite, R Luthy, S Al-Abed, G ARC, DECCW, Sydney Ports Corporation, Orica Australia, Maritime Nanoparticles and Application to Contaminant Degradation in $256,662 Batley Authority of NSW, Sydney Catchment Authority Benthic Sediments. LP100100852 Assessment and optimisation of N-nitrosamine rejection S Khan by Reverse Osmosis for planned potable water recycling ARC through Uni Wollongong $24,483 applications LP0990705 Optimisation of nutrient removal, membrane fouling and D Waite, X Wang, G Leslie, X sludge dewatering in hybrid coagulation/submerged ARC, Beijing Origin Water Technology Co Ltd, Sydney Water Huang, H Bustamante, X Wen, $310,000 membrane bioreactor treatment of wastewaters - ARC Linkage Corporation, WQRA J Guan LP100100056 Speciation of Arsenic in the roots of non-accumulator R Collins Australian Synchrotron Research Program $3,931 Eucalyptus spp. The effect of silicate on Uranium reduction during the Fe(II)- R Collins Australian Synchrotron Research Program $995 catalytic crystallisation of ferrihydrite ARC, South Australia Water, Sydney Water Corporation, Melbourne G Peters Sustainability of water and wastewater treatment chemicals Water, Yarra Valley Water, Water Corporation, Gold Coast City $54,140 Council Project 18 - Interaction of Coastal Processes and severe weather events: Phase 1 Pilot Study into joint probability S Westra NWC through Engineers Australia $31,500 modelling of extreme rainfall and storm surge in the coastal zone

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> 2010 WRC Funding cont.

Senior investigators and Value at Subject area Granting Organisation and/or Industry Sponsors advisers 2010 WQRA2002 - A national approach to the health risk S Khan assessment, risk communicaiton and management of chemical Water Quality Reseasrch Australia $180,000 hazards from recycled water projects Optimising dissolved air flotation (DAF) for algae removal by R Henderson bubble modification in drinking water and advanced wastewater Water Quality Reseasrch Australia $10,000 systems - Scholarship Investigation of endocrine disruption in Australian aquatic H Coleman ARC Linkage through Griffith University $82,412 environments BioGeoChemical Controls on efficacy and sustainability of D Waite ARC Linkage, Energy Resources of Australia $120,000 uranium heap leaching - LP100200792 AS_IA101_ESRF_3002960 - Cobalt (II) sorption to Mn and Fe R Collins Australian Synchrotron Research Program $7,933 Oxides AS102/WAS2484 - Quick scanning XAFS to determine Fe-O- R Collins Fe bond formation during iron precipitation and iron oxide Australian Synchrotron Research Program $959 transformations AS103/XAS/2981 Capacity of uranium incorporation in Fe(II)- R Collins Australian Synchrotron Research Program $995 transformed Fe(II) oxide D Waite Australian Synchrotron Postgraduate Award Australian Synchrotron Company $13,000 Fate of Volatile Organo-Sulfur Compounds (VOSCs) in Odour R Stuetz CRC for Poultry $7,500 Assessment - Scholarship R Henderson, R Stuetz YWPC 2010 Conference Various $51,904 M Schulz, S Lundie, G Peters, Various Workshops – Odour Carbon Footprinting, Water E Sivret, G Parcsi, X Wang, R Various $116,056 Footprinting. Stuetz E Sivret, X Wang, G Parcsi, R Odour and atmospheric emissions analysis Various $148,731 Stuetz A Kinsela, R Collins, D Waite Physical Chemical Processes projects Various $42,727 D Roser, B Van den Akker QMRA Projects Various $104,550 M Schulz, M Short, H Rowley, E LCA and Carbon Footprinting Projects Various $108,733 Rocheta, G Peters, S Lundie R Henderson Analytical Work Various $34,455 S Khan, J McDonald Analytical Work - Micropollutants Various $167,697 Water Research Centre Total Funding $6,293,894

CWI Grants 2010

Researchers/ Investigators Research Topic Granting Organisation Value at 2010 Ian Acworth, Martin Andersen, Andy Baker, Matt SuperScience Groundwater Education Investment Fund DIISR 5,000,000 McCabe, Wendy Timms Ian Acworth, Martin Andersen, Andy Baker, Bryce Kelly, National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training ARC 1,880,000 Matt McCabe, Wendy Timms Ian Acworth NSW Science Leverage Fund NSW Dept State and Regional Development 700,000 Martin Andersen Maules Creek research Investigations Cotton CRC 183,000 Martin Andersen Thermal techniques for groundwater investigations Land and Water 140,00 Connected Waters Initiative Grants Total $7,903,000

Grants outside of the Centres

Researchers Research Topic Granting Organisation Total External Grant Gangadhara Prusty, Zora Vrcelj, Tim McCarthy, Anne An adaptive e-learning community of practice for Mechanics Australian Learning and Teaching Council $211,000 Gardner, Roberto Ojeda, Nadine Marcus, Dror Ben-Naim, courses in Engineering (ALTC) Grant Shaowei Ho, Chris Tisdell, Zora Vrcelj, Peter Blennerhassett, John Engineering Maths Learning and Teaching Development Grant $16,000 Perram, Norm Wildberger, Chris Daly, John Watson , Craig (LTDG), Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Roberts, Graeme Bushell, Mark Foster, Tom Cavdarovski, Science

Rita Henderson Advancing water treatment technologies to minimise ARC Linkage Project: LP1101100548 $680,000 (Chief investigator) nitrogenous disinfection by-products in drinking water: Administering Organisation: Curtin University understanding the role of organic nitrogen Rita Henderson Optimising low-pressure membrane pretreatment for National Centre of Excellence in Desalination – $443,000 (Co-Investigator) desalination led by UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology Continuing Growth in Research

Publications 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Books 44334552655

Chapters in Books 7 8 7 3 3 7 8 11 12 4 11

Refereed Journal 73 77 82 74 76 90 98 113 128 125 183 Articles

Refereed Conference 104 115 65 81 94 83 87 100 88 114 68 Publications

Total 188 204 157 161 177 185 198 226 234 248 267

Total Research income $4.0M $3.6M $4.9M $6.0M $6.3M $6.9M $7.7M $8.0M $10.7M $13.6M $16.8M

Journal - Refereed & Bieroza, M Z, Bridgeman J, & Baker, A (2010) ‘Fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool 2010 Publications Scholarly Article for determination of organic matter removal efficiency at water treatment works’, Drinking Al-Kilidar, H, & Siew, Y (2010) ‘Configurations Water Engineering Science , 3, pp. 63 - 70. With 5 books,n11 chapters in Foster, SJ (2010) Design of FRC beams for and Practices across Publicly-Listed Australian shear using the VEM and the draft Model and Malaysian Construction Companies’, Birk, C, & Song, C (2010) ‘A local high- books, 183 refereed and scholarly Code approach, Shear and punching shear The International Journal of Knowledge, order doubly asymptotic open boundary for journal articles, 68 refereed in RC and FRC elements, pp. 195 - 210. Culture and Change Management , 10(1), pp. diffusion in a semi-infinite layer’, Journal of conference papers, 30 non refereed International Federation for Structural 385-402. Computational Physics, 229, pp. 6156 - 6179. Concrete (fib), Lausanne, Switzerland. conference papers, 3 editorships Alturki, A, Tadkaew, N, McDonald, J, Khan, Birk, C, & Song, C (2010) ‘An improved SJ, Price W & Nghiem LD (2010) ‘Combining of conference proceedings, and Huda, S, Mehrotra, R, & Sharma, A (2010) non-classical method for the solution of Adaptation Strategies in Coping with Climate, MBR and NF/RO membrane filtration for fractional differential equations’, Computational 19 completed PhD theses - as well Climate Change and Food Security in South the removal of trace organics in indirect Mechanics , 46, pp. 721 - 734. as numerous conference abstracts Asia, pp.325-342, Springer. potable water reuse applications’, Journal of Membrane Science , 365, pp. 206 - 215. Blenkinsopp, CE, & Chaplin, JR (2010) ‘Bubble and presentations =and technical Jury, K, Stuetz, RM, & Khan, SJ (2010) Size Measurements in Breaking Waves Using reports, the research publications Antibiotic resistance dissemination and Amal, R, Vescovi, T, & Coleman, H (2010) Optical Fiber Phase Detection Probes’, IEEE sewage treatment plants, Current Research, ‘The effect of pH on UV based advanced Journal of Oceanic Engineering , 35, pp. output of the School of Civil and Technology and Education Topics in Applied oxidation technologies- 1,4 Dioxane 388 - 401. Environmental Engineering is at Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology, pp. degradation’, Journal of Hazardous Materials , Blenkinsopp, CE, Mole, MA, Turner, IL, & 509-519, Formatex. 182, pp. 75 - 79. a very high level, meriting the Peirson, WL (2010) ‘Measurements of the Australian Research Council’s Khan, SJ (2010) Chapter 6: Safe management Ashbolt, N.J, Schoen, ME, Soller, JA, & time-varying free-surface profile across the description of ‘outstanding of chemical contaminants for planned potable Roser, DJ (2010) ‘Predicting pathogen risks swash zone obtained using an industrial water recycling, Sustainable Water, 1st edition, to aid beach management: The real value LIDAR’, Coastal Engineering 57, pp. 1059 - performance well above world pp. 114 - 137. Royal Society of Chemistry, of quantitative microbial risk assessment 1065. standard.’ RSC Publishing, Cambridge. (QMRA)’, Water Research , 44, pp. 4692 - 4703. Blenkinsopp, CE, Turner, IL, Masselink, G, Sharma, A, & Mehrotra, R (2010) Rainfall & Russell, PE (2010) ‘Swash Zone Sediment Generation, Rainfall: State of the Science, Attard, MM (2010) ‘Lateral Buckling of Beams Fluxes: Field Observations’, Coastal Engineering, Book - Scholarly Research pp. 215 - 246. American Geophysical Union, with Shear Deformations - A Hyperelastic 58, pp. 28 - 44. Washington, DC. Formulation’, International Journal of Solids Chang, Z (2010) Crack Width and Corrosion and Structures, 47, pp. 2825 - 2840. Blenkinsopp, CE, Turner, IL, Masselink, G, Rate of Steel in Concrete, VDM Verlag Dr. Sivakumar, B (2010) Chaos Theory for & Russell, PE (2010) ‘Validation of volume Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Germany. Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting: Atzeni, M, Sohn, J, & Stuetz, RM (2010) continuity method for estimation of cross-shore Progress and Challenges, Handbook of ‘Addressing the market demands for artificial swash flow velocity’, Coastal Engineering, 57, Gilbert, RI, & Ranzi, G (2010) Time-Dependent Research on Hydroinformatics: Technologies, olfaction systems.’ Chemical Engineering pp. 953 - 958. Behaviour of Concrete Structures, Taylor & Theories and Applications, 1st edition, pp. 199 Transactions , 23, pp. 135 - 140. Bligh, MW, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Formation, Francis, London. – 227. IGI-Global, USA. Baker, A, Asrat, A, Fairchild, IJ, Leng aggregation and reactivity of amorphous Khan, SJ (2010) Quantitative Chemical Sivakumar, B, & Berndtsson, R (2010) MJ, Widmann, M, Jex, CN, Dong, B, Van ferric oxyhydroxides on dissociation of Exposure Assessment for Water Recycling Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Hydrology, Calsteren, P, Bryant, CJ (2010) ‘Decadal scale Fe(III)-organic complexes in dilute aqueous Schemes, National Water Commission, Advances in Data-Based Approaches for rainfall variability in Ethiopia recorded in an suspensions’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Canberra. Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting, 1st annually laminated, Holocene-age, stalagmite’, Acta , 74, pp. 5746 - 5762. edition, pp. 411 – 461. World Scientific Holocene , 20, pp. 827 - 836. Bligh, MW, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Role of Publishing Company, Singapore. Book - Edited Balatbat, MCA, Lin, C, & Carmichael, DG Heterogeneous Precipitation in Determining Sivakumar, B, & Berndtsson, R (2010) (2010) ‘Australian Construction Growth the Nature of Products Formed on Oxidation of Sivakumar, B., & Berndtsson, R (ed) (2010) Setting the Stage, Advances in Data-Based Ratios: Industry and Company Analyses’, Fe(II) in Seawater Containing Natural Organic Advances in Data-Based Approaches for Approaches for Hydrologic Modeling and The International Journal of Construction Matter’, Environmental Science and Technology Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting, World Forecasting, 1st edition, pp. 1 - 16. World Management, 10, pp. 23 - 43. , 44, pp. 6667 - 6673. Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore. Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore. Balatbat, MCA, Lin, C, & Carmichael, DG Bradford, MA, & Pi, YL (2010) ‘Effects of Sivakumar, B, & Berndtsson, R (2010) (2010) ‘Comparative Performance of Publicly prebuckling analyses on determining buckling Book - Textbook Summary and Future, Advances in Data-Based Listed Construction Companies: Australian loads of pin-ended circular arches’, Mechanics Approaches for Hydrologic Modeling and Evidence’, Construction Management and Research Communications , 37, pp. 545 - 553. Foster, SJ, Kilpatrick, AE, & Warner, RF (2010) Forecasting, 1st edition, pp. 463 - 477. World Economics , 28, pp. 919 - 932. Reinforced Concrete Basics, Pearson, Australia. Bradford, MA, Pi, YL, & Liang, S (2010) Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore. Barnes, R, & Ashbolt, N (2010) ‘Development ‘Energy approach for dynamic buckling of an Sohn, J, Stuetz, RM, & Atzeni, M (2010) of a planning framework for sustainable rural arch model under step loading with infinite Chapter - Scholarly Research Non-specific chemical gas sensor arrays water supply and sanitation: A case study duration’, International Journal of Structural of a filipino NGO’, International Studies of Stability and Dynamics , 10, pp. 411 - 439. Erkmen, RE, & Bradford, MA (2010) Moving for environmental monitoring of odorous emissions, Chemical Sensors: Properties, Management and Organization , 40, pp. load analysis of composite beams curved Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Generic modelling of Performance and Applications, pp. 147 – 168. 78 - 98. in-plan, Trends in Computational Structures composite steel-concrete slabs subjected to Nova Science Publishers. Technology, pp. 169 – 186. Saxe-Coburg, Behzadan, A, Mani Khezri, & Shodja, shrinkage, creep and thermal strains including Kippen, UK. HM (2010) ‘A unified approach to the partial interaction’, Engineering Structures, 32, mathematical analysis of generalized RKPM, pp. 1459 - 1465. gradient RKPM, and GMLS’, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering , 200, pp. 540-576.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 40 Bradford, MA, & Heidarpour, A (2010) Dai, J, Gao, W, Zhang, N, & Liu, N (2010) Ghorbani, M. A., Ruskeepaa, H, Singh, V. ‘Nonlinear analysis of composite beams with ‘Seismic random vibration analysis of shear P., & Sivakumar, B. (2010) ‘Flood frequency partial interaction in steel frame structures at beams with random structural parameters’, analysis using Mathematica’, Turkish Journal of elevated temperature’, Journal of Structural Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology Engineering and Environmental Sciences, 34, THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL Engineering - ASCE , 136, pp. 968 - 977. , 24, pp. 497 - 504. pp. 171 - 188. AND ENVIRONMENTAL Bradley, C, Baker, A, Jex, CN, & Leng MJ Davidson, MA, Lewis, RP, & Turner, IL (2010) Ghorbani, M. A., Khatibi, R. H., Sivakumar, B., ENGINEERING ANNUAL (2010) ‘Hydrological uncertainties in the ‘Forecasting seasonal to multi-year shoreline & Cobb, L. 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Fernando, DR, Mizuno, T, Woodrow, IE, Baker, Hambly, A, Henderson, RK, Baker, A, Stuetz, Cohen, TJ, Nanson, GC, Larsen, JR, Jones, AJ, & Collins R, (2010) ‘Characterisation RM, Khan S, (2010) ‘Probabilistic analysis BG, Price DM, Coleman M and Pietsch TJ of foliar Mn in Mn-(hyper)accumulators of fl uorescence signals for monitoring dual (2010) ‘Late Quaternary aeolian and fl uvial using X-ray absorption spectroscopy’, New reticulation water recycling schemes’, Water interactions on the Cooper Creek Fan and Phytologist , 188, pp. 1014 - 1027. Science and Technology, 62, pp. 2059 - 2065. the association between linear and source- Fujii, M, Rose, AL, Omura, T, & Waite, Hamed, E, Bradford, MA, Gilbert, RI, & Chang, bordering dunes, Strzelecki Desert, Australia’, TD (2010) ‘Effect of Fe(II) and Fe(III) Z (2010) ‘Analytical model and experimental Quaternary Science Reviews , 29, pp. 455 transformation kinetics on iron acquisition study of failure behaviour of thin-walled - 471. by a toxic strain of Microcystis aeruginosa’, shallow concrete domes’, Journal of Structural Coleman, H, Le, MN, Khan, SJ, Short M, Environmental Science and Technology , 44, Engineering - ASCE , 137, pp. 125 - 137. pp. 1980-1986. Chernicharo CA, & Stuetz R (2010) ‘Fate and Hamed, E, Bradford, MA, & Gilbert, RI (2010) levels of steroid oestrogens and androgens’, Fujii, M, Rose, AL, Waite, TD, & Omura, T ‘Creep buckling of imperfect thin-walled Water Science and Technology, 61, pp. 677 (2010) ‘Oxygen and superoxide-mediated shallow concrete domes’, Journal of Mechanics - 684. redox kinetics of iron complexed by humic of Materials and Structures , 5, pp. 107 - 128. Collins, RN, Jones, AM, & Waite, TD (2010) substances in coastal seawater’, Environmental Science and Technology , 44, pp. 9337 9342. Hamed, E, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Creep in ‘Schwertmannite stability in acidifi ed coastal concrete beams strengthened with composite environments’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Gao, W, Wang, C, & Zhang, N (2010) materials’, European Journal of Mechanics A - Acta , 74, pp. 482 - 496. ‘Interstory drifts of multi-story buildings under Solids , 29, pp. 951 - 965. Collins, RN, & Kinsela, AS (2010) ‘The random earthquake excitations’, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part Hamed, E, & Rabinovitch, O (2010) ‘Failure aqueous phase speciation and chemistry characteristics of FRP-strengthened masonry of cobalt in terrestrial environments’, C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 224, pp. 603 - 614. walls under out-of-plane loads’, Engineering Chemosphere , 79, pp. 763 - 771. Structure , 32, pp. 2134 - 2145. Collins, RN, Bakkaus, E, Carriere, M, Khodja, Gao, W, Song, C, & Tin-Loi, FS (2010) ‘Probabilistic interval analysis for structures Hamed, E, & Rabinovitch, O (2010) ‘Free H, Proux, O, Morel J & Gouget B (2010) Out-of-Plane Vibrations of Masonry Walls ‘Uptake, Localization, and Speciation of with uncertainty’, Structural Safety, 32, pp. 191 - 199. Strengthened with Composite Materials’, Cobalt in Triticum aestivum L. (Wheat) and Journal of Engineering Mechanics - ASCE, 137, Lycopersicon esculentum M. 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Liu, H, Li, X, Ge, L, Rizos, C, & Wang F (2010) Jex, CN, Baker, Fairchild, IJ, Eastwood, WJ, ‘Variable length LMS adaptive filter for carrier Ng, A, Ge, L, Yan,Y, Li X, Chang H, Zhang K Hanson, J, Yesiller, N, Swarbrick, GE, & Liu, Leng MJ, Sloane H, Thomas L & Bekaroa E phase multipath mitigation’, GPS Solutions, 15, & Rizos C (2010) ‘An approach for mapping WL (2010) ‘A new approach for surface and (2010) ‘Calibration of speleothem delta- 1, pp. 29 - 38. accumulated mine subsidence using small stack factors’, Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, 18O with instrumental climate records from SAR differential interferograms in the Southern 24, pp. 19 - 34. Turkey’, Global and Planetary Change, 71, pp. Liu, Y, Evans, JP, McCabe, MF, de Jeu, RAM, Coalfield of New South Wales, Australia’, 207 - 217. Van dijk AIJM & Su H (2010) ‘Influence of Engineering Geology , 115, pp. 1 - 15. 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RPC Columns - An Experimental Investigation’, Peters, G, Wiedemann, SG, Rowley, HV, & Environmental Technology, 31, pp. 1349 - ACI Structural Journal, 107, pp. 263 - 271. Tucker, RW (2010) ‘Accounting for water use in 1370. Khomwan, N, Foster, S.J, & Smith, ST Australian red meat production’, International (2010) ‘FE modeling of FRP-repaired planar Man, HM, & Furukawa, T (2010) ‘Neural Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 15, pp. Heidarpour, A, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Non- concrete elements subjected to monotonic network constitutive modelling for non-linear 311 - 320. discretisation formulation for the non-linear and cyclic loading’, Journal of Composites for characterization of anisotropic materials’, analysis of semi-rigid steel frames at elevated Construction, 14, pp. 720 - 729. 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(2010) ‘Hydrologic modeling Sewage Treatment Plant Effl uent in the Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15 - 17 June Assessment’, Odours Specialty Conference, and forecasting: advances, challenges, and Sydney Catchment Area’, International Waters (2010). The Citigate Hotel, Sydney, 24 - 25 August future directions’, Chennai, India, January 5-7, Association 5th Young Water Professional (2010). (2010). Horne, S, & Peirson, WL (2010) ‘Interactions Conference, Sydney, 5 - 7 July (2010). between Straight Channels and Their Perera, S, Davis, SR, & Marosszeky, M Sivret, EC, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Odour Zargarbashi, S, Khalili, N, (2010) Experimental Floodplains’, 32nd Hydrology and Water (2010) ‘Head contractor role in construction Management Practices in Sewer Abatement Investigation of stress increment direction Resources Symposium, Newcastle, November management from a value perspective’, Monitoring - Australian Survey’, Odours dependency of plastic fl ow in unsaturated soils, 2009. International Group for Lean Construction, Specialty Conference, The Citigate Hotel, 5th International conference on unsaturated Haifa, Israel, 14th-16th July (2010). Sydney, 24 - 25 August (2010). Htut, TN, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Unifi ed soil, September 2010, Barcelona - Spain model for mixed mode fracture of steel Pi, YL, Bradford, MA, & Tong, G (2010) Sivret, EC, Parcsi, GP, & Stuetz, RM (2010) Zargarbashi. fi bre reinforced concrete’, 7th International ‘Dynamic stability of a suddenly-loaded arch ‘Sampling and Analysis Methodology Concerns Conference on Fracture Mechanics Concrete model’, 3rd International Conference on for Volatile Organo-Sulfur Compounds Conference - Full Paper, Not and Concrete Structures, Jeju, Korea, 23 - 28 Dynamics, Vibration and Control, Hangzhou, (VOSCs)’, Air & Waste Management May (2010). China, 12 - 14 May (2010). Association 103rd Annual Conference & Refereed Exhibition, Calgary, Canada, June (2010). Hu, Z, Ge, L, Li, X, & Rizos, C (2010) Pi, YL, Bradford, MA, & Qu, W (2010) ‘In- Andersen, MS, McCallum, AM, Meredith, ‘Designing an illegal mining detection system plane creep behaviour of concrete-fi lled steel Sohn, J, Atzeni, M, & Stuetz, RM (2010) K, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Investigation of based on DInSAR’, 30th IEEE International tubular arches’, Tubular Structures XIII, Hong ‘Sensor Array Systems for Odour Assessment: recharge pathways and recharge rates using Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Kong, 15-17 December (2010). Technology Trends and Issues’, Odours environmental isotopes (2H, 18O, 14C and IGARSS (2010) Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 July Specialty Conference, The Citigate Hotel, 3H) in the Maules Creek Catchment, NSW, (2010). Sydney, 24 - 25 August (2010). Australia’, XXXVIII - IAH Congress, , Krakow, Poland. , 12-17 September.

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RTK-GPS’, 15th Australasian Remote Sensing failure prediction models’, Extracting the & Photogrammetry Conf, Alice Springs, 13-17 Science: A Century of Mining Research, SME Boland, DD, Collins, RN, Payne, TE, & Waite, September. Annual Meeting , Phoenix, Arizona, February TD (2010) ‘The inhibitory effect of silicate THE BIG PICTURE 28 March 3, (2010). on the Fe(II)-catalysed sequestration of U OUR PEOPLE Cholathat, R, Li, X, Ge, L, & (2010) by Fe(III) oxides’, Goldschmidt, Knoxville,  OUR RESEARCH ‘Hyperspectral remote sensing for geologic Masoumi, H, Douglas, KJ, & Seyed alizadeh Tennessee, USA, 13 - 18 June (2010). TEACHING AND carbon sequestration field monitoring’, 31st (2010) ‘Yielding in intact rock at different LEARNING Asian Conf. on Remote Sensing, Hanoi, scales’, The 5th International Symposium on Boland, DD, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) INDUSTRY AND Vietnam, 1-5 November (2010). 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Reef Symposium, Bondi Beach, 19 March Guo, L, Ge, L, & Li, X (2010) ‘Land cover (2010). change detection using Landsat TM imagery of Shand, TD, Goodwin, I, Carley, JT, Mole, MA the 2009 Victorian bushfires’, 15th Australasian (2010) ‘Coastal Storms and Extreme Waves’, Dever, SA, Swarbrick, GE, & Stuetz, RM Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf, Alice NSW Coastal Conference, Batemans Bay, (2010) ‘Performance of passive biofiltration for Springs, 13-17 September. NSW, (2010). mitigating methane emissions from landfills’, Conference on Biofiltration for Air Pollution Henderson, RK, & Jefferson, B (2010) Shand, TD, Peirson, WL, & Cox, RJ (2010) Control, Washington D.C., 28-29 October. ‘Coagulating algae: recent developments ‘The Effect of Wave Groupiness on Engineering for improved removal’, 1st AWA National Design’, International Conference on Coastal Dore, M, Collins, RN, Payne, TE, & Rose, J Operations Conference, Sydney Olympic Park, Engineering, Shanghai, China, (2010). (2010) ‘Identification of the mineral phases Australia, 13-15th September, (2010). controlling Co immobilisation in soils and Tarbotton, C, Dominey-howes, D, Goff, J, & sediments’, Melbourne, Australia, November Jacqueline Thomas, Storey, M, Thomas, T, Turner, IL (2010) ‘Frome source to impact: (2010). Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Diversity of free-living integrating hydrodynamic models into Tsunami amoebal pathogen hosts in a dual distribution vulnerability assessment models’, Indian Ocean Giambastiani, B, McCallum, AM, Andersen, (drinking and recycled) water system’, Tsunami Modelling Symposium, Freemantle, MS, & Kelly, B.F.J (2010) ‘Using groundwater American Water Works Association - Water WA, 12 - 15 October. modelling to enhance the understanding of the Quality Technology Conference, Savannah, Maules Creek alluvial aquifer, Upper Namoi, Turner, IL, & Harley, MD (2010) ‘Wave climate Georgia U.S.A, 14 - 18th November (2010). NSW’, 1st Australia & New Zealand FEFLOW variability and coastal change - the value of Users Workshop, Sydney, 4 - 6 May (2010). Li, X, Ge, L, Dong, Y, & Chang, HC (2010) sustained coastal monitoring around Australia’s ‘Estimating the greatest dust storm in eastern coastline’, Australian Wind Waves Research Henderson, RK, Parsons, SA, & Jefferson, Australia with MODIS satellite images’, 30th Science Symposium, Gold Coast, Queensland, B (2010) ‘The use of positively charged IEEE International Geoscience and Remote 19-20 May. bubbles in DAF for algae removal’, National Sensing Symposium, IGARSS (2010) Honolulu, Japan Water and Environmental Technology Yigit, C, Li, X, , Ge, L (2010) ‘Analysis of wind- HI, USA, 25-30 July (2010). conference (WET (2010)), Yokohama, Japan, induced response of tall reinforced concrete 25-26th June (2010). Li, X, Rizos, C, Tamura, Y, Ge, L (2010) building based on data collected by GPS and ‘Fundamental Bending Mode and Vibration precise inclination sensor’, XXIV FIG Int. Islam, K, & Vandebona, U (2010) ‘Economic Monitoring with Inclinometer and Congress ‘Facing the Challenges - Building the Cost of Public Transit System Reliability’, 31st Accelerometer on High-Rise Buildings Subject Capacity’, Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April, . Conference of the Australian Institutes of to Wind Loads’, 5th World Conference on Transport Research, Canberra, (2010). Structural Control and Monitoring, Tokyo, Yu, JH, Li, X, Ge, L, & Chang, H (2010) Japan, 12 - 14 July (2010). ‘Radargrammetry and interferometry SAR for Jeong, C, Mukerji, Z, & Mariethoz, G (2010) DEM generation’, 15th Australasian Remote ‘Iterative Spatial Resampling for Seismic Li, X, Ge, L, Hu , Z, & Chang, H (2010) ‘The Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf, Alice Subsurface Characterization ‘, AGU Fall 2009 Montara oil spill in the Timor sea as Springs, 13-17 September. Meeting, San Francisco, 13 - 17 December observed by earth observation satellites’, 15th (2010). Australia Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Li, X, Ge, L, & Zhang, K (2010) ‘Monitoring Conference, Alice Springs, Australia, 13 -17 the 2009 Victorian bushfires with multi- Jones, AM, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) September (2010). temporal and coherence ALOS PALSAR ‘Mineral species controlling the solubility of images’, 15th Australasian Remote Sensing & Al in acid sulfate soil waters’, Goldschmidt, Photogrammetry Conference, Alice Springs, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13 - 18 June 13-17 September. (2010). Jones, AM, Waite, TD, He, D, Garg, S & Payne, TE, Collins, RN, & Clark, M Conference - Presentation, Timms, WA (2010) ‘Reality bytes - An Collins RN (2010) ‘Production of Reactive (2010) ‘EXAFS studies of trace metal evolution of numerical groundwater modelling Oxygen Species by Silver Nanoparticles immobilisation by a modified red mud’, not Published in research and consulting’, 1st Australia - Implications for Bactericidal Activity ‘, Australian Synchrotron Users Meeting (2010) & New Zealand FEFLOW Users Workshop, AOTs-16: 16th International Conference on Melbourne, Australia, 22 - 24 November Andersen, MS, & Timms, WA (2010) Sydney, 4 - 6 May (2010). Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Water (2010). ‘Groundwater Research at Maules Creek and Air Remediation, San Diego, California, & Water Quality in the Namoi Catchment’, Timms, WA (2010) ‘Where’s the salt gone? USA, 15-18 November (2010). Payne, TE, Comarmond, J, Collins, RN, & Cotton Science Conference, Narrabri, NSW, Groundwater quality issues in the Namoi Waite, TD (2010) ‘Ligand effects on uranium 26th-28th October, (2010). catchment’, Groundwater Forum, Tamworth, Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) sorption - key processes and models’, 11th NSW, 3rd December, (2010). ‘Speciation and transport of arsenic in an South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Andersen, MS, Acworth, RI, Rau, G C, & acid sulfate soil-dominated catchment, Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 31 August McCallum, AM (2010) ‘Investigations of Wang, X, Guan, J, Chattopadhyay, G, eastern Australia’, Australian Synchrotron – 3 September (2010). surface water ground-water interactions in a Britton, GB (2010) ‘Odour and Odorant Users Meeting (2010) Melbourne, Australia, water stressed semi-arid catchment’, Namoi Emission Estimation of Dredged Sediment’, 22 - 24 November (2010). Shand, TD (2010) ‘The use of physical and Groundwater Forum, Tamworth, NSW, 3rd of A&WMA International Specialty Conference numerical models for coastal applications’, NZ December (2010). Leapfrogging Opportunities for Air Quality Larsen, JR, Cenden, DI, Nanson, GC, Coastal Society Conference, Whitianga, New Improvement, Xian, China, 10 - 14 May & Jones, BG (2010) ‘Radiocarbon and Zealand, (2010). Andersen, MS, Rau, G C, McCallum, AM, (2010). geochemical constraints on shallow & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Investigations of groundwater recharge in a large arid zone Straubhaar, J, Renard, P, Mariethoz, G, surface water groundwater interactions Yap, R, Jefferson, B, Parsons, SA, & river, Cooper Creek, SW Queensland, Froidevaux, R, & Besson O (2010) ‘List- in a water stressed semi-arid catchment’, Henderson, RK (2010) ‘Cyanobacteria Australia’, 7th European Geosciences Union based algorithm for multiple-point statistics University of Copenhagen Geocenter seminar, treatment by a novel DAF process’, 2nd General Assembly (2010) Vienna, Austria, simulation’, geoENV10 , Gent, Belgium , 13 Copenhagen, Denmark, 24th September National Cyanobacterial Workshop, 02 - 07 May (2010). - 15 September (2010). (2010). Melbourne, Adelaide, 2-3rd August (2010). Lin, Y, Munroe, P, Joseph, S, Hook, J & Timms, WA, Hendry, MJ, Kerrich, R, & Muise, Andersen, MS, & Acworth, RI (2010) McCabe, MF, Liu, Y, Vinukollu, R (2010) Henderson RK (2010) ‘Formation, structure J (2010) ‘Retardation of rare earth metals ‘Water quality and ecological implications ‘Evaluating latent heat flux estimates from and stability of biochar-mineral complexes’, in clay barriers innovative application of of changing dynamics in surface water land surface models, a regional climate model International Biochar Initiative, 3rd centrifuge modeling and laser ablation ICP- groundwater interactions’, USGS seminar, simulation and a surface energy balance International Conference, Rio de Janiero, MS’, 10th Australasian Environmental Isotope Menlo Park, CA, USA , 15th July (2010). algorithm over Australia’s Murray Darling Brazil, 12-15th September, (2010). Conference & 3rd Australasian Hydrogeology Basin’, 2nd Hydrology delivers Earth System Research Conference, Perth, Western Dever, SA, Swarbrick, GE, & Stuetz, Science to Society joint meeting for GSWP/ Linge, K L, Liew, D, Joll, C, Heitz, A, Australia, 1 - 3 December 2009. RM (2010) ‘Guidelines for the Design, GLASS? Tokyo, Japan, 22-25 June (2010). & Henderson RK (2010) ‘Formation of Construction and Operation of a Passive nitrogenous disinfection by-products Vandebona, U (2010) ‘Safety of Pedestrians Landfill Gas Drainage and Biofiltration Evans, JP, & McCabe, MF (2010) ‘Impact (N-DBPs) in raw and treated drinking water’, Using Mobile Devices at Road Crossings’, System’, 4th Intercontinental Landfill of satellite-derived albedo on water cycle (2010) International Chemical Congress Seminar on Theory and Application of Research Symposium, Hokkaido, Japan, 9-11 simulations over Australia’s Murray-Darling of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), Pedestrian Travel Culture, Busan National June (2010). Basin with the Weather Research and University, South Korea, 3 December (2010). Forecasting (WRF) model’, The Fourth Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20th December Henderson, RK, Harguindeguy, S, & (2010). International Workshop on Catchment-scale Waite, TD, Jones, AM, & Garg, S (2010) Jefferson, B (2010) ‘Size, strength and Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation Mariani, A (2010) ‘Infilling and Sand ‘Reactive oxygen species generation by structure of micro-algae flocs during water Conference – Poster presentation. Bypassing of Coastal Structures and elemental iron and silver nanoparticulates’, treatment’, 2nd National Cyanobacterial Headlands by Littoral Drift’, Coasts to Coasts, Goldschmidt, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13 - Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 2-3rd Andersen, MS, Meredith, K, Timms, WA, & Adelaide, 20-24 September. 18 June (2010). August (2010). Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Investigation of d18O and d2H in the Namoi River catchment Mariethoz, G, Caers, J, & Scheidt, C (2010) Shiels, S, Short, M, & Peters, G (2010) Pells, SE, Timms, WA, Carley, JT, & surface water/groundwater interactions’, 15th ‘Multi-way sensitivity analysis using clustering ‘A state of the Art Sustainability Decision- Andersen, MS (2010) ‘Potential impact Australian Cotton Conference , The Gold techniques’, geoENV10, Gent, Belgium, 13 - making Framework’, Life cycle assessment of sea-level rise on coastal aquifers’, Coast, Australia, August 10-12th. 15 September (2010). and footprinting, Wellington, New Zealand, Groundwater (2010) Canberra, ATC, 24 - 25 March (2010). Australia, 31st Oct - 4th Nov (2010). Andersen, MS, Serov, P, & Acworth, RI Mariethoz, G, Renard, P, & Straubhaar, (2010) ‘Linking Hyporheic Zone Water J (2010) ‘The direct sampling method Wang, Y, Collins, RN Doronila & Woodrow Pournaghiazar, M, Russell, AR, & Khalili- Chemistry and Streambed Ecology to to perform multivariate multiple-points I (2010) ‘Arsenic localization and speciation Naghadeh, N (2010) ‘CPT in unsaturated Groundwater Discharge and Recharge, geostatistical simulations’, geoENV10 , Gent, in the roots of Eucalyptus spp’, International soils using a new calibration chamber’, 2nd Maules Creek, NSW, Australia’, 15th Belgium , 13 - 15 September (2010) . Conference on Environmental Pollution And International Symposium on Cone Penetration Australian Cotton Conference, The Gold Clean Bio/Phytoremediation, Pisa, Italy, June Testing, Huntington Beach, California, USA, Coast, Australia , August 10-12th. May, JH, Larsen, JR, Cohen, TJ, & Nanson, (2010). 9-11, May (2010). GC (2010) ‘Mt. 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2010 Annual Report  PAGE 46  OUR RESEARCH  PAGE 47 Research Students 2010 Agarwal, Ankit Foerster, Jean Kaboli, Seyed Alireza Maghrebi, Mojtaba Strengthening of tubular steel structures Natural resource projects Lifecycle costs of steel petrochemical The Variability of Tasks Production Rate in using CFRP Supervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: structures Linear Scheduling by Simulation Approach Supervisor: Foster; Co-supervisors: Vrcelj, Al-Kilidar Supervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Hamed Davis Al-Kilidar Gelet, Rachel Marie Aljassmi, Hamad Abdulla Mohd Hydro-thermo-mechanical coupling in Khajeh, Samani Ali Maheshwar, Pradeep Dynamic project management fractured porous media Softening in reinforced concrete frames Optimisation of coagulant addition to Supervisor: Han Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser Supervisor: Attard; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi submerged membrane bioreactors using computational and experimental methods Allis,Michael James Gholamhoseini, Alireza Khan, Urooj Supervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Collins Ocean Engineering The time-dependent behaviour of composite Semi-distributed modeling Supervisor: Pearson; Co-supervisor: Banner concrete slabs with profiled steel decking Supervisor: Sharma; Co-supervisor: McCabe Maruthai Pillai, Sashikala Supervisor: Gilbert; Co-supervisor: Foster Headspace analysis of chemical odorants Alvarez Gaitan, Juan Pablo Khezei, Mani Supervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Moore Sustainability Assessment Gui, Yilin Buckling and post-buckling behaviour of Supervisor: Peters, Moore; Co-supervisor: Hydro-thermo-chemo-mechanical coupling composite laminated structures with material Masoumi, Hossein Schultz effects in double porosity media non-linearities Effect of Scale and Confinement on Rock Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser Supervisor: Vrcelj; Co-supervisor: Attard Behaviour Azcurra, Cecilia Supervisor: Douglas; Co-supervisor: Russell Isotopes in Hydrology Hambly, Adam Christopher Khoshghalb, Arman Supervisor: McCabe; Co-supervisor: Baker Fluorescence as a tool for detection of Numerical algorithms of penetration Mazumder, Maruful Hasan failures in recycled water treatment problems in variably saturated media Structural engineering, computational Bai, Yun Supervisors: Stuetz, Khan; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Russell mechanics, dynamic soil-structure Coupled flow deformation analysis of Henderson interaction multiphase multi porous media Kwok, Sei Lung Supervisor: Foster, Gilbert Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser Hao, Pan (ME) Computational hydraulics Risk management in infrastructure project Supervisor: Cathers McCallum, Andrew Murray Bernardi, Antonio (ME) Supervisor: Han; Co-supervisor: Davis River-aquifer interactions in stressed semi- Surface water groundwater interconnectivity Lai, Elizabeth arid environments at a dryland salinity site Hashim, Nor Haslina Development of an integrated sustainability Supervisor: Andersen, Acworth Supervisor: Acworth; Co-supervisor: Use of chiral pharmaceutical compounds to assessment for urban water management Littleboy characterise sewage treatment processes Supervisors: Moore, Lundie; Co-supervisor: Miller, Christopher James and sewage contamination in surface water Ashbolt, Lu The transformation and implication of Beya, Jose Francisco Supervisors: Khan, Stuetz reactive oxygen species in natural aquatic Ocean wave dynamics Le, Hung Viet systems Supervisor: Peirson; Co-supervisor: Banner He, Di Fate of volatile Organo-Sulfur compounds in Supervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Rose Natural organic matter-mediated generation odour assessment Boland, Daniel of reactive oxygen species Supervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Sivret Mohamad Abas, Fairul Zahri Fate of metal contaminants during iron Supervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Garg Prestressed concrete Bridge Structure oxide crystallisation Le, Minh Nhat Supervisor: Gilbert; Co-supervisor: Foster Supervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Collins Higgins, Rebecca Irene The removal of sulphonamides and Hydrology - Groundwater – Climate trimethoprim antibiotics in municipal Mohammadi, Samaneh Cai, Yingzhe Mick Supervisor: McCabe; Co-supervisors: Ajami, wastewater by biological treatment Effects of unsaturated zone on stability of Isotope hydrology, water resources Evans Supervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Khan slopes Supervisors: Evans, McCabe; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Taiebat; Co-supervisor: Khalili Anderson Hossenian, Seyedmahdi Li, Chao The principal-agent problem and project Structural engineering Moon, Sungkon Chiong, Irene delivery methods Supervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Gao Productivity improvement using BIM Scaled boundary finite-element shakedown Supervisors: Han, Davis, Carmichael Supervisor: Han approach for the safety assessment of Liu, Nengguang cracked elastoplastic structures under cyclic Huang, Yue Uncertain modelling and uncertain methods; Musharraf, Abdullah loading Long-term behaviour of high-strength Vehicle - bridge interaction dynamics; Wind Relationship between information Supervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi concrete panels and/or sersmic induced random vibration; redundancy and project quality Supervisor: Hamed; Co-supervisor: Foster structural stability and reliability analysis Supervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Chowdhury, Morsaleen Shehzad Supervisor: Gao Al-Kilidar Structural Engineering Huynh, Luan Chanh Supervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Gao Behaviour of high performance concrete Liu, Xinpei Ng, Tian Sing columns subjected to high strain rate Time-dependent behaviour of composite Fibre reinforced high performance Coad, Peter William loading curved beams geopolymer concrete Estuarine algal bloom prediction Supervisor:Foster; Co-supervisor: Song Supervisor: Bradford Supervisor: Foster; Co-supervisor: Gilbert Supervisors: Cathers, VanSenden; Co- supervisor: Ball Islam, Md Kamrul Liu, Yi Nur, Tanjina Modelling route choice behaviour under Hydrology, remote sensing, climate Pavement Engineering Dang, The Cuong uncertainty variability Supervisor: Oeser; Co-supervisor: Russell Waste water Supervisor: Vandebona; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Evans,McCabe; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Waite Oeser Sharma,Evans Parvez, Md. Ahsan Fibre reinforced concrete structures Do, Anh Cuong James, Edward Malcolm Luu, Trung Kien Supervisor: Foster Stability of composite steel concrete Payment systems for soft soils Numerical simulation of the behaviour of T-section beams continuous over one or Supervisors: Oeser, Russell composite frames at elevated temperatures Patwary, Noore Alam more supports Supervisor: Bradford; Co-supervisor: Vrcelj Uncertainty in project starts and project Supervisor: Vrcelj; Co-supervisor: Bradford Jeremiah, Erwin Joachim completions Hydrology Ma, Jianjun (ME) Supervisor: Carmichael, Davis Supervisor: Sharma; Co-supervisors: CO sequestration in geological formations Elhadayri, Farj 2 Constitutive modelling of lightly cemented Marshall, Sisson, Nott Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser Peng, Yuan unsaturated soils Cost contingency Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Russell Jury, Karen Lillian Ma, Tian Supervisor: Davis; Co-supervisor: Investigation of the role of antibacterial Physico-chemical controls on growth, toxicity Carmichael Ershadi Esmaeilabadi, Ali drugs in municipal wastewater as a selective and succession of cyanobacteria Remote sensing hydrology influence on the spread of bacterial Supervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Garg Perera, Weebadda Arachchilage Salinda Supervisor: McCabe; Co-supervisors: resistance Study causes of defect occurrence and Walker, Evans Supervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Ashbolt issues Supervisor: Davis; Co-supervisor: McIntyre, Marosszeky Peterson, Mark Aaron Su, Lijuan Wang, Lili Ground water resources in fractured Lateral buckling Risks associated with trace organics in PhD Students rock aquifers using geochemical and Supervisor: Attard; Co-supervisor: MBR-treatment of waste waters isotopic methods Tin-Loi Supervisor: Khan; Co-supervisor: Waite Graduated in 2010 Supervisor: Andersen; Co-supervisor: Acworth Thomas, Jacqueline Marie Woldemeskei, Fitsum Markos Altavilla, Nanda Pathogen ecology within drinking water Hydrology Fate and transport of cryptosporidium in Pournaghiazar, Mohammad biofilms Supervisor: Sharma the terrestrial environment Cone penetration in unsaturated porous Supervisors: Ashbolt, Stuetz; Co- Supervisor: Roser, Stuetz; media supervisors: Kjelleberg, Storey, Thomas Xin, Yongija Co-supervisor: Ashbolt, Deere Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Membrane fouling control Russell Torbaty, Mohammadali Supervisor: Waite Beavis, Paul Charles Christopher Computational hydraulics and Urban freight intermodal transport: an Prempramote, Suriyon computational fluid mechanics Yan, Xia analogue theory using electrical circuits The coupling of scaled boundary finite- Supervisor: Cathers, Yeoh; Co- Environmental Engineering Supervisor: Moore; Co-supervisor: element method and finite-element supervisor: Peirson Supervisor: Peirson; Co-supervisor: MacGill method for seismic analysis of structures Banner Supervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi Tran, Hanh Van Bligh, Mark William Alternative formulations in project Yang, Hongwei Formation, fate and transformation of Pui, Alexander Charles management In-situ testing of unsaturated soils products of iron oxidation in coastal Stochasitc hydrology Supervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Russell; Co-supervisor: waters Supervisor: Sharma; Co-supervisor: Davis Khalili Supervisor: Waite Mehrotra Tran, Thao Minh Yap, Russell Kong Leng (ME) Braga, Olga Rancic, Aleksandra Sanja Fouling of anaerobic membrane Water treatment Analysis of endocrine disrupters and Groundwater levels in fractured rocks - bioreactors Supervisors: Peirson, Henderson; Co- pharmaceuticals climate and land use impacts Supervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: supervisor: Whittaker Supervisor: Smythe; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Acworth; Co-supervisor: LeClech, Davis Waite Johnston Yeung, Anna Chi Ying Tran, Trong Binh Factors influencing the growth and Cheah, Chin Hong Rau, Gabriel Christopher Project and organisational staffing – toxicity of cyanobacteria in drinking Kinematic wave modelling of surface Using heat as a tracer to study surface cultural issues water supplies runoff quantity & quality for small urban water groundwater and interactions Supervisor: Carmichael Supervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: catchments in Sydney Supervisor: Anderson; Co-supervisor: Neilan Supervisor: Cox, Ball; Co-supervisor: Acworth Trinh, Trang Thi Thanh Peirson Decentralised MBR for Water Reuse Yuan, Xiu Rowley, Hazel Victoria Supervisors: Khan, Coleman; Co- Light and free-radical mediated Dasey, Gregory Reginald Decision making for sustainability supervisor: Stuetz transformation kinetics of iron species in Geophysical and hydrogeological Supervisor: Peters; Co-supervisors: natural waters assessment of the interaction of saline Lundie, Moore Vo, Thanh Liem Supervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Pham and fresh groundwater near a tidal Soil-structure interaction creek Salimzadeh, Saeed Supervisor: Russell; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Acworth; Co-supervisor: Zargarbashi, Saman Turner Normal simulation of carbon Taiebat Investigation of cyclic response in sequestration in geological formations unsaturated soils including hydric and Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser Greve, Anna Katrin Wang, Bei mechanical hystereses Detection of subsurface cracking depth Treatability of odorants in abatement Supervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: through electrical resistivity anisotropy Singh, Sachin system Douglas Supervisor: Acworth; Co-supervisor: Fluorescence as an online monitoring Supervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Parcsi Kelly tool for water recycling Zhang, Xinlei Supervisor: Khan; Co-supervisors: Wang, Chen Alternative project management Stuetz, Henderson Htut, Trevor Nyan Soe Computional mechanics. Structural practices Fracture behaviour of steel fibre dynamics structural analysis Supervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: reinforced concrete in tension Sriskandarajah, Sanchayan Supervisor: Gao; Co-supervisor: Song Davis Supervisor: Foster; Co-supervisor: Reactive powder concrete subjected to Gowripalan high temperature and temperature cycles Supervisor: Gowripalan; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 48 Jakrawatana, Napal Loo, Kam Yoke Mindy Tran-Cao, Tri THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL An integrated decision support tool for more Fatigue behaviour of carbon fibre reinforced Collapse analysis of block structures in frictional AND ENVIRONMENTAL sustainable management of biomass resources plastics (CFRP)-repaired corroded reinforced contact ENGINEERING ANNUAL in agricultural regions concrete beams Supervisor: Tin-Loi; Co-supervisor: Pi REPORT 2010 Supervisor: Moore; Co-supervisor: MacGill Supervisor: Foster; Co-supervisor: Smith Vu, The Son Johar, Khalid Lutfi Morris, Bradley David Development of models to determine impacts A study of uncertainty aspects in venture Infilling and sedimentation mechanisms at of telecommuting on transport systems and appraisal intermittently open-closed coastal lagoons environment Supervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Supervisor: Turner; Co-supervisor: Cox Supervisor: Vandebona Balatbat Parcsi, Gavin Peter Wu, Han Qing Johnson, Fiona Michelle Chemical analysis of odorants from poultry Tension stiffening in reinforced concrete – Hydro Climatology facilities instantaneous and time-dependent behaviour Supervisor: Sharma; Co-supervisor: Cordery Supervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Khan Supervisor: Gilbert; Co-supervisor: Foster Jones, Adele Manda The transformation and transport of Fe and Al Shand, Thomas Duncan THE BIG PICTURE from acid sulphate soils to coastal waters The effect of wave grouping on shoaling and Supervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Collins OUR PEOPLE breaking processes  OUR RESEARCH Supervisor: Cox; Co-supervisor: Peirson TEACHING AND LEARNING INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY School PhD Research Prizes 2010 OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Prize for Research Excellence -  PAGE 49 Outstanding Arman Khoshghalb (pictured top left) and Saman Zargarbashi (pictured top right)

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Prize for Research Excellence - Meritorious Rachel Gelet (pictured), Arman Khoshghalb, Mohammad Pournaghiazar (pictured) and Alexander Pui

Three Minute Thesis

Final year PhD student Alexander Pui came first in the Faculty of Engineering and second across UNSW in the Three Minute Thesis presentation competition Dr Hamid Valipour won the Malcolm Chaikin in 2010. Prize for Research Excellence for the best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Engineering in 2010. Alex’s presentation on his research topic, ‘Flood Risk Criteria for the award includes the quality of the in a Warming World’ featured a very interesting and thesis, the ability to convey the excitement of at times humorous dialogue between a NSW farmer engineering to fellow members of the university and a climate scientist, articulating the challenge we and the scientific community as well as raising the face in communicating research outcomes to a lay profile of engineering in the community at large. audience. Regardless of what some politicians may say, global Dr Valipour completed his PhD - ‘Nonlinear warming is a scientifically proven concept which may dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete frames have a further serious impact on the Australian rural under extreme loadings’ - under the supervision economy by intensifying and prolonging the cycles of of Prof Stephen Foster (Director of the Centre for both flood and drought. Infrastructure Engineering & Safety - CIES) and is now working as a Research Associate in CIES. Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Student Association

The committee of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Student Association (CERSA, previously the PRSC) represents postgraduate research students within the school. Committee members sit on various school management meetings in order to provide a voice for students. The committee is also responsible for the buddy system which aims to assist newly-arrived research students settle in whether they are new to UNSW or Australia.

CERSA also aims to facilitate cohesion as well as social and professional relationships amongst research students and school staff. In 2010, a BBQ or morning tea was held at the start of each semester to welcome newly arriving students and to give them the opportunity to meet existing students and staff. Where possible, CERSA also promotes postgraduate study in the School of Environmental Engineering, holding an afternoon tea to farewell Indian Intern Students in July. In October, CERSA was lucky enough to be joined by alumni Dr James Glastonbury, Dr Fiona Johnson, Dr Lange Jorstad who together with staff Dr Matt McCabe and Professor Nasser Khalili contributed to a panel discussion with CERSA Standing (L to R): Daniel Boland and Bai Yun current students about the options available post-PhD studies and Sitting (L to R): Anna Yeung, Cecilia Azcurra, Xiu Yuan and Mani Khezri. Absentees: Irene Chiong, Juan Pablo Alvarez Gaitan, Russell the best way to pursue these. Yap CERSA looks forward to creating innovative ways to enhance the research experience and social and professional development of postgraduate students within the school in 2011.

2010-2011 CERSA committee

President: Cecilia Azcurra Vice-President: Daniel Boland Secretary: Anna Yeung Committee Members: Juan Pablo Alvarez Gaitan Yun Bai Irene Chiong Russell Yap Joyce Yuan

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 50 THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL School Research Facilities REPORT 2010

THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE  OUR RESEARCH TEACHING AND Technical Services Committee LEARNING INDUSTRY AND Report COMMUNITY OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY The Technical Services Committee supports the research and teaching commitment of the School through excellence  PAGE 51 in maintaining state-of-the-art physical laboratories. To this end, the committee is responsible for the operation of four physical testing laboratories in water and infrastructure engineering.

The Randwick Heavy Structural Laboratory and the Materials Research Laboratory and Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories, collectively known as the Infrastructure Laboratories, support the research of the School’s Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), while the Water Research and Water Quality Laboratories support key research in the School’s Water Research Centre. The laboratories also provide extensive support for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and learning.

Photo Left: Water Quality Laboratories Manager Dr Gautam Chattopadhyay and WRC Research Dr Ben Van Den Akker

Centrifuge engineer Mr Mark Whelan (right) and postdoc researcher Dr Gyanendra Regmi with the new permeameter and strong box chambers during installation of the new centrifuge equipment at WRL Infrastructure Laboratories Water Quality Laboratories

The structures and materials laboratories support the research of The Water Quality Laboratories (WQL) include specialist laboratories academic staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students involved in for chemical and microbial analysis, pilot hall facilities for large experimental research on various aspects of Structural Engineering. scale bioreactor studies, radiation laboratory for isotope studies The laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art servo controlled and olfactory laboratory for odour characterisation. They contain a hydraulic actuators and universal testing machines. The laboratories wide range of analytical instruments for the chemical, microbial and maintain a capacity for high load testing, ranging from 10 kN to physical analysis of environmental samples from water, wastewater, 5000 kN. Strength testing is often combined with X-Ray measuring waste and the atmosphere. These include gas chromatograph of laboratory specimens under load, pioneered by CIES researchers, coupled with a tandem mass spectrometer (GC-MS/MS), high enabling improved understanding at the materials level and for the pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometer (HPLC- development of refined, mechanically based, structural models. MS/MS), inductively coupled plasma-atomic emissions spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry A few of the projects undertaken in 2010 include creep testing (ICP-MS). Specialised equipment include an olfactory-GC-MS for of concrete beams that are strengthened with externally bonded odorant characterisation coupled with thermal desorption (TD) for composite materials, viscoelastic behaviour of Epoxy adhesives, gas sample pre-concentration and odorant characterisation and examination of the impact response of Geopolymer concrete beams, UV-VIS and fluorescence spectrophotometers for spectral analysis of creep testing of curved composite beams, anchorage length in samples. reinforced concrete slabs, and testing of composite slabs with profiled steel decking. During 2010 a considerable amount of work was undertaken using fluorescence spectroscopy to further develop new analytical tools for The Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories within the School the characterisation of water samples. Applications used within the contain a diverse range of conventional soil, rock and asphalt school include the characterisation of marine waters, surface waters, testing equipment, along with specialist equipment used primarily groundwaters, drinking waters, wastewaters and recycled water. to support the School’s research. Notable inclusions are modified triaxial cells, pressure plates and an oedometer for testing unsaturated soils at normal and elevated temperatures, rotating Water Research Laboratory cylinder and a specialist pin-hole apparatus for testing erosion of soils, ring shear apparatus, a large shear box and high pressure New offices for the Connected Waters Initiative have been triaxial cells for testing gravel, rock and sands undergoing particle completed at the Water Research Laboratory and the first crushing, as well as a newly equipped asphalt testing laboratory. postdoctoral researchers have moved in. Construction will commence A recent addition is the calibration chamber for conducting cone on Stage 2 of these offices and landscaping in early 2011. penetration tests in unsaturated soils. The new laboratory for the centrifuge permeameter is also nearing 2010 saw the design and construction of a Lateral Earth Pressure completion, alongside the offices at the Water Research Laboratory. testing rig to assist with research on unsaturated soil retaining wall The $0.8 million facility was funded by the ARC and NWC through interaction. Also, a new rock triaxial cell was commissioned as part the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training as of a study on the scale dependant stress-strain behavior of rock. part of Program 1B – Innovative Characterisation of Aquitards. The equipment permits triaxial tests on samples of different sizes The purpose designed laboratory includes a 3 tonne gantry crane, (25, 50 and 100mm diameters) with confining pressures as high as climate control and a re-enforced slab keyed into the underlying 60MPa. sandstone. The centrifuge was delivered to WRL in January 2011, shipped from the Broadbent factory in Yorkshire, UK. This facility will accelerate testing of low permeability sediments and rock and make long term contaminant transport and retardation studies possible under in-situ conditions.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 52  teaching & learning

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

(SJ Perelman 1904-1979) Teaching & Learning Overview

The School delivers both undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs. We are committed to developing well-educated graduates with the skills, attributes and knowledge that will enable them to practice as professional civil or environmental engineers.

In 2010, the School was the largest and most successful School of its type in Australia, with 1307 undergraduate students, 398 coursework masters students and 90 postgraduate research students. We attract local and rural students in New South Wales and also have a signifi cant contingent of overseas students mainly from the South East Asian Region.

The School has active teaching and research programs across the breadth of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with strong academic groups in the sub-disciplines of Coastal Engineering, Engineering Construction and Project Management, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Groundwater, Structural Engineering, Transport Engineering, Water, Wastewater and Waste Engineering, and Water Resources.

Trends In The School Profi le 2000 - 2010 Changing trends over the decade in the School’s student profi le and the number of academic and non-academic staff employed within the School are summarised below:

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 STUDENT NUMBERS Total EFTSU* 648 607 613 581 567 582 592 669 805 985 1172 BE 656 594 593 634 647 615 730 859 1,012 1173 1307 MEngSc/MEnvEngSc 314 295 355 339 292 323 287 322 329 345 358 GradDip/GradCert 51 37 62 72 38 28 32 23 25 30 40 PhD 69 68 78 81 82 79 80 70 72 60 88 ME/MSc 21 19 19 16 17 11 10 6 5 5 2 GRADUATES PhD 9 9 14 15 8 14 8 23 11 13 19 ME 11013001220 MSc 00000001000 MEngSc 93 95 96 117 119 95 114 80 121 119 177 MEnvEngSc 25 21 36 13 13 13 7 8 7 3 8 GradDip/GradCert 4 2 4 6 7 7 13 8 8 6 7 BE (Civil) 71 97 121 64 67 87 80 120 97 99 120 BE (Environmental) 41 41 35 19 28 21 23 23 22 23 22 STAFF (Full-time, tenured) Academic 32 32 32 32 33 29.5 25 25 28 30.5 28 Technical (School) 18 17 16 15 14 15 13 13 13 12 9 Other Technical (Centres etc) ------18 Administration (School) 10 10 9 8 8 8 7 8 9 10 9 Other Admin (Centres etc) ------13 STUDENT/STAFF RATIO — EFTSU/ACADEMIC 20.2 19.0 19.2 18.2 17.2 19.7 23.7 26.8 28.8 32.3 39.01 * Effective Full-Time Student Unit The ratio EFTSU/Academic as an indicator of student access to staff as a measure of learning outcomes can be misleading. The ratio is seen to have increased signifi cantly in recent years due to the large increase in student numbers. Certainly most lectures must now be held in the larger theatres at UNSW. But, while the student to staff ratio is 39, the School has maintained the more important student to tutor ratio at less than 20 to preserve quality teaching outcomes.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 54 THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT 2010 in a fair and equitable manner. Towards the end of The Teaching and Learning both semesters, it conducted focus group surveys of all Committee undergraduate years. The aims of the focus group surveys are to provide information on the student experience and The Teaching and Learning Committee (TLC) of the identify areas which require action and improvement. School is responsible for all academic matters relating to all undergraduate and postgraduate coursework 2010 highlights: programs; these involve: encouraging teaching quality, providing teaching aids to staff, monitoring courses through student focus group surveys, interaction with Design Studio THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE student representatives of CEVSOC and research student th The Design Studio on the 5 floor of the Civil Engineering OUR RESEARCH tutors through CERSA, setting policy regarding academic Building construction and furnishing was completed early  TEACHING AND aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate examinations in 2009 and the space was made available to students at LEARNING and enrolments, and providing a focal point for student INDUSTRY AND the start of Semester 1. Throughout the year this facility COMMUNITY assistance in undergraduate and postgraduate coursework was used extensively for undergraduate and postgraduate OUR RESEARCH CENTRES matters. The major drive behind the Committee’s agenda individual and team learning activities, seminars, workshops OUR HISTORY is to improve the learning experience of students. The and School celebrations. Approval was given in 2010 for  PAGE 55 members of the committee in 2010 were: the 2nd stage of development. Video Conferencing facilities were added, as well as 4 computer screens which could Teaching and Learning Committee 2010 be linked to the main computer or to student laptops, a smartboard, a projector and a drop down screen. Chair, Assoc Head (Academic) Mario Attard Structures Representative (S2) Deputy Chair BE ME Zora Vrcelj (S1) Civil with Arch Program Director The Faculty has proposed a new 5 year BE ME with a Postgrad Coursework Coordinator Stephen Moore minor program. The minor would allow students to study Environmental Eng Program Director an area outside their main discipline for example Music, Year 1 & Peer Mentoring Coordinator Hossein Taiebat Design, History etc. The TLC started work on developing Civil Eng Program Director a form of BE ME program offering for both the Civil and Hiyam Al-Kilidar Year 2 Coordinator Environmental programs. Upali Vandebona Year 3 Coordinator Chongmin Song Year 4 Coordinator N. Gowripalan Advanced Standing/Exchange Fourth Year Electives Nasser Khalili Geotech/Transport Representative We continue to provide our fourth year students with W. Peirson Water Representative a large selection of professional specialisation electives D. Carmichael EC&M Representative covering all discipline areas across the School. A number of Francis Tin Loi Structures Representative (S1) these fourth year professional electives are parallel taught Bruce Cathers Grievance Officer with some postgraduate coursework masters courses. The CVEN4701 Planning Sustainable Infrastructure course which Karenne Irvine School Manager is core to the Environmental program is open to the Civil Julijana Baric Student Services Manager program students as an elective. CEVSOC President Postgraduate Tutors Review of the Year 2 of the The functions and scope of the Committee were expanded Environmental Engineering Program in 2010 to include postgraduate coursework matters and The current Environmental program does not include 2nd the staff teaching allocation. The Committee began the year Maths. It has been argued that this is a deficiency in year by assisting new students on enrolment day and the program. Suggestions for changes to the Environmental attending the student welcome during orientation week. program to include 2nd year Maths were put forward. One The Committee met formally on seven occasions during suggestion was that the current 2nd year courses BIOS1301 the year, including two special meetings to look at requests Ecology Sustainability and Environmental Science and for special consideration and to review final examination GMAT1110 Engineering Surveying and GIS, be returned to marks for all courses. During the examination meetings, all first year as recommended electives, making room for 2nd student examination results are individually reviewed, all year Maths and possibly another course such as Mechanics applications for special consideration are acted upon and of Solids. the School policy on supplementary exams is implemented 2010 Graduations

A total of 353 students graduated from the School in 2010.

GRADUATES

Doctor of Philosophy 19

Master of Engineering 0

Master of Science 0

Master of Engineering Science 177

Master of Environmental Engineering Science 8

Graduate Diploma 2

Graduate Certifi cate in Civil Engineering 5 Tutor Training Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/Bachelor of Commerce 8 The increase in undergraduate student numbers proved a challenge BE in Civil Engineering/BE in Environmental Engineering 8 in recruiting large number of qualifi ed tutors. A half-day Tutor Training Workshop, organised and facilitated by Dr Carol Russell Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental)/Bachelor of Science 1 (Faculty of Engineering Learning and Teaching Fellow), was held at Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/Bachelor of Science 2 the start of each semester with a follow-up workshop in the middle of each of the teaching semesters. The Instructions for Tutors in Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental)/Bachelor of Arts 0 the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering document was Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/Bachelor of Arts 1 prepared and distributed to all tutors and academic staff members. Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/ Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) 0

Guest Speaker from Industry Series for Civil with Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental) 13 Architecture Students Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) 109 Presentations by prominent industry speakers, fi rst organised in Bachelor of Engineering (Civil with Architecture) 0 2009, were continued in 2010.

Peter Hartigan, a Structural and Façade Engineer who leads the Arup Facade group in Sydney, gave a presentation on “Why is material sustainability important? What are sustainable materials? How should we use them?” on 25th May 2010. His enthusiasm and skills in the strategic and detailed confi guration of façade systems considering overall project considerations such as architecture, building services strategies and occupant comfort, organisation of superstructure, buildability and procurement were highly appreciated by the audience.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 56 THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL Postgraduate Coursework Studies REPORT 2010

Postgraduate coursework teaching and learning has been Postgraduate courses offered include: one of the core activities, and major strengths of the CVEN9405 Urban Transport Planning Practice School of Civil and Environmental Engineering for over fifty CVEN9414 Transport Systems Part 1 years. With 398 coursework students enrolled in 2010 the CVEN9415 Transport Systems Part 2 THE BIG PICTURE School continued to be the leading provider of postgraduate CVEN9422 Traffic Management & Control OUR PEOPLE engineering education in Australia. All our courses provide CVEN9511 Geotechnical Models and Site Investigation OUR RESEARCH essential specialist knowledge, backed by cutting edge CVEN9512 Geomechanics  TEACHING AND research, to enable industry professionals to improve their CVEN9513 Advanced Foundation Engineering LEARNING INDUSTRY AND performance and advance their careers. CVEN9514 Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering CVEN9521 Slope Instability and Stabilisation COMMUNITY OUR RESEARCH CENTRES CVEN9522 Rock Engineering OUR HISTORY Our Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) educates CVEN9523 Pavement Engineering and Analysis students to the top level required nationally in eight CVEN9524 Geotechnical Engineering of Dams  PAGE 57 specialisations: CVEN9525 Fundamentals of Geomechanics CVEN9610 Surface Water Hydrology mm Civil Engineering CVEN9611 Urban Hydrology & Stormwater Management CVEN9612 Catchment and Water Resources Modelling mm Environmental Engineering CVEN9620 Channels, Rivers and Estuaries mm Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology CVEN9630 Groundwater Hydrology and Resources Analysis mm Groundwater Resources CVEN9631 Hydrogeochemistry mm Project Management CVEN9640 Waves, Beaches and Coastal Infrastructure mm Structural Engineering CVEN9701 Engineering Economics and Financial Management mm Water Resources (includes coastal engineering) CVEN9702 Project Planning & Control mm Water, Wastewater and Waste Engineering CVEN9703 Quality & Quality Systems CVEN9706 Human Resources Management CVEN9707 Contracts Management Courses in construction management and transport CVEN9710 Management of Risk engineering are also offered on campus and by distance. CVEN9712 Dispute Avoidance & Resolution CVEN9714 Resource Management In total forty-five postgraduate courses were offered by CVEN9717 Marketing in Technology and Engineering School staff in 2010 either as internal weekly courses, CVEN9718 Strategic Management for Engineering CVEN9720 Problem Solving & Decision Making in short course mode or in a distance education format, CVEN9723 Design of Construction Operations making the program large even by international standards. CVEN9726 Legal Studies and Professional Practice CVEN9730 International Project Management CVEN9731 Project Management Framework Leighton Holdings CVEN9802 Structural Stability In 2010 the School continued its delivery of a specialized CVEN9806 Prestressed Concrete Design Master of Engineering Science in Project Management CVEN9809 Reinforced Concrete Design specifically designed for Leighton Holdings. With over CVEN9820 Computational Structural Mechanics CVEN9822 Steel Structures 9500 operations and engineering staff working across CVEN9824 Advanced Materials Technology the Leighton group of companies, the MEngSc was CVEN9855 Water and Wastewater Analysis & Quality established after Leighton identified a need for targeted Requirements postgraduate education to develop the management skills CVEN9856 Water Treatment of its professional staff, and in particular the need for a CVEN9857 Wastewater Treatment corporately identified postgraduate degree programme in CVEN9872 Solid Waste Management project management. CVEN9881 Hazardous Waste Management CVEN9884 Environmental Engineering Science 1 CVEN9885 Environmental Engineering Science 2 The MEngSc provides Leighton Holdings staff with technical CVEN9888 Environmental Management (Materials Risk knowledge such as contracts, cost planning, design Assessment) management, safety, tendering and estimating as well as CVEN9892 Sustainability Assessment & Risk Analysis (in water developing their professional skills such as leadership and and energy systems planning) team building, negotiation skills and people management. CVEN9930 Masters Project

Not all courses are on offer each year. For further details please see the School Timetable at http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/ currentstudents/general/timetable/index.html

Undergraduate Studies

The School’s undergraduate programs offer students the broadest Undergraduate Student Enrolments in 2010 and most comprehensive civil and environmental engineering

education with the opportunity to specialise in their final year Admisssions Total Degree in 2010 Enrolments by majoring in a range of sub-disciplines. The curricula have proved a model for engineering educators and have been widely Bachelor of Engineering, BE (Civil) 3620 207 663 benchmarked by other academic institutions. Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering with Architecture 45 130 3624 Undergraduate BE student enrolments have more than doubled over Bachelor of Engineering, BE (Environmental Engineering) 3625 19 61 the past five years (617 in 2005 to 1307 in 2010). While the student Bachelor of Engineering/Arts, BE BA (Civil/Arts) 3621 6 28 to staff ratio is 39.01, the School has preserved a tutor to student ratio of less than 20 to preserve quality teaching outcomes. Bachelor of Engineering/Arts, BE BA (Environmental/Arts) 3626 3 7 Bachelor of Engineering BE BE (Civil & Environmental) 3631 22 74 Bachelor of Engineering BE BE (Civil & Mining) 3146 18 66 Bachelor of Engineering/Science, BE BSc (Civil/Science) 3730 15 49 Bachelor of Engineering/Science, 7 23 BE BSc (Environmental Engineering/Science) 3735 Bachelor of Engineering/Law, 4 11 BE LLB (Civil/Environmental Law) 4775/4776/4777 Bachelor of Engineering/Commerce, 45 195 BE BCom (Civil/Environmental Commerce) 3715 Total 391* 1307

*Does not include Flexible First Year entry students BE Program Outlines

Disclaimer: Information provided about subjects, units, courses and any Key: arrangements for courses including staffing, are an expression of intent UOC - Units of Credit only and are not to be taken as a firm offer or undertaking. HPW - Hours per Week

BE Civil Engineering

Year 1 | Semester 1 Year 3 | Semester 1 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Course Code Course Name UOC HPW MATH1131 Maths 1A or 6 6 CVEN3401 Sustainable Transport & Highway Engineering 6 5 MATH1141 Higher Maths 1A 6 6 CVEN3201 Applied Geotechnics and Engineering Geology 6 5 PHYS1121 Physics 1 or 6 6 CVEN3301 Structural Analysis & Modelling 6 5 PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A 6 6 CVEN3501 Water Resources Engineering 6 5 ENGG1000 Engineering Design and Innovation 6 4 ENGG1811 Computing for Engineers 6 5 Year 3 | Semester 2 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Year 1 | Semester 2 CVEN3302 Structural Behaviour & Design 6 5 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN3101 Engineering Operations & Control 6 5 MATH1231 Maths 1B or 6 6 CVEN3502 Water & Wastewater Engineering 6 5 MATH1241 Higher Maths 1B 6 6 CVEN3031 Civil Engineering Practice 6 4 GMAT1110 Engineering Surveying & GIS 6 3 CVEN1300 Engineering Mechanics 6 5 Year 4 | Semester 1 MATS1101 Engineering Materials and Chemistry 6 5 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN4030 Honours Thesis A or 6 4 Year 2 | Semester 1 CVEN4002 Design Practice A 6 4 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW General Education 6 4 CVEN2301 Mechanics of Solids 6 5 Professional Elective 1 6 4 CVEN2501 Principles of Water Engineering 6 5 Professional Elective 2 6 4 General Education 6 4 MATH2019 Maths 2E 6 6 Year 4 | Semester 2 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Year 2 | Semester 2 CVEN4031 Honours Thesis B or 6 4 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN4003 Design Practice B 6 4 CVEN2101 Engineering Construction 6 5 Professional Elective 3 6 4 CVEN2201 Soil Mechanics 6 5 Professional Elective 4 6 4 CVEN2302 Materials & Structures 6 5 Professional Elective 5 6 4 CVEN2002 Engineering Computations for Civil Engineers 6 5

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Year 1 | Semester 1 Year 3 | Semester 1 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Course Code Course Name UOC HPW MATH1131 Maths 1A or 6 6 CVEN2501 Principles of Water Engineering 6 5 MATH1141 Higher Maths 1A 6 6 CVEN3201 Applied Geotechnics and Engineering 6 5 PHYS1121 Physics 1 or 6 6 Geology PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A 6 6 CVEN3301 Structural Analysis & Modelling 6 5 ENGG1000 Engineering Design and Innovation 6 4 CVEN3501 Water Resources Engineering 6 5 BENV1080 Enabling Skills and Research Practice 6 3 Year 3 | Semester 2 Year 1 | Semester 2 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN3302 Structural Behaviour & Design 6 5 MATH1231 Maths 1B or 6 6 CVEN3101 Engineering Operations & Control 6 5 MATH1241 Higher Maths 1B 6 6 CVEN3502 Water & Wastewater Engineering 6 5 CVEN1300 Engineering Mechanics 6 5 ARCH1102 Architectural Design Studio 2 6 5 ARCH1142 Architectural Communications 6 4 Year 4 | Semester 1 MATS1101 Engineering Materials and Chemistry 6 6 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Year 2 | Semester 1 CVEN4030 Honours Thesis A or 6 4 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN4002 Design Practice A 6 4 MATH2019 Maths 2E 6 6 Professional Elective 1 6 4 CVEN2301 Mechanics of Solids 6 5 ARCH1221 Architectural History and Theory 2 6 3 ARCH1121 Architectural History and Theory 1 6 3 ARCH1201 Architectural Design Studio 3 6 6 ARCH1101 Architectural Design Studio 1 6 5 Year 4 | Semester 2 Year 2 | Semester 2 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN4031 Honours Thesis B or 6 4 CVEN2002 Engineering Computations for Civil Engineers 6 5 CVEN4003 Design Practice B 6 4 CVEN2101 Engineering Construction 6 5 General Education 6 4 CVEN2201 Soil Mechanics 6 5 Professional Elective 2 6 4 CVEN2302 Materials & Structures 6 5 Professional Elective 3 6 4

BE Environmental Engineering

Year 1 | Semester 1 Year 3 | Semester 1 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Course Code Course Name UOC HPW MATH1131 Maths 1A or 6 6 CVEN3701 Environmental Frameworks, Law & Economics 6 5 MATH1141 Higher Maths 1A 6 6 CVEN3201 Applied Geotechnics and Engineering Geology 6 5 CHEM1011 Fundamentals of Chemistry A or 6 6 CVEN3402 Transport Engineering & Environmental 6 5 CHEM1031 Higher Chemistry C 6 6 Sustainability ENGG1000 Engineering Design and Innovation 6 4 CVEN3501 Water Resources Engineering 6 5 PHYS1121 Physics 1 or 6 6 Year 3 | Semester 2 PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A 6 6 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN3702 Solid Wastes & Contaminant Transport 6 5 Year 1 | Semester 2 CVEN3101 Engineering Operations & Control 6 5 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN3502 Water & Wastewater Engineering 6 5 MATH1231 Maths 1B or 6 6 CVEN3731 Environmental Engineering Practice 6 4 MATH1241 Higher Maths 1B 6 6 CVEN1701 Environmental Principles and Systems 6 5 Year 4 | Semester 1 CVEN1300 Engineering Mechanics 6 5 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW ENGG1811 Computing for Engineers 6 5 CVEN4030 Honours Thesis A or 6 4 CVEN4002 Design Practice A 6 4 Year 2 | Semester 1 CVEN4701 Planning Sustainable Infrastructure 6 5 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW Professional Elective 1 6 4 BIOS1301 Biology for Environmental Engineers 6 5 Professional Elective 2 6 4 CVEN2501 Principles of Water Engineering 6 5 CVEN2701 Water & Atmospheric Chemistry 6 5 Year 4 | Semester 2 General Education 6 4 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW CVEN4003 Design Practice B or 6 4 Year 2 | Semester 2 CVEN4031 Honours Thesis B 6 4 Course Code Course Name UOC HPW General Education 6 4 CEIC2009 Mass & Energy Balances in the Chemical Process 6 5 Professional Elective 3 6 4 Industry Professional Elective 4 6 4 CVEN2201 Soil Mechanics 6 5 GMAT1110 Engineering Surveying & GIS 6 3 CVEN2702 Engineering Computations for Environmental 6 5 Engineers Undergraduate Student Awards and Prizes

Dean’s Awards 2010 Scholarships

The Faculty of Engineering Dean’s Awards recognise students’ outstanding The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering enjoys an extensive academic achievement. Students ranked in the top 2 per cent in their undergraduate prize lists, mainly donated by industry partners and year receive the honour. The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Professor a scholarship list, that provides, also largely from private companies, Graham Davies presented the 2010 awards at the National Institute of over $530,000 pa for students. The School gratefully acknowledges the Dramatic Art (NIDA). generosity of industry and private donors of prizes and scholarships.

SCHOOL AWARD WINNERS: Dillon Anderiesz, Daniel Atalla, Alex Blanchard, Private Scholarship Providers Benjamin Blumberg, Mathew Chong, Andrew Davis, Thomas Hosking, Graham Campbell Family, Bernard W Gould Family, Stan Hall Family Bijoy Joseph, Shuang Guo, Nathaniel Ko , Matthew Le, Trung Le, Siu Lee, Kelvin Nguyen, Sahani Pathiraja, Yubo Peng, Edward Robson, Alexander Rogan, Albert Saputra, Rohan Stocker, Adnan Sufi an, Lizhe Sun, Sam Major Industry Scholarship providers Tagliabue, Xian Tan, Chengwei Yang, Sheng Yu. Bilfi nger Berger, Brookfi eld Multiplex, Evans & Peck, GHD, Hatch, Leighton Contractors, Leighton Holdings, MWH, Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), RTA, Sydney Water, Wellington, Blayney and Cabonne Councils

ITEANZ Student Award for 2010

Fourth year student Kasun Wijayaratna received the prestigious award for his fi nal year thesis project report entitled ‘Reliability of the South-West Sydney Transport Corridor’. The award from ITEANZ (Institution of Transportation Engineers Australia and New Zealand) was open to students throughout Australia and New Zealand and was accompanied by a $1,000 prize sponsored by GHD. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering double degree (BE/LLB) student Louise Gates won the Sydney Water Gold Kasun evaluated the performance of motorway users as well Medal in 2010. She impressed the judges with a research as train passengers, with a number of interesting fi ndings and project based on her honours thesis investigating how waves policy directions. His work demonstrated a range of skills related will affect our coastline as a result of climate change. Louise to traffi c data collection, data analysis and transport performance also won the Student Research Award at the NSW Coastal evaluation methods. His supervisor was Dr Upali Vandebona. Conference in Batemans Bay in 2010 for her research Kasun also won the Schools Year 4 Prize in Transport contribution in the fi eld of coastal management. engineering sponsored by School Industry Supporter AECOM.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 60 THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT 2010 University Medallist in University Medallist in University Medallist in Civil Engineering Civil Engineering Civil Engineering with Architecture Michael Salcher Paul Harvey Alice Tjitradjaja Why UNSW? Why UNSW? Why UNSW? Civil Civil THE BIG PICTURE engineering is engineering OUR PEOPLE a mixture of had interested I was OUR RESEARCH  TEACHING AND mathematics, me for a attracted to UNSW’s great LEARNING physics, dirt while. I was INDUSTRY AND and dust. originally reputation in COMMUNITY engineering, OUR RESEARCH CENTRES attracted to OUR HISTORY This the technical but had a hard combination aspects and time choosing  PAGE 61 makes my job this developed between Civil varied and into an Engineering interesting. appreciation of and However I the potential Architecture believe that in the end I chose civil for problem solving and creativity while for a long time. The new degree Civil engineering because I wanted to working on challenging, large-scale Engineering with Architecture came at create big and long lasting structures. projects. The University of New South the right time, so without hesitation UNSW was my first choice because of Wales came with a good reputation so I I transferred from a pure Civil its reputation as the best university for decided to study here. Engineering degree. engineering courses. Most enjoyable: Most enjoyable: Most enjoyable: I particularly enjoyed courses from the I enjoyed the teaching and the large I appreciated the time that lecturers structural engineering discipline. I liked variety of subjects. The civil subjects took to explain concepts to students. the chance to consider the advantages are very relatable and true to life - it It was usually possible to see lecturers and limitations of the concepts I was made me appreciate the everyday during consultation time and discuss learning about and the opportunity conveniences we take for granted. difficult topics with them. to put the ideas into practice in a While allowing us to be practical and variety of useful ways. That was very analytical in doing the engineering calculations, we could release our Most challenging aspect: satisfying. creative energy with the architecture subjects. It was great fun. I found the first semester in first Most challenging aspect: year rather difficult. Later on either Most challenging aspect: the courses became easier or I got I found it most difficult to establish and adjusted to university life. At the continually develop my engineering beginning I struggled finding enough judgement. I have learnt that this is Time management, especially when hours in the day to complete all one of the most important abilities an juggling engineering assignments with assignments and tutorial problems, engineer possesses, and also one of architecture ones, which were often read through lecture notes and prepare the most difficult to master. Despite very time-consuming. Prioritising is for exams. the challenges I faced, I am hopeful everything. that my judgement will improve with Future hopes: experience and constant re-evaluation. Future hopes:

My plan for the next few years is to Future hopes: I’m just starting out in the industry, become a good geotechnical engineer it’s exciting, fast-paced, dynamic. I’m and to work on a variety of big, I hope to widen and improve my range hoping to gain valuable experiences challenging and interesting projects. of engineering skills, work on some and learn what it takes to be a real, challenging and enjoyable projects, and capable engineer. I’m also keeping my eyes open for further education in Michael is now working for School expand the opportunities available to engineering or maybe architecture in Industry Partner PSM. me in the future. the future. Paul is now working for School Industry Partner TTW. Alice is now working for School Industry Partner ARUP. Year 4 Honours Theses Topics-

FIRST NAME FAMILY NAME THESIS TOPIC SUPERVISOR Faisal Ahmed Stability of Revetment Protection Under Wave Attack Peirson, W. Ali Amin Structural Response of High Performance Fibre Reinforced Geopolymer Beams Foster, S. Michelle Anderson Critical Success Factors in Engineering and Construction Projects: A Company’s Perspective Han, Sangwon Stacey Atkinson Climate Change Adaptation for the Solomon Islands Cox, R Anthony Barkway Climate Change Adaptation - Beach Erosion Response to Sea Level Rise Cox, R. Anil Basnet Nonlinear finite element analysis of steel-concrete composite beams including partial interactions of Heidarpour, A & explosion loading Bradford, M Adrian Brunetti Settlement of Footings and Sand Taiebat, H. David Busuttil The Role of Adhesion in Enhanced Evaporation Peirson, W. Michael Canagasabey Numerical Investigation of Transcritical Flows Cathers, B. Alex Chandra Interval Dynamic Analysis of Structures under Uncertainties Gao, W. Christina Chiu PPPs Applied to Carbon Projects Carmichael, D. Nguyen Anh Tuan Dang Numerical Modelling of Rock Douglas, K. Saina Sadat Emami Analysis of Pavements Under Dynamic Loading Oeser, M. Emily Findlay A Risk Analysis of Clean Development Mechanisms Carmichael, D. Yang Fan Gao Investigation of Bridge Response Under Moving Vehicle Using Probabilistic Analysis Gao, W. Christopher John Guild Structures - Guidance from Nature Vrcelj, Z. Tian Han Interval Dynamic Analysis of Vehicle - Bridge Interaction System Gao, W. Steven Hare State Water Corporation Tenders – Analysis of Price Competitiveness Carmichael, D. Paul Harvey Numerical Modelling of Stress Concentrations in Structures Song, C. Guangliang He Solving the Single Mode Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with an Efficient Genetic Davis, S. Algorithm Ariel Hersh Real Options Analysis of Project Feasibility Carmichael, D. Matthew Ho Finite element modelling of steel and steel-construction composite beam-to-column connections subjected Heidarpour, A to cycle loading Paul Hovagimian Fatigue and Stability Characteristics of Open-Porous Cemented Base Material Oeser, M. Kavan Illangakoon Analysis of Public Transport Modes Vandebona, U. Paul Ingster Fill the Dams? Peirson, W. Randy Japardy Cost of sustainability in infrastructure project Al-Kilidar, H. Warren Jones Field measurement of rip currents using GPS drifters Turner, I. Ben Jones Comparison of drogue versus swimmer circulation in rip currents Turner, I. Lydia Kadarusman Mitigation of Environmental Impacts of Uranium Solution Mining Waite, D. Benny Kang Behaviour of Fibre Reinforced Soil Russell, A. Pece Karadzovski Bus Priority Analysis – Reliability of Transitway Buses at Transport Interchanges Vandebona, U. Ananta Karki Noise Impacts of Local Area Traffic Management Schemes and Devices Samuels, S. Mandakini Karki Efficient Design of Anchors in Embankments Taiebat, H. Edward Kearney Hydraulic Properties of Clay Aquitards Using Geotechical and Geophysical Methods - Hydraulic Conductivity Timms, W. Related to Porewater Chemistry Bo Li The Combined Use of Silica Fume with a Silane Water Repellent for the Treatment of Corroding & Cracked Vrcelj, Z. Concrete in a High – Chloride Environment Huan Li The Prediction of Deformation in Cracked Reinforced Concrete Members Gilbert, I. Stephen Ying Lung Li Fibre Reinforced Clay Taiebat, H. Junjiang Liu Behaviour of steel and steel-concrete composite beams curved in plain subjected to cycling loading Heidarpour, A & Bradford, M Duncan Chyi Yin Liw Effect of Road Surface on Traffic Noises Samuels, S. Pin Hong Loo Evaluation of Commercial Finite Element Packages on Dynamic Analysis of Foundations Song, C. Dean Lord Traffic Noise Barriers Samuels, S. Kathryn Ludowici Management and Climatic Influences on Groundwater Levels in the Lower Namoi Acworth, I./Bryce Kelly Levina Mahandja Financial planning on road pavement Cai, Chen Daniel Marks Incorporation of Managerial Actions into Construction Simulation Han, S. Linn Htet Maung Mix-mode Fracture of Fibre Reinforced Concrete Foster, S. Malinda McDonell Characterisation of Aquitards - Consolidation Timms, W. Dane McIveen Service behaviour of concrete slabs with deep trapezoidal steel decking Gilbert, I. Elizabeth Mendoza Design related construction defects Davis, S Tania Milinkovich Sustainable Solutions in Design of High Rise Building Vrcelj, Z. John Mirecki Concrete Mix Design Guidelines for Sydney Gowripalan, N. Amir Musthafa Removal of ACCAL Toxins in Drinking Water Treatment Processes Khan, S.

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FIRST NAME FAMILY NAME THESIS TOPIC SUPERVISOR Katherine Neilson Recharge sources and water chemistry in the upper Maules creek catchment Anderson, M Robin Keith Netterfield Desiccation cracking in unsaturated soils Khalili, Nasser Kon Yuan Ng Mimicking Forms in Nature – Beaver Dam Vrcelj, Z. Yu Ho Henry Ng Transport Road Traffic Noise Samuels, S. Tan Nguyen A critical examination of fixing the global financial crisis with vernmentgo handouts Davis, S. Elliot Nuberg Carbon Emissions and the Concrete Industry’s future Gilbert, I. Ronnie Nunez Relating Fluorescence and size fraction for water analysis Henderson, R Jaxon O'Shea Time-dependent deformation of steel-concrete composite beams Gilbert, I. Praneeth Parasu Use of Black-Scholes and Probabilistic Methods to Determine the Value of Options within the Context of Carmichael, D. Climate Change Sahani Darshika Pathraja Testing Validity of AEP Neutrality in Design Flood Estimation Sharma, A. Si Si Peng Effect at Project Winning on Company Share Prices Carmichael, D. Elias Poulos Hydraulic testing of jointed rocks or concrete in unlined spillways Peirson, W. Priom Rahman Downscaling GCMs for Small Urban Catchments for Assessment at Design Floods & Climate Change Sharma, A. Scenarios Raiyanur Rashid Rainfall runoff modeling from space McCabe, M. Zac Richards Study and observe rainfall gradient Sharma, A. Michael Salcher Modelling Horizontally Loaded Foundations on Sand Douglas, K. Ronald Sathio Effects of scheduling pressure on worker productivity Han, S. Shalinda Shafie Laboratory –scale Biodegradation of Chiral Pharmaceuticals Khan, S. Justin Sharkey Using industrial LiDAR technology to monitor coastal structures and swash zone morphological change Blenkinsopp, C.E. Shweta Shrestha Water Allocation for Optimum Efficiency Cordery, I. Jared Simmons Systems Reliability Analysis and Progressive Failure Enumeration for Reliability Based Design Optimisation Tin-Loi, F./Gao, W. Johnny Su Stakeholders management and project success Al-Kilidar, H Michael Sugiyanto Persistence in GCM Simulations Sharma, A. Di Sun Analysis on the Cost Risks of Road Rehabilitation Projects Han, Sangwon Zhi Cheng Sun Fracture analysis using the scaled boundary finite-element method (Extended Honours CVEN4032 - Song, C. progress seminar) Felix Taaffe Impacts of 2D model grid and parameter settings on kerb flow representation in a direct rainfall 1d/2d Sharma, A. modelling system. Rebecca Temperley Road Traffic Noise Samuels, S. Mei Ling Teoh Open Porous Pavements - Advanced Characterisation and Analysis Oeser, M. Alice Tjitradjaja A study of protein silk and its application to structural engineering Vrcelj, Z. Dane Tucker Analysis of a Road Cutting Russell, A. James Turner Transport over the Hawkesbury Bridge Vandebona, U. Eroni Verevukivuki Environmentally relevant algal cultures: The case of microcystis Henderson, R & Short, M Minh Vu Investigation into the Structural Design of a Historical Structure Attard, M. Jonathan Walujono Flexural Behaviour of Prestressed Reactive Powder Concrete Beams and Slabs Gilbert, I. Ewam Watson Numerical Modelling of a Brine Outfall Cathers, B. Jessica Wheatley Groundwater Study at University Farm in Wellington, NSW Acworth, I. Roland Wheeler Analysis and Implementation of the CORMIX Mixing Zone Model on Ocean Outfalls Cathers, B. Samuel Widjaja Fracture Behaviours of Fibre-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete Foster, S. Kasun Wijayaratna Travel Time Variability on M5 Corridor Vandebona, U. Ryan Wilkie Are the areas of Safety and Quality sacrificed in Alliance based projects when compared to more Oeser, M. traditional Design and Construct projects? Evan Williams Carbon on Construction Projects Carmichael, D. Oscar Wittig Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Trading & The Construction Industry Douglas, K. Jacky King Wong Road Traffic Noise Management Samuels, S. Dickson Wong Continuous prestressed concrete beams Gilbert, I. Andrea Wonomihardjo Structural Response of Lightweight Geopolymer Concrete Beams Foster, S. Di Wu Probabilistic and Internal Analysis of Structures with Uncertainty Gao, W. Tian-Lan Wu Climate Change Impacts on Tropical North Australia McCabe, M. Mark Xerri Design of a High Speed Railway Station Vandebona, U. Guo Wei Xing Iron and Copper Transformations in Natural Aquatic Systems Waite, D. Jiang Wen Xiong Crack Control in Reinforced Concrete Gilbert, I. Zi Qian Yang Optimization of Concrete Hanbar Armor Unit for Breakwater Design Cox, R. Ee Wei Yuen Dynamic Analysis of Truss Structures with Random Parameters Gao, W. Liang Cheng Zeng Numerical Modelling of Stress Concentration in Structures Song, C. Jue April Zhao Dynamic Analysis of Gravity Dams Under Earthquake Actions Song, C. Kai Sheng Zhu Guidance From Nature – Termite Nests Vrcelj, Z. Student Prize Winners

The University Medal in Civil Engineering Paul Harvey & Michael The Civil and Environmental Engineering GHD Roland Wheeler Salcher Water Discipline Prize The University Medal in Civil Engineering with Alice Tjitradjaja The Civil and Environmental Engineering CWI Malinda McDonell Architecture Groundwater Discipline Prize The Civil and Environmental Engineering Brookfield Steven Hare The Civil Engineering PB Industrial Training Prize Elliot Nuberg Multiplex Construction Management Discipline Prize The Environmental Engineering SMEC Industrial Katherine Neilson The Civil and Environmental Engineering SKM Sahani Pathiraja Training Prize Environmental Discipline Prize The Cardno Civil Engineering Practice Prize Paul Harvey The Civil and Environmental Engineering PSM Michael Salcher Geotechnical Discipline Prize The Cardno Environmental Engineering Practice Prize Christina Chiu The Civil Engineering with Architecture ARUP Prize Tania Milinkovich The Jeffery and Katauskas Prize William Mackebee The Civil and Environmental Engineering Aurecon Ali Amin The Welding Technology Institute of Australia Prize Sam Tagliabue Structures Discipline Prize The Jacob N Frenkel Prize Matthew Chong The Civil and Environmental Engineering AECOM Kasun Wijayaratna Australian Steel Institute Undergraduate Steel Design Dillon Anderiesz Transport Discipline Prize Award

At the end of a year of hard work, 175 School staff, industry The dinner was an opportunity for the School community to friends and fourth year students celebrated the annual 4th year celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our final year dinner at the Sheraton on the Park, Sydney. students. Twelve prizes worth $1000 each, kindly sponsored by leading engineering companies, were awarded on the night to high achieving students. Many thanks to the sponsors of the night, and congratulations to the prize winners listed above.

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THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH  TEACHING AND LEARNING INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY

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Congratulations and farewell Year 4 2010 The Civil and Environmental Engineering Society CEVSOC

2010 was a mammoth year for all involved in CEVSOC. We hosted Social report from CEVSOC for 2010 our biggest events to date, attracted lots of industry support, watched over student rights and acquired some nice equipment, The entire committee worked tirelessly throughout 2010 to provide rooms and sponsorship. students with various social events and networking opportunities with both their fellow peers and industry. 2010 also marked a new The office bearers of CEVSOC for 2010 were: era in interaction of CEVSOC with the school, with members of the committee regularly meeting with school management to discuss concerns and to seek support for events. At many of the events, President Elliot Nuberg the doors were opened to staff, which allowed students to interact Vice President Martin Breuer with their educators over a casual chat (or often a beer). Treasurer Nina Hames Secretary Annika Tweddell Arc delegate Rebecca Temperley Achievements of 2010 OH&S coordinator Ahmet Kale (Sem. 1) & Immanuel Gacis (Sem. 2) CEVSOC affiliated with ARC in 2010. We also produced jerseys Sports representative Patrick Shephard and tees, and worked hard to get students a study room, shared Advertising representative Daniel Morris & Tania Milinkovich kitchenette, CEVSOC office, noticeboard, trophy cabinet and plenty Web authority Wendy Zheng of school sponsorship.

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THE BIG PICTURE BBQs and pizza nights OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH To help celebrate the start, mid  TEACHING AND LEARNING and end of every semester (plus a INDUSTRY AND few in between), we served several COMMUNITY thousand beers, soft drinks and OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY snags at our pizza nights and BBQs around campus. 2010 also marked  PAGE 67 the return of the classic CEVSOC pizza nights in the design studio of Civil Engineering. Over 20 companies attended our events, and it was great to see students take full advantage of these networking opportunities.

Cardno Cup

The inaugural Cardno sponsored staff versus students football match was held in April 2010. With the Sam Cracknell Pavillion full of cheering engineers. The Faculty of Engineering Sports Day students managed to squeeze out a win in what was a hotly contested battle. The third inter-school sports day was held in early August. Teams from almost all schools fiercely competed. Who knows why though, when CEVSOC continued to dominate Harbour Cruise for the third year running.

Towards the conclusion of Semester 1, we donned the outfits of our favourite characters, to pack a boat full of 250 Fourth year dinner bustling partygoers, in what was our largest harbour cruise ever. On November 19, the graduating class of 2010 celebrated their time together at university, dancing the night away at the prestigious Sheraton on the Park.

A mixture of students, staff and sponsors composed the 200 guests, who came together to celebrate four years hard work, farewell each other and wish their classmates the very best for the next chapters in their lives.

The future

A new committee was elected at the Oktoberfest BBQ & AGM. The new committee are a combination of 3rd, 4th and 5th year students who are keen to continue current CEVSOC traditions, whilst creating new exciting initiatives to improve student life at the University of New South Wales. Elliot Nuberg CEVSOC President 2010 School Teaching And Learning Facilities

Computing Report 2010 A summary of the School’s computing facilities in 2010 is: mm 2 WinXP laboratories (Lab 201 and Lab 611) with 80 SOE UNSW’s IT Change Program affected several of our School’s computers for undergraduate and postgraduate coursework operations: students. mm The migration of computers in our two undergraduate labs to mm Networked administrative and technical staff SOE PCs. Standard Operating Environment (SOE) has been completed mm Networked SOE and non-SOE PCs for PhD students. successfully. mm Networked laser printers, scanners and other peripherals. mm Computers of administrative staff have been migrated to SOE. The general opening hours for the undergraduate and coursework mm Computers of technical staff have been migrated to SOE. postgraduate laboratories are 8 am to 10 pm (weekdays), and 10am to 6pm (Saturdays) during Semester. Four student assistants were mm Computers are provided to every full-time PhD students. Most of employed to man the laboratories after hours (6pm to 10pm) during the computers are on SOE. weekdays and during Saturdays, and also for audiovisual support.

mm New Lexmark T656 printers in the two computer labs were installed and put into centrally managed printing services. New eLearning Report 2010 Lexmark T656 printers were also installed for staff and research student printing. In 2010 a new online learning system Blackboard 9 (BB9) completely replaced My eLearning VISTA . BB9 contains a variety of mm Migration to UNSW File Service has been completed. This teaching tools catering to the needs of a digital classroom, and can centralised file storage service enables the access of files off- be used as a tool for storing essential course material, a multimedia campus. resource library and an online venue for discussions.

mm The network gate to our building has be upgraded 10 Gigabit. In 2010, we had over 100 BB9 Modules with large numbers of academic, visiting, casual teaching staff, and students participating mm Our Windows based servers have been moved to IT@UNSW. in online learning and teaching. Our Linux servers namely; Web and Civil Mail servers remain with the School. They are scheduled to be decommissioned in The management of My eLearning process is carried out within 2011. the School, with some support from IT Service Desk and UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit. BB9 modules are automatically created mm Public pages of our school web site are being moved to a faculty by default along with NSS course catalogue creation by the School’s CMS (Content Management System) server. Restricted pages, administrative officer, Flora Fan. The School’s Web/IT coordinator, applications and database driven pages remain with the School’s Kate Brown, administrates and applies appropriate templates to Web server based on TYPO3 4.0 CMS. We are moving our Web each Module, facilitates staff/teaching assistants enrolment and server to a new Linux Virtual Server hosted by IT@UNSW and coordinates training. upgrade to TYPO3 4.4.4. A few online courses are run on Moodle which is hosted by the mm Our staff email distribution lists has been migrated to the Faculty of Engineering. Moodle is a Course Management System Majordomo system hosted by IT@UNSW. We will migrate (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or course email lists in Semester 1, 2011. a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle offers more complex quiz facilities for those who use As a part of UNSW’s shared services model, one of our IT staff, extensive online assessment. Moodle is supported by the Faculty of Robert Hegedus, moved to IT@UNSW. Engineering‘s Educational Technologist, John Paul Posada. In 2010, there was also a coordinated Faculty-wide approach to Interactive whiteboard, lecture recording and video conferencing computing infrastructure, services and support. All School web sites facilities have been installed in Room 701 and Room 501 of the will be hosted by the Faculty. A PC clusters (1488 compute cores, Civil and Environmental Engineering building. Staff produced their 3TB memory and 54TB shared disk storage) has been installed to lecture videos and uploaded them via UNSW TV to enhance their support computationally intensive research. distance teaching. The School’s Computer System Officer, Patrick Vuong assists academic staff with any technical issues that may occur during recording.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 68  industry & community Industry Advisory Committee

For many years, Heads of School have sought the advice of the civil The Bus Tours were organised with the NSW Department of and environmental engineering industry on the School’s Strategic Education and Training and High School Careers Advisers. Plan, on Course content, on enrolment numbers, on the number and During the July 2010 vacation week, 30 Year 10 students visited quality of graduates, on Engineers Australia accreditation and on sewerage treatment works, highway tunnels, new road works, city changes to academic staffing and School infrastructure. This advice building sites and port and coastal infrastructure. Daily reporting has traditionally come from a group of leading engineers chosen (by requirements ensured that the program met education training the Head of School) from local firms and authorities representative obligations and students received a certificate of Attendance of civil engineering design, construction, operations, research and from the School. Places on the program were keenly sought and management. complements were received from both students and career advisers. The School has undertaken to run the program again in 2011. The present IAC consists of 15 members, a number of whom are school alumni. The group is also representative of the School’s Awarding prizes for Primary School Maths is an IAC initiative now current corporate sponsors and includes two from the list of funded by the School. The awards were presented by School staff “Australia’s 100 Most Influential Engineers”. and IAC members to 16 local Primary Schools in November 2010. The winners were selected by the staff from the Primary School as The IAC meets quarterly and enjoys enthusiastic and regular an encouragement toward further maths study and possibly even attendances. At most meetings the Committee reviews: toward an engineering career. It is hoped to expand the number of participating schools next year and to include other alumni amongst (1) Progress on School infrastructure projects. the presenters.

(2) New staff appointments. Both these initiatives arose from an earlier IAC examination of engineering student numbers and their academic quality and ways (3) Activities of the School’s External Relations group. of improving both. Over the past five years the Australian economy has wrought a minor miracle with both student numbers and their (4) Progress on specific briefs (such as Environmental Engineering ATAR improving markedly. The Bus Tours and Maths Prizes are both numbers) from both the IAC and the Head of School. longer term projects whose results may not become visible for three to six years. (5) IAC member’s reports on School functions such as Final Year Thesis presentations, PhD poster presentations and the In 2011, the IAC will renew its association with High School Careers launching of the School History. Advisers through the Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner. IAC members have also been active in developing joint research projects between School researchers and industry as well as in Overseas appointments and resignation of long serving members the funding and the establishment of the new Research Centre for may allow the introduction of a system of rotating membership as Integrated Transport Innovation. well as providing opportunities for other corporate sponsors to be more closely involved with the School and activities. This topic has During 2010, the IAC and the School have undertaken two been discussed and agreed by the IAC in both 2009 and 2010. important initiatives. They are: Donald Macleod mm Bus tours of Sydney region engineering works for Year 10 High Outgoing Chair School students to introduce civil engineering as a possible career choice. mm Maths Prizes for Primary School students.

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 70 Associate Professor Garry Mostyn THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL IAC Committee Members 2010 AND ENVIRONMENTAL Principal ENGINEERING ANNUAL Pells Sullivan Meynink REPORT 2010 Donald Macleod (Chair) Maunsell (retired)

Col Nicholson General Manager, Operations Division Sydney Water Deirdre Agnew Student Careers Advisor

St Aloysius Kirribilli THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH Ken Porter TEACHING AND LEARNING Principal Road Pavement and Geotechnical  INDUSTRY AND engineer, RTA COMMUNITY Stephen Boss OUR RESEARCH CENTRES Regional Director NSW & QLD OUR HISTORY

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Andrew Tompson Property Consultant TSA Management Adrian Bull Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure Division NSW Transport & Infrastructure Dave Wilson Executive General Manager Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd Dr Robert Care CEO Arup Australasia Chair RedR Deputy Chair, Australian Construction Industry Forum Staff profiles IAC

Professor T David Waite Scientia Professor and Head of School Dr Kourosh Kayvani Innovation Leader - Asia Pacific Aurecon Associate Professor Ron Cox Co-Chair, External Relations Committee Convenor, ACCARNSI Sir John Holland Civil Engineer of the Year David Kinniburgh 2008 Sydney Operating Centre Manager GHD Dr Kurt Douglas Co-Chair, External Relations Committee Pells Sullivan Meynink Senior Lecturer of Rock Mechanics Ian McIntyre Principal Evans and Peck Dr Mary O’Connell Manager - External Relations & School Historian Welcome Ian McIntyre Thank you Donald Macleod

The new Chair of the School’s Industry Advisory Committee is Ian After six years as Chair of the Industry Advisory Committee, Donald McIntyre - a Principal of Evans & Peck and the Group’s Contract Macleod stepped down from the role at the end of 2010. In a Services Leader. He graduated in Civil Engineering from UNSW in consulting career at Maunsell Australia (now AECOM) spanning 1974 with First Class Honours. As a consultant for the past 24 years, 28 years, Donald worked on environmental management, water Ian has advised in relation to project delivery processes on a wide developments, environmental impact assessments, freeway, port and range of infrastructure, systems integration and building projects rail projects in all Australian states and in 13 overseas countries. He throughout Australia and Asia, especially Indonesia, Malaysia and managed Maunsell offi ces in four states and was Chairman of both Singapore. Assignments include power stations, transmission lines, the Australian operating and the shareholding boards. mineral processing plants, dams, roads, airports, ports, tunnels, factory developments, CBD offi ce buildings, public entertainment During his time as Chair of the IAC Donald not only effectively and convention facilities, hospitals, schools and ICT system led the Committee at its quarterly meetings but also generously integration projects. involved himself in many activities to support and promote the School - including taking part in the planning seminars leading His experience prior to joining Evans & Peck in 1987 was in project to the fi rst School Strategic Plan; organising, participating management and engineering in construction contracting. This and reporting on the 2006 & 2007 engineering skills shortage involved major civil engineering and multi disciplinary projects seminars - held in conjunction with industry, government and other throughout Australia and in Hong Kong. universities; reviewing student numbers and experiences in the BE (environmental); and in urging closer relationships with the world Ian is frequently retained in “trouble shooting”, independent outside of the School. Under his aegis, the School developed closer review, expert witness and due diligence roles and has considerable relationships with school careers advisors, primary schools (Maths experience in analysis of the reasons for project delivery problems. Prize), secondary schools (Year 10 Bus Tours) and its own alumni. As a result, he is particularly interested in promoting awareness of the factors which are typically associated with successful project He was a major support and a source of wise counsel to the Head of delivery strategies leading to successful project outcomes. School and the External Relations Committee, and his contribution and leadership will be greatly missed. He is graded as an Arbitrator and is an experienced expert witness in relation to project performance issues. Ian has been involved with the School for a number of years as a generous, supportive industry advisor, and we look forward to continuing to benefi t from his considerable expertise and experience.

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THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH TEACHING AND LEARNING Prize in Mathematics CIES – engaging industry through  INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY As part of the IAC brief to assist the School in raising the an ongoing series of informative OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY profi le of the profession amongst school students, a UNSW and industry relevant seminars Civil and Environmental Engineering Prize in Mathematics  PAGE 73 was offered to a trial number of Sydney primary schools The Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety is in 2010. The objective of this prize - to the value of $100 focused on high-level research in structural engineering, - was to encourage a lifelong interest in mathematics, as geotechnical engineering, engineering materials and one of the key requirements for a rewarding and fulfi lling computational mechanics. Specifi cally, we apply our skills engineering career. Therefore we advised participating to engineering and safety assessments and with the risk schools that the selection criteria should emphasize management of buildings, bridges, dams, roads and other applications and creativity as well as class projects and test infrastructure when subjected to both in-service conditions results. and overload (or limit) conditions, such as may occur in fi re, earthquake, cyclone or blast situations, or when structures Sixteen Sydney schools participated in the trial, and prizes are exposed to hostile environments. were given to 45 young students, of whom one third were girls, giving hope for an improvement in our gender balance Key to our ongoing success will be the task of building a in the future. Members of our Industry Advisory Committee, stronger profi le for CIES by engaging with, and further School staff and some illustrious alumni presented the developing links with Industry. As part of this engagement awards at School end of year ceremonies, further raising with industry, CIES actively promotes its activities, including the profi le of the profession, and the University, to hundreds industry focussed evenings and its series of free School of young people and their families. Seminars presented by visiting a-cademics as well as CIES researchers. Year 10 Bus Tour Above Left: Alumnus Melissa Mole (BE ‘10) pictured here In 2010 a Year 10 bus tour was a successful joint School with her primary school teacher Tracey Hutcheson, Industry Advisory Committee and External Relations returned to her old school at Mt Colah to present the Committee venture. With assistance from the Vocational School’s maths prize. Training Division of NSW Department of Education and Above Right: CIES Seminar Presentation on: “Fracture of Training – all NSW High Schools were invited to participate Concrete and Fibre Reinforced Concrete - fundamental in the special tour of selected engineering sites, to be held issues and practical implications”. on 21 – 25 June. L to R: Dr Adrian Russell (CIES), Nitin Malgaonkar (Project Engineer RTA), Professor Jan van Mier (Guest presenter Applications were dealt with by the School, and 30 Year - ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Swiss Federal Institute of 10 students were selected from many more applications. Technology, Zürich), Prof Stephen Foster (Director, CIES). Students were picked up at from Central Station Bus stop Dec 2010. at 9am and returned at 5pm each day. Daily themes were: Water, wastewater and environment: Road, transport and underground: Structures and design: Coastal and port infrastructure: Construction and project management.

Students returned to UNSW each afternoon to produce a 1 page report. Follow up surveys revealed a very positive impact. School careers advisors noted that the ‘overwhelming student response was positive’, that the program was well structured and organised, ‘fun, informative and challenging.’ The IAC felt that the results were very positive and that the process had defi nitely raised the profi le of the profession and of UNSW amongst high school students. Industry Partners & Supporters

The School has strong active links with industry and is very the inside cover of the School History published in December 2010. committed to continuing and developing these strong ties. There is a continual distribution of information about employment opportunities with IP companies on School notice boards. For Our Industry Partnership Program (IPP) allows for the opportunity Industry Partners only, we also directly email career information to to further develop the productive relationship between the School, all relevant undergraduate and postgraduate students. its staff, students and industry. Money raised through the IPP is administered by the School’s External Relations Committee and is Raising their profile with the staff and students of the School is just used for the purpose of raising the profile of the School and the one beneficial aspect of industry partnership. Industry Partners engineering profession in various ways - as well as developing ways and Supporters are also invited to School research seminars, for our current students to interact with industry partners. The honours thesis seminars and postgraduate research poster forums. School is very active in working with the Faculty of Engineering, This provides industry with the opportunity to get current with the Engineers Australia and our own Industry Advisory Committee frontier of engineering knowledge. In recent years some industry in promoting the profession to high school and primary school partners have actively invested in extending the reaches and uses of students. As well as continuing our extensive outreach to high engineering and scientific knowledge and research. Several School schools and high school careers advisers, in 2010 we also worked academic positions are currently funded through the generosity of with primary schools in developing early knowledge and interest in industry including: engineering. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Our own students are bright, enthusiastic, ambitious and committed. (ANSTO) - a public research organisation - provides funding It is important that they can see a direct path through our education support for Dr Richard Collins –a Senior Research Fellow at the programs into the exciting and challenging world of civil and School’s Water Research centre whose work on trace element environmental engineering. The annual Industry Partners Careers (metal, metalloid and actinide) environmental chemistry – aims for Market is therefore an important School activity, where industry aquatic and soil remediation. representatives meet with Year 3 and Year 4 students. This event has proved of major value to industry in identifying students for Garry Johnston provides funding support for the Gary Johnston industrial training placements or graduate employment. Professor of Water Management, a joint Chair between the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Biology, Industry partners and supporters are also invited to the annual Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) in the Faculty of Science, Year 4 dinner where many companies provide prizes for outstanding which is held by groundwater expert Professor Ian Acworth. fourth year students. Other industry supporters provide scholarships for students. Industry Partners are also invited to the School to give Pells Sullivan Meynink Pty Ltd, a high profile firm of specialist technical lectures within various classes and to provide talks and geotechnical consultants, provide funding support for the position of information on various career opportunities for our students. Pells Sullivan Meynink Senior Lecturer of Rock Mechanics, Dr Kurt Douglas. Acknowledgement of Industry Partners is made through the School website, and in the widely distributed Annual Report. Industry State Water Corporation, New South Wales’ rural bulk water delivery Partner logos are also featured in the Report and were included on business with an asset portfolio of $3.5 billion, provide funding

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support for the position of State Water Senior Lecturer of Thank you to our current Industry Partners & Supporters: Dam Engineering, Dr Hossein Taiebat. AECOM And in 2010 we welcomed the generous contribution ANSTO of Evans & Peck – an international infrastructure-based ARUP advisory company – in the establishment of a new Chair – the Evans & Peck Professor for Transport Innovation. In Aurecon 2011 Professor Travis Waller will lead a new Faculty–wide Brookfield Multiplex Ltd Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation Cardno (RCITI) which will investigate sustainable approaches to Evans & Peck transport infrastructure and operations. The Centre will be based in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. GHD Hyder Consulting Pty Ltd New research with industry: Laing O’Rourke Leighton Contractors Industry Partners are always very welcome to discuss Leighton Holdings new research projects with us. In 2010 our industry and Macmahon Contractors government-related research income totaled over $10.8m, involving over one hundred partnering organisations MWH from private industry, public utilities, and all levels of NSW Water Solutions, NSW Public Works government. Parsons Brinckerhoff Pells Sullivan Meynink Pty Ltd Moreover, in the Australian Research Council’s 2010 final round of research grants, we gained 2 new Linkage RTA grants - totaling $1.75m, with partnering organisations Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd including Actew AGL, GHD Pty Ltd, Goulburn Murray SMEC Australia Water, Melbourne Water Corporation, Murray-Darling Basin State Water Authority, New South Wales Cane Growers’ Association Inc., NSW Dam Safety Committee, NSW Public Works and Sydney Water Services, New South Wales Sugar Milling Co-operative Taylor Thomson Whitting Limited, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Australia Worley Parsons (Patterson Britton & Partners) Pty Ltd (SMEC), SunWater Limited, Tweed Shire Council and Water Corporation of WA. External Relations

Co-Chairs, Ron Cox and Kurt Douglas with External Relations Administrator Mary O’Connell. Other Committee members are Steve Davis, Karenne Irvine, Markus Oeser and Ian Turner.

During 2010, the External Relations Committee (ERC) continued its Multiplex, Cardno, Evans & Peck, GHD, Hyder, Laing O’Rourke, role in assisting with marketing, student recruitment and further Macmahon Contractors, Parsons Brinckerhoff, SMEC, and Taylor developing the School’s relationship with industry and alumni. Thomson Whitting- reported back that they too found the day very useful, having enjoyed the opportunity to meet quality students. Committee members represent and promote the School at many presentations and functions both on and off campus. These include The ERC liaised with industry sponsors in order to support the numerous information days, High School and Engineering Week annual Fourth Year Dinner held at the end of the academic year talks, an innovative introduction to engineering at Loquat Valley at Sheraton on the Park. Eleven $1000 awards were presented by Primary School with Year 1 children, the Honeywell Engineering industry and government for achievement in academic disciplines, Summer School, National Youth Science Forum, UNSW Open Day industrial training and engineering professional practice. Industry and the Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School. also provided an additional $11,000 in total to subsidise the ticket price for our students. New promotional activities undertaken in 2010 in conjunction with the School’s Industry Advisory Committee included the week The Committee also undertook the massive task of organising the long daily bus tour with selected Year 10 students to engineering School History Booklaunch. Current and past staff, alumni, friends sites of interest, and the inaugural UNSW School of Civil and and industry supporters of the School came together for a wonderful Environmental Engineering Primary School Prize in Mathematics. few hours on December 2 at Leighton Hall in the Scientia to (see accompanying story) celebrate over sixty years of hard work and great achievements.

Dr Kurt Douglas coordinated the School’s participation at the UNSW The School continues to develop its relationship with alumni, Open Day in September, the biggest day of interaction between emailing the School newsletter to over 900 alumni and posting out UNSW and the community. School staff and undergraduate and the Annual Report to all web registered alumni. The inaugural postgraduate students provided the face and voice of the School to alumni newsletter was produced in March 2010 and mailed out hundreds of prospective students and their families. School staff to over 4,000 alumni. Over 130 alumni actively participated in also spent many hours interviewing potential students as part of the responding to School History questionnaires, and over 150 attended Faculty of Engineering Admission Scheme (FEAS). the history book launch. All alumni, undergraduate, postgraduate and PhDs are listed in the History. The School Industry Supporters Careers Market held at the end of March provided close interaction between over 250 year 3 and 4 For further information on external relations, alumni, the IAC and students and industry supporters of the School, with many students School Industry Partnership programme contact Dr Mary O’Connell fi nding IT placements and/or interviews for employment during the at [email protected] day. Representatives from industry supporters - Arup, Brookfi eld

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Golden Jubilee Alumni Back Row L-R: Mary O’Connell (External Relations), Anthony Norton, Neville Jones, Rahmah Cockerill, Peter Cockerill, Prof David Waite (Head of School), John Simpson, Wallace Whittaker, Ian Pittaway THE BIG PICTURE Front : l-R: Norman OUR PEOPLE Griffiths, John Hyslop, OUR RESEARCH Theo ten Brummelaar, TEACHING AND Donald Brewer. LEARNING  INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY OUR RESEARCH CENTRES OUR HISTORY

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In 1960 25 young and hopeful civil engineers graduated Interesting how you remember the fun and fi nd it from the School. Fifty years later ten of them returned diffi cult to recall the hard work and long hours of study! to campus to celebrate their golden jubilees at a special However, speaking as a former student of the School of Faculty Luncheon. As one alumni said, he wasn’t even Civil Engineering, I am vaguely aware that as a group we certain that he would recognise anyone. Recognition were all very much head down and tail up, which is not of each other, however, turned out to be relatively easy, surprising as in those days there was no general assistance compared to recognising the transformed built environment with university fees, and nearly all of us relied on the of the university. Civil engineering was the last School to sponsorship of a company or government department. move to Kensington so the graduates of 1960 had most of their lectures and laboratories at the old UNSW campus at In conclusion I would have to say that it was a great time Ultimo, on the site, that is now occupied by the UTS tower. to enter the profession of Civil Engineering. Compared with today: engineering science was certainly more basic and Peter Cockerill, BE’60, who gave the address for civil probably more down to earth. Many of the engineering engineering alumni remembered the impact the fi rst tools and methods that we now take for granted were still Head of School, Professor Crawford Munro had on them being developed or were yet to arrive. We calculated with all in their fi rst week at Ultimo. ‘We were seated at our the aid of slide rules and mathematical tables. In fact it was desks when the Professor strode in, his trousers held up only during that fi rst year of ours, 1956, that the University by his neck-tie which he was using as a belt, and with a acquired its fi rst digital computer. booming voice began his welcome with “So these are the new students!” He was quite a character, in many ways But our university prepared us with the broadest possible larger than life. A considerable infl uence for all of us and training that defi nitely equipped us well for the rapid a considerable infl uence in the rapid development of the developments that took place over the later years and for School during those early years. that I feel I can say with confi dence for all that are here, Thank you University of NSW.’ And of course there were the once a year Civil Engineering Dinners. Perhaps my recollection of these is a little distorted The online Civil and Environmental Engineering for I can recall that there were only two items on the menu: Alumni Registration is a contact point between the Sydney rock oysters and beer. A plentiful quantity of both. School and its Alumni. The School would like to keep in These days, the cost of the oysters would be prohibitive and touch with its graduates so that you can be kept informed of the return home for anyone driving could be disastrous, but key developments in the School and provide a link between things were different in those days. I still remember with the graduates. delight the “boat races” held during these dinners, each of which was commenced by Professor Munro bringing an axe Please let us know where you are by fi lling out the handle down onto the trestle table that separated the two Registration form www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/alumni_ teams. industry_relations/alumni/alumni_registration/index.html Staff Industry & Community Engagement

Attendance at Conference and Institutional Visits Dr Kurt Douglas Dr Martin Andersen - 2010 Conferences: Invited keynote presentations: As Convenor ACCARNSI made numerous invited visits to Keynote Presentation: Australian Earth Sciences institutions Australia wide for presentations to research 44th US Rock Mechanics Symposium, Salt Lake City, Convention (AESC) 2010. 4th-8th July 2010, Canberra, groups, government and industry; Utah, USA, 27-30 June, 2010 Australia. Keynote Presentation (with Wendy Timms) Invitee, Murray Darling Basin Authority workshop, 11th International Association for Engineering Geology Annual Cotton Science Conference, Narrabri, 26th-28th Canberra; Convenor of Climate Change Adaptation and the Environment (IAEG) Congress, Auckland, New October, 2010. forums for Early Career Researchers in Gold Coast Zealand, 5-10 September, 2010 Conferences: and Adelaide; Invitee, NSW Infrastructure Adaptation XXXVIII - IAH Congress, Krakow, Poland. 12-17 Forum, Sydney; Presenter, QLD Stormwater Industry Dr Wei Gao September, 2010. Conference, Sunshine Coast; Organiser, EIANZ Learning to Adapt Forums, UNSW and Darling Conferences: Groundwater 2010 IAH Australia ‘the challenge of Harbour; Participant, 1st International Climate Change The 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics sustainable management’ Canberra, Australia 31 October Adaptation Conference, Gold Coast; Participant, and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational – 4 November 2010. ICCE2010, International Conference Coastal Engineering, Mechanics, 19-23 July 2010, Sydney, Australia. Recipient: 1st prize (with Meredith K., Timms, W. & Shanghai; Invitee, Emergency Management and Land The 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Acworth, R.I). for best science poster at 15th Australian Use Planning workshop, Attorney General & EMA, Structures and Materials (ACMSM21), 7-10 December Cotton Conference, The Gold Coast, Australia. August Victoria; Invitee, Sydney Coastal Council Group Coastal 2010, Melbourne, Australia. 10-12,2010. Planning workshop, Sydney; Invitee, Climate Change Adaptation workshops, Go8+ Engineering Deans, Research visit at the USGS in the South-West US: Four Canberra and Adelaide; Participant, Coast to Coast seminar presentations in the US at USGS Menlo Park, CA Professor Ian Gilbert conference, Adelaide; Presenter, Responding to Climate 15th July 2010; USGS Reno, Nevada, 19th July 2010; Attendances at Conferences and National Change conference, Engineers Australia, Melbourne; USGS Salt Lake City, Utah, 21st July 2010 and USGS Seminars: Chair, Engineers Australia Accreditation visit, Uni of Boulder, Colorado, 23rd July 2010. Sunshine Coast; Presenter, Australian Industry Group, ASEC 2010, Australian Structural Engineering Research visit at the Geocenter, University of Climate Change Adaptation, Melbourne; Convenor, Conference, August, Sydney; Copenhagen, Denmark: Australian and State Local Government Associations, Invited Speaker, SEMC 2010, The Fourth International Invited Presentation at the Namoi Groundwater Forum Needs workshop, Adelaide; Geoscience Australia; Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and organised by The Namoi Catchment Management Griffith University Centre for Coastal Management, Computation, September, Cape Town, South Africa. Authority and the Cotton Catchment Communities CRC, Gold Coast, QLD; Queensland University, Brisbane, Keynote Speaker, 21st Australasian Conference on the Tamworth, NSW, 3 Dec 2010. QLD; Adelaide University SA; University of South Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ASMSM21), Australia, SA; Commonwealth Dept Climate Change Associate Editor of Hydrogeology Journal. Victoria University, Melbourne, December 2010; and Energy Efficiency DCCEE; Geoscience Australia; NSW Dept Environment, Climate Change and Water Serviceability, Design for Deflection and Crack Control, Associate Professor Mario Attard DECCW; Sydney Water; Ports Australia; Sydney Ports National Seminar, Concrete Institute of Australia, presented in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Conferences: Corporation; QLD Department Environment & Natural Resource Management DERM. Perth and Hobart, July 2010. 21st Australian Conference on the Mechanics of Consulting and other Activities - 2010 AS3600-2009, What’s New? What’s Different?, National Structures and Materials, Melbourne, 7-10 Dec 2010. Seminar, Concrete Institute of Australia, presented in Joint 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics Coastal processes, coastal structures and coastal zone Hobart, May, 2010. management incorporating climate change adaptation and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Local and International Institutional Visits: Mechanics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia 19- 23 July 2010 at various sites around Australia; Port development, port operations and environmental issues in relation University of Melbourne (July); University of Queensland Member: Editorial Panel for ISRN Civil Engineering to various port projects within Australia and overseas; (July); University of Cape Town (September), Imperial Environmental aspects related to desalination plants. College, London (January and September); Victoria Professor Andy Baker Completed 2 research reports on life safety (people/ University (December); University of Sydney (numerous vehicles) in floods for new edition of Australian Rainfall visits); and University of Technology Sydney (numerous Associate Editor, Water Research. Peer review board visits). - UK Royal Society (International Grants Scheme). & Runoff. International Advisor - UK NERC Radiocarbon Steering Membership of Committees and Panels - 2010 Fellow, IEAust; Member of the American Concrete Committee. Member, writing team, National Adaptation Research Institute; Member and Academic Principal Representative of Concrete Institute of Australia; Elected member of Recipient: ARC Superscience Fellowship Plan for Settlements and Infrastructure; Member, Engineers Australia National Committee on Coastal the National Council, Concrete Institute of Australia; and Ocean Engineering; Member, Engineers Australia Member, Standards Australia Committees BD-002 Dr Mark Bligh Sydney Maritime Panel; Member, PIANC International Concrete Structures; Chair of Sub-Committee BD-002-06 Serviceability, Member of Sub-Committees BD-002-01 Conferences: Advisory Committee for COPEDEC; Board Member, PIANC Australia; Member, PIANC International Co- and BD1-002-04; Goldschmidt 2010, Knoxville Tennessee, June 13 – 18 operation Commission; Member, International Editorial AMSA2010 (Australian Marine Science Association), Board, Coastal Engineering Journal Japan; Member, Dr Rita Henderson Wollongong, July 4 – 8 International Editorial Panel; Maritime Engineering Journal UK; Chair, School External Relations Committee; Conferences : Member, Water Research Management Committee; IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, Montreal, James Carley Member School Management Group; Member Faculty Canada, 19-24th September, 2010 (Invited to accept Conferences: Standing Committee; Chair, Engineers Australia IWA YWP AWARD and give presentation in Workforce Coast2Coast, National Coastal Management Conference, Accreditation Panel for University of Sunshine Coast; development workshop): 1st AWA National Operations Adelaide 2010: NSW Coastal Conference, Batemans Bay Member Scientific Committee, IAHR International Conference, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia, 13-15th 2010: Surfing Reef Symposium, Bondi 2010 Conference, Brisbane 2011; Member Organising September, 2010.: 2nd National Cyanobacterial Committee, EIANZ workshops, Sydney 2010; Member, Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 2-3rd August, 2010.: Member of Engineers Australia’s NSW maritime panel Climate Change Science Review Network advising NSW National Japan Water and Environmental Technology Member of Sydney Coastal Councils’ sea level rise expert DECCW; Member, Infrastructure Adaptation Panel, NSW conference (WET2010), Yokohama, Japan, 25-26 June, group DECCW; Member Coastal Advisory Panel, NSW DECCW. 2010 (Invited Speaker) Visitors - 2010 Seminars/conferences organised: Associate Professor Ronald J Cox Dr Andrew Garcia, Waterways Experimental Station, US MBR 2010 – From fundamentals to future research in Climate change adaptation for settlements and Army Corps of Engineers , Vicksburg, USA. Australia, Scientia, UNSW, 13th-14th April 2010 (jointly infrastructure - providing advice to NSW government organised between WRC and UNESCO Centre for via high-level advisory panel and to Commonwealth Membrane Science and Technology) government as Convenor of ACCARNSI, Australian YWPC 2010 – 5th IWA International Young Water Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Professional conference, Scientia, UNSW, 5-7th July Settlements and Infrastructure. 2010

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 78 Member:Water Quality Research Australia Dr Adrian Russell Dr Upali Vandebona THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL Education Committee; AND ENVIRONMENTAL Conferences: Conference: YWP Representative on IWA Australia committee ENGINEERING ANNUAL The Joint 9th World Congress on Computational Seminar on Theory and Application of Pedestrian REPORT 2010 Recipient: IWA Young Water Professional Award 2010 Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Travel Culture, 3 December 2010, Busan National Computational Mechanics, Sydney, Australia. University, South Korea. Dr Matt McCabe The 2nd International Symposium on Cone Conferences: Penetration Testing, Huntington Beach, California, Dr Zora Vrcelj USA. Keynote speaker: Catchment-scale Hydrological Conference: Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA IV) Secretary and Proceedings Editor, the Joint 9th ConnectED Conference – Member of the international conference, Lhasa, China: Invited World Congress on Computational Mechanics Organising Committee, 2nd International Speaker: Global Energy and Water Cycle and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Conference on Design Education, 28 June – 1 July Experiment (GEWEX) Scientific Steering Committee Mechanics, attracting 1200 delegates. 2010 Sydney Australia Meeting, New Delhi, India: Invited Speaker: Pan- Presentation: at University of Novi Sad, Serbia GEWEX Meeting, Seattle, USA; Invited Speaker: Professor Ashish Sharma HESSS-2 International Workshop, Tokyo, Japan Conferences : Member: Professor T David Waite THE BIG PICTURE American Geophysical Union Western Pacific American Geophysical Union’s Hydrology Section OUR PEOPLE Meeting (Taipei, Taiwan): International Associate 2010 Invited Presentations at Conferences Remote Sensing Technical Committee OUR RESEARCH of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Statistical Waite, T.D., Garg, S. and Rose, A.L. TEACHING AND Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment Hydrology working group meeting (STAHY) Photochemical production of superoxide and LEARNING (GEWEX) Radiation Panel (Taormina, Italy): American Geophysical Union Fall hydrogen peroxide from natural organic matter.  INDUSTRY AND Scientific Co-Lead Global Energy and Water Cycle Meeting (San Francisco, USA) Keynote lecture at 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, March 22-25. COMMUNITY Experiment (GEWEX) LandFlux Initiative Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology (ERA-A*) OUR RESEARCH CENTRES Waite, T.D. Generation of reactive oxygen species Scientific and Organizing Committee, International Associate Editor, Water Resources Research OUR HISTORY Workshop on The Roles of Stable Isotopes in (ERA-A*) at nanoparticulate surfaces. Plenary lecture at 6th International Conference on Interfaces Against Water Cycle Research  PAGE 79 Expert review on water balance, State Water Pollution (IAP2010) Conference, Beijing, May 16-19. Scientific and Organizing Committee, Hydrology Corporation, NSW, delivers Earth Systems Science to Society Waite, T.D. Reactive oxygen species generation Expert review on reservoir operation, Sydney (HESSS-2), Tokyo, Japan by elemental iron and silver nanoparticulates. Catchment Authority, Invited lecture at Goldschmidt 2010 Symposium Other: Recipient: Australian Research Council Future on Nanoparticles Important to the Environment: Chinese Academy of Sciences Foreign Visiting Fellowship (2011-2014) Structure, Reactivity, Analysis, Knoxville, Expert Scholarship, Center for Agricultural Tennessee, June 13-18. Resources Research Dr Michael Short Waite, T.D., Fenton chemistry in homogeneous Guest Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences and heterogeneous environments. Invited lecture Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Member: The International Scientific Review at Telluride Workshop on Iron Biogeochemistry, Surface Processes Committee for WSP 2011 conference (run by Telluride, West Colorado, July 27-31. International Water Association). Waite, T.D. Production of reactive oxygen Stephen J Moore Reports for EPA Victoria, and OneSteel Ltd species by silver nanoparticles – implications for bactericidal activity. Invited lecture at 16th Two week visit to National Taiwan University and Dr Wendy Timms Conference on Advanced Oxidation Technologies CTCI Foundation in Taipei in July 2010 to initiate (AOT-16), San Diego, November 15-18. research project on extending the scope of national Conferences: substance flow analysis to include trade related Waite, T.D. Reactive oxygen species generation 1st Australian and New Zealand FEFLOW by elemental nanoparticulates, Keynote lecture at effects. This will be undertaken in late 2011 as part Workshop, 4-6th May,2010, Sydney: Blue of Stephen Moore’s collaborative research at NTU Advances in Functional Nanomaterials Conference, Mountains City Council Forum 30th October, Gold Coast, November 25-26 and Kyoto University. 2010: Namoi Groundwater Forum, Tamworth, 3rd Teaching in Faculty of Built Environment on December 2010: Waite, T.D. Impact of gel layer formation on environmental and waste management. macromolecule and colloid retention in membrane International Conference on Physical Modelling filtration processes. Invited lecture at Pacifichem Member: Technical Group for the Australian in Geotechnics 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, 28th Hazardous Waste Act; 2010 Symposium on Interfacial Chemistry: Fate, June to 1st July, 2010: Groundwater 2010 “The Transport, and Adsorption of Nanoparticles, Editorial Board member for International Solid Challenges of sustainable management”, Canberra, Biocolloids, and Trace Organics in Aquatic Systems, Waste Association; 31 October -4th November, 2010. Honolulu, December 15-20. Member Editorial Board Journal Hazardous Vice President, International Association of 2010 Conference Committee Roles Materials; Hydrogeologists Australia Member, Scientific Committee, 9th Conference Member Editorial Board Journal Environment, Chair, NSW Branch International Association of on Membranes in the Production of Drinking Development and Sustainability Hydrologeologists and Industrial Water (MDIW2010), Trondheim, Member: Groundwater Review Panel, Murray Norway, 27-30 June 2010 Dr Markus Oeser Darling Basin Authority: also Groundwater Model Member, International Board, 6th International Review Panel, Western Australian Department of Conferences: Conference on Interfaces Against Pollution Water (IAP2010) Conference, Beijing, May 16-19. The 11th International Conference on Asphalt Recipient: Science Excellence Award with Dr Martin Pavements, ISAP, August 1 to 6 2010, Nagoya, Chairman, Interfaces Against Pollution Andersen, Dr Karina Meredith (ANSTO) and Prof Ian International Conference Series, 2010-2016. Japan: Acworth from Cotton Catchment Communities CRC The 9th World Congress on Computational Member, Organizing Committee, Symposium on Grants: NCGRT P1B aquitard research program Redox Processes on Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials, Mechanics, WCCM/APCOM2010, July 19 to 23, through CWI mid-2009-mid-2014, $3.4 million 2010, Sydney, Australia and Nanostructured Systems in the Environment, Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu December 15-20. Organized a Mini Symposium on Advanced Associate Professor Ian Turner Modelling and Characterization of Pavement Materials within the WCCM/APCOM2010 Conferences: Conference. Coast2Coast, National Coastal Management Conference, Adelaide 2010: Wind Waves Research Dr William Peirson Science Symposium, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Gold Coast: Advised the NSW and Victorian governments on environmental flows from major dam storages. National Coastal Observation Network Workshop, NSW DECCW, Sydney Institute of Marine Science. Conferences: Member: Engineers Australia National Committee International Conference on Coastal Engineering, on Coastal and Ocean Engineering Shanghai, CHINA: 30 June to 5 July 2010 The 6th International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces. Kyoto, JAPAN. May 17-21, 2010 –PIC Xia Yan and myself in Kyoto. Industry Reports

Attard, MM, Erkmen, E, & Vrcelj, Z (2010) Jones, AM, Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, & Schulz, M., Peters, G.M. and Short, M.D. In-Plane Buckling of Shear Deformable Waite, TD (2010) Final Report for Water (2010) Milestone 10 Report: Sustainability Circular Rings and Arches, UNICIV Report Quality Research Australia (WQRA) Project Decision-Making Frameworks (Report to R-459. 1019 Investigating Scale Formation and client: EPA Victoria). Prevention in Small Water Supplies Reliant Blacka, MJ, Carley, JT, & Cox, RJ (2010) on Groundwater. Shand, TD, Cox, RJ, Blacka, MJ, & Smith, Coastal Risk Management Report for GP (2010) Appropriate Safety Criteria for the North Palm Beach Surf Live Saving Jones, AM, Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, & Vehicles in Floods, WRL Research Report Clubhouse, Palm Beach, WRL Technical Waite, TD (2010) Interim Report for Water RR241. Report 2010/22. Quality Research Australia (WQRA) Project 1019 Investigating Scale Formation and Shand, TD, Carley, JT, & Mole, MA (2010) Carley, JT, & Cox, RJ (2010) Design Prevention in Small Water Supplies Reliant Mornington Pier Upgrade: 2D Physical Model Setbacks for Coastal Land, WRL Technical on Groundwater. Testing, WRL Technical Report 2010/08. Report 2008/25. Khajeh Samani, A, & Attard MM (2010) A Shand, TD, Peirson, B, Banner, ML, & Cox, Carley, JT, & Mole, M.A. (2010) Pittwater Stress-Strain Model for Uniaxial Compression RJ (2010) Predicting Hazardous Conditions Estuarine Risk Management Report for and Triaxially Confined Plain Concrete for Rock Fishing - A Physical Model Study, Proposed Boatshed at 165 Riverview Road, Incorporating Size Effect, UNICIV Report- WRL Research Report RR234. Clareville, WRL Technical Report 2010/07. R457. Smith, GP, Glamore, WC, Miller, BM, & Carley, JT, & Mole, M.A. (2010) Update of Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) Ruprecht, JE (2010) Dye Tracer Testing of Tweed Shire Coastal Hazard Lines, WRL Sources of problematic contaminants iron the Sydney Desalination Plant Outfall: 26th Technical Report 2010/11. & aluminium in Christies Creek, North East and 27th August (2010) WRL Technical NSW - Interim Report. Report 2010/27. Coghlan, IR, Mole, MA, Shand, TD, Carley, JT, et al, (2010) High Resolution Wave Mariani, A, & Glamore, WC (2010) Tarrade, L, & Miller, BM (2010) Physical Modelling (HI-WAM) for Batemans Bay Particulate Property Testing Report, Gunns Modelling of the Victorian Desalination Plant Detailed Wave Study, WRL Technical Report Pulp Mill, WRL Technical Report 2010/10. Outfall, WRL Technical Report 2010/06. 2010/19. Miller, BM, Ruprecht, JE, & Glamore, Timms, WA, & (2010) Drilling completion Erkmen, E, & Attard, MM (2010) Nonlinear WC(2010) Christchurch Ocean Outfall report - Upper Namoi campaign, May. In-Plane Analysis of Shear Deformable Shallow Diffuser Trials, WRL Technical Report Circular Arches, UNICIV Report R-458. 2010/14. Timms, WA, Badenhop, AM, Rayner, DS, & Mehrabi, S (2010) Groundwater Monitoring, Giambastiani, B, McCallum, A, Andersen, Miller, BM, Coghlan, IR, & Cunningham, IL Evaluation and Grower Survey, Namoi MS, & Acworth, RI (2010) Maules Creek (2010) Three Dimensional Physical Modelling Catchment, Report No. 2, Part A: Results Project: A Groundwater Flow Model of of Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Apron of 2009 Groundwater Monitoring and the Maules Creek Catchment. Research Widening, WRL Technical Report 2006/13. Recommendations for Future Best Practice Report prepared for: Cotton Catchment Monitoring Framework, Part B: Groundwater Communities CRC. Final 15/02 (2010). Pells, SE, & Mehrabi, S (2010) Groundwater User Survey, WRL Technical Report 2009/25. Characterisation and Numerical Modelling Glamore, WC, & Coghlan, IR (2010) for Rainbow Beach Estate, WRL Technical Timms, WA, Wasko, Pells, SE, & Miller, BM Museum Quay Marina, Darling Harbour: 3D Report 2009/32. (2010) Ranger Pit No.1 - Groundwater Flow Wave Basin Testing of Entrance Conditions, Modelling of Post-closure Conditions, WRL WRL Technical Report 2007/27. Pells, SE (2010) Review of Catchment Technical Report (2010)/15. Processes for the Subcatchment to Glamore, W, & Badenhop, AM (2010) Flemington Road Pond P2, WRL Technical Wasko, CD, Williams, DF, Miller, BM, & Shellharbour Outfall Commissioning: Dilution Report 2009/30. Mehrabi, S (2010) Hydrodynamic and Testing, December 2006, WRL Technical Sedimentation Modelling for the East Arm Report 2007/06. Pells, SE (2010) Review of Proposed Port Expansion, Darwin Harbour, WRL Geothermal Heat Pump Applications Energy Technical Report (2010)/02. Glamore, W, & Hawker, K (2010) Australia Building, Holker Street, Silverwater, Shellharbour Outfall Commissioning: Dilution WRL Technical Report 2009/29. Webb, T, Glamore, WC, & Mariani, A (2010) Testing, May 2007, WRL Technical Report Particulate Transport Modelling Report, 2007/23. Rayner, DS, Wasko, CD, & Miller, BM (2010) Gunns Pulp Mill, WRL Technical Report Routine Modelling of the Sydney Deepwater 2010/24. Glamore, W, & Coghlan, IR (2010) Outfalls 2007-2009: Statistical Report, WRL Wavescreen Design Testing at Museum Quay Technical Report 2009/23. Marina, Darling Harbour, WRL Technical Report 2006/16.

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Change Adaptation Research Facility), ACCARNSI was also involved in the 2010 International Climate Change Adaptation Conference “Climate Adaptation Futures’ on the Gold Coast in late June. The conference attracted over 1000 attendees from around the world to inform on issues of climate change adaptation. Keynote speakers included Tim Flannery and the late Stephen Schneider.

The successful organisation of two National Early Career Researcher (ECR) 3 day workshops continued ACCARNSI’s commitment to provide support and capacity building opportunities for young researchers across Australia. The fi rst ECR for 2010 was hosted by Professor Rodger Tomlinson at Griffi th University’s Gold Coast campus in April and attracted 29 early career researchers. The second ECR was hosted by Professor Michael Taylor at the University L-R: Dr Philip Booth, Tamara Rouse, Louise Gates, A/Prof Ron Cox of South Australia’s Adelaide City East campus in November and brought together 31 researchers from across Australia with 2010 proved to be an extremely busy and productive year for presentations covering all areas of research encompassed by the ACCARNSI with the focus set fi rmly on strengthening stakeholder Network. The high quality presentations promoted active discussion involvement in our climate change adaptation research activities. with all attendees developing new research relationships and having the opportunity to meet and discuss their research with convenors ACCARNSI continued to establish contacts Australia-wide, from all Nodes across the Network. promoting the Network and growing its membership across the wider stakeholder community including Federal, State and Further opportunities for young researchers were provided through Local Government, Research Institutions, Industry, professional the ACCARNSI Honours and Masters Research Grant scheme. organisations and NGOs. Grants of up to $7000 were awarded to eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students to undertake research relevant to the area Network Convenor, Associate Professor Ron Cox and Node Leaders, of climate change adaptation for Settlements and Infrastructure. Professor Rodger Tomlinson, Professor Michael Taylor, Professor Seven research projects were successfully completed in 2010 and Graeme Hugo, Dr Peter Graham, Dr Bill Peirson and Professor included topics covering Climate Change Adaptation in the Solomon Richard Stuetz have all been active meeting with stakeholders Islands, the Implementation and Adaptation of ‘Green’ Concrete to individually and together as participants and leaders (organisers, Infrastructure and Climate Change, and viable Coastal Management facilitators or keynote presenters) at workshops, seminars and Policy dealing with Climate Change Adaptation and Potential Sea across their various areas of expertise, research activity and Level Rise. Network responsibility. The Network played a major role in the successful organisation of various National and International 2010 also saw the fi nalisation of our National Baseline Survey conferences with the Network Convenor and Node Leaders giving ‘Community Attitudes to Climate Change’ the release of a number invited keynote addresses, leading plenary sessions, participating in of Position Papers by the Host and Node Leaders on Climate workshops and presenting papers. Change Adaptation, the launch of the ACCARNSI Local Government Initiatives and the establishment and fi rst meetings of our Of the many workshops and forums organised in 2010, enthusiastic Network Advisory Group, affectionately known as the ACCARNSI’s most notable collaboration was with the Environment NAG, comprising representatives from our key stakeholder groups Institute of Australia New Zealand (EIANZ), a partnership which from across Australia. successfully delivered a ‘Learning to Adapt’ series of professional development on climate change adaptation for business. The Like 2010, 2011 promises to be an even busier year, with ACCARNSI fi rst forum ‘Learning to Adapt: The Climate of the Future’ was working steadily towards its long term goal to support the co- held at UNSW and was opened by Environmentalist, Ian Kiernan ordination of the Australian research community in the fi eld of AO. It included an Expert Panel Discussion, Keynote Address, Climate Change Adaptation for Settlements and Infrastructure - Plenary Sessions and Workshops focussed on the business supporting multi-disciplinary research, building research capacity context for climate change adaptation. To view these sessions and promoting and supporting information exchange. a vodcast of the event is available at http://webcast.viostream. com/?viocast=2637&auth=aa0f0dc6-3be3-4d92-862c-a102fd089379. Please see the ACCARNSI website for further details of our 2010 There are plans for further collaboration in 2011. and upcoming 2011 events, activities and opportunities. http://www.nccarf.edu.au/settlements-infrastructure/ As one of the eight networks within NCCARF (National Climate

2010 Annual Report  PAGE 82 THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL Connected Waters Initiative ENGINEERING ANNUAL http://www.connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au/ REPORT 2010

The last year has seen significant growth in research personnel, research output and research funding. The CWI hosts the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) node at the UNSW. The NCGRT had its first full year in 2010 and the CWI established 5 THE BIG PICTURE research streams as a part of the overall NCGRT activity OUR PEOPLE OUR RESEARCH with a budget in 2010 of $1.88 million. In addition to this, TEACHING AND the CWI was the Centre agent for a further $5.0 million LEARNING expenditure of Super Science funding provided by the INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY Federal Government and approximately $0.7 million from  OUR RESEARCH the NSW State Government Science Leveraging Fund. The CENTRES Cotton CRC ($183k) and Land & Water ($140k) projects OUR HISTORY further boosted the activity level.  PAGE 83

Research funds have been used to establish 2 main field areas, one at Wellington and the other on the Namoi. The CWI has worked with UNSW Facilities to establish a field training and research facility on the University Farm at Wellington. The first Field Methods Training course was held there in November and a 4th year elective will be presented there in 2011. The Training Centre comprises air conditioned offices and lecture rooms with internet facilities and major equipment storage facilities. Mr Peter Graham has been appointed to run the Training Centre and to assist with the roll out of equipment provided by the Super Science funds and the NCGRT.

A GEOPROBE unit capable of installing piezometers to 20m was commissioned at the site in December. Work by Andy Baker and the team has established innovative monitoring infrastructure in the caves at Wellington. Matt McCabe has significantly developed the Baldry Site some 50km southwest of Wellington where detailed studies of evaporative flux are under way.

Martin Andersen and Wendy Timms have been involved in establishing research programs on the Liverpool Plains where input by the CWI team to the ongoing debates about water agriculture and mining has been very welcome.

Major development work was also undertaken at the Water Research Laboratory during the year. An $800k centrifuge facility was fabricated in the UK and shipped out for installation at the close of the year. A special building was required at Manly Vale to house this new facility.

Detail of CWI activity can be found at the CWI web pages http://connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au funded by a generous grant from the Centre benefactor Mr Gary Johnston of Jaycar Electronics. Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety

Research into the broad discipline of structural engineering at of Science (notably Professors Ai-Bing Yu and Alan Crosky), staff UNSW is acknowledged as being at the forefront internationally. In and facilities from the School of Surveying and Spatial Information particular, the CIES team in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering Systems (notably Professor Chris Rizos’ group with cutting-edge within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the research in structural deformation monitoring and experimental leading academic group in the disciplines in Australia, and one of sensing), the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering the strongest in the region. (notably Dr. Gangadhara Prusty and Emeritus Professor Don Kelly) and staff from the Faculty of the Built Environment (notably The UNSW Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) Professor Deo Prasad), the Centre is well placed to undertake aims to consolidate the research strengths in structural engineering, further groundbreaking research activity and initiatives such as the geomechanics and in computational mechanics that have evolved involvement in ARC and CRC submissions. and existed at UNSW for many years. In 2010, CIES continues to be a leading research centre in Infrastructure Engineering, both in These essential attributes for research are demonstrated by the Australia and internationally, through the leadership of its second group’s outstanding research track record and esteem, both in terms director, Professor Stephen Foster. of peer-reviewed publications and competitive research funding in the areas of: The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW has long-established research and teaching programmes in the broad (i) structural mechanics and geomechanics; disciplines of structural and geotechnical engineering. The existing (ii) advanced computational techniques; research and teaching strengths of the School form the platform for undertaking the research work in the Centre. In addition, cross- (iii) steel, concrete and composite steel-concrete structures; School and cross-Faculty projects with input from key research staff (iv) behaviour of structures at elevated temperature and of concrete in the School of Material Science and Engineering in the Faculty structures containing low-ductility reinforcement;

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THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE (v) advanced concrete technology; and DP1097096 Dr Y Pi $130,000 (2010 – 2012) OUR RESEARCH Interval nonlinear analysis of spatially curved structures with TEACHING AND (vi) experimental methods. LEARNING material and geometric uncertainties. INDUSTRY AND The bulk of CIES external income to support its research COMMUNITY DP1094451 A/Prof C Song; Dr W Gao; Prof W Becker  OUR RESEARCH programmes has been and continues to be derived from $420,000 (2010 – 2012) CENTRES competitive ARC funding. OUR HISTORY Non -deterministic fracture analysis of structures by extending the scaled boundary finite -element method  PAGE 85 In 2010, the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety won six Discovery grants, totalling $2.12 million, along with two Linkage grants, making it one of the CIES’s successful ARC Linkage grants in University’s most successful centres in this round. This 2010 included: result was a major contributor to the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering being by far the best performing LP100100598 Prof Stephen J Foster, Dr Vute School in UNSW, with almost 10% of the University’s total Sirivivatnanon, Prof Mark G Stewart $150,000 being won by staff from the School. A Re-evaluation of the Safety and Reliability Indices for CIES Research Director, Professor Mark Bradford, won Reinforced Concrete Structures his second Australian Professorial Fellowship, just the 5th ever awarded in the disciplines of Civil and Environmental LP100100806 Dr Markus Oeser, Mr Alan Pearson, Engineering in Australia and the 3rd awarded to CIES Prof Nasser Khalili, Assoc Prof Dr Brian Shackel staff. In addition, Professor Bradford was awarded a $160,000 prestigious ARC Laureate Fellowship and like his earlier Permeable Pavements with Concrete Surface Layers- ARC Fellowships, the Australian Professorial Fellowship Experimental and Theoretical Basis for Analysis and Design (2002-2004) and the Federation Fellowship (2004-2009), Mark’s Laureate Fellowship is the first ever in Structural In addition, Dr Xiaojing (Jean) Li who works in CIES was Engineering and represents an outstanding achievement for also involved in the following University of Melbourne Mark and a great bonus for CIES. Linkage Grant: LP100100193 Prof Graham L Hutchinson, Dr Philip A Collier, A/Prof Linlin Ge, Dr Xiaojing Li A new approach to structural design that incorporates the CIES’s successful new ARC Discovery effect of non-structural components grants in 2010 were: Staff from CIES have also been involved in two successful DP1096454 Prof MA Bradford; Dr G Ranzi; ARC LIEF Grants for 2010. Professor Nasser Khalili Dr A Heidarpour $750,000 (2010 – 2014) was part of a multi-disciplinary team at UNSW to be Unified analysis of steel and composite frame structures awarded $600,000 to establish an “Advanced facility for subjected to static, thermal, earthquake and blast loading next generation sustainable energy, biomedical & nano- imaging optical fibre technologies”. The new state-of- DP1096560 Prof RI Gilbert $280,000 (2010 – 2012) the-art equipment will be a custom designed optical fibre Anchorage of reinforcement in concrete structures subjected draw tower and will be used for developing new photonic to loading and environmental extremes technologies for the sensing, energy, biomedical diagnostics and nano-imaging research sectors. It will have significant DP1096480 Prof N Khalili; Dr RK Niven; Dr M Oeser applications in the field of civil engineering infrastructure $360,000 (2010 – 2012) as well as environmental engineering. The equipment CO sequestration in deformable, chemically interactive, 2 will be housed in the School of Civil and Environmental double porosity media Engineering. DP1096497 Prof N Khalili; Dr AR Russell $270,000 Professors Mark Bradford, Ian Gilbert and Stephen Foster (2010 – 2012) were part of a multi-disciplinary team from University of Erosion of variably saturated soils - a fundamental Sydney, Monash University and UNSW to be awarded investigation $260,000 to fabricate a Split Hopkinson bar facility for high strain rate testing of materials. The facility will be located at the University of Sydney. The design of both civil structures Seen here, Professor Mark Bradford, supervising an experimental test for the time dependent in service behaviour of composite concrete slabs with profiled steel – an ARC Linkage funded project (RI Gilbert; MA Bradford; R Zeuner; GR Brock) with Collaborating/ Partner Organisations: Fielders Australia Pty Ltd and Prestressed Concrete Design Consultants Pty Ltd.

that can survive explosions or earthquakes and automobiles that can The Research Plan for the next 5-years is to consolidate areas of minimize casualties during crash requires optimum understanding strength such as laboratory and computational based research of material response and failure under dynamic loading. As the across the fields of structural and geotechnical engineering, with most commonly used technique for determining material properties particular focus on Infrastructure Engineering, and grow in the field under high strain rates, the proposed split Hopkinson bar facility of developing high-performance sustainable structures. will greatly promote the development of advanced materials for important applications, such as in blast-resistant design and vehicle Around Australia, many ageing post-war bridges and buildings are crashworthiness. coming to the end of their usable lives. It is a wave of obsolescence that poses a challenge for engineers and an opportunity for The Centre also continued its strong performance in research innovative new construction materials – from buildings and bridges publications output with 49 journal papers and 57 conference papers. to tunnels, dams and roads – to develop vital new knowledge about materials and processes to meet future demands. The As we move to the future, the importance of industry collaboration continuing pressures of ageing infrastructure, together with tougher and funding through industry initiatives is well recognized. To this environmental standards, means that this issue is a clear imperative end, the Centre engaged in the successful Cooperative Research for the research direction of the Centre. Centre bid for Advanced Composite Structures with Professor Bradford a named key researcher. In further boosting our profile, New materials have brought about enormous benefits in Professors Gilbert and Foster have been involved in Concrete construction in the past two decades with the biggest change in Institute of Australia (CIA) sponsored courses throughout 2010 with the concrete construction industry in recent years being the use of an opportunity to showcase the Centre’s major research activities higher-performance materials such as high-strength concretes and in the areas of concrete structures and concrete technology, and steels and composites. The current emphasis in the context of the to strengthen collaboration between the Concrete Institute of Australian debate on sustainability is how to utilise materials more Australia (CIA) and the Centre and strengthen the linkages between efficiently and research on higher performance materials remans the Centre and the industry to which it provides benefit. These a research focus. Materials such as geopolymer concretes show connections are being utilised to secure industry funding through immense promise as substitutes for other cementitious materials contributing organisations to CIA and to target future industry whose manufacture is associated with a very significant carbon Linkage Project collaborations. footprint.

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Randwick Heavy Structures Laboratory is a key resource for CIES researchers across a multitude of projects.

In the structures field, there are three areas where the strength and less energy-intensive manufacture through its Centre will focus and these are driven by clear industry innovative use of waste products such as slag from smelting needs: (i) new materials and advanced materials in processes and fly ash from coal-fired power stations. construction; (ii) lowering the carbon footprint of the Embodied energy looms as a growing issue for construction building construction industry; and (iii) extreme events such and materials product industries worldwide. Materials as impact, blast, fire and seismic loadings. A significant such as geopolymer concrete and ultra-high performance research driver comes from a lack of information – where ductile concrete have a significant role to play in making there are advantages to be had from both new materials construction more sustainable. New research will also be and use of existing materials more efficiently and in new pursued on combining environmentally friendly materials applications. together with high performance structural systems, such as concrete filled tube technologies and high performance In the geotechnical engineering field, a key unit within prestressed pre-cast and post-tensioned concrete the Infrastructure Centre led by Professor Khalili (Deputy technologies. Director), ground breaking research is being undertaken in geo-sequestration and soil erosion and the directions of his Lastly, industry links are an important characteristic of the team in geotechnical modelling and in road research are Centre. We currently have ARC Linkage Grant projects with world leading. These are seen to remain areas of strength Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia, BlueScope, over the 5-year research plan. BOSFA, Fielders Australia, PCDC, the RTA and ARRB. All these projects involve research in these and other issues Over the next 5-years it is envisaged that CIES will add of structural and geotechnical importance. The growth in sustainability to that of its existing directions. This will be industry led research collaborations is important to the championed by Scientia Professor and Australian Laureate Centre’s future. Fellow Mark Bradford. Under the umbrella of the Centre, Professor Bradford will lead a new unit on “Sustainable Structures”. This unit will consolidate existing efforts in this direction on new applications of materials such as geopolymer concrete, which offers advantages of high water@ UNSW UNSW Water Research Centre

The UNSW Water Research Centre (WRC) is an international mm Water Quality and Sustainability – fundamental investigations in leading university research centre within the School of Civil and the fate of chemical and microbial contaminants in engineering Environmental Engineering that provides multidisciplinary research and natural systems and application of the risk assessment and and applied research in water resources, engineering, management life cycle analysis to improving the aquatic and atmospheric and the development of tools for environmental management environments. and sustainability for improving the aquatic and atmospheric environments. mm Civil and Environmental Hydraulics – practical Project-based and theoretical hydraulics research undertaken using the unique The School has over 60 years’ history of leading development large-scale facilities of the UNSW Water Research Laboratory of water engineering and technology in Australia. As well as (WRL) at Manly Vale, as well as field-based and numerical maintaining the largest postgraduate and undergraduate teaching modelling investigations. programmes in water engineering in Australia, the School remains active in Australian fundamental water research: The Centre interacts and collaborates with many organisations outside this University: with industry, with both State and Federal mm Surface and Groundwater Hydrology – ongoing Australian governments, with individuals and research groups in other leadership of the quantifying of rainfall, runoff and groundwater universities both in Australia and overseas. The Centre takes a flows at catchment scales (This history includes development of leading role in establishing and contributing to collaborative research the lead Australian design document, Rainfall and Runoff, now projects with these organisations. published and developed by Engineers Australia).

Physical model of urban flooding at WRL, Manly Vale. Courtesy WRL.

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THE BIG PICTURE OUR PEOPLE WRC has two primary centre nodes: OUR RESEARCH at Kensington with staff and students TEACHING AND LEARNING accommodated within the Vallentine INDUSTRY AND annex; and at the WRL, located at COMMUNITY Manly Vale on Sydney’s northern  OUR RESEARCH beaches. Centre activities are CENTRES OUR HISTORY grouped into 13 program areas that sit under three dominant research  PAGE 89 themes:

1. Water Supply Australia is a continent of low rainfall and its development and economic robustness is constrained by presently available and potential water supplies.

2. The Coast Over 86% of the Australian community live in the coastal zone with consequent environmental impact and climate vulnerabilities.

3. Sustainability an outstanding career achievement (either through their scientific contribution as researchers or working in the water To maintain Australia’s current level of population and industry) and the potential to play a large and influential economic growth, water and contamination management role in the water industry in the future. need innovative solutions in terms of environmental, energy and social considerations. Dr Kate Murphy The research strengths of the Centre include a range Kate Murphy commenced an ARC postdoctoral fellowship of core academic disciplines essential to the further within an ARC discovery grant that aims to optimize the development of soundly based technology. characterization of odorous emissions using a sensory and chemical analysis. Her fellowship focus is on utilising The Centre’s objectives are achieved through the efforts chemometric approaches to gain a better understanding of a group of externally-funded professional and specialist of key odorant and odour quality characteristics and the technical personnel, assisted by a wide range of academic relationship between process operations and olfactory and professional colleagues from a variety of Schools, other annoyance. UNSW centres and laboratories. Melissa Mole and Jamie Ruprecht WRC Staff Highlights in 2010 New Project Engineers Melissa Mole and Jamie Ruprecht were welcomed in 2010 to the Projects Team based at WRL, having both completed their Bachelor of Engineering Dr Rita Henderson degrees with 1st Class Honours within the School in 2009. Rita Henderson, was the recipient of the IWA International Jamie and Melissa were joint recipients of the national Young Water Professional Award at the biennial IWA World student prize awarded by the Engineers Australia ‘National Water Congress (WWC) in Montreal, in September 2010. Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering’, a prize The award is presented biennially to recognise a young fittingly named in honour of past Director of the Water water professional under the age of 35, who has both Research Laboratory, Associate Professor Doug Foster. Dr Richard Collins (WRC) and Sebastian Garcia-Cuenca (Tweed Shire Council) inspecting the remediation efficacy at Blacks Drain on the NSW north coast, a problematic acid sulfate soil location.

Research Highlights in 2010: Significant knowledge gaps exist in our current understanding of full cycle N2O emissions from wastewater management practices. In 2010 WRC Staff Dr Greg Peters, Dr Bill Pierson and Visiting The centre had several new ARC projects commence in 2010: Prof Nick Ashbolt lead the establishment of a new research effort to improve the current characterisation of this emission source, to mm Interdisciplinary Greenhouse Gas Assessment – Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Marine Wastewater Disposal led by Dr Greg enable more accurate assessments of the water industry’s carbon Peters footprint, with the aim to facilitate more environmentally and economically sustainable management of the wastewater treatment. mm Olfactory Characterisation of Odours for Optimising Impact

Assessment led by Prof Richard Stuetz N2O generation occurs during conventional wastewater treatment during both microbial nitrification and denitrification of the nitrogen- mm Optimisation of Nutrient Removal, Membrane Fouling and excess containing compounds present (e.g., urea, ammonia and nitrate). Sludge Dewatering in Hybrid Coagulation/Submerged Membrane Existing wastewater management practices internationally result in Bioreactor (SMBR) Treatment of Wastewaters led by Prof David the disposal of large quantities of untreated or primary-level effluent Waite to the marine environment. Sydney sees hundreds of millions of litres of nitrogen-rich primary wastewater discharged to the coastal mm Synthesis of Activated Carbon Supported Zero Valent Iron environment every day. Yet there is little data available to enable the Nanoparticles and Application to Contaminant Degradation in determination of so-called ‘fugitive’ N O emissions resulting from the Benthic Sediments led by Prof David Waite 2 disposal of primary treated effluent to coastal waters. For the water sector, this ‘unknown’ represents a significant un-costed liability in WRC staff also had considerable success during 2010 in the its carbon profile and such uncertainty is deemed unacceptable in announcement of new ARC Discovery and Linkage grants to the emerging business environment of carbon economics. commence 2011. This new research focuses on a broad range of areas including coastal sediment transport and coastal structure Algal and cyanobacteria blooms are of particular concern in drinking stability, erosion of embankment dams and spillways, monitoring water resources due to their adverse impact on treatment processes, and forecasting seasonal to multi-decadal coastal change, as well as their potential to release harmful toxins and taste and monitoring organic matter in drinking water, optimising biochemical odour compounds into water supplies. A new research project in control of head leaching, effective remediation of acidified coastal 2010 (led by Dr Rita Henderson, Prof Richard Stuetz and Dr Bill environments and advanced water treatment to minimise disinfection Peirson at WRC, Dr Michael Whittaker from the UNSW Centre for by-products. Advanced Macromolecular Design, Dr Bruce Jefferson at Cranfield

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University, UK and Assoc Prof Gayle Newcombe from the Australia Water Quality Centre) is investigating modifying Applied Research Highlights in dissolved air flotation (DAF) by developing a novel polymer 2010 – WRC Engagement with that will functionalise the surface of the bubbles generated in DAF such that they are attractive to algae and associated Government and Industry dissolved organic material. DAF is commonly employed for algae removal in Australia but with limited success. The recent floods in Queensland and Victoria, have been The intended outcome of this research is the delivery of a a timely reminder of how destructive and dangerous these modified-DAF process offering a more robust, sustainable types of natural disasters can be. Ongoing applied research and economical barrier to algae by increasing algal cell at WRL is working to assist planners and emergency removal efficiency while decreasing chemical consumption managers to more effectively deal with future floods. The and sludge production. development of two-dimensional numerical computer models are commonly being used to provide baseline data Also during 2010 a new Snake Paddle wave generation describing flood levels, depths and velocities in flood prone system was commissioned at WRL, Manly Vale. The Snake areas. Statistical analysis, of these datasets can be used Paddle wave was funded by an ARC Discovery led by Dr by planners and managers to define the risk and relative Bill Peirson. This new system extends wave generation hazard (safety) of flood prone areas. Additionally the capabilities at WRL to include directionally programmable data can be used to determine a wide range of planning waves. The system will enable the generation of realistic outcomes from safe evacuation routes out of flooded short-crested ocean waves for which directional effects regions to whether areas are suitable for rebuilding or are important for studying air-sea interaction. Despite future development. the widespread occurrence of breaking waves, which are characteristically three-dimensional in nature, and A recent research project lead by WRL Project Engineers their central importance in air-sea coupling, the onset Grantley Smith and Conrad Wasko with funding from and strength of wave breaking has eluded physical the Federal Department of Climate Change and Energy understanding and predictive capability. The outcomes of Efficiency and Engineers Australia (as part of the review of the present research will fill the critical knowledge gaps Australian Rainfall and Runoff) is asking “how accurate and for directional sea states and thereby address the pressing reliable are the baseline data from these models?” The contemporary demand for more accurate forecast models of team at WRL is using advanced numerical and physical sea state, weather and climate. Large Scale Drop Structure Model. Courtesy WRL. WRC Research Bondi Beach 2010. Courtesy WRL.

modelling to review current industry modelling practices. A physical potentially restored hydrologic regime. Based on these results, on- model of an urban floodplain in Merewether, a suburb of Newcastle, ground engineering was undertaken to prepare the site, including NSW has been built at WRL and calibrated to the famous ‘Pasher the design and installation of SmartGates to control tidal inundation. Bulker’ storm of June 2007. Detailed flow measurements from Tidal flushing was restored to the western portion of the site (>200 the physical model have been compared with predictions of the hectares) in 2008 and innovative techniques have been used to June 2007 flood from various numerical flood software packages adaptively monitor the progress of the site towards a functioning commonly used by industry. The research has shown that there tidal wetland. Current research at the site is focused on restoring are numerous areas where modelling approaches can be improved. tidal flushing to the western portion of the site (another 350 The outcome from this research will inform the revision of industry hectares) and restoration plans and research outcomes are being guidelines and be included in the next edition of Australian Rainfall developed and implemented. and Runoff. The findings can also be used to provide an improved assessment of building stability on floodplains. SmartGates to control tidal innundation. Courtesy WRL. Researchers at WRL, led by Dr William Glamore with staff from the NSW Department of Climate Change and Water, the local Catchment Management Authority and NSW Department of Industry and Investment have been working on a large tidal wetland restoration study being conducted at the Tomago Wetlands within the Hunter Estuary Wetland Ramsar site to understand the role of hydrology, hydraulics and hydrodynamics in wetland rehabilitation. The lower Hunter River estuary in NSW has become a major research ground for investigating tidal wetland rehabilitation and creation. Due to the increasing industrial pressures, the legacy of development and the important environmental values of this estuary, significant on- ground work has been undertake at this site.

A restoration plan has been developed for the site with the primary aim to restore salt marsh habitat for migratory wading birds. Numerical model results combined with on-ground sampling provided the necessary information to understand the existing and

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 our history

‘The history of the School reveals an enormously creative problem-solving dynamic organization, which over the decades faced a series of challenges and difficulties, arising from both internal and external sources, and which invariably found solutions to them. The School has not just survived; it has succeeded, as engineering educator and as research explorer. Individually and collectively embarked on a hero’s journey, supported and encouraged by one another, the story of the School – staff and students – is one of hard work, personal and social responsibility and responsiveness, underpinned by a vision of use, and ultimately, service.’

(From the History of the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering)

All our Alumni are listed in our History which is available at www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/about/ our_history History Book Launch

Past and present staff and students joined the school to celebrate 60 years of extraordinary achievement.

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