Monday, 25th October The International Conference on Urban Drainage 2021

Pre-conference Workshop by Nian She: Natural based solutions (NBS) transforming grey cities into climate resilient sponge cities

1:00AM - 4:00AM
Monday, 25th October
Zoom

Workshop Description

Cities have been built for economic growth. One of the critical problems of cities facing today is the rain. Either the rain is too much or too little. The concept of sponge city is that it absorbs excess rainwater when rain is too much and it releases the rainwater when rain is too little. In practice Sponge City is redrawing urban landscape to overcome the challenges of climate change, flooding, water shortage, water pollution and habitat protection and restoration.

In 2015 China started sponge city initiatives to build 30 sponge cities. After three years construction experiences and lessons have been learned. The presentation gives a comprehensive overview of how to use natural based solutions (NBS) mitigating flood and treating polluted stormwater runoff in ultra-dense cities in China. Participates will get hand-on practice from urban planning, climate and hydrology/hydraulic modeling, engineering design, construction, outreach to citizens and operation and maintenance that require multidisciplinary approaches of planners, landscape architects, engineers, researchers and city administrators. Case studies are given for different geographic locations under different climate conditions. Also, the critical lessons are given ranged from site scale to city scale.  Finally, the performance and evaluation of the sponge city are discussed. 

List learning objectives:

  • Understand sponge city and natural based solutions
  • Learn the integrated approaches of green infrastructure with grey and blue infrastructure
  • Share the experience of collaboration between landscape designers and civil engineers that make NBS not only a cost-effective approach to mitigating flood and reducing pollutions from stormwater runoff, but also make NBS well accepted aesthetically by citizens
  • Hands-on practice to address site investigation, data collection, conceptual design, modeling, coordination, engineering design, construction observation and community outreach through case studies.
  • Hands-on practice to design process of a sponge city park using newly developed toolbox.
  • Hands-on practice to transform low income neighborhoods into climate resilient communities using NBS.
  • Envision sponge city construction in 2030

Targeting audience

This session is targeting to planners, government administrators, environmental consultants, landscape architects, civil engineers, modelers, researchers, graduate students and environmental enthusiasts.

Outcomes or take away

  • Confidence on natural based solutions to mitigating flood and resilient to natural disasters
  • Quantifying climate change factors into sustainable design and management
  • Collaborations between landscape designers and civil engineers to make NBS not only functioning for stormwater management, but also have higher aesthetic values
  • Comprehensive process of applying NBS to urban stormwater management
  • Lessons learned in retrofit old neighborhoods scale and entire city scale
  • Innovative technologies of treating polluted stormwater runoff and combined sewer overflow control

 

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Pre-conference Workshop by Alandra Kahl: TinkerCAD Introduction

5:00AM - 9:00AM
Monday, 25th October
Zoom

This all-online workshop introduces participants to the online tools of TinkerCAD as an avenue to begin to design their own sensors. Participants will learn to design, tinker, and submit their creations. Facilitators will be available to meet via Zoom for participants seeking help with their projects. Registration required.

 

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Session 1: Welcome Ceremony & Poul Harremoës Award Presentations

4:00PM - 6:00PM
Monday, 25th October
Gardiner room
Chair: David McCarthy

PHA Finalist 1: Vincent Pons

PHA Finalist 2: Baiqian Shi

PHA Finalist 3: Veljko Prodanovic

Break

6:00PM - 6:30PM
Monday, 25th October

Session 2: Keynote - Emma Johnston

6:30PM - 7:15PM
Monday, 25th October
Gardiner room
Chair: Ana Deletic

Session 3.3: Urban Drainage and SARS-CoV-2 - Soapbox 1

7:15PM - 7:30PM
Monday, 25th October
Yarra Room
Chair: Peter Vanrolleghem

Session 3.4: Green roofs and green walls - Soapbox 2

7:15PM - 7:30PM
Monday, 25th October
Stringybark Room
Chair: Simon De-Ville

Break

7:30PM - 7:45PM
Monday, 25th October

Session 4.1: City scale planning and modelling tools

7:45PM - 9:15PM
Monday, 25th October
Gardiner room
Chair: Ana Deletic

Session 4.2: Advancing RTC

7:45PM - 9:15PM
Monday, 25th October
Old Joe Room
Chair: Frederic Cherqui

Session 4.3: Urban Drainage and SARS-COV-2

7:45PM - 9:15PM
Monday, 25th October
Yarra Room
Chair: Peter Vanrolleghem

Session 4.4: Green roofs and greenwalls

7:45PM - 9:15PM
Monday, 25th October
Stringybark Room
Chair: Simon De-Ville

Session 4.5: Blue Green Systems

7:45PM - 9:15PM
Monday, 25th October
Monbulk Room
Chair: Peter Bach

Poster Session

9:15PM - 10:00PM
Monday, 25th October
Spatial Chat