Project Number D5.1 Project Title: Urban Intensification & Green Infrastructure: Towards a Water Sensitive City

Project Leader/s: Prof Nigel Bertram

Report for Quarter ending: Q3 – 31 March 2017

Progress summary

Key developments & overall summary of project status (~100 words)

D5.1 had the following developments in the third quarter 2016/17: -Elwood Project: second showing of Swamped: Future Scenarios for Elwood exhibition at St Kilda Town Hall with industry partner engagement; Elster Creek Working Group met 3 times; digital publication on Swamped: Future Water Scenarios for Elwood completed -Arden Macaulay Project: commenced Masters of Architecture Design Studio Swamp City: future scenarios for Arden Macaulay, and complementary study unit Swamps, Bogs and Billabongs: hybrid environments of the Southern Lowlands -UWA Perth Project: Ongoing research into the ‘water character’ of metropolitan Perth including data collection regarding groundwater, surface water, historical maps/planning schemes; cartography of the area of the collected data; theoretical studies of ecological urbanism; research of urban infill opportunities for metropolitan Perth: medium density policies and practices; case study collection of architectural typologies; Publication preparation: set up cross boundary research collaboration with Professor Carolyn Oldham of CRCWSC; drafts of abstract and timeline -Norman Creek: UQ Master of Architecture Research Workshop/Seminar undertakes GIS investigations and detailed urban analyisis as part of the Norman Creek catchment Design Investigation Stage; Leardini undertakes site visit to Singapore ABC Water Program projects and stakeholders (January 2017). Case study documentation and stakeholder interviews as part of the Norman Creek catchment Design Investigation Stage 1 -Commencement of new PhD candidate at UQ

Summary of key findings for quarter (~100 words)

-Second showing of Swamped exhibition hosted by industry partner City of Port Phillip proved to be a very successful avenue of engagement including a launch, opportunities for briefings with Councillors, senior executives and planners, as well as good attendance at the exhibition by community members. The Elster Creek Working Group is now up to its fourth meeting and the exhibition helped to consolidate and promote the work of this group - UWA has set up the structure of a cross-boundary publication with collaborating authors including CRCWSC Carolyn Oldham -Documentation of digital publication on Elwood Project as first case study completed -Contributions to a number of CRCWSC workshops and events

Research utilisation (~100 words)

(Outline any know use or application, including trials / pilot studies, of research outputs by end users)

-Theoretical research and case study collections for publications

-Elwood Exhibition and the digital publication Swamped: future water scenarios for Elwood enable broad access to research.

-Ongoing Elster Creek Working Group, with representation of key stakeholders from water bodies, and state government and 4 local government areas is now more established having had four meetings , and demonstrates the value of the outcomes of the Elwood Integrated Project.

-Working directly with industry partners on application of research to Redcliffe Connect, Ferndale and Norman Creek

-Leardini invited by staff of University of Nottingham-Ningbo, China (UNNC) to submit application for UNNC Visiting Scholars Scheme to develop research collaboration linked to Sponge Cities Program in Ningbo (Fellowship awarded with first visit planed in April 2017).

Summary of key communication and stakeholder engagement activities (~100 words) (Note that details must be reported in sections below)

--Swamped exhibition involved lots of engagement with stakeholders including at the launch, and at the subsequent briefings by Nigel Bertram to City of Port Phillip Councillors, senior executives and planners

-Elster Creek Working Group meetings involve ongoing engagement and development of ideas -Bertram met with Professor Takanori Fukuoka from Kobe University Graduate School of Engineering re water sensitive cities ideas in Japan -Arden Macaulay project expands the findings from workshops in a new Architectural design studio with 17 masters students and engagement with industry partner Melbourne Water -London and He attended a meeting with a potential Chinese collaborator for a planning project in Nansha, Shenzhen -London and Bertram made various contributions to a number of CRCWSC workshops -Leardini attended at Living and Sustainability International Conference in London presenting a paper on impact of flood risk management policies on high-density development in Brisbane. -Leardini, Moulis and Ozgun attended a scoping meeting on WSUD and small lots research projects with Brisbane City Council officers, as well as follow up meeting with Prof Jurg Keller

Key Issues or Risks Anticipated Risk Management Activities

Milestones and deliverables

Project milestones and deliverables

(from Project Agreement and FY15-16

Annual work plan where relevant)

(do not include completed deliverables from previous financial years)

Project Agreement milestone due date

Annual

work

plan

FY15-

16

milestone due date

Status update and list any actual outputs

(excluding publications)

(provide detail and justification for over or under delivery, budget issues etc.)

Management response (please comment on how any delivery delays or issues are being managed)

%

complete

Status*

Case study research completed Dec 2015 Completed – previously reported 100%

Design brief, framework and benchmarks developed

March 2016 Completed for Elwood project 100%

Progress Report No1 June 2016 Completed 100%

Positioning Paper released as a CRCWSC Technical Report

Nov 2015 Review by CRCWSC for Technical Report. Negotiations over publication continue.

98%

Design case study released as a CRCWSC Technical Report

June 2016 Arden Macaulay Framed Through Water: Design

Investigation Stage 1, being reviewed by

Program B leaders for acceptance as CRCWSC

Technical Report

Digital publication on Elwood Project has been completed

100%

Conference/journal papers (At least one refereed paper will be published during 2015/16)

June 2016 2 refereed conference papers published on

Elwood Integrated Project and 2 on flood

resilience in Qld

100% Y

Post Docs - Victoria (equivalent full-time post- doc)

June 2015 Completed previously reported 100%

Post Docs - WA (1 day a week post-doc

from 1 July 2015 moving to 4 days a week

on 1

January 2016)

Aug 2015 Commenced 1 July 2017 100%

Post Docs - Qld (commencing on 1 Jan 2016) Feb 2016 Commenced 1 July 2017 100%

PhD students: 2 x PhD students to begin at Monash

Nov 2015 Commenced

100%

New PhD commenced Q3 21067/17 at UQ

Collaborate with industry partners in establishing demonstration projects in each state including establishing and meeting with small working stakeholder groups, holding workshops/project meetings for CRCWSC industry partners and CRCWSC researchers

June 2016’ Ongoing

Ongoing collaborating with industry partners on projects including Arden Macaulay, Elwood, Norman Creek and Redcliffe / Ferndale

100%

2 x Design Studios Kunshan and City of Canning

Jan 2015 Completed – previously reported 100%

Regular monthly phone conference or in person meetings with D5.1 partner universities

June 2016 ongoing

Ongoing throughout project

D5.1 meeting held in Melbourne

100%

Establishment of research sharing platform for 3 partner universities

Nov 2015 Completed – previously reported `100%

Contribution to CRCWSC Synthesis workshops (dates to be confirmed by CRCWSC).

June 2016 On-going

Completed – previously reported. 100%

* - on-track to meet milestone as per agreed timeframe and budget; - unlikely or not on-track to achieve milestone by agreed timeframe and budget; - will not achieve milestone by agreed timeframe and budget

Communication, stakeholder engagement and adoption activities

Formal publications - peer reviewed PUBLISHED in this quarter.*

- includes books; book chapters; articles in scholarly-refereed journals; full written conference papers (refereed proceedings)

Publication Type (choose from list above)

Reference (Harvard Style)

Request to publish form submitted. Y/N

Conference paper London, G., Bertram. N. and L. Khor, Infill Housing Strategies to Transform Low-Density Suburbs. International Conference on Sustainable Housing Planning, Management and Usability, Green Lines Institute; Porto, Portugal, 16-18 November 2016 (Note: not reported in last quarter)

Overall Project Status

Conference Paper Leardini, P., Brage, T. and S. Bowstead. A flood resilience manifesto: reframing Brisbane city’s high density waterfront development. Living and Sustainability: An environmental critique of design and building practices, locally and globally. AMPS; London South Bank University 9-10 February, 2017

* Please attach a copy of manuscript / final content if available

Publications and reports for end-users - CRSWSC technical and project milestone reports and other end-user publications and communication products FINALISED in this quarter

- includes technical or milestone reports; end-user report or guideline; synthesis report; newsletter articles, industry notes, fact sheets, audio-visual materials (videos, CD-ROMs, DVDs), flyers, presentation materials, booklets, computer programs, blogs, websites). Aimed at transferring know-how or practical information for end-users.

Publication / product type

(choose from list above)

Reference (if applicable) or author/s Other details (description, publisher, web address, location)

Status (in draft; in press/review; published/final*)

Request to publish form submitted. Y/N

Digital publication Swamped: future water scenarios for Elwood URL:monash.edu/mada/swamped

Finalised in this quarter and will be uploaded on MADA website by early May 2017

*if published / final – please attach a copy

Communication and stakeholder engagement activities

- includes seminar / workshop; conference; meeting; research synthesis activity; training, education or capacity building; RASC; SASC; Project User Group; other)

Date Location Type

(choose from list above)

Activity details and purpose Key attendees and organisation (list name and organisation where possible)

# of attendees

Host / organiser

(CRCWSC or other - specify)

23 Jan 2017 St Kilda Town Hall

Meeting Elster Creek Round Table No 3 Peter Murrell (City of Kingston), David Taylor (Bayside City Council), Sam Innes, Mark Thompson and Renae Walton (City of Port Phillip), Rohan Ogier and David Bergmann (South East Water), Beth McLachlan and Wendy Smith (Melbourne Water), Elliot Stuart (Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning), Paul Samaratunge (City of Glen Eira), Briony Rogers, Christian Urich, Rutger Pasman, Jamie Ewert, Trish Watts (CRCWSC)

16

CRCWSC

3 Feb 2017 Perth Meeting Exploration of CRCWSC collaboration with Mr Wang in Shenzhen, China

Mr Wang, Geoffrey London and Shan He 3 D5.1

6 Feb 2017 Phone Meeting Swamped exhibition update Catherine Murphy, Jamie Ewert, Trish Watts 3 CRCWSC

7 Feb 2017 Melbourne Workshop IRP3 Workshop

Integrated planning

Nigel Bertram, Geoffrey London, and CRCWSC and participating industry representatives

~40 CRCWSC

8 Feb 2017 Melbourne Workshop IRP4 Workshop infill development

Nigel Bertram, Geoffrey London and CRCWSC and participating industry representatives

~40 CRCWSC

9-10/02/2017 London (UK)

Conference Paper presented at the international conference Living and Sustainability: An Environmental Critique of Design and Building Practices, Locally and Globally.

Paola Leardini, Tomas Brage and Sam Bowstead. + conference attendees

200+ London South Bank University

10 Feb Melbourne Meeting Video recording and story-booking of Elwood project

Jamie Ewert, Daniel Connellan, Nigel Bertram, Catherine Murphy

4 CRCWSC

? Feb 2017 Brisbane City Council

Meeting Scoping meeting on WSUD and small lots of research projects with BCC officers

Paoloa Leardini, Antony Moulis and Kaan Ozgun and Brisbane City Council Officers

6?

17 Feb 2017 City of Bayside

Meeting Elster Creek Round Table No 4 Peter Murrell (City of Kingston), David Taylor (Bayside City Council), Sam Innes, Mark Thompson and Renae Walton (City of Port Phillip), David Bergmann and Darragh O’Donavan (South East Water), Deborah Riley (Melbourne Water), Shiroma Maheepala (Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning), Paul Samaratunge (City of Glen Eira), Tony Wong, Jamie Ewert, Nigel Bertram, Catherine Murphy, Trish Watts (CRCWSC)

15

CRCWSC

22 Feb Melbourne Meeting Professor Fukuoka re Japanese re water sensitive cities

Professor Takanori Fukuoka from Kobe University Graduate School of Engineering, Nigel Bertram

2 D5.1

22 Feb – 22 March

St Kilda Town Hall

Exhibition Swamped exhibition (second showing)

Open to general public over a month long period ~500 D5.1

28 Feb 2017 St Kilda Town Hall

Exhibition opening

Swamped exhibition Tony Wong, Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Catherine Murphy, Rutger Pasman, Christian Urich, City of Port Phillip Mayor Bernadene Voss and Councillors, representatives from Melbourne Water, South East Water, Monash architecture students, members of community groups + others

~70

D5.1

1 March Field trip Arden Macaulay site walk D5.1: Nigel Bertram, Rutger Pasman, Oscar Sainsbury; PhD students: Gyöngyvér Engloner, Dan Nyandega; Architecture Masters Students: Kimberly Atkinson, Timothy Daborn, Alysha Dewar, Christina Erng, Leonor Gausachs, Nathan Gilchrist, David Mason, Emily McBain, Brendan McDowell, Jesse Oehm, Isabella Peppard Clark, Jean-Christophe Olivier Petite, Tai Quach, Matthew Robert Smith, Alexander Williams, James Zhao Jin Yan

23

D5.1

7 March Monash Phone Interview with Peter Barrett journalist of CCWSC newsletter on Elwood Project

Nigel Bertram and Peter Barrett 2 CRCWSC

15 March City of Port Phillip

Meeting Briefing on Swamped exhibition City of Port Phillip councillors

City of Port Phillip CEO and five elected councillors, Brett Walters, Manager Sustainability and Transport, Nigel Bertram

7 City of Port

Philip

16 March Melbourne Meeting and field trip

D5.1 meeting

Field trip of Melbourne infill housing examples

Geoffrey London, Nigel Bertram, Catherine Murphy

Nigel Bertram and Geoffrey London

3

D5.1

20 march City of Port Phillip

Meeting x 2 1, Briefing on Swamped exhibition to City of Port Phillip Executive Leadership Team

2. Repeat briefing with Council planning staff

Nigel Bertram, Brett Walters, Manager Sustainability and Transport, Executive leadership team x 4,

Nigel Bertram, 6 City of Port Phillip planning staff

12

City of Port Phillip

? March 2017 Brisbane City Council

Meeting Further meeting on WSUD and small lots of research projects with BCC officers

Kaan Ozgun, Prof Jurg Keller and BCC officers 6?

20 March South East Water

Workshop Aquarevo Landscaping Plan Workshop

Rutger Pasman and workshop participants ~40 CRCWSC and South East Water

21 March National Gallery of Victoria

Forum Urban Ecology: Design for living systems forum Melbourne Design Festival

Catherine Murphy, Rutger Pasman ~75

22 March South Gippsland

Field Trip Koo Wee Rup, Tooradin, and Harewood Mansion Field Trip

Geoff Yugovic, Pat Macwhirter, D5.1: Nigel Bertram, Rutger Pasman, Oscar Sainsbury; PhD student: Gyöngyvér Engloner Architecture Masters Students: Kimberly Atkinson, Timothy Daborn, Alysha Dewar, Christina Erng, Leonor Gausachs, Nathan Gilchrist, David Mason, Emily McBain, Brendan McDowell, Jesse Oehm, Isabella Peppard Clark, Jean-Christophe Olivier Petite, Tai Quach, Matthew Robert Smith, Alexander Williams, James Zhao Jin Yan

23

D5.1

24 March Monash PhD Seminar

Dr Richard Black presented research on Murray River flood landscapes

Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Catherine Murphy, Rutger Pasman, Gyöngyvér Engloner, Dan Nyandega plus Department of Architecture PhD students

20

D5.1

27 March 2017

Perth Workshop IRP5 Prelim. For WA participants

London, He, and WA CRCWSC and participating industry representatives

~20 CRCWSC

28 March Phone Planning of CRCWSC conference session in Perth

Tony Wong and Nigel Bertram 2 CRCWSC

28 March Teleconference

Meeting Elster Creek Working Group

Peter Murrell (City of Kingston), David Taylor (Bayside City Council), Sam Innes, Mark Thompson and Renae Walton (City of Port Phillip), David Bergmann and Darragh O’Donavan (South East Water), Deborah Riley (Melbourne Water), Shiroma Maheepala (Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning), Paul Samaratunge (City of Glen Eira), Tony Wong, Jamie Ewert, Nigel Bertram, Trish Watts (CRCWSC)

14

CRCWSC

29 March Library at the Dock

Moonee creek catchment talk Julie Francis and Luke Poland, Melbourne Water D5.1: Nigel Bertram, Catherine Murphy, Rutger Pasman, Oscar Sainsbury;

PhD student: Gyöngyvér Engloner, Dan Nyandega; Architecture Masters Students: Kimberly Atkinson, Timothy Daborn, Alysha Dewar, Christina Erng, Leonor Gausachs, Nathan Gilchrist, David Mason, Emily McBain, Brendan McDowell, Jesse Oehm, Isabella Peppard Clark, Jean-Christophe Olivier Petite, Tai Quach, Matthew Robert Smith, Alexander Williams, James Zhao Jin Yan

23

D5.1

Project personnel; financial resources and grants

Project personnel changes

- includes new, exiting and change of details for this quarter

Title & Full name University / Organisation, Faculty / Department)

Position

Date (Start / Exit)

Phone

Email FTE (full-time equivalent)

Cash funded/in-kind

New and graduating students for this quarter (PhD & Masters, or other Postgrad)

* if graduating, please provide details of graduate employment destination (if known)

Full name University, Faculty / Department

Thesis topic (if known)

New – start date

Graduating – end date

Student contact details (Phone / Email)

EFTSL or FTE**

Cash funded; top up or in-kind

Supervisors (including organisation)

Tomas Brage UQ, EAIT, School of Architecture

PhD

Decision pathways towards flood resilient urban design: The case of Brisbane, Australia.

10/01/2017 t.brage@uq.edu.au in-kind Dr P. Leardini (UQ)

**(equivalent full-time student load or full-time equivalent)

New financial assistance / grants for quarter

- excludes funds from CRCWSC participant contributions

- includes those awarded by Commonwealth/state/territory government sources or agencies

Grant Title

Granting Body Date Awarded Total Grant Amount

$

Period of Grant (financial years)

Amount per Financial Year

Other project highlights / activities

Item Details

New intellectual property (Centre IP)- identified

Regulatory activities undertaken or completed

Awards and acknowledgements

Checklist for quarter

Progress summary report

Report on milestones and deliverables

New formal publications

New publications and reports for end-users

New communication & stakeholder engagement activities

New and/or departing staff/students

New financial assistance/grants

New other highlights for quarter

I confirm that the information in this report is correct and updated for the quarter. Signature of Project Leader:

Date: 27.04.2017 Approved by Program Leader: Date: