When: 17th June 2009
Where: Hawken Auditorium, Engineering House (447 Upper Edward Street, Brisbane)
Cost: Free! Refreshments provided
Register: Please register by contacting Lauren Moon at Engineers Australia (Ph: 07 3832 3749).

Introduction:
The Gateway Upgrade Project (GUP) is one of Queensland's largest infrastructure projects. The motorway will pass across a number of environmentally and flood sensitive tidal waterways including the Kedron Brook floodplain, Brisbane River and Bulimba Creek. This presentation will provide an overview of the flood modelling carried out to assess the project impacts on flooding and tidal regimes and some of the specific design challenges encountered. The presentation will also discuss the water quality treatment systems provided and how these were modelled.
Seminar Presenter:
David Bannigan - Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC)
David Bannigan is a Principal Water Resources Engineer with approximately 20 years experience. He joined SMEC in 1997 and is now based in Brisbane. He has Bachelor and Master Degrees from the University of New South Wales. David joined the Gateway Upgrade Project design team in 2007 as the drainage and hydrology design team leader.

When: 20th - 21st July 2009
Where: Skillgate, Level 4, 138 Albert Street, Brisbane QLD.
Cost: $1250 for 2 day course, notes, software and manuals, teas and lunches provided. See flyer for more information.
Register: Please register by contacting Dr Jaya Kandasamy at University of Technology, Sydney.

Introduction:
HEC-RAS 4 has recently been released. HEC-RAS performs FULLY DYNAMIC computations and can be used to account for channel and floodplain storage, time varying tidal boundaries and routes full hydrographs through dendritic and looped channel networks. All participants will receive a copy of the HEC-RAS software including manuals. HEC-RAS features include:

• Fully dynamic hydraulic computations;
• Mixed flow regime in unsteady flow - Supercritical as well as hydraulic jumps;
• Dam-break analysis, Levee breaching, pump stations, culvert flap gates;
• Diverse combination of bridge, culvert, weir and gated flow analysis;
• Mixed pipe and open channel analysis for stormwater analysis; and
• Quasi 2-D velocity distributions.

Course Presenter:
Dr. Jaya Kandasamy is a specialist in computational hydraulics and well known for the HEC-RAS courses presented around Australia and overseas over the last 13 years. He has considerable experience in a wide range of hydraulic models and has published in leading international journals. Prior to joining UTS he was employed in the NSW Government for a period of 14 years most recently in the Department of Natural Resources, his principal activity involved providing the department with high level technical modelling capability in support of the departments programs.

When: Wednesday 20 May 2009, start 5:30pm
Where: Hawken Auditorium, Engineering House (447 Upper Edward Street, Brisbane)
Cost: Free! Refreshments provided
Register: Please register by contacting Lauren Moon at Engineers Australia.
Introduction:
Flooding is an important concern for planning and design of roads throughout Queensland, but especially so in the tropical north of the state. In this region, there is heavy rainfall and there are major rivers and extensive floodplains. Flood issues are related to the assessment of the flood immunity of the road and the times of closure by flooding. As well the drainage works must be designed to ensure that the flow velocities through structures are acceptable and the impact, especially afflux, is accepted by the community.
Presenters include:
- Bill Weeks, Department of Main Roads, will introduce the overall issues and approaches and concerns for these types of flood studies.

- Trinity Graham, Aurecon (formerly Connell Wagner), will make a presentation on the Tully project.

- Toby McGrath, Kellogg Brown & Root, will make a presentation on Yellow Gin Creek.

- Sharon Wallace, BMT WBM, will make a presentation on Sandy Gully.