Upcoming Events

Oct
22
Thu
2015
2015 Healthy Waterways Report Card Launch @ Various South East Locations (See Invitation)
Oct 22 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
2015 Healthy Waterways Report Card Launch @ Various South East Locations (See Invitation)

Healthy Waterways invites you to attend the 2015 Report Card launch on: Thursday 22 October 2015 at 11.30am to 12.30pm.

This year, Healthy Waterways has evolved the Monitoring Program and Report Card to assess the benefits the community receives from our waterways, and the actions they undertake to protect and improve waterway health.

This holistic approach to reporting will provide the insight and information to drive best-practice waterway management to achieve environmental outcomes and enhance the community’s quality of life.

The Report Card launch is a culmination of 12 months of scientific monitoring throughout the region, with results independently assessed and verified by apanel of scientific experts.

The launch is held simultaneously in four locations across South East Queensland:  For more details click through to the Report Card – Launch invitation

Register to attend your local launch before Friday 16 October to reportcard@healthywaterways.org nominating your launch location.

Nov
26
Thu
2015
2015 Stormwater Queensland End of Year Drinks @ Gambaro Function Centre
Nov 26 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm
2015 Stormwater Queensland End of Year Drinks @ Gambaro Function Centre | Brisbane | Queensland | Australia

Stormwater Queensland will be holding the association’s End of Year Drinks directly after the Stormwater Quality Offsets Forum from 4.30 pm to 7.00 pm.

Come join the Stormwater Queensland committee for a few drinks and canapes to celebrate a year of achievements in the Stormwater Industry and take the opportunity to have a chat to industry friends and colleagues.

Registration to attend this event is free of charge.

If you would like to attend the Stormwater Queensland End of Year Drinks, please register at https://www.secureregistrations.com/SQNOV2015/.

Should you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the Stormwater Queensland Secretariat on 1300 721 220.

Jul
7
Thu
2016
2016 Stormwater Queensland Awards Presentation Luncheon @ The Landing at Dockside
Jul 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Stormwater Queensland are pleased to present the 2016 Awards for Excellence Presentation Luncheon.

The award categories for the 2016 Awards for Excellence are:

  • Excellence in Strategic or Master Planning
  • Excellence in Infrastructure
  • Excellence in Asset Management
  • Excellence in Research and Innovation
  • Excellence in Policy or Education
  • Excellence in Integrated Stormwater Design

If you would like to register for this event, please contact Lilly Barker on +61 2 9744 5252 or via email lbarker@gemspl.com.au.

National Awards for Excellence

Under the Awards for Excellence protocol adopted by Stormwater Australia, only the recipients of the State Awards for Excellence will be eligible for the National Excellence Awards. Preceding two years of State award winners (2015 and 2016) will be eligible for the National Awards in 2016. Therefore, entry of a project into a State Excellence Awards is a minimum prerequisite for participation in the National Awards.

The National Awards is held every two years. The next National Awards will be announced at the Stormwater National 2016 Conference in Brisbane, Queensland on Wednesday, 31st August, 2016.

Should you have any questions about the 2016 Stormwater Queensland Awards for Excellence, please contact Event Coordinator, Lilly Barker on +61 2 9744 5252 or via email to lbarker@gemspl.com.au.

Nov
23
Wed
2016
RBMS presents – Brisbane Reading Group – 2016 Healthy Waterways and Catchments Report Card @ Jak and Hill
Nov 23 @ 7:30 am – 8:30 am
RBMS presents - Brisbane Reading Group - 2016 Healthy Waterways and Catchments Report Card @ Jak and Hill | Spring Hill | Queensland | Australia

River Basin Management Society invite you to attend:

A Discussion on the 2016 Healthy Waterways and Catchments Report Card

“Please join us for a conversation with Dr Emily Saeck, Senior Scientist with Health Waterways and Catchments, to discuss the results of the 2016 Report Card. The Report Card provides an annual assessment of the pressures facing our waterways, their current environmental condition (A-F grade), and the level of social and economic benefit the waterways provide to local communities (1-5 star rating). This is the second year of the newly evolved Report Card, which provides a deeper understanding of the current pressures, benefits we receive, and importantly what needs to be done to protect and improve our waterways.
Please visit the Healthy Waterways and Catchments website to view the Report Card results after the launch on 16 November: http://healthywaterways.org/report-card”

To Register your attendance – click here

Dec
13
Tue
2016
Stormwater QLD End of Year Celebration Event @ Lennons (Private Dining Room) @ NEXT Hotel
Dec 13 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Stormwater QLD End of Year Celebration Event @ Lennons (Private Dining Room) @ NEXT Hotel | Brisbane City | Queensland | Australia

The SQ Management Committee invites all members, and potential members, to attend the 2016 End of Year Celebration event.  The event is an opportunity for members to provide feedback and ideas to the committee on 2017 event topics/speakers and new initiatives, and to express your interest in participating in a sub-committee next year.

The program for the evening will also include a short presentation from Mike Smith about “When Government Says “No” at Christmas”. Mike Smith is a National Director of Stormwater Australia, and the founder of Ethical Consulting Services, a consultancy all about communications – lobbying, government relations, campaigning, marketing and governance.  He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and has been a Company Secretary, and Chief Executive. He’s worked at UQ as a lecturer/course coordinator on government policy-making; he’s also lectured on government relations, governance, board effectiveness, elections and campaigning, as well as developing and delivering customised training courses for business, community organisations, university students, and to professional conferences.  His main recreational interest is elections, and he’s been a volunteer in five US Presidential campaigns, as well as managing and mentoring many Australian campaigns and candidates.

 If you are able to join us on the 13th, please RSVP via return email by COB 6 December 2016 so as we know numbers for catering.

The Management Committee looks forward to meeting many members for an enjoyable evening.

Brad Dalrymple

President

Stormwater Queensland

 

Oct
11
Wed
2017
Stormwater QLD & IECA State Conference – 50 Shades of Blue, Green & Brown @ Pullman Brisbane, King George Square
Oct 11 – Oct 13 all-day
Stormwater QLD & IECA State Conference - 50 Shades of Blue, Green & Brown @ Pullman Brisbane, King George Square | Brisbane City | Queensland | Australia

Effective land and water management requires a holistic approach across catchments and the development cycle. But it also throws up challenges – grey areas – that require new or different ways of thinking.

For that reason, Stormwater Queensland (SQ) and the International Erosion Control Association (IECA) Australasia have come together for a joint conference in 2017 to recognise the common values and purpose they share in effective land, stormwater and waterway management:

All soil and water professionals are invited to join us in beautiful Brisbane in October 2017. The conference will bring together practitioners, academics, suppliers, asset owners and students in a common forum to engage, collaborate, discuss and dive headfirst into the grey areas of land and water management.

With so many established concepts and approaches for land and water management, this conference will explore the grey areas, the subtleties that exist within those approaches that can trip us up or mean the difference between success and failure. We’ll look at emerging technologies, established approaches, and will never discount embracing the old ways; what can we learn from past mistakes and how can we work smarter to manage our land and water resources?

This conference aims to celebrate our successes, explore new challenges, encourage better integration of soil and water management, and promote engineering and science as complimentary disciplines.

This conference effectively unites two organisations that are in the business of managing stormwater quality and quantity at various stages of development, from design to construction and on to operation.

The conference will include keynote speakers, plenary sessions, open discussion forums, panel sessions, technical workshops, exhibitions and a comprehensive social program.

With SQ and IECA coming together for this conference, it is sure to be a fun, vibrant, thought-provoking event that will expand delegates’ thinking and knowledge while challenging them to investigate the nuanced grey areas of land and water management.

We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane in October 2017!

Avoid disappointment and register today HERE

Aug
29
Wed
2018
2018 Awards for Excellence Dinner @ Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Aug 29 @ 6:30 pm – 11:30 pm

Awards Dinner Tickets

Members: $100.00 (inc. GST)
Non-Members: $155.00 (inc. GST)

For entry submissions see below;

Awards for Excellence

Feb
4
Thu
2021
Stormwater Queensland Awards For Excellence 2020 @ Newstead Brewing Co
Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

EVENT CHANGE –

With the easing COVID19 restrictions, SQ is proud to announce a change to the proposed Excellence Awards Webinar to a face-to-face event in February.  Come along to celebrate some of the great stormwater projects of the year, catch up with some old industry friends over a couple of drinks and meet a few new ones!

In Queensland, we have a history of excellence across every aspect of stormwater management. From outstanding examples of master planning to integrated stormwater design, the awards provide an outstanding opportunity to showcase the quality of our work and the beneficial impact it has on keeping our vital waterways healthy.

The 2020 entry categories include:

  • Excellence in Strategic or Master Planning (Sponsored by Ocean Protect)
  • Excellence in Infrastructure
  • Excellence in Asset Management
  • Excellence in Research and Innovation
  • Excellence in Policy or Education
  • Excellence in Integrated Stormwater Design

 

Mar
29
Tue
2022
franc.sydney 2022 @ Dockside Darling Harbour
Mar 29 – Mar 30 all-day
franc.sydney 2022 @ Dockside Darling Harbour

franc.sydney 2022 is powered by Stormwater NSW and is all about challenging the rationality of current practices and perceptions of urban stormwater and its management. It is a community of individuals and organisations who are, in some way, connected to or effected by urban stormwater and are passionate about changing the way the industry operates to become more future-focused, resilient, adaptive and connected.

The stormwater industry has, for decades, tried to shift the balance between vested interests and the greater good, but it has become clear that it can’t do this alone. So franc.sydney 2022 brings together individuals from beyond stormwater to tackle this issue together. Our members include professionals, scientists, academics, researchers and advocates that recognise the need for change, the need to put the long-term prosperity of the health of our waterways, emissions and sustainable development above short-term political and financial interests. Most importantly, we bring these people together to help us all speak with one voice.

And it all begins by having ‘franc’ discussions.

This conference has a total of seventeen (17) guest speakers (up from the traditional four), and will include a range of new topics including:

  • How to develop resilient communities.
  • The relationship between the environment and human health.
  • Finding ways to help protect our aquatic environment and conserve biodiversity; and

Conversations between scientists, planners, hydrologists, environmentalists and academics to ensure we are all on the ‘same page’ going forward.

Franc.Sydney has also moved to become a hybrid event giving everyone the opportunity to be a part of franc either in person or from the comfort of your own home. In-person and virtual registrations are exchangeable at the rate you paid (early bird, standard) if you are to change your mind closer to the date.

Apr
8
Fri
2022
WEBINAR: KEEPING OUR HEADS ABOVE WATER – MENTAL HEALTH IN THE STORMWATER INDUSTRY
Apr 8 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
WEBINAR: KEEPING OUR HEADS ABOVE WATER - MENTAL HEALTH IN THE STORMWATER INDUSTRY

Do you find the your work is affecting your mental health? Was that 20th drainage re-design one too many? Do you feel as though your clients still don’t care about water quality outcomes, even in 2022?

Come along to this panel discussion to hear from some diverse voices who’ve been there and seen that. This event aims to proactively review the pressures of mental health, uniquely to stormwater professionals, and how we can work together to overcome them as an industry.

This free  1-hour webinar is hosted by Stormwater Queensland and will include presentations, followed by Q&A with attendees.

Proof of CPD will be provided to attendees upon request to Stormwater Queensland.