Conference Day Two: 26 February 2009

7.30 Optional Pre-Breakfast briefing by Ecowise

Ecowise is delighted to invite you to a complimentary hot breakfast on the second morning of the Utilities Uncovered conference, where you will have the opportunity to learn of a new and ground breaking solution for managing your Dial Before You Dig notification requests. Providing full automation, the ability to communicate with whatever GIS technology you have in place and a customisable workflow to suit your needs, you will discover not only how to protect your underground assets but how you can have map responses back to the public in minutes without any manual effort; saving costs and potentially saving lives. With only a limited number of seats available for this exclusive briefing, don’t miss this Ecowise breakfast – book your complimentary place now!

9.00 Opening Address from Conference Chair

9.10 CASE STUDY: Investigating the Paradigm Shift for Brisbane City Council’s Spatial Information that Adds the “Where” to Our Work

Exploring the Spatial Information Services role at Brisbane City Council
Applying a spatial strategy for 2010: Where Brisbane City Council wants to be?
Analysing the steps towards achieving goals and pre-empting potential obstacles
Progressing the GIS technology environment
Grasping opportunities for collaboration and integration
Evaluating the next step for Brisbane City Council: Seizing the “tools of trade”
Showcasing the achievements to date

Jeff Sangster
Director, GIS
BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL

9.50 CASE STUDY: Managing the Risk of Asset Failures within City West Water’s Infrastructure

Achieving a risk management process that all staff and the executive management team understand and approve
Analysing characteristics of the assets, its performance, known condition, and its impact to the community, environment and cost to City West Water should they fail
Bringing together a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) consequence of a failure risk decision model
Outlining the asset criticality risk model: Focusing on the benefits derived from applying it
Applying the asset criticality risk model to all of City West Water’s water supply and sewerage pipelines
Assessing the quantified risk of failure of these assets
Presenting the results from using an optimisation tool: Managing the level of renewal expenditure over a 20 year period and ensuring that the risk carried is manageable at any point in time during this period

Danielle Roche
Asset Manager
CITY WEST WATER

10.40 Morning Tea Break

11.10 CASE STUDY: Analysing Telstra’s Strategies for Asset Relocation and Protection of the Network

Deliberating network integrity services: Excavation around Telstra assets
Protecting ground assets from damage: How is this achieved?
Assessing the proximity of proposed work to Telstra’s asset: What is this process, and has it been challenging?
Providing duty of care with the plans and remember to:
- Plan
- Pothole
- Protect
- Proceed
Analysing major damages to optic fibre cables and common causes

Craig Dowling
Team Leader, Network Integrity
TELSTRA

11.50 CASE STUDY: Investigating Ground Penetrating Radar Technologies for Locating Buried Utilities: Seeing through the Earth at Hydro

Analysing the complexities of the underground in inhabited areas
Producing an underground cross-sectional, two-dimensional image of assets
Developing three dimensional GPR images: Analysing the steps towards producing the imagery
Providing an introduction into the working principles of scanning the ground with electromagnetic radar: Analysing waves that are being refracted, scattered, and reflected by buried objects
Analysing the advantages and flaws of ground penetrating radar vs. metal detectors

George Jakins
Senior Surveyor
HYDRO TASMANIA

James Uziallo
Surveyor
HYDRO TASMANIA

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Analysing the Benefits of the Pipeline Asset and Risk Management System (PARMS)

Developing effective strategies to overcome urban water systems deterioration
Implementing effective strategic asset management and system technologies
Presenting a clear understanding of degradation processes
Initiating an enhanced predictive capability to model the long-term performance of water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure assets
Undertaking asset investment forecasts that account for the impacts of future water service configurations on existing systems

Stewart Burn
Stream Leader, Integrated Urban Water Systems
CSIRO LAND & WATER

2.20 Detecting Forestry and Biomass Amounts Using Lidar: Analysing the Advantages to the Utilities Industry

Highlighting the operationally flexible and robust sampling for forest management of your assets
Discussing precise mapping of vegetation structure with lidar
Extracting tree layers and ground surface: How this can assist you?
Generating high accuracy analysis of biomass amounts in Australia
Converting rasters to vectors and vice versa: What this means?
Benchmarking against SAR: Evaluating these against your own project

Samsung Lim
Senior Lecturer, School Of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

3.10 Afternoon Tea

3.40 Supporting Effective Automated Processes: Increasing the Use of Maintenance Management and Geographical Information Systems

Providing access to information from different sources, departments and IT systems
Analysing data integrity between operational automation and control systems
Demonstrating the interaction of a directory service:
- Application adapters
- Communication infrastructure
- Common data model
Acting across application boundaries within the utilities industry

Kevin McDougall
Associate Professor in Surveying and Land Information
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA

4.20 Analysing Probability: Predicting Pipe Breakdown

Dovetailing forensic evidence from past structural failures in water mains: Delivering a better chance to predict potential failures in underground pipe networks
Targeting your maintenance: Acting on potential problems before being hit with the cost of damage later on
Estimating failures in underground pipes: Overcoming the lack of accurate statistical predictions
Showcasing high accuracy predicting measures: Understanding material, degradation, crack growth and fracture aspects
Developing a model that uses probability distributions
Estimating the probable defect size along any given point on a pipe Extrapolating the models to estimate network-wide failure rates

Jayantha Kodikara
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
MONASH UNIVERSITY - DEPT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

5.00 Close of Conference

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