Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Industry Futures Forum Meeting the challenges together

Program and Speakers

Tuesday 13 Feb 2018 UNSW CBD campus

Level 6 / 1 O’Connell St, Sydney

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Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Industry Futures Forum

About Us The UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering is internationally ranked by AWRU and QS World University Rankings as the premier School of our kind in Australia and as one of the world’s top twenty. The School is committed to advancing a more prosperous, safe and just society. Our courses emphasise sustainability and a consideration of engineering impacts, with an integrated and inter-connected view of the world. We continue to forge ahead with innovative research fields, new educational courses, and an ever expanding network of industry connections. Our Centres and discipline groups provide focal points for our researchers to contribute to global efforts in innovative civil, environmental and geospatial engineering research. With strong interdisciplinary and external industry collaborations - and with mentorship provided to our great young researchers – we aim to continue our leadership in research and teaching excellence.

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Industry Futures Forum Meeting the challenges together

Day’s Program & Speakers

8.30 – 9 am Registration & arrival

9 – 10.30 am Meeting the challenges together

Welcome: Professor Stephen Foster, Head of School MC: Ian McIntyre, Chair – CVEN Industry Advisory Committee Speakers Advisian Professor Travis Waller – Director of UNSW CVEN Research - our research capabilities Dr James Glastonbury, Engineering Director, Laing O’Rourke - an industry perspective Dr Robert Care, AM – Care Collaborative P/L, UNSW Professor of Practice - relationships are key Warwick Dawson- Director of UNSW Knowledge Exchange – UNSW business enablers

Industry Panel Q & A Dr Robert Care, AM – Care Collaborative Pty Ltd Dr James Glastonbury, Engineering Director, Laing O’Rourke Nick Hudson, Director of Economics and Policy, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia Natasha Rawlings – Investment Manager, Uniseed Cecilia Warren, Director Mobility R & D, IAG - Innovation

10.30 – 11 am Morning tea

11 – 12.30 Parallel sessions Involve three or more case studies /talks from academics followed by facilitated conversation with industry panel and audience

Smart cities: managing our complex 21st century societies

Facilitator: Ian McIntyre Dr David Rey, rCITI: ‘Is there demand for on-demand public transport?’ Dr Mehrisadat Makki Alamdari, CIES: ‘The future of bridge infrastructure management - data driven and digitised.’ Dr Brett Miller, WRL: ‘Water management - urban complexities.’ Industry discussion panel: Greg Ewing, EA Sydney: Cecilia Warren, IAG ; Nick Hudson, IPA

Resilient communities: engineering for adaptation and safety Facilitator: Prof Stephen Foster Prof David Carmichael: ‘Is Building In Adaptability and Flexibility for Future Change Worthwhile?’ A/Prof Denis O’Carroll: ‘Water challenges in the 21st century’ A/Prof Arnaud Castel, Dr Taehwan Kim: ‘21st century materials in Australia.’ A/Prof Hamid Vali Pour Goudarzi: ‘Sustainable, resilient, adaptable - steel-timber composite structures.’

12.30 – 1.15 Hot Lunch provided

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1.15 – 2.45pm Parallel sessions Involve three or more case studies /talks from academics followed by facilitated conversation with industry panel and audience

Disruptive technologies - engineering a transformed global landscape.

Facilitator: Prof Travis Waller Prof Chris Rizos: ‘The geospatial revolution: positioning, mapping, remote sensing.’ Dr Johnson Shen: ‘Autonomous 3D Mapping with Drone/UAV and Mobile Laser Scanning’ with Linke – industry partners A/Prof Vinayak Dixit: ‘Whose hands are on the wheel? The future of driverless cars’ Industry discussion panel: James Glastonbury, Laing O’Rourke; Ian Hardcastle, Digital Engineering; Jacobs: Gareth Swarbrick, PSM; Chris Turnbull, Turnbull Engineering.

Sustainable, strong and socially just – making the world a better place.

Facilitator: Dr Robert Care, AM A/Prof Tommy Wiedmann: ‘Mapping Sydney’s real carbon footprint’. A/Prof Will Glamore: ‘Restorative engineering - large wetland and riverine systems.’ A/Prof Lucy Marshall: ‘Water resources and sustainability’ Dr Hanna Grzybowska: ‘Hunger in Australia – the algorithms of fair distribution.’

2.45 – 3.15 The Wrap-Up Plenary – Facilitators share: What have we heard? What have we learned? What will we do now?

3.15 – 3.45 Afternoon tea

3.30 – 4.00 Research Students Presentations –Five or more ‘three minute thesis’ presentations giving a taste of our current engineering research and reach topics including; - The resilience of hydrologic models to climate change - Flood forecasting in sparsely gauged catchments - Performance investigation of alkali-activated Slag-based mortar in sewer environments -Computable general equilibrium modelling for urban transport planning and appraisal -Mapping earth surface deformation using new time series satellite radar interferometry -Data substantiation in mobility

4.00 – 5.00pm An accompanying poster display of twenty five research student works in progress – profiling the breadth and depth (and detail) of many of our current projects. Followed by Industry selected Awards for Posters.

4.00– 5.00pm Concurrent - drinks and networking Disclaimer: This program may be subject to changes, including additional speakers and/or industry panellists. About Us: The UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering is internationally ranked as number one in Australasia, and in the world’s top twenty. We have a five out of five research ranking from the federal government’s ERA and have won over 140 Australian Research Council grants. With eighty researchers working across the fields of civil, environmental and geospatial engineering, we currently partner with over 100 industry and government organisations each year. Indeed, the importance we place on the movement of our research to practice cannot be overstated. Our aim with this Forum is not just to share our capabilities and achievements, but to listen to industry needs, and to explore together future challenges, possible solutions, projects and ongoing relationships.

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About our research centres & hubs CIES Centre for Infrastructure Engineering & Safety - www.cies.unsw.edu.au CIES is a leader in national and international research in infrastructure engineering, with an interdisciplinary research team expert in structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, engineering materials and computational mechanics, supported by advanced analytical, computational and experimental techniques and facilities. CIRI Construction Innovation and Research Initiative - www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/civil-engineering/research Construction is the world’s largest industry and its efficiency and sustainability is of obvious importance. CIRI academics undertake basic and applied research in two broad areas - the design and management of large scale field processes and improved technology for construction activities. CWI Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre - www.connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au An integrated understanding of groundwater is essential for the future of the Australian environment, our urban and rural communities, and for agricultural and mining activity. The Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre aims to help fill critical gaps in our knowledge through research, teaching and public education. rCITI research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation - www.rciti.unsw.edu.au Through strategic partnerships with government and industry, our vision is to reshape the field of multi-modal transport engineering and planning, introducing new innovative techniques and technologies, and integrating methodologies across disciplines. Our five core research pillars: Transport Planning – ITS Communications – Infrastructure – Energy/Fuel – Computational Sustainability. SAGE Surveying and Geospatial Engineering Research - www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/civil-engineering/research The SAGE group conducts world class research in the subdisciplines of geodesy, photogrammetry, positioning measurement and remote sensing. The group includes one of the world’s top satellite and wireless positioning research groups, and one of Australia’s premier Earth observation research teams. SEI Sustainable Engineering Research Initiative - www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/civil-engineering/research We explore, research, define, assess and resolve issues of sustainability in engineering problems, in particular the implications and implementation of sustainability concepts and practices for all areas of civil infrastructure –buildings, roads and transport, water supply, waste disposal – in planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance. WRC Water Research Centre - www.wrc.unsw.edu.au The WRC provides multidisciplinary research in water resources, water quality and treatment processes, lifecycle assessment and sustainability: waste management: hydroclimatology: carbon and water footprinting; atmospheric emissions and odour; and the development of tools for environmental management and for improving aquatic and atmospheric environments. WRL Water Research Laboratory - www.wrl.unsw.edu.au Our expertise extends (but is not limited) to: Estuarine, coastal and ocean hydrodynamics and sediment transport, Coastal zone monitoring, foreshore protection and management, River flow and floodplain management, Civil engineering hydraulics, Catchment hydrology, Environmental studies and climate adaptation, Wetland restoration. We undertake extensive commercial activity in collaboration with industry.

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About our plenary speakers Robert Care, AM, Director - Care Collaborative Dr Robert Care has built and led high performance teams in diverse countries, cultures and economies. He has been highly effective in building the commitment, engagement and momentum for change in difficult and often highly resistant environments. His leadership style is characterised by a powerful combination of humility, humanity and commerciality. His aim is to make a difference wherever he is and whomever he is with. This in turn inspires others to strive and achieve.

Warwick Dawson, Director, Knowledge Exchange, Division of Enterprise, UNSW Sydney - Transforming societies worldwide with UNSW technology and capability. Warwick has 20 years experience in strategic leadership roles in both the public and private sectors. In addition to various positions in research intensive universities, he has held legal and commercial roles in the engineering, construction and IT sectors supporting a wide range of clients ranging from multi-nationals to SMEs. Key achievements include building effective partnerships enabling successful execution of high impact projects, and delivery of effective customer focused services.

Stephen Foster, Professor and Head of School, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UNSW A Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, Professor Foster has more than 30 years of experience within the concrete industry and concrete materials field, and has published widely in the civil engineering field. Stephen has authored over 200 peer reviewed journal papers and has won several research awards from professional international institutions. Stephen has particular research interest in bringing new and advanced materials technologies to the engineering of structures. His interests are in the use of high and ultra-high performance concretes, fibre-reinforced concretes and geopolymer concretes and in use of carbon fibre technologies for strengthening and repair of structures and structural systems. Stephen is also a

prominent member of the Standards Australia committee BD002, and has been particularly involved with the developments for design for shear and torsion, as well as the new provisions for steel fibre reinforced concrete.

James Glastonbury, Engineering Director, Laing O’Rourke Dr James Glastonbury has over 20 years’ experience working across a range of sectors including transport, heavy industrial, mining and tunnelling. He has specialist skills in geotechnical and civil engineering as well as experience in the assessment and application of innovative practices and technology in both fields. He has been a major influencer of the innovation agenda across Laing O’Rourke’s business, challenging conventional practices and identifying opportunities to apply new “smart infrastructure” technology or methods to enhance project and client outcomes.

Ian McIntyre, Chair of UNSW CVEN Industry Advisory Committee As a consultant for thirty years - for Evans & Peck, Advisian and now Ian McIntyre & Associates -Ian has advised in relation to project delivery processes on a wide range of infrastructure, building and systems integration projects throughout Australia and South East Asia. He is frequently retained in “trouble shooting”, independent review and due diligence roles and has considerable experience in analysis of the reasons for project delivery problems, and conversely of the factors which are typically associated with successful project delivery strategies - leading to successful project outcomes.

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and industry panellists Greg Ewing, General Manager, Engineers Australia - Sydney Division As General Manager of Sydney & Canberra Divisions, Greg has responsibility for implementing Engineers Australia’s strategic vision and plan within the NSW and ACT setting. Specifically, he is responsible for all member facing services including co-ordination of professional development and networking activity, marketing and communications, financial activities including sponsorship, member servicing and assistance to office bearers and groups. He also leads on engagement with key stakeholders in government, education and industry.

Ian Hardcastle, Technical Director, Digital Engineering, Jacobs As a founder member of the technology start-up Privica, Ian was a pioneer of digital evolution in our industry, undertaking estimates and bills of quantities from 3D models on major infrastructure and buildings projects before being acquired by Laing O’Rourke and subsequently working as their Hub Lead for Digital Engineering in the UK. Ian advises clients on the best way to adopt new technology and yield productivity gains in a world dominated by agile start-ups quickly implementing, transforming and adopting new process.

Nicholas Hudson, Director of Economics and Policy, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia Infrastructure Partnerships Australia is the nation’s peak infrastructure body – formed in 2005 as a genuine and enduring policy partnership between Australia’s governments and industry. IPA’s formation recognises that through innovation and reform, Australia can extract more from the infrastructure it’s got, and invest more in the infrastructure we need. Through our research and deep engagement with policymakers and industry, IPA seeks to capture best practice and advance complex reform options to drive up national economic prosperity and competitiveness. Natasha Rawlings, Investment Manager, Uniseed Natasha has led teams making tens of millions for Direct Response companies, and has been firmly entrenched in early to mid-stage tech start-ups that are growing rapidly. Natasha has now moved to the other side of the table and is an Investment Manager at Uniseed - a seed fund created by universities and CSIRO to make great companies from great Australian research. Natasha's start up experience includes co-founding and leading location-based and mobile marketing start-up (StreetHawk), and being the CEO of an organisation helping women tech entrepreneurs scaling for growth. Natasha is passionate about making new ideas - whether products, services or new ways of doing things - real. Gareth Swarbrick, Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Pells Sullivan Meynink Dr Gareth Swarbrick’s major projects include mine subsidence, tunnelling and mining infrastructure. Other areas of expertise include landfill design and operation, settlement and consolidation of slurried mineral wastes and estimating ground movements due to shrink-swell phenomena. He is also an active researcher in the area of alternate landfill cover design and landfill gas biofiltration. Gareth has lectured extensively in geotechnical engineering including presenting postgraduate courses in foundation engineering, site investigation and geoenvironmental engineering. He is an active member of the Australian Geomechanics Society and the Waste Management Association of Australia. Chris Turnbull, Director, Turnbull Engineering Chris Turnbull is the Managing Director at Turnbull Engineering, a select team of highly motivated infrastructure designers. He develops and executes the company's strategies to achieve its long term vision to be the leading digital civil engineering firm. Chris also provides project management and technical leadership for road and rail design commissions. Cecilia Warren, Director, Mobility Research & Development – Innovation - IAG Customer Labs, Board Member at IMOVE Australia Imagining & facilitating future movement - trends, behaviour, technology. The collection and availability of data, emerging technology in vehicles and logistics, and the blue-sky opportunities afforded by connectivity could allow 21st Century Australia to find new and better ways to move people and things around the country, and across the world.

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About our academic presenters

Prof David Carmichael David Carmichael is a Professor of Civil Engineering, team leader of the Construction Innovation and Research Initiative (CIRI) and a member of the Centre for Infrastructure, Engineering and Safety (CIES) at UNSW. He publishes, teaches, and consults widely in most aspects of project management, construction management, systems engineering, and problem solving. With an international reputation for excellence, Professor Carmichael is well known for his leftfield thinking, including that in the monographs 'Structural Modelling and Optimization', 'Project Management Framework', 'Project Planning, and Control', 'Problem Solving for Engineers' and 'Infrastructure Investment: An Engineering Perspective'. He is the author and editor of numerous books and papers. He is an accredited mediator and arbitrator, and

provides expert reports and expert witness in cases involving structural failures, construction accidents and safety, and contractual and liability matters.

A/Prof Arnaud Castel Associate Professor Arnaud Castel has dedicated his research to studying the durability and sustainability of construction materials in order to achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions which he believes is possible. He aims to improve the methods used for the design of concrete structures by combining a better knowledge of concrete properties, innovative design procedures and new concrete technology such as low carbon concretes. Ultimately he hopes to develop a new generation of performance-based standards to design durable and sustainable concrete structures. This will come in the form of a performance based handbook that will be published through Standards Australia to assist engineers and end-users in specifying and using low carbon concrete with greater confidence and less risk.

A/Prof Vinayak Dixit Dr Dixit is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW. He is the Director of TRACSLab@UNSW, and Deputy Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), and the Academic Director Research at IAG. Vinayak joined UNSW after serving as the Associate Director of Research for the Gulf Coast Centre for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency at Louisiana State University. At Louisiana State University he founded the Driving Simulator Laboratory in collaboration with other faculty in the department. His key research interest lies in studying risk in the transportation infrastructure system as it relates to highway safety, travel time uncertainty, as well as natural and man-made disasters. His projects have been funded by the United States National Science

Foundation, Federal Highway Administration and the Strategic Highway Research Program of the Transportation Research Board.

A/Prof William Glamore A/Professor William Glamore is a Principal Research Fellow at the UNSW Water Research Laboratory (WRL) , and a member of the NSW Coastal Council and the Marine Estate Expert Knowledge Panel. He has been with WRL since 2003 and has managed and undertaken many large studies both domestically and overseas during this time. His primary fields of interest are related to estuarine hydrodynamics and water quality including restoration of estuarine environments, acid sulphate soils, coastal wetlands, boat wake waves, outfall hydraulics and field testing, and related physical and numerical models. William is particularly interested in restoring large wetland and riverine systems. In 2013, he received the National Trust of Australia’s Natural Heritage Award as part of a long-term collaborative wetland restoration

project (with Parks and Fisheries), for which he was also awarded an EA Sydney Engineering Excellence Award in 2014. In 2015, William was awarded the NSW Green Globe Award, and was appointed to the EPA's Expert Panel on PFAs Contamination.

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A/Prof Hamid Vali Pour Goudarzi Hamid Vali Pour is an Associate Professor and a member of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He has been chief investigator in several research projects on the behaviour of structures subject to extreme loads, application of high-strength steel and steel fibre reinforced concrete and development of innovative structural systems with the emphasis on sustainability and deconstructability. Hamid has over 18 years’ experience as a senior structural engineer and he has been involved in analysis and design of high-rise and special structures and more recently assessment of performance of new and existing structures by full scale testing and advanced numerical simulations.

Dr Hanna Grzybowska Dr Hanna Grzybowska is a senior research associate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) at UNSW. Before joining UNSW, she was a member of the Intelligent Fleet Logistics (IFL) business team at NICTA, Australia’s largest organisation dedicated to ICT research. As a member of the IFL team, Hanna received the Richard Newton Excellence in Wealth Creation Impact Award in 2012 and the Award for Excellence in Transport and Logistics at the SMART Logistics 2013 conference (the largest supply chain conference in Australia). Hanna completed her PhD in Operational Research at the Department of Statistics and Operational Research of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

in Barcelona, Spain. Her key research interests include: vehicle fleet management, city logistics, real-time and dynamic vehicle routing problems and simulation. She has been working on dynamic traffic assignment models.

Dr Taehwan Kim Dr Taehwan Kim has been a Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CVEN) at UNSW since 2016. His research interests include advanced and sustainable infrastructure materials; Thermodynamics in cementitious materials and the modelling of their chemical process; Materials characterization techniques; Fundamental understanding of chemo-physical reactions in cementitious materials; and the utilization of natural and waste materials to develop the low carbon foot-print materials. Before joining to UNSW, he was a Research Associate at Oklahoma State University and was involved in several interdisciplinary research projects funded by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation. Involvement in these projects presents him with

unique opportunities to branch out to different research areas and to collaborate with various researchers outside of CVEN.

Dr Mehri Makki Alamdari Dr Alamdari is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW. She is an executive committee member of the Australian Network for Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM). Her research works aim at integrating domain knowledge and data-driven approaches to develop reliable frameworks for real-time monitoring of the critical infrastructure, ensuring the safe operation of civil infrastructure. Dr Alamdari majored in Aerospace Engineering and her expertise lies in inverse dynamic problems, structural health monitoring, signal processing and machine learning. Prior to joining UNSW, she was a research fellow at Smart Infrastructure group at Data61|CSIRO, developing robust techniques for

structural health monitoring of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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A/Prof Lucy Marshall, Deputy Director of the UNSW Water Research Centre. An environmental engineer and hydrologist, Associate Professor Lucy Marshall completed her undergraduate degree and PhD at UNSW before moving to Montana State University, where she worked at the interface of engineering and environmental science. She returned to UNSW as an ARC Future Fellow in 2013 where her research has involved quantifying new conceptualizations of hydrologic processes and developing methods for model diagnostics and uncertainty analysis especially via Bayesian statistics and multi-model methods. Lucy is particularly interested in the dynamics of water resources and how we can better forecast water availability. She believes that hydrologic forecasts can be improved through improved catchment model structures and better methods for model calibration and uncertainty

assessment. More accurate models mean we’ll be better equipped to predict floods and droughts, estimate groundwater recharge rates and manage water quality concerns, which arise due to the transport of matter and pollutants.

Brett Miller, Principal Engineer - Hydraulics and Modelling - WRL Brett specialises in civil engineering hydraulics, project management, coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics, reservoirs, estuary processes, floodplain modelling, ocean outfalls, hydrodynamic and water quality modelling, physical modelling, environmental water quality; and sediment transport. Major projects have included the Sydney deepwater outfalls, Hong Kong water quality investigations; and modelling and environmental flow requirements for the Hawkesbury/Nepean and Richmond/Wilsons Rivers. Brett is an expert in the design and prediction of impact of ocean outfalls. Recently, Brett has led technical investigations pertaining to both the diffuser design and water quality issues for both Cockburn Sound for the Perth Desalination Plant and the Sydney Desalination Plant. His physical modelling skills,

combined numerical modelling skills and a broad knowledge of all of WRL’s fields of expertise have provided solutions to investigations requiring specific engineering and scientific solutions to water problems.

A/Prof Denis O’Carroll, Director UNSW Water Research Centre Denis is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Associate Professor at UNSW. The theme of his Fellowship is: ‘Fate of engineered nanoparticles: Challenges in informing human and ecological health risk assessments’. Prior to moving to UNSW in 2015 he was an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Ontario. He is an Associate Editor for Water Resources Research, the Vadose Zone Journal and the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. He has ongoing research projects developing nanometals for contaminated site remediation, investigating the environmental fate and ecotoxicity of nanoparticles released from commercial products, improving the understanding of the fate of nonaqueous phase liquids in the subsurface and developing

climate change mitigation measures in urban areas.

Dr David Rey, Lecturer in Transport Engineering and a member of the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI). With degrees in electrical engineering, mathematics and transport engineering, Dr Rey is able to approach a transport problem with multi-layered perspective. He is fascinated by abstract solutions that can be used for any routing problem: from mail delivery to charity food collection. It provides an opportunity “to touch real world problems and at the same time engage with higher levels of abstraction”. He is envisioning the transport system of the future, re-thinking traditional methods, attempting to make moving around our cities smoother, safer and easier. He is also working on designing and evaluating incentive-based mechanisms to promote sustainable travel behaviour in urban networks. He aims to use market theory as

well as game concepts to entice network travellers to adjust their travel pattern to improve system-wide performance.

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Prof Chris Rizos, co-director of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP) Lab Professor Rizos’ early fascination with old maps and Australia’s exploring pioneers sparked his own exploration of what we know today as the global navigation satellite technologies of the future. His research in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and their applications extends across the whole spectrum of uses from Navigation to Geodesy. With over 20 years of service in some of the most prominent international geodetic organisations, he has had the opportunity to be part of the evolution of a field that has considerable global impact. He has watched Geodesy rapidly evolve with its tools and datasets helping geoscientists monitor global change (including natural and climate change), changes in the environment (to ice sheets and atmosphere) and geohazards (volcanos and earthquakes), and surveyors and

engineers applying these technologies from small-scale building works to international mapping projects. Through his research, Professor Rizos’ aims to “spatially enable” all aspects of life, through the further development of technologies and systems that provide continuous, seamless, high accuracy positioning of objects, people and every feature on the surface of the Earth.

Dr Johnson Shen Dr Johnson Shen is a Lecturer in the Construction Innovation and Research Initiative (CIRI) and the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), at UNSW Sydney. An award winning teacher and researcher, his main research interests lie in Construction Automation and Robotics; Smart Sensing; Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Civil and Mining Applications; Emissions and Fuel Consumption Modelling of Construction Machinery; Structural Health Monitoring; Internet of Things (IoT); Sustainable Construction Operations; Automated Machine Control and Guidance; Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) and Tunnelling and Trenchless Techniques.

Advisian Professor S Travis Waller, Director of Research at UNSW Civil & Environmental Engineering. S. Travis Waller is the Advisian Professor of Transport Innovation at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the UNSW Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI). An expert in transport systems and network modelling and planning, with extensive grounding also in the fields of electrical and industrial engineering, he is a member of the Transportation Research Board of the US National Research Council, and winner of the 2011 Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing. In 2003 Travis was selected by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine as one of the Top 100 Young (under 35) Innovators in Science and Engineering in the World (TR100). Under Travis’s leadership, rCITI has been

successful in pursuing high level, integrated interdisciplinary transport research and development, investigating sustainable approaches to transport infrastructure and operations, with extensive liaison with industry and government.

A/Prof Tommy Wiedmann, Associate Professor of Sustainability Research Sustainability Assessment Program, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Tommy Wiedmann’s research and teaching as an Associate Professor of Sustainability Research at UNSW Sydney is based on fifteen years of experience in integrated sustainability assessment and environmental footprint analysis. His main research question is how to achieve concurrent human and planetary well-being. He develops and applies environmental input-output analysis as part of a holistic concept to life cycle assessment, industrial ecology and sustainable consumption and production research. Tommy leads a national e-research infrastructure project and coordinates a number of research projects related to sustainability.

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