Workshops

Organizers: A. Chavarria, V. Pons, J. Rieckermann

When: Tuesday, 19th of May, 09:00 – 12:00

Target audience: Everybody can join, whether you are directly working with monitoring and data, or if you wish to improve the practice in your group.

Workshop content: Have you already finished a project without properly taking time to clean and document your data? Have you already received data from someone else and been left with many questions to the point of not being able to use the data efficiently? The international working group on data and models has been coordinating efforts in standardizing metadata for urban drainage. The concept of the workshop is simple: We will present our current data model, and the participants will apply it to their own various datasets. We will then discuss together on improvement needed, and tools for improving data management practices among researchers.

Organizers: Prof. James Li*, Prof. Simon Tait, Dr. Darko Joksimovic

When: Tuesday, 19th of May, 13:00 – 17:00

Target audience: Practicing consulting engineers, government planners and engineers, academic researchers

Workshop content: Highly urbanized areas pose stormwater management challenges due to space limitations and adjacent utilities. This workshop provides an overview (planning, design, construction, maintenance, and performance) of the Toronto Exfiltration System (TES). Two 200 mm perforated pipes (with their downstream ends fitted with removable plugs) are installed below the storm sewer between two connecting manholes within the sewer trench. Runoff enters the perforated pipes at the upstream manhole, fills the pore space of the trench-filling materials between the manholes, and exfiltrates into the underlying soil. TES can be applied to existing or new urban developments to reduce the downstream stormwater pond storage capacity.

Organizers: L. Guericke, A. Cifuentes, F. Cherqui, N. Caradot, G. Langeveld, Marius Møller Rokstad, Will Shepherd, Simon Tait, F. Tscheikner-Gratl

When: Tuesday, 19th of May, 13:00 – 17:00

Target audience: Anybody (researcher or practitioner, specialist or not of asset management) can attend. We expect to have a broad range of expertise in the room to question our ideas and bring more background. As a participant, you should also learn some interesting insights!

Workshop content: What could be the future of sewer asset management in the next 50 years? Do we need more inspections? Do we need more modelling? Do we need robots in pipes? Can we have self-healing pipes? Starting from business-as-usual practices, we have established different scenarios. . Scenarios’ parameters have been elaborated by long-term sewer asset management specialists and generated using artificial intelligence in order to be more neutral and homogeneous. Join us to discuss these scenarios, their interest, credibility and consequences. A fun journey in the future, made by humans and AI, to reflect on the past, present and future trajectories.