This course offers practitioners knowledge and skills to plan and design streetscale biofiltration raingardens to ensure long-term success, including selection and placement of vegetation. It includes biofiltration raingardens site visits in the Cities of Marion and Mitcham.

Training goal/purpose

To enable the design of streetscape biofiltration raingardens to meet multiple objectives including pollutant removal, ecological function, safety, cost effective asset management, and integration within streetscapes.

Target audience

Local government, consulting design engineers and landscape architects with the aim to develop new skills to ensure streetscape biofiltration raingarden designs achieve the required water quality treatment outcomes and integrate well with public spaces/streetscapes.

Learning objective

An understanding of:

biofiltration raingarden functional components, including vegetation

filter medium specifications
inlet and outlet structures
opportunities for biofiltration raingardens to provide amenity
landscape value and streetscape design integration
designing for cost- effective maintenance.

Core competencies attained

An understanding of:

fundamentals of a biofiltration raingarden, design considerations and construction aspects that affect performance expectations
key components of the biofiltration raingarden system and placement within the streetscape
functionality of vegetation and biofilter medium to improve water quality and manage urban stormwater
the relationship between design, routine maintenance and cost-effective asset management.

Details

Thursday 30 May 2024

9:15am – registration
9:30am – training commences
4:30pm – training concludes
(refer to program for more details)