Hume Highway Woomargama Bypass Project

The Hume Highway Woomargama Bypass Project in the New South Wales has taken out the International Erosion Control Association's (IECA) Environmental Excellence Award for 2010.

The project is being delivered by the Hume Highway Woomargama Alliance (HHWA), consisting of the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), leading civil contractor, Abigroup and leading projects firm, Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM).

This premier international award was presented at IECA's annual conference - the Environmental Connection (EC11) Conference in Orlando, Florida, attended by 2000 delegates and 150 exhibitors with a focus on erosion and sediment control management.

See: SKM Consulting for further information.

Collaboration to Achieve Sustainable Human Settlements

What is collaboration? How do professions collaborate to achieve sustainable human settlements? These challenges are clearly before us. EAROPH Australia has, among its members, a range of professionals who influence Australian human settlements. The challenge is to enable members to collaborate effectively within EAROPH Australia while retaining our professional competence.

Dr. Robyn Keast has studied the processes of collaboration and has applied her knowledge to help the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) to develop Fact Sheets to assist different professionals to work collaboratively to achieve the health and well-being of our young people.

The fact sheets are a resource for EAROPH Australia members who may find the concepts in the ARACY face sheets useful in meeting our professional and ethical challenges.

The fact sheets are:

• 1. What is collaboration?
• 2. Why collaboration, and why now?
• 3. Collaboration and services
• 4. When to collaborate?
• 5. Key elements of collaboration
• 6. Collaboration - Getting going
• 7. Are we ready to collaborate?
• 8. Managing collaborations
• 9. Collaborative leadership
• 10. Evaluating collaborations
• 11. Consensus building and facilitation

Managing Urban Growth and its Challenges in Brunei Darussalam November, 2011

43th EAROPH Regional Seminar, Brunei Darussalam will be held at the Empire Hotel from 8 - 10 November, 2011 to address: Managing Urban Growth and its Challenges.