Asset Management for Green Infrastructure

Are you considering Green Infrastructure solutions? Currently considering how to incorporate Green Infrastructure into your Asset Management Planning process?

IPWEA, in conjunction with Landscape Foundation of Australia and Active Green Services invite you to attend this "Asset Management for Green Infrastructure” webinar to delve into the world of Green Infrastructure and how you can include it in your asset and financial management plans.

Green Infrastructure assets include street trees, gardens, parks, nature reserves, green walls and roofs, rivers, streams, water sensitive urban design components, mangroves, living shorelines, hybrid reefs and other nature based assets.

Together the benefits and enhanced services that Green Infrastructure assets can provide are extensive. Globally, the value of ecosystem services from Green Infrastructure has been estimated to provide benefits of US $125-140 trillion per year - more than 1.5 times the size of global GDP (Nature4Climate, 2023).

Benefits and services include:

• stormwater reduction and treatment;
• air and water quality improvement;
• mitigation of urban heat island effects;
• reduction of energy consumption in buildings;
• the storing of carbon; protection of wildlife habitat;
• enhanced tourism and recreational opportunities;
• improvement in human health and well-being; and much more.

Course Details

Format: 1 x 2-hours webinar delivered via Zoom (IPWEA to manage)
Date: 18 April 2024
Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm (AEST)

Course Topic Areas

• Definitions and descriptions of Green Infrastructure assets and the range of services they provide;
• The values and benefits of Green Infrastructure;
• The challenges and costs associated with Green Infrastructure including example cost benefit analysis;
• An overview of asset management for Green Infrastructure including levels of service, demand management, lifecycle approaches, risk, and long-term financial management;
• The integration of Green Infrastructure into asset management systems including the IPWEA International Infrastructure Management Manual (IIMM) templates;
• Case Studies showcasing real world examples of Green Infrastructure Projects;
• A review and analysis of a Green Infrastructure Asset Management Plan for local government tree assets; and
• Q&A session with our key presenters.

Presenters

Jacqui Balston

Director of Sustainability | IPWEA

Dr. Balston has been an Applied Climate Scientist for the past 25 years and has researched the impacts of climate variability and climate change on agriculture, natural resources, ecosystems and the built environment.

She currently works as Director of Sustainability for IPWEA and is a member of the South Australian Government Climate Science Advisory Committee. She is also Director of Jacqueline Balston & Associates and provides local, state and federal governments and other organisations with climate change and sustainability advice. Previously she was climate change advisor to the South Australian Local Government Association and the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Group.

Jacqui Hansen

Senior Advisor Asset Management | IPWEA

Jacqui Hansen is a consulting civil engineer with 25 years’ experience in local government. She specialises in Asset Management and for 15 years has provided consulting services to local government, helping Councils to improve asset management practices and develop meaningful asset management plans. Her focus has always been the needs of regional, rural and remote communities. She brings her real-life experiences to the team.

Chris Champion

Secretary General | International Federation of Municipal Engineering (IFME)

Chris Champion is the former long-time CEO of IPWEA Australasia. He is a Past National President and Chair of the Board of Engineers Australia. Chris is the current Secretary General of the International Federation of Municipal Engineering (IFME). However, his current passion is as a Director on the Board of the Landscape Foundation of Australia (LFA). LFA exists to protect, restore, and enhance natural environments within Australia’s cities and towns. Chris sees natural asset management and green infrastructure as a real opportunity to progress this cause within local government.

Simon Strauss

Chief Growth Officer | Active Green Services

Having lived and worked in the US, UK, NZ and Europe, Simon came into arboriculture with a B App Sc (with distinction) and a senior management background in FMCG, Logistics, Mining, Telco and IT. His unique skill set included R&D, marketing and market research, and financial, commercial and market modelling. Simon has set about to introduce an urban forest management toolset to what is a young industry and his work on remote sensing and AI, tree risk assessment and valuation has been presented at local and international conferences. Working with and alongside state and local government authorities, he founded Active Green Services in 2020 and authored the minimum industry standard for tree valuation, MIS506, in 2021.

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