This unit of competency covers the essential skills and knowledge to assess and review a stormwater management strategy to ensure environmental considerations are met through water sensitive urban design principles. This unit applies to para-professionals and consultants working with local government and other public works authorities to review and evaluate existing stormwater management systems in relation…

Members of the Institute, professionals and academics working the public works engineering space are invited to submit expressions of interest to present a teaching paper at the 2017 Public Works Training Week. All papers and presentations must contain a teaching element with handouts/notes for distribution to the delegates. The Public Works Training Week is aimed…

Challenging economic and environmental issues affect everyone, and with this comes a responsibility and need to optimise the use of scarce resources to deliver the best outcomes for our community. Come and hear how three local governments in Perth are making a case for creating and maintaining water sensitive urban design assets to achieve corporate…

IPWEA-WA and the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage invite you to attend one of the Information Forums on the Subdivisional Guidelines Review. The current edition, Edition 2.3,  of the Local Government Guidelines for Subdivisional Development was released to the Public Works Industry in November 2017. In keeping with the previous practice to review the guidelines every two years…

The Conference Theme – Challenges & Solutions – will focus on the various challenges facing the Public Works industry as we strive to be at the forefront of new technologies and trends, and may offer some solutions to issues being faced by those at the coalface - you and your colleagues.

Welcome to the 2021 State Conference “A Whole New World”. The IPWEA WA Conference is the leading public works engineering event on the Western Australian calendar and it is attended by participants from all areas of public works. It provides a great opportunity to promote your organisation and yourself to delegates who attend this event. The…

Presented by Anthony Quahe, Managing Principal Civic Legal, (see bio) this 2 day course as been specifically designed for professional, technical and supervisory staff working in public works, both private sector and government agencies who work with and need to understand all aspects of the legalities contracts. The course will be broken down into 4…

The Annual Country Meeting continues to be one of the most popular events on the IPWEA WA calendar, and is a chance for our South West branch and members to showcase the beautiful south west regions of Western Australia.  Our very popular one day format includes a combination of presentations in the morning followed by site visits throughout the day. The 2021 Annual…

More details on this event will be available in due course. For more information, including sponsorship information, please contact the IPWEA WA Office & Events Manager, Cathy on events@ipwea.asn.au