Celisa Faulkner (Branch President)
Manager Asset Planning
Gladstone Regional Council
Adam Doherty (Vice President)
Director
Dileigh Consulting Engineers
Benjamin Ash (Ambassador)
Graduate Engineer
George Bourne & Associates
Greg Abbotts
Technical Officer
Livingstone Shire Council
Ryan Grayson
Development Engineer
Gladstone Regional Council
Jason Hoolihan
Manager Infrastructure
Central Highlands Regional Council
Garth Kath
RPEQ Engineer & Associate
George Bourne & Associates
Arvind Jess Layug
Technical Officer/Project Superintendent
Rockhampton Regional Council
Leonard Strub
Development Engineer
Bundaberg Regional Council
Thomas Wager
Graduate Engineer
AECOM Australia
Well that is it for another year and one that will be remembered for the challenges it presented to us in local government including cordoning off our public spaces and managing teams remotely.
And while we were forced to cancel our CQ Branch conference in Maryborough earlier this year, the IPWEAQ Annual Conference rolled into November and against all odds, delivered an exceptional event.
440 people were in attendance at the gala awards ceremony and dinner to witness the presentation of awards for excellence with four recipients from CQ including:
Please take a moment to review the projects and people nominated, and winners, in the 2020 Commemorative Book [link inserted]. And congratulations to all nominees representing CQ – we hope to see more CQ projects featured in next year’s awards program.
Trevor Dean, Executive Manager Engineering & Technical Services, Fraser Coast council, IPWEAQ Board member and CQ Branch committee member, joined the negative (and winning) team for this year’s Great Debate to dispel the myth that engineers are introverts and disconnected from the world around them. The Debate was livestreamed and is available in the IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre. Be sure to check it out!
Conference delegates can now access the Conference Proceedings [link inserted] in the Knowledge Centre which includes the audio/visual recording, the PPT presentation and conference paper (if supplied) of all keynote and plenary presentations, all presentations delivered across all four streams (including the three streams you couldn’t attend), the Great Debate, Futures Challenge and panel session plus photographic evidence of the great time we all had at #IPWEAQ20.
And if you were unable to attend, you can still participate belatedly by subscribing to the Conference Proceedings [link inserted] which offers 22.5 CPD hours at just $26 per hour for members ($40 per hour for non-members)
Next up, Christmas in less than 20 days, the President’s Breakfast (join via
livestream) 5 February, and then we reconvene in Maryborough 20-21 April for
the CQ Branch Conference. The Call for Papers will be released early in 2021 so
please submit your projects, successes and failures so we can all learn for all
our experiences.
Thanks to you all for supporting IPWEAQ and your CQ branch over the past year. Have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to seeing you in person or via live streaming for the President’s Breakfast in February to kick off another successful year.
Presentations from CQ Branch at #IPWEAQ20
Scott Cramer, Mackay Regional Council| James Esson, Assetic
Transforming business operations: Implementing an efficient mobile solution at Mackay Regional Council
Sean Robinson, Isaac Regional Council
Managing the impact of large resource projects on remote local government transport infrastructure
Chris Campbell, Central Highlands Regional Council
From Data to Information to Decision-Making
Darren Shepherd, Shepherd | Carmen Smith, Gladstone Regional Council
Gladstone Regional Council Gets Mobile with Online Works Program