Water sensitive urban design - Success or Failure?

It depends who you ask - or perhaps where you work. Water Sensitive Urban Design, or WSUD, to those ‘in the know’ or those who just love an acronym, is widely regarded as an Australian ...

Webinar: Stormwater and healthy vegetation - modelling tips

Many Councils have recognised the potential benefits of trees and urban greening to improve amenity, mitigate urban heat island and also provide stormwater quality treatment. To this end, many Coun...

E2D contributions to the 3rd Water Sensitive Cities Conference

Sara Lloyd and Kim Markwell were both in Perth to attend and present at the recent Water Sensitive Cities Conference in Perth.  Sara presented on the use of the Water Sensitive Cities Index to...

Copenhagen Urban Lab 2017

Sankt Jørgens Sø is an iconic artificial lake located close to the city centre of Copenhagen. Challenges include flood storage, water quality (first flush, salt during winter, algal b...

How to prioritise WSUD spending?

Wondering where you should invest in stormwater management? Check out our first case study released by Clearwater here. Through our delivery of priority WSUD projects across the City of Darebin, Ci...

My main learnings from the AWA YWP 2017 regional conference - Steven Buck

I recently attended the AWA YWP 2017 Bright regional conference which was themed Flood, Fire and Drought - Managing Water in Extreme Conditions. The weekend conference included several pr...

E2D at the 2017 Stormwater Victoria Conference

Celeste Morgan, Sara Lloyd and Simon Roberts represented E2Designlab at the 2017 Stormwater Victoria Conference themed ‘Time for a Watershed’, presenting on three insightful topics draw...

E2D's Dale Browne met up with Jack Mullaly of Ideanthro to talk Bio-retention

Dale Browne met up with Jack Mullaly of Ideanthro.  Check out the interview to hear about Dale's experience modifying bioretention filter media specifications to improve plant health...

City Cooling - Mitigation of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect

  Australian heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent, with the largest impacts occurring in cities due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The term UHI refers to how built up areas...

Ballarat City's Integrated Water Management Plan

Ballarat is a historic city with a long-term plan to become greener, more vibrant and connected. Careful management of the regions water resources is required to achieve this vision and respond to ...

Quantifying city liveability, productivity and resilience

Docklands, Melbourne. Image by Ian Buck In order to manage, you must measure. But how do you measure positive city outcomes such as liveability, productivity or resilience? As cities face the risi...

Sponge Cities - China’s Green-Blue Approach to Urban Water Management

  Kunshan Cultural Plaza. Image: CRC Water Sensitive Cities Conventional city design has allowed society to thrive and grow in a range of challenging and often uninhabitable environments. ...