NSW March Newsletter

Up coming events:
March 22. EWB-NSW Executive Meeting
March 16. USyd Careers Fair - Call for Volunteers
March 18. YEAS Careers Fair - Call for Volunteers
March 23. Forum: How to start an NGO and EWB Trivia
April 12. Sydney Development Circle Seminar - Health
April 21. David Hobb - Green rating schemes in Infrastructure

Recent Events:
Oweek
Intake 6

Cross Promotion:
Global Home
Centre for Appropriate Technology

Posted by Jonathan Bruck to NSW Region, 3rd March 2010, 5:34pm

Up coming events:

[EDIT] March 9. So You Think You Can Dance For Development - Student Event

• Fun social event for students wanting to know more about EWB
• More details: http://www.ewb.org.au/events/82/10223
• 9th March 2010 at 5:00 PM until 11:50 PM
• Location: UNSW - currently in the Air Room (top level of the roundhouse)
• More Details TBA

NSW Chapter Committee Meeting

All are welcome to the NSW Chapter committee meeting

• 22 March from 5:50 PM until 7:30 PM
• Level 11 235 Jones Street Ultimo
• More details http://www.ewb.org.au/events/75/10236

Careers Expos

If you can volunteer for one of the careers fair please mark your availabilities on the following links. We will provide online and on the job training.

• USyd Careers Expo 16th March (During the day) http://doodle.com/y2d2epegipde9azv
• YEAS Careers Expo 18th March (Afternoon - Evening) http://doodle.com/e8sn9b5f928impz8

Information Forum: How to start an NGO in Australia

• Tuesday, 23 March
• 3:30-5:30 pm
• Quaker Service Australia
  119 Devonshire Street
  Surrey Hills

The Sydney Development Circle invites all those interested in exchanging information on how to start an NGO in Australia to a networking and information forum. Facilitated by Renata Zanetti, Australian Council for International Development, and Claude Ho, founder of FOCHTA, individuals and community groups can learn about various resources and options to help mobilise public support and voluntary contributions for aid in Australia or developing countries. The session will include ample opportunity for Q&A. $5 payable at the door for afternoon tea. Registration required: please go to www.sdc.groupsite.com.

• Enquiries:  Lucy Hobgood-Brown, 0417 272 101.

• SDC members are also invited to ACFID’s Member Information Forum from 9:30-2:30 (same date/venue). To register go to http://www.acfid.asn.au/training/acfid-training/mif-mar-2010.

EWB Trivia

• More details at http://www.ewb.org.au/events/84/10241
• Teams of 5
• 6-9pm 23rd March
• Hermanns Bar, Sydney University
• Price $15, Discounts for 'paid' EWB members.
• RSVP to usyd@ewb.org.au. Tickets will be held for you to pay at the door

Sydney Development Circle Seminar - Health

The April seminar with our partner organisation the Sydney Development Circle. The speakers are yet to be confirmed but the details will be availabe at www.sdc.groupsite.com

• April 12, 6pm sharp. Training Room 1, Level 6, UTS Building 10, 235 Jones Street, Ultimo

Green rating schemes in Infrastructure

Speaker: David Hood, FIE Aust CPEng, Adjunct Professor, AGIC Chair

Organizers: Young Engineers Australia Sydney, YEAS; and
Society for Sustainability and Environmental Engineering, SSEE.

Synopsis: David Hood, Chair of AGIC (Australian Green Infrastructure Council), will present
a lively talk on the rating scheme, its progress to date, and the implications for
engineering, capital and infrastructure projects.

• Date: 21 April 2010, Wednesday
• Time: 5.30 for 6-7.30pm
• Venue: University of Technology Sydney, UTS
• Campus, Building 2, Level 4 (Street level), Room 10. CB02.04.10
• Admission: FREE
• RSVP: Please register at jonhlee@optusnet.com.au before 16 April 2010, Friday.
  Pleas include including your name, contact number, and email in the RSVP.
• Visit http://www.ewb.org.au/resources/75/692 for the flier.

Recent Events

Oweek at both the University of Sydney and the University of NSW were a great success signing up hundreds of new and and existing members. Photos will come shortly

Engineers Without Borders - NSW and the Sydney Development Circle had a fantastic seminar on Monday about Engineering, shelter, water, energy and sanitation. We also focused on the current round of overseas placements with EWB. Photos are available here. Courtesy of Jon Lee

• 100301 EWB-NSW, SDC_Engineering a Better World
• http://news.webshots.com/album/576895563bIIoul?vhost=news

Cross Promotion

Centre for Appropriate Technology - Call for Volunteers

Dear All,

I am circulating this on behalf of the the Centre for Appropriate
Technology (CAT), Cairns, as they are looking for volunteer engineers
and builders to work with them on a project in Cape York.  Details of
the project and volunteers required are below. Could you please
forward this onto people you think might be interested?  As this is a
CAT placement all inquiries should go through Yosi on 07 4031 0505.

Turtle Camp Project

Turtle Rescue Camp is situated in the Mapoon Aboriginal Shire Council
boundary on the western side of Cape York Peninsula Queensland. It is
very remote small camp and the nearest town is Mapoon, some 90 kms by
dirt road.

The main purpose of this camp is to help indigenous residents and
researchers to protect the turtles and other marine life from ghost
nets and feral pigs. Every year during June to September (the nesting
season) many activities take place by locals and others.

The established camp grounds are in need of an urgent upgrade. The
camp grounds currently consist of 2 x pit toilets and number of
cleared sites without running water.

This project’s aim is to upgrade the camping facilities to support
visitor management in the environmentally significant turtle nesting
habitat. More specifically, we are aiming to build the followings:

Ablution block (2 x toilets; 2 x showers) with guttering and a small
rainwater tank
Installing two Gough-Hybrid toilet systems including trenches
Erecting a water tank stand to fit 10,000 liters tank
Installing small solar electric system
Installing solar hot water system
Some water reticulation work

*erecting a kit shed (this kit is already on site and it’s not part of
the main project. However, we’ll endeavor to erect it as well while we
are there).

The Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT) Cairns office will act as
Project Manager for this project and will coordinate all construction
activities as well as all other related aspects such as coordination
of volunteer/s.   The Camp has its own manager who will be working
closely with CAT and the Traditional Owners.

It is envisaged that the project will get on its way sometime in March
2010. Depending on rain and other accessibility conditions, we are
aiming to start the construction during June-July 2010.  We are
estimating that the construction phase will take 3-5 weeks.

Accommodation for volunteers will be available on site, mainly in
safari tents. This depends on the number of researchers/workers at the
site. Food will also be available on site. The area is under the Qld
Alcohol management Act and it’s limited. Other costs such as
transportation to the site will be covered by CAT.

Currently we are looking for volunteers in the following areas:

Builder
Tradesman
Structural Engineer

The Builder and Tradesman will be required closer to the construction
starting date. However, we are looking for an Engineer who can come
and visit the site with us during the second half of this month
(February). We’ll need an assessment of the site as well as some
recommendations on erecting the kit shed.

For any further information and/or enquiries, please contact Yosi at
the CAT’s Cairns office  (07 40310505).

Lizzy Skinner

Programs Coordinator – Indigenous Australia
Engineers Without Borders Australia
P: +61 3 9696 9040
F: +61 3 9696 9034
E: l.skinner@ewb.org.au
W: www.ewb.org.au

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