Technology Expo
Engineers Without Borders’
Meet the Makers Appropriate Technology Expo
Friday 28th November 2008
For delegates and high schools students
Engineers Without Borders invites you and your students to meet the engineers who are
designing technologies that are saving the environment and making a real difference in the lives of developing communities. This interactive expo will give students the chance to use demonstration models, construct small scale technologies and quiz these innovative designers. Please see the invitation document below for more information, and email the registration form to access2008@ewb.org.au , or fax to 03 9696 9034.
Meet the Makers High School Invitation
Meet the Makers High School Registration Form
Attending SCHOOLS INFORMATION PACK v2
For exhibitors
Got an innovative technology or idea to exhibit? We would love to have you along to share it with our delegates and school groups. Please see the invitation document below for more information, and email the registration form to access2008@ewb.org.au , or fax to 03 9696 9034. Please see the invitation document below for more information, and email the registration form to access2008@ewb.org.au , or fax to 03 9696 9034.
Meet the Makers Exhibitor Invitation
Meet the Makers Exhibitor Registration Form
Attending EXHIBITOR INFORMATION PACK
For Careers and Community Groups Section
The Careers and Community Groups section will provide delegates and student groups with information about the variety of ways they can pursue their interests in international development.Please see the invitation document below for more information, and email the registration form to access2008@ewb.org.au , or fax to 03 9696 9034.
Meet the Makers Careers and Community Groups Invitation
Meet the Makers Careers and Community Groups Registration Form
Stall Dimensions:
Display Area: 1.2m (h) * 1.8m (w)
Table Area: 1.8m (l) * 0.8m (w)
Pricing:
Technology exhibitors - FREE
High Schools - FREE
Not-for-profit organisation stall $90
Corporate organisation stall $180
Admission for general public $20
This years exhibitors include:
Since 1988 SVP has provided competency based skilling programs for house building and sanitation projects in the South Pacific, Cavite Province the Philippines; Millers Camp Cape Town South Africa; Padang and Aceh (tsunami relief) Sumatra Indonesia and with the Australian and New Zealand Defence Forces and the UN in East Timor and with Australian indigenous communities.
SVP uniquely works jointly with each community and local control bodies to foster local input to the strategic planning and tactical implementation of projects identified by each community as being ‘actually what they want’.
SVP Technological Products on display -
• PATSS lightweight mini-septic tanks (Certified to AS/NZS 1546.1:1998, On-site domestic waste water treatment units, Septic tanks) provide low cost, chemical free flushing or pour flush sanitation for the primary treatment of sewage with associated secondary treatment methods to negate the issues of insect vectors and untreated effluent despoiling the landscape, polluting watercourses or leaching into lagoons;
• D5 Twin Wall (wind gust resistant to 225 kph) maintenance free thermal and acoustic insulating building boards for remote area and difficult terrain construction projects.
(PATSS Primary All Terrain Septic Sanitation)
www.svpindustries.com
Sunlabob (Laos)
The Sunlabob Renewable Energy Company provides a commercially viable and affordable energy service to remote, off the grid areas in Laos. Programs which the Sunlabob company run include providing Solar Home Systems as rental units for poor village populations, Village Hybrid Grid systems that combine various renewable energy forms to generate collective village energy and selling light per hour by portable battery charged lamps and drinking water on a village level. These projects have had a significant effect on rural and country-wide infrastructural development and the implementation of Public-Private-Partnership programs has lifted the company to be the only internationally accredited and awarded company from Laos.
EnergyCore - Direct-Exchange Geothermal Heat Pump
EnergyCore’s Direct-Exchange Geothermal Heat Pumps save up to 75% of the energy used for space heating, cooling and hot-water heating by exchange of thermal energy with the ground. The technology substantially reduces installation cost compared with
water-loop Geothermal Heat Pumps, the only Geothermal Heat Pumps available in Australia previously: bore holes only 30-m deep and 70-mm wide are required compared with 100-m deep 150-mm wide holes (water). This makes the technology economically accessible to the average householder for the first time in Australia. EnergyCore has been installing units for just over a year. Jobs include several residences, factory offices, council buildings, and a ski lodge. The main barrier is lack of awareness amongst architects, engineers and householders. The technology is gaining wide support amongst policy makers: a geothermal heat pump in each of Australia’s 8 million householdes could single-handedly meet Australia’s 2020 renewable energy target. EnergyCore recently won first prize and the sustainability award, totalling $35,000, in the RMIT business plan competition - Australia’s most prestigious business plan competition. The technology’s applications extend to developing countries such as those catered for by EWB.
Cubic Solutions
Cubic Solutions are a sustainable water and energy systems company. They will be demonstrating
• micro wind turbines
• underground water harvesting / water detention systems
• evacuated tube solar hot water
ATA International Projects Group
The IPG was established in 2003 by a group of ATA members interested in assisting low income communities in South East Asia and the Pacific with technologies appropriate to their needs. We believe that the provision of sustainable technologies such as solar powered lighting, and micro hydro for electricity can lead to significant development benefits. For example lighting is a primary determinant of quality of life, providing lighting at night can assist the operation of medical clinics, providing night clinic and improved operating conditions. A single bulb can allow children to study thereby improving their educational status. Renewable technologies can operate “off the grid” and reduce the recurrent expenditure required for these services while reducing the demand for diesel fuel and other scarce resources.
Barefoot Power
0.5-10W home lighting kits will be displayed, with which we have helped end kerosene lighting for 10,000 households to date. Barefoot Power will also be interested to talk to people that want to help undertake projects in developing countries on volunteer wages, and also to investors and companies that may wish to help finance these projects. Our aim is reach 200,000 households, or 1 million people, by 2010.
Vestergaard Frandsen: LifeStraw®
Vestergaard Frandsen is a rapidly growing company founded in Denmark in 1957. We specialise in complex emergency response and disease control textiles, with a focus on waterborne and vector-borne disease.
LifeStraw® Personal and Family water purifiers minimise the risk of diarrhoea and other waterborne disease.
LifeStraw® Personal has been referred to as ‘One of the Ten Things that will Change the Way We Live´ by Forbes Magazine.
LifeStraw® Personal and LifeStraw® Family are complimentary point-of-use water filters - truly unique offerings from Vestergaard Frandsen that will help people obtain safe drinking water at home and outside - paving
the way for swiftly and effectively accomplishing the VF and MDGs.
Our PermaNet® LLIN and Curtains are long lasting, insecticide treated tools for the prevention of vector borne disease. PermaNet® 2.0 LLIN has a WHOPES recommendation, which declares it safe and effective for the prevention and control of malaria.
EWB renewable energy unit
A variety of simple technologies used by EWB will be on show, including a briquette press, water purifiers, treadle pumps for pumping water, and a solar cooker.
Vinod Ramamurthy, Graduate Mechanical Engineer at Worley Parsons and winner of the 2008 AWA Undergraduate Prize
Developing countries do not have the technology or resources available to carry out high cost water harvesting processes such as desalination. This project has been looking into optimising a rainwater harvesting system to suit developing countries. One of the main outcomes is to create a model that can be used to estimate various parameters of the harvesting system required. Visitors will be able to have a look at the progress so far with regard to testing results and outcome. A first revision of the model will also be available to view. Rainwater harvesting is both an economical and practical way to assist in the provision of water to not only developing countries, but also our own.
Compass of Sustainability: A tool for critical reflection and systemic thinking.
The compass of sustainability activity is a systems thinking tool that will helps students to analyse problems from a holistic perspective providing a simple conceptual scaffold for critical thinking. The tool allows students to understand the complexity of sustainability in a simple and easy way that can be applied to almost any issue, theme, topic, or product. Teachers may find many uses for this simple sustainability analysis tool in their own future classroom practice. Students will use the compass activity as a way to reflect upon the outcomes of the previous problem solving activity - determining if their technology or solution is ‘sustainable’.
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