PROGRAM

10:00 am -
  4:00 pm

This workshop is designed to provide the most recent findings and updates from research and best practice use of geosynthetics in landfill liner systems. Suitable for beginners through to experienced professionals the workshop will feature technical presentations on geosynthetic materials in different landfill applications including GCLs, geomembranes, cushion geotextiles, drainage composites, composite liners, and PFAS barriers.

View the full workshop program here.

WELCOME FUNCTION
SOHO Room
Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont NSW

6:30 - 8:30 pm

OPENING PLENARY

8:55 am

SESSION 1:  Environmental policy & the future of landfills   

SESSION 2: Operational challenges

Bushfire recovery program for Council landfills
Chris Nivison-Smith, GHD +
Grace Bell, NSW EPA

Presentation

The role of landfill biogas capture, Australia’s largest source of carbon abatement, in a changing policy landscape
Tiana Nairn, LMS Energy

Presentation 

Operating the Kimbriki RRC during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mark Winser, Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises

Presentation to come

What will be the effect of diverting organics on landfill design and operation?
Paul Lightbody, Mockinya Consulting

Presentation to come 

Landfill + transfer station sector - navigating jurisdictional differences
Ben Fuller, Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers

Presentation 

Landfill as part of the Circular Economy
Sam Bateman, Bateman Brothers Consultants

Presentation 

Waste Management from Natural Disasters: Fire and Flood
John Anderson + Charlie Hartline, Public Works Advisory

Presentation 

PFAS concentrations of landfill leachates in Victoria, Australia – implications for discharge of leachate to sewer
Nick Simmons, Australian Environmental Auditors

Presentation 

Evolution in a changing industry environment; 30 years of Brisbane Transfer & Resource Recovery
Scott McDonald, ATC Williams

Presentation 

Learnings from 2 years operating a leachate treatment plant at the Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre
Stuart Dever, Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises

Presentation to come 

Principles of good transfer station design - practical applications
Andrew Quinn, SLR Consulting

Presentation 

Landfill leachate treatment - successes, failures and industry misconception - based on 20 years experience
John Gray, JPG Engineering

Presentation to come

Remote waste auditing
Caroline Turnbull, Tonkin + Taylor

Presentation 

PFAS removal from swedish landfill leachate
David Burns, OPEC Systems

Presentation 

SESSION 6: Gas & odour management

Optimizing gas capture and odour management using normalized modular infrastructure
Ark Du, Veolia

Presentation

Off-grid landfills
Sze-Fei Peng, Tonkin + Taylor

Presentation

Assessment of ground gas sources using oxygen to nitrogen ratios
Steven Thanos, GHD

Presentation 

Ten year's in; experiences of a landfill auditor's expert assistant
Stuart Thurlow, Australian Environmental Auditors

Presentation 

OPENING PLENARY

9:40 am

Keynote Speaker - Dr Malek Bouazza, Professor in Geotechnical Engineering, Monash University
PFAS, Geosynthetics and Environmental Protection: A New Era of Concerns or Opportunities?

Presentation to come

Keynote Speaker - John Jones, NSW Landfills Manager, SUEZ + Rory San Miguel, Propeller Aero
Lean Landfill and Innovation

Presentation

Morning tea

Conversion of a power station ash pond into a demolition and asbestos waste landfill
Daniel Dohle, Golder (Online)

Presentation

Our core business is landfill, so why are we trying to reduce it?
Peter Windley, Shoalhaven City Council + Alex Upitis, Talis Consultants

Presentation 

Application of 3D modelling in design and construction of complicated containment systems 
Hossein Ghiasinejad, Golder

Presentation

Investment in innovative waste treatment technologies
Karl Baltpurvins, Cleanaway

Presentation

Efficiencies from adopting 3D electronic models in the direct placement of wastes
Neil Thomson, Senversa (Online)

Presentation 

Beyond transfer stations (what's next?)
David Gamble, GHD

Presentation 

Selection of remedial solutions for legacy landfills - design risks and opportunities
Sam Butler, Golder

Presentation 

Transfer Station 4.0: The Circular Hub
Jarvis Webb, Rawtec
YP Scholarship Winner

Presentation

Case study: sustainable design & procurement
Peter Tzelepis, Geofabrics (Online)

Presentation to come

Development of the Pilbara Regional Waste Management Facility (PRWMF) for class IV hazardous waste
Chris Stannard + Ronan Cullen, Talis Consultants

Presentation

SRWRA’s piggy back liner using a bituminous geomembrane
Don Richardson, Golder

Presentation

Steep wall liner design process
Luke Adams + Callum Browning, Tonkin + Taylor (Online)

Presentation

Landfill sustainability requirements and assessment
Amir Shahkolahi, Global Synthetics

Presentation to come 

Key considerations for pragmatic erosion and sediment control at landfill sites
Rod Towner, GHD

Presentation

Development of hybrid geosynthetic clay liners for attenuation of PFAS in Australian landfill leachates
Ryan Hackney, Geofabrics

Presentation 

Running a small landfill, are you charging enough? 
David Cocks, MRA Consulting 
(presented by Mike Ritchie)

Presentation 

Closing panel

 3:40 pm

Conference wrap-up
Stuart Dever, Committee Member