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This work package ensures integration of distributed knowledge and disciplinary expertise of different team members in different fields. Establishing a common knowledge base builds the context of the project. This work package includes review of the existing institutional context (guidelines, legislative frameworks, policies) and current design practice (technologies, typologies of urban infill development). Tasks undertaken at this stage will inform case study development (typologies of urban infill), options design (based on available technologies) and guidelines for water sensitive design. They will also provide initial insights into potential barriers to water sensitive infill implementation that will be diagnosed later through the review of governance and design guidelines.

This work package aims to develop a performance evaluation framework for infill development. The developed framework will provide performance indicators to be used to evaluate proposed infill development and alternative configurations. It will build on a range of frameworks that have been developed in the CRCWSC. This includes the Urban Metabolism (water mass balance) Framework (B1.2) relevant for performance quantification, but also an existing infill framework (from D5.1). In addition, scientific outcomes across the CRCWSC (including insight into new technologies, decentralised systems risk, energy consumption, and urban heat island impacts) will be incorporated into this infill development performance evaluation framework. The work by Renouf et al. (2017) and Farooqui et al. (2016) provide foundation for work package 3. Their work built on concepts of water sensitive urban design (See Figure 5), to develop a quantitative evaluation framework. Figure 6 presents the core of the CRCWSC “Urban metabolism evaluation framework for water” (UMEF4Water). Noting that the inputs include modelled and empirical data, for a defined boundary. Quantitative indicators derived include (i) hydrological performance (ii) water supply internalisation and (iii) overall water efficiency.

This work package focuses on identifying case studies of infill development and designing options that can make them water sensitive. It is envisioned that at least 2 case study areas from different states will be identified, according to specific criteria. This work package has a strong focus on architectural design and will inform options for performance assessment.

In this work package we will apply the evaluation framework to assess the case studies. This allows us to test and refine the framework. For each selected case study, the current baseline (~2017), Business-as-Usual and pre-development status will be first characterised for their water-sensitive performance, representing by water mass balance and related performance indicators. This establishes a reference point against which different options can be evaluated.

In the options assessment, different water-sensitive options would be applied to each case study to assess their performance. Feedback and consultation with the design team will help identify possible options. Reviewing of national design guidelines will also support option identification and development. Evaluation would be based on the key performance indicators in the developed framework. It is expected that the performance indicators would include (i) water efficiency, (ii) water supply internalisation, and (iii) hydrological performance. This options analysis would also allow us to identify what may be the best-practice water-sensitive solution for a given context.

Both the baseline characterisation and options analysis help test and refine the framework. An evaluation framework based on water mass balance integrated with modelled outputs from detailed modelling platforms such as MUSIC and SOURCE will be the expected outcome of this testing and refinement process.

This work package will focus on translating the outcomes of the case study assessments into practice. It will focus of two main components: (i) developing design guidelines for water sensitive infill of different typologies, and (ii) exploring the interfaces between design and institutional framework and diagnosing the opportunities and barriers of guidelines implementation.

Realisation of this work packages is strongly contingent on receiving co-funding from local governments interested in implementing the proposed solutions in the area under their jurisdiction. If co-funding for this work package is obtained, a demonstration infill development will be constructed to showcase the implementation of the research outcomes and recommendations in practice. It is envisioned that an appropriate site will be identified among the case studies that have not begun construction phase yet.

1. Mellissa Bradley -  Water Sensitive SA (SA)
2. Peter Newton - Swinburne University/CRC for Low Carbon Living (VIC)
3. Phil Young - Brisbane City Council (QLD)
4. Sadeq Zaman - Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW)
5. Greg Ryan - LandCorp (WA)
6. Chris Tancheff- South East Water (VIC)
7. Lisa McLean - Flow Systems (NSW)
8. Matt Stack -  Department of Planning (WA)
9. Alejandra Rojas - Canterbury Bankstown (NSW)
10. Andrew Allan - City of Manningham (VIC)

The Project Steering Committee members meet every 6 - 8 weeks.

The 2020 schedule has not been released yet.

A face to face meeting is being scheduled in Perth early 2020, please contact Tammie Harold for details at tamara.harold@uwa.edu.au