Overview

The Australian Tunnelling Society and Institution of Civil Engineers invite you to an evening of knowledge sharing, Q&A, and networking.

Event Synopsis

Living in the world’s driest continent, we need to understand how climate change is impacting us and how we can live more sustainably.

Major water shortages are being encountered around the world in both developed and developing nations.

Desalination offers a reliable source of water supply that is not climate dependent.

As a result, many utility providers and organisations are turning to desalination to improve the security of their water supply and to avoid major social and economic disruption.

Western Australia is ahead of the curve currently having two operational desalination plants:

• In 2020-21 water produced by 2 desalination plants made up 45% of Perth’s water supply.
• In late 2017 Water Corporation started to look at the feasibility of new desalination plants north and south of the Swan River, one near Kwinana close to the existing Perth Seawater Desalination Plant and the other in the northern suburb of Alkimos.

Event Timeline

5.30pm – 6.00pm:       Networking and refreshments

6.00pm – 7.00pm:       Presentation

7.00pm – 8.00pm        Networking and refreshments

Speaker

Mr Gary J Crisp

Qualifications:           CEng MICE CPEng FIEAust PMP

Current Role:             Principal Engineer, Water Corporation

Gary graduated from the University of Pretoria as a Civil Engineer and has over 35 years of water engineering experience.

He prepared the Water Corporation’s desalination strategy report in 2000, titled “A Strategic Review of Desalination Application in Western Australia”.

Gary was an integral member of all Water Corporation desalination projects (thermal and membrane separation), including the Perth Seawater Desalination (2007 GWI Desalination Plant of the Year) and the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant (2012 GWI Desalination Plant of the Year). Burrup Fertilisers, Kwinana Water Reuse, and numerous small reverse osmosis projects.

He has also worked on numerous desalination projects worldwide and was previously a Director of the International Desalination Association.

Career Highlights

2007      Gary was voted as Engineer Australia’s Western Australian Professional Engineer of the Year

2009      Invited to Address potential investors in New York prior to ERI NASDAQ listing.  Attended listing and bell ringing ceremony at NASDAQ.  ERI now the world ‘s prime suppliers of energy recovery devices.

Thanks to Austunnel for sponsoring this event