CVEN4701 - Rural

CVEN4701 Planning Sustainable Infrastructure is a 4th year course in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. It requires students in their final year to engage in a project that simulates the work they will do in professional practice, by applying the knowledge gained in applied 3rd year courses to a realistic problem; causing them to integrate previously separately taught infrastructure components and recognizing the broader concepts of sustainability that includes social, economic and environmental perspectives.

The course has developed around separate single projects since 2009, with a real community on Murray (Mer) Island, Torres Strait as a real client and basis for the consulting Brief in 2015. The mayor-equivalent of Murray Island, Mr. Doug Passi, and important supporting people from Murray Island, came to Sydney to brief, interact and finally judge the student’s designs, in a Design Competition scenario. Final judging was undertaken at a Showcase Event where each 4-person group’s designs were presented on posters in the Nura Gili foyer. Industry, academic, university and high school students are the audience and interacted with students after the invited invited showcase speakers when individual groups explained their solutions.