The final Technical Assessment Committee (TAC) meeting of the Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project took place in Newcastle on the morning of Friday 11th November 2016. This was followed in the afternoon by the last face-to-face meeting of the Committee of Management. The final Committee of Management deliberations will occur as a video conference in February 2017. …

The Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project (ACAPFPP) has won the Australian Business and Higher Education Round Table (B/HERT) 2016 Best Research Development Collaboration Award. B/HERT is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1990 to strengthen the relationship between business and industry and the tertiary education sector. Its members are leaders in tertiary education, business, industry and research institutions. …

Sydney Water and the Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project have won the prestigious International Water Association 2016 Project Innovation Award in the Applied Research category. The award was presented as part of the International World Water Congress & Exhibition at a gala dinner on Wednesday 12th October 2016 at Rydges in Brisbane. The photograph shows Dammika Vitanage …

The Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project has won the 2016 Australian Water Association award for “Best Research Innovation Project”. The award was presented to Dammika Vitanage of Sydney Water on behalf of the Project by AWA President Peter Moore at a Gala Dinner in the Melbourne Exhibition and Conference Centre on 11th May 2016. The photo shows …

On 11th March 2016 the Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project received the award for best Research Innovation 2016 from the NSW division of the Australian Water Association. Sydney Water coordinated the preparation of the submission on behalf of the Project partners and AWA Member Dammika Vitanage submitted the nomination. Our Project is now in contention for the …

The latest meeting of the Committee of Management of the Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project was held on Wednesday 17th February 2016 in the New Horizons Building at Monash University, Clayton Campus. The photograph shows the members of the Committee after the meeting. From left to right: Dammika Vitanage (Sydney Water), Dave Hughes (American Water), Mike Shepherd (UK Water …

The partners in the Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project finalised documentation on 24th September 2015 to admit Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) as a partner to the Project. We welcome QUU!

Three UTS academics have received 2015 Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning awarded by the Australian Government’s Office for Learning and Teaching. Among them is Associate Professor Sarath Kodagoda, a leading member of the Activity 2 and Activity 4 team at UTS. The details of the citation for Sarath were: “Associate Professor Sarath Kodagoda, Faculty of Engineering and IT …

The Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project held its Technical Advisory Committee and Committee of Management Meetings on the 25th and 26th June 2015 at the University of Technology Sydney. Photograph showing participants in the TAC meeting during Jayantha Kodikara presentation. Photograph showing Dammika Vitanage presenting.