2015 Writing Clear Science Workshops
www.writingclearscience.com.au

What we teach:

We teach how to write clearly and succinctly, without sacrificing scientific accuracy.

We teach you how to get your thoughts down clearly and how to increase your efficiency as a writer. We teach how to write and design documents according to audience (e.g. industry, peer review), purpose (e.g. monitoring report, journal article) and the type of research or project problem that needs to be solved.

The workshops cover all aspects of writing from discussing common problems, recommending efficient practices, improving writing style, reworking sentence structure and paragraph structure, to analysing section and whole report structure.

‘A Practical Approach to Integrated Reporting’ Workshop

Melbourne, March 12^th.

The IIRC is seeking to ensure there is appropriate training available in the market to enable effective adoption of . They have therefore kindly agreed to support this workshop to ensure the latest information is available for participants.

ZOOiD and Torres Training Consultancy have joined together to offer practical training on how your organisation can take the first steps to complete your own integrated report. Integrated reporting can help your organisation in the following ways:

• Improve the quality of information available to providers of financial capital

• Promote a more cohesive and efficient approach to corporate reporting

• Enhance accountability and stewardship for your organisation’s different types of capital, (i.e.  financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and natural).

• Support integrated thinking, decision making and actions that focus on creating value for your organisation (short, medium and long term).

WET Workshop- March 2015

Wetland Education & Training (WET) Program

Emerging techniques and technologies for monitoring urban wetlands
19-20 March 2015

Wetlands have been increasingly disturbed and damaged. To slow, reverse and repair the damages, wetlands require close attention. This involves heavy maintenance and careful monitoring. Lack of readily available tools and techniques have been considered as one of the major impediments in effective management of wetlands. Unless properly planned and appropriate technologies are employed in monitoring, wetland assets can quickly turn into a huge liability.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Process Workshops – Sydney

ZOOiD’s two day intensive Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Process workshop will teach you how to apply the GRI’s sustainability reporting framework to your reporting so that you can produce a world class sustainability report.

Taught in the context of today’s reporting environment through the use of local and international case studies and practical activities, participants will find that this workshop demystifies many of the perceived challenges of reporting using the GRI.

Key learnings will help you to:

• Understand, interpret and implement the GRI G4 concepts
  
  
• Apply the GRI Reporting Principles (Stakeholder Inclusiveness, Sustainability Context, Materiality, Completeness, Balance, Comparability, Accuracy, Timeliness, Clarity and Reliability

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Process Workshops – Melbourne

ZOOiD’s two day intensive Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Process workshop will teach you how to apply the GRI’s sustainability reporting framework to your reporting so that you can produce a world class sustainability report.

Taught in the context of today’s reporting environment through the use of local and international case studies and practical activities, participants will find that this workshop demystifies many of the perceived challenges of reporting using the GRI.

Key learnings will help you to:

• Understand, interpret and implement the GRI G4 concepts
  
  
• Apply the GRI Reporting Principles (Stakeholder Inclusiveness, Sustainability Context, Materiality, Completeness, Balance, Comparability, Accuracy, Timeliness, Clarity and Reliability

Contaminated Site Assessment, Remediation and Management (CSARM) – Professional Development Short Courses for Environmental Practitioners

 Registrations for 2015 Courses are Now Open

• Module A:Ground Rules for Contaminated Sites 11 - 13 February
• Module B:Effective Contaminated Site Assessment 25 – 27 March
• Module C: Demystifying Contaminants 20 – 22 May
• Module D: Contaminants and Toxicity 22 – 24 July
• Module E: Risk Based Site Assessment 9 - 11 September
• Module F: Remediation Principles and Closure 4 – 6 November

What makes a good consultant great???

Consult Australia has over 80 years of experience working with consultants in the built and natural environment. During this period we’ve identified the areas that make good consultants great ones and rolled it into an eight month program. The FutureNet Business Leaders Course provides an ideal learning environment and considers all of the aspects that are critical to developing the future leaders of your firm.

Taking the best of the best from across the built and natural environment, the program draws together: architects; constructors; developers; engineers; financiers; infrastructure owners; lawyers; planners; project managers; and quantity surveyors;

CILTA NSW Section

The Phillip Clarkson Essay Prize 2015

Innovation in Transport and Logistics is the life blood of our industry.   As a rapidly evolving industry, we need to understand  at all levels how new innovations will help shape our future and we need to prepare for whatever changes may occur.

To mark Phillip Clarkson’s outstanding contribution to CILTA over the past 7 decades, CILTA’s NSW section is delighted to invite papers from individuals discussing the consequences of future transport innovations.  In particular we are keen to review papers which discuss :

• Passenger transport innovations which may include issues of accessibility, sustainability, environment, economics and regulation and control
• Transportation management innovations - freight and passenger transport across all modes and including both operations and infrastructure
• Industrial logistics innovations - supply chain management, inventory, procurement and their underpinning technology