Sustainable Urban Development
- Interactive development of technical infrastructure and vegetation

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Sustainable Urban Development

Course no.: 65350020

Time allowed for entries: 30.06.2006
24.08.2006 - 25.08.2006
Bergen, Norway

COST action C15 “Technical Infrastructure and Vegetation”

Vegetation plays a vital role in the urban environment. Unfortunately it can also create problems by causing damage to technical infrastructures such as sewage pipes, roads, railways and buildings.

The damage is often the result of the restriction of the vegetation to a small growing niche in the competition for space with technical infrastructures. If such conflicts cannot be identified at an early stage, and every effort made to prevent their occurrence, they can lead to disruption of services, great expense and damage to the environment.

All living organisms have basic needs for a good life, so have trees. They need air, sun/light and they have a basic need for water and nutrients. If we do not provide these elementary needs, nature will find its own way of providing this. Trees have an impressing way of sniffing its way to water, and often find it in our sewage and stormwater pipes.

Good living environments with healthy trees and vegetation must be based on close cooperation between architects and engineers, between green and blue values.

The conference is based on a yearlong work initaited and financed by EUs COST office. The main objective of the Action is to improve methods and technology related to the coexistence of technical infrastructure and vegetation in European cities and to prevent potential problems arising from their interaction, by an inter-disciplinary approach between research and development units within technology, economics and biology.

The international conference will focus on and present the latest research results and present good examples on how thing have been managed and operated. The Conference is a stimulating opportunity for researchers, planners and technicians to explore key issues and future prospects of urban development.

The Cost C15 containes members from the following countries:

* Denmark
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Hungary
* Italy

* Norway
* Sweden
* The Netherlands
* United Kingdom
* Portugal
* Switzerland

“Fløisbanen” brings us 320 m above sea level up to …

… “Fløien Folkerestaurant”
24.08.2006
Thursday 24th of August
08:30 Registration
Chairman: Asle Aasen, City of Bergen
09:00 Opening
by Lisbeth Iversen, City Council, Bergen
09:15 European trends and strategies for sustainable urban development
with special focus on blue/green values - waterscapes and street scapes in urban areas. Designing and planning Waterscapes to improve city life
Landscape Arch. Dieter Grau, Atelier Dreiseitl
09:45 Strategies for urban development in Bergen
with focus on residential areas, industry, harbour, transport and impact on blue/green values
Head of Division Mette Svanes, Area Planning Division, City of Bergen
10:15 Coffee break
10:45 COST Action C15: The Action for crosswise communication
The practitioner - researcher and green - blue - grey etc. perspective
HÃ¥kan Schroeder, SLU and Chairman Cost C15
11:00 Integrated planning for water and parks departement
Win-win situation for water and park management
Arne Mattson, City of Malmö
11:30 Bryggen - on the World Heritage List since 1979
Saving historic buildings and infrastructure: The need for active ground water manegement. Introduction to the guided tours to the historic site of Bryggen
Einar Mörk (Foundation Bryggen) Hans de Beer (Geological Server of Norway)
12:00 Lunch and guided tour to Bryggen
14:00 Utilities and Urban Vegetation
Root intrusion in sewage pipelines - an increasing maintenance problem?
Keynote speaker Örjan Ståhl, SWECO
14:30 Root penetration in sewers: Causes, tests and prevention
A study of modern plastic and concrete sewer pipes, lack of resistance to root penetration
Don Ridgers, Thames Water Utilities
15:00 Root intrusion in sewage and storm water pipes, a problem?
From a manufacturers point of view?
Terje Lunder, Trelleborg Forsheda Pipe Seals
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Water balance in urban development - accounting for evapotranspiration
Professor Dr. Raimund Herz, Dresden University of Technology
16:30 Sustainable tree management in Osnabrück
From a park department point of view
Klaus Schröder, City of Osnabrück
16:30 Sustainable tree management in Osnabrück
From a park department point of view
Klaus Schröder, County of Osnabrück
19:00 Dinner at Fløien Restaurant
25.08.2006
Friday 25th of August
09:00 Functional ecological storm water management with good architectures design in urban areas
Thierry Maytraud, Seine-Saint-Denis, Conseil Gènèral
09:30 Vegetation and traffic - problems of green in urban areas from a planner perspective
Arch. Michèle Pezzagno, University of Brescia
10:00 Karl Johan project
Restoration and protection of a historical street and tree environmetal
Erik Solfjeld, City of Oslo
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Transport infrastructure and street trees - prevention of conflicts
Keynote speaker Jitzke Kopinga, Wageningen University and Research Centre
11:30 Tree protection during construction works
Dirk Dujesiefken, Institute of Arboriculture, Hamburg
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Vegetation and buildings
Examples of interaction in the cities
Keynote speaker Zsolt Cseh, City of Budapest
Contributors: Zoltan Csorba, Szent Istvan University, Budapest
Ina Cuklje,
Kristin Barbey, University of Karlsruhe
13:30 Monitoring tree transpiration to prevent tree damages during tunnel construction in Malmö
How to avoid damage of old mature trees when drastically alter the soil water table level by constructed a railway tunnel construction project in the down-town Malmö
Eero Nikinmaa, University of Helsinki, Finland
14:00 Coffee break
14:30 Stormwater management and Low Impact Development (LID)
Principles and examples on best storm water management practise
PhD-student Tone M. Muthanna, NTNU
15:00 Green roofs as toll for a better environment during urban desification
Interactions with the urban water cycle and other climatic and ecological conditions variable troughout Europe
Ulrik Reeh, Veg Tech AS, Denmark
Tobias Emilsson, Swedish Agricultural University
Stephan Roth-Kleyer, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany
Paolo Abram
Helga Salchegger
15:30 Closing words
by HÃ¥kan Schroeder, Chairman COST Action C15

Venue:
Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Bryggen, Bergen, Norway

Final date of enrolment:
Friday 30th of June 2006

Committee:
HÃ¥kan Schroeder, SLU and Chairman Cost C15
Asle Aasen, City of Bergen and management committee and WGA
Ørjan Stål, Sweco, management committee and Chairman WGA
Sveinn T. Thorolfsson, NTNU - management committee and WGA
Erik Solfjeld, City of Oslo - WGB
Zoltan Csorba, University of Budapest
Jitzke Kopinga, Wageningen University and Research Centre

Contact persons:

Project Manager
Asle Aasen, City of Bergen
Phone: +47 55 56 66 47
E-mail: asle.aasen@bergen.kommune.no

Administration:
Bente Pedersen, Tekna
Phone: +47 22 94 75 57
E-mail: bente.pedersen@tekna.no

Delegate fee:
NOK 4.000,- incl. documentation and dinner at Fløien Restaurant, excl. accommodation.

NB! Delegate fee if not received within start of conference, will have to be paid onsite with creditcard.

Accommodation:
Single-room NOK 1.700,- incl. lunch and coffeebreaks at 24th and breakfast at the 25th + NOK 405,- for coffeebreaks and lunch at the 25th of August.
NOK 1.295,- incl. breakfast from 23rd to 24th of August.

Registration:
Tekna - The Norwegian Society of Chartered Technical and Scientific Professionals
P.O.Box 2312, Solli
N-0201 Oslo
Phone: +47 22 94 75 61 - Fax: 22 94 75 01
E-mail: registrering@tekna.no

Cancellation policy:
Cancellations made later than 30th of June 2006, will be subject of a service charge of NOK 1.200,-. There will be no refunds for cancellations after 18th of August.
Written cancellations only!

Organizers

Tekna in cooperation with EU COST C15