SUDS Online @ Abertay

Following the success of SUDS online for the past eight years we have decided to expand the range of courses we offer to give a better service to our many clients.  This has been made easier through the award of a European grant under the Interreg North Sea IVb programme.

What are the titles of the two new courses?

1. SUDS Concept & Design Principles

2. SUDS Operation & Maintenance

What are the two new courses about?

1. SUDS Concept & Design Principles (formerly SUDS Online)

Background to SUDS; storage and treatment; levels of risk; layout and other urban elements; SUDS components; sizing criteria; treatment train; levels of treatment; survivability; design methods.

2. SUDS Operation & Maintenance

Urbanisation & Water / What is Sustainable Drainage? / Common SUDS Techniques / Inspection and Maintenance: What is it, why is it necessary and what is involved? / Inspection and Maintenance: The Nuts and Bolts / Health & Safety.

Who should enrol?

The courses are designed both for experienced staff wishing to inform themselves about SUDS systems, and for younger professionals who require a basic knowledge of modern approaches to drainage systems.

• Design engineers requiring the additional knowledge of SUDS systems
• Environmental and local authority planners and engineering staff
• Developers and housebuilders needing to comply with latest good practice
• Architects and landscape architects seeking to incorporate drainage into the natural environment

What you need

• You will probably have a degree in science, engineering or other appropriate discipline
• A desktop PC and access to the Internet
• The enrolment fee of £400 for course 1
• The enrolment fee of £200 for course 2 (introductory offer for the new pilot course)

What you get

• The latest thinking on SUDS planning, implementation and design
• Online access to course tutor at the University of Abertay Dundee
• Rapid response to questions and problems
• A range of case study examples of SUDS systems, which have been implemented
• Hundreds of photographic images

Reduced Course Fees may be available to Postgraduate Students & Researchers - For further details please contact Leanne Gallagher

Course Start Dates:

SUDS Concept & Design Principles - 20th September 2010

SUDS Operation & Maintenance - 17th January 2011

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