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General
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Editorial
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Presse anouncement
Since 1992 every three years, in Lyon, the Graie
has been organizing Novatech, one of the main International conferences on sustainable
techniques and strategies in urban water management. The French partners of
the symposium are the Urban Community of Lyon, the Rhone-Alps Region, the Water
Agencies, INSA of Lyon (engineers' school), Eurydice and ASTEE (technical and
scientific non profit organisations).
Novatech 2010 is the 7th edition of this conference. It will take place from June 28th to July 1st, 2010. Novatech 2010 will be held in the prestigious Lyon Congress Centre, in the heart of Lyon, between the Rhône River and the wonderful "Parc de la Tête d'Or".
Management of wet-weather flows in urban and suburban
areas
The main focus of the Novatech conference is sustainable
solutions for management of wet-weather flows in constructed areas (i.e. urban
and suburban areas). The conference covers both stormwater management and CSOs.
Urban water management under wet-weather conditions faces more and more diverse
challenges: protection against flooding and erosion, enhancement of receiving
water quality, reduction of sanitary risks, but also opportunities such as stormwater
harvesting, use of stormwater for improving the urban landscape or for improving
the urban microclimate, as well as the role of ecocitizenship.
Moreover, increasing demands on the quality of receiving bodies and of water
resources, the worsening of anthropomorphic impacts, as well as likely changes
in climate, are adding more complexity to the process.
These evolutions lead to a diversification of the required expertise, the scales
considered, the criteria of evaluation and the technical solutions proposed.
Perspectives beyond traditional urban drainage are required.
Beyond the structural answers, a greater emphasis is
required on the non-structural answers like the processes of urban project management,
the integration of the individual and collective behaviours, the strategies
of the innovation, or the establishment of adapted rules of financing.
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deal with three complementary dimensions of urban and suburban water management
under wet-weather conditions: - Integrated approaches for urban planning and operation; - Innovative technologies; - Integrated approaches for the protection and enhancement of receiving water bodies. |
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| Objectives and public The participation of technicians and decision makers from local authorities, engineering firms, industrialists and researchers specialised in water management is still growing and balanced. Moreover, NOVATECH is progressively becoming a meeting for urban players - planners, town planners, landscape designers and architects - and for aquatic environment managers. This opening is the result not only of the real willpower of the scientific and organisation committees, but also of current sets of problems, speakers and issues. In addition to its special features, NOVATECH offers a rare opportunity to meet and exchange on the latest technical innovations, case studies and research works. Thus, this conference contributes to: - the evolution of engineering applications, with the implementation of the most advanced scientific results, - research activities and projects development that really consider operational problematics, - common improvement thanks to exchanges and, finally, construction and sharing of common knowledge and culture in urban water management issue. |
A high
quality scientific symposium
A technical conference for operational actors A confirmed international radiance |
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The ideal meeting place for urban
storm water management professionals
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NOVATECH'2010 in a few words:
- Near 700 participants expected: 1/3 scientists, 1/3 local
authorities and 1/3 private firms;
- Specialized workshops on Sunday, June 28th, organised by international working
groups;
- A prestigious plenary opening conference, which is an event in itself and
which attracts a large regional public;
- A 3-day conference, with 3 parallel break-out sessions;
- 200 communications, distributed between oral and posters presentations, results
of research and experience feedbacks, representative of the state of the art
in the world (30 countries represented)
- 1 exhibition of scientific and technical posters and a
- 1display forum for innovative
products presentations;
- 2 technical tours on Thursday, July 1st;
- Simultaneous translation French / English during all the sessions and the
technical tours;
NOVATECH is both a major technical meeting and a high-level scientific world class symposium dedicated to urban wet weather flows management.
 Bernard Chocat & Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski Chairmen of the scientific committee |
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In 2010, we are going to celebrate the 18th birthday of the Novatech conferences, i.e., in France, the age of majority. With the majority comes the responsibility. The exchanges and the conclusions of the Novatech conferences, which join together researchers, private enterprises and government agencies, contribute in a more and more important part in the strategies and techniques of urban water management, in France and everywhere in the world. This responsibility flashes back on the Presidents of the Scientific Committee of the conference, and we assume it readily. It also flashes back on all the players of Novatech: members of the scientific committee, members of the organization committee, organizers, speakers and participants. We all must accept full responsibility for it. Bernard Chocat |
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The six thematic sessions of the first day (gathering thirty oral presentations) will focus on integrated approaches and strategies in stormwater management and urban development: system durability, actors’ involvement, allotment-scale management, urban planning and districts development, city-scale decision aid and planning.
Experiences, practices and strategies from about fifteen countries, will be sometimes discussed and analyzed with the urban planning point of view, or aiming at understanding the keys of success and the involvement of actors focused on the research of new solutions adapted to the changes in practices, the evolution of cities, climate, sociologic and demographic environments.
About twenty posters displayed during this first day of conference will develop these topics, with an opening-up on the specific themes linked with developing countries and on stormwater reuse strategies.
During the second day, the twelve sessions (70 oral presentations expected) will deal with the analysis of performance, design optimization, modelling and real time control of systems and devices.
The following topics will be discussed in the three parallel break-out sessions:
The exhibition of about thirty posters displayed during this 2nd day of conference will complete the illustration of the above themes thanks to the presentation of devices, tools and results of research.
During the 3rd day, nine sessions will cover a more general aspect of watershed-scale stormwater management. The two main themes will be: flood management and the understanding of flood origin on the one hand, and the management of aquatic environments quality, knowledge of pollution sources and the CSO’s impacts on the other hand. The three parallel break-out sessions will differ thanks to the following approaches:
Around twenty posters will complete the 54 oral communications on those themes.
