2022 IPWC Program

Conference handbook

TECHNICAL TOURS Delegates must be pre registered to attend the technical tours.

Meeting Point for all tours - North Terrace of the Adelaide Convention Centre. Please ensure you bring comfortable walking shoes, warm jacket and a water bottle.

Streetscapes and Community Facilities TECHNICAL TOUR 1

Starting from Adelaide, the tour will travel by bus to West Beach to view several new streetscape projects, including an innovative response to an Urban Heat Island in a socially vulnerable area.

From there the tour will drive to the Lights Community and Sports Centre. Learn how a passionate politician, a keen wheelchair sports advocate and some grant funding transformed a vacant block of state government owned land into a five multi-sport court facility with large community spaces and commercial tenancies. With a total project budget of around $27 million the centre is the new home of the North Adelaide Rockets with some of the best basketball facilities in the state including state-of-the-art smart court technology, completed within budget and ahead of schedule.

The group will then head to the Bridgestone Reserve, a re-purposed industrial site, now a recreation area for the whole Salisbury community. Over lunch, attendees can participate in a supplier See and Try, before a tour of the Olympic-standard athletics track and clubroom and incorporating a sustainable alternative water supply system. The bus will then head back to Adelaide via Salisbury’s new, multi-million dollar accessible destination playground incorporating a three tier play tower, sand play, bouldering climbing wall and double cable zip line as well as fitness equipment, toilet amenities and a multipurpose sports court.

Time: 8.15am – 3.00pm | Cost: $70

Sport, Leisure and Stormwater Management TECHNICAL TOUR 2

From Adelaide, the tour will visit the ARC, Campbelltown’s state of the art sports and leisure centre, before heading to the Campbelltown Memorial Oval. The Campbelltown Memorial Oval is a modern sporting and community hub for the Campbelltown Community.

The two-storey multi-use building provides superior views of the oval and play areas for a range of local sporting clubs, including cricket, touch football, and netball. The multi-use building provides individual clubs independence as well as promotes social and management interaction between clubs, and the community spaces provide accessible and modern facilities for large community social groups The bus will then drive to Bridgestone Reserve in the City of Salisbury, developed into an integrated passive recreational facility, incorporating flood

management and a sustainable alternative water supply system that collects and treats up to 550 ML of stormwater per year. Over lunch, attendees can participate in a supplier See and Try, before visiting Salisbury’s new, multi-million-dollar accessible destination playground then the City of Charles Sturt where the group will view several new streetscape projects, including an innovative response to an Urban Heat Island in a socially vulnerable area. The bus will then return to Adelaide.

Time: 8.15am – 3.40pm | Cost: $70

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