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Stormwater Victoria Conference 2022

The E2D team recently attended and presented at the 2022 Stormwater Victoria Conference and we were thrilled to pick up a ‘highly commended award’ for research and innovation on permeab...

City Cooling - Mitigation of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect

  Australian heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent, with the largest impacts occurring in cities due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The term UHI refers to how built up areas...

What’s in the name anyway?

E2Designlab. Bit of a mouthful, huh? So much so that we are called by many nicknames – E2, E2D, E2Design. But then again it wouldn’t be an Aussie name unless it was shortened….r...

Blue and teal carbon: How wetlands could help us reach net zero

By Penny Galbraith We all know stormwater treatment wetlands are a leading nature-based solution for managing stormwater and protecting waterways – but could they also play a role in our net...

A True Olympic Legacy

Written by Shaw Abrey Earlier in the year, Sally Boer, Dale Browne and myself had the pleasure of undertaking condition audits of saltmarsh, mangrove and freshwater wetlands, lakes, waterways, fro...

Positive urban change - how will it happen?

Written by Kim Markwell  Last week I attended the THI Urban Change Festival.  This was a completely virtual experience where you navigated between the main stage and break out discussi...

And the Winner is…Brisbane! So how do we make sure we are still winning in 2032?

 Written by Ben Walker Wow!  What a moment for Brisbane, and a huge congratulations to all involved.  Brisbane as an Olympic City may have been a difficult concept to fathom when Sy...

How to prioritise WSUD spending?

Wondering where you should invest in stormwater management? Check out our first case study released by Clearwater here. Through our delivery of priority WSUD projects across the City of Darebin, Ci...

Lockdown: Is suburbia the winner?

Written by Celeste Morgan I think so. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of urban sprawl and its many many disadvantages...ecological degradation, loss of agricultural land and appalling com...

Cost-benefit in a nutshell

How do you turn an idea into reality? Often it takes a clear and compelling business case to drive action and investment. A common way to do this is to complete a cost-benefit analysis that will...

Bringing our creeks back to life

Written by Ben Walker In recent times we’ve spoken a lot about greening, cooling and passive irrigation at a streetscape level.  If you geek-out on living infrastructure like us, you ma...

Wicking up a storm - sports fields and lawns that irrigate themselves and don’t send you a water bill

Written by Sally Boer Often the best ideas are old ideas that have stood the test of time. In the current COVID-19 paradigm, local sportsclubs are doing it tough.  While eagerly waiting for ...

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