FUTURES CHALLENGE

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We're thrilled to announce the 2025 IPWEA-QNT Futures Challenge Finalists!

Each year as part of the IPWEA-QNT Annual Conference, we invite final-year university students studying civil engineering or related disciplines to participate in the Futures Challenge.

The Futures Challenge highlights the next generation of public works professionals, offering them the platform to share their final-year thesis/research project with industry leaders.

Don't miss the chance to hear from these bright minds and see the future of public works and engineering.

2025 Future's Challenge Finalists

Mahin Bin Monjur

Enhancing Brisbane’s Flood Resilience Through an Adaptation of Tokyo’s Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (MAOUDC)

**Madeleine Dobson**
Renewable Energy Implementation at Wetalla Water Reclamation Facility

**Warrick Brown**
Shear behaviour of sandy clay infilled rock joints subject to cyclic loading

Previous Futures Challenge Participants
2024 - Royal International Convention Centre, Brisbane, 7 November 2024

Winner

Jessica Tse, Queensland University of Technology
Investigating the Effect of Microbial-induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) on the Hydromechanical Properties of Field Clay

**Callym Dunleavy, Griffith University**
Transitioning towards water - sensitive regions: just an aspiration or an achievable vision?

**Vili Siale, University of Southern Queensland**
Analysis of 2022 Worst Road Fatalities in a Decade in Tasmania

2023 - Aquis Park, Gold Coast Turf Club, 11 October 2023

**Winner**
**Murtaza Aziz-Ahmad, University of Southern Queensland**
Effect of different Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) densities on the mechanical properties of EPS

**Ella Nicholas, Queensland University of Technology**
Dam Risk Analysis – Contemporary Methods and Techniques

**Alex Whitehead, Griffith University**
Shear performance investigation of timber-steel composites exposed to accelerated aging conditions

2022 - Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, 12 October 2022

*Winner*
Thomas Murphy, University of Southern Queensland
Rail Track Structure Review and Analysis

**Lauren Lord, University of Southern Queensland**
The Impact of Historic Combined Sewer House Connections on Wastewater Authorities

2021 - Cairns Convention Centre, 13 October 2021


Winner Lucinda Sterling, University of Southern Queensland Alkali-silica reaction crack evaluation using artificial intelligence	Hadi Nourizadeh, University of Southern Queensland Axial performance of fully grouted rock bolts	Clare Ferguson, University of Southern Queensland Management of repeated damage to regional unsealed roads due to flooding	Ryan Ball, University of Southern Queensland Shear strength properties of sand with fines for various moisture contents