UTS Photographers
iNK - Interactive News for Kids
Technology Specialists
Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games Volunteers
Testing the Sydney International Archery Centre
"Sydney Spirit"
Sport Management Program for Sport Administrators from Greece
UTS Olympic Committee
UTS Conference and Hospitality Facilities
UTS Staff and students involved with the Sydney 2000 Games
Studying the Olympic Games
New Technology Bus Project
Sydney's Ethnic Diversity and The 2000 Olympic Games
Generic Competencies and Workplace Reform
St John Ambulance first aid services
Host Broadcasting Training Program
Contaminated Land Evaluation and Rehabilitation Review
Working with Olympic Security
Daylight Analysis and Interior Lighting: Stadium Australia
Olympian Biographies
City Development around UTS and the Railway Corridor
Mangrove & Saltmasrsh Restoration and Management
UTS Alumni: Olympic chapter
Other UTS Olympic Activities

Contaminated Land Evaluation and Rehabilitation Review

Following the success of the Sydney 2000 Bid, Professor Knight was retained by the Dept. of Defence as the main Review Consultant in relation to the Newington Army Depot area at Homebush Bay. This role included an overview risk assessment of the area and the degree of water, land and soil contamination.

Professor Michael Knight, National Centre For Groundwater Management, Environmental Engineering Group.

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Working with Olympic Security

The Decision Intelligence Group is a research group that examines better decision making from intelligence and information sources which combine both business and law enforcement techniques. This group has collaborated with the Police Service Intelligence Unit and SOCOG on a range of security matters.

Tony Nolan, Decision Intelligence Group, School of Management, Faculty of Business.

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Daylight Analysis and Interior Lighting: Stadium Australia

This two phased project involved collaboration amongst the following UTS bodies: the Department of Applied Physics and the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building through the University's commercial company Insearch Limited.

(1) A detailed analysis of daylighting levels within the Stadium Australia complex was carried out for both Olympic and post Games modes of the stadium. The project entailed creating uniform lighting levels throughout the Stadium Australia main seating area whilst avoiding heat gain and reducing the contrast between areas in the direct sun and those under shadow. Translucent roof panels with a wide variety of pigmentation levels were designed and simulated, resulting in a good solution for these requirements.

(2) Analysis of daylighting in all interior spaces in the stadium complex for visual appeal and ability to reduce powered lighting requirements.

Website: http://www.flex.uts.edu.au/specials/uts-only/stadium/
At present, this website is restricted to UTS domains.

Geoff Smith, Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science.

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Olympian Biographies - Info 2000 Project

UTS students are part of a SOCOG project which is preparing short biographies on some 30,000 Athletes who will potentially be involved in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Biographies on the 10,200 Athletes who are chosen to participate in the Sydney Games will be readily available from this project.

Sandra Symons, Department of Social Communications & Journalist, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.

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City Development around UTS and the Railway Corridor

This project incorporates UTS as one element of an educational and cultural precinct from Central station to the Olympic Games venues at Darling Harbour. The program addresses the following issues:

• enhancing pedestrian and civic amenity in the southern CBD

• raising the profile of the education Precinct within this part of the city

• enhancing the contribution of the education precinct to the general vitality of the Sydney County Council's "The Living City" project.

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Mangrove & Saltmarsh Restoration and Management

Working with the Centre for Ecotoxicology: a joint venture between UTS & Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The project involved an initial three year baseline survey of factors affecting the health of the Mangrove & Saltmarsh Community and its current health status. Two main communities are under examination: The Parramatta River - Newington Army Depot and the Haslams Creek area.

Professor Margaret Burchett, Department of Environmental Science (Centre for Ecotoxicology), Faculty of Science.

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UTS Alumni: Olympic Chapter

UTS is proud of the dedication and commitment shown by the great number of Alumni (including current staff and students) who are involved with the Olympic Movement through paid employment or volunteer work. Therefore an Olympic Chapter of the UTS Alumni was launched by SOCOG CEO, Mr Sandy Hollway, on 20 April 1999. The Olympic Chapter offers the opportunity to network with other UTS Alumni involved with the Olympic Movement.

Membership of this Chapter is open to all UTS Alumni (including UTS staff and students) involved with the Sydney Games. For information on membership, please contact Janet Cahill as Chair of the Olympic Chapter or email: alumni@uts.edu.au.

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Other UTS Olympic Activities

UTS Olympic Scholarships

In previous years, students at UTS have brought honour to themselves, their community and their University via their sporting accomplishments at the Olympic Games. At present, there are several students enrolled at UTS who have outstanding Olympic potential and who are deserving of acknowledgment and support from the University community.

In 1999, the University in association with the UTS Union offered two Olympic Scholarships to UTS students who showed outstanding Olympic potential and who are competent scholars. The aims of these scholarships are as follows:

• to acknowledge, reward and promote the Olympic potential of outstanding UTS student athletes;

• for the scholarship holders to become UTS Student Olympic representatives throughout 1999 and 2000.

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ATN Directory of Olympic Expertise

In 1999 the Universities of the Australian Technology Network (ATN) joined together to publish this Directory to assist the media and other enquiries on Olympic-related topics. For a copy of this Directory please contact Janet Cahill or refer to the website: http://www.atn.edu.au

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Work Experience, Employment and Volunteer Roles

UTS students are involved in a variety of Olympic projects through project placement, research, work experience and volunteer work for which they receive course credits. In addition, there are opportunities for employment with various Olympic Games stakeholders during the Games period in 2000.

Volunteer and Paid positions (not linked to courses at UTS) are advertised under "Olympics" on the Jobs Notice Board at the Careers Centre, Level 3, Tower Building.

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UTS 2000 Lecture Series

During the period leading up to and immediately following the Olympic Games, UTS will host an Olympic Lecture Series. These lectures will provide a public forum for relatively informal presentations and debate on vital aspects of the Olympic Games process which don't usually receive mainstream media coverage. For example, lectures to date have included:

• "The spirit of Olympism: alive or dead" by Olympic Pentathlete, Alex Watson

• "Drugs, Sport and the Law - The Court of Arbitration for Sport" by the Honourable Justice T M Kavanagh

• "Reporting the Olympic Process" by Sydney Morning Herald Olympics Editor, Matthew Moore

• "Sydney 2000 - Is it worth the effort?" by Graham Richardson, Mayor of Sydney Olympic Village

• "Why Should Australians Care about the Paralympic Games?" presented by Jane West, General Manager Communications for Sydney Paralympics; Karen Tighe, Presenter of the ABC's Grandstand Sports Program; Bob Turner, Coach of the Men's Wheelchair Basketball team; and Priya Cooper, multi-Gold medal winning Paralympian Swimmer

• "Aborigines and the Olympic Games" by Professor Colin Tatz

• "Meet the Olympians", Bob Elphinson, General Manager Sport at SOCOG compering: Rebecca Joyce (1996) Olympic Bronze Medalist & 1995 World Champion); Kevin Berry (1964 Olympic Gold Medalist); Bo Hanson (1996 Olympic Bronze Medalist) and other Olympic and Paralympic athletes

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Further Information:

Janet Cahill, UTS Olympic Project Manager
E-mail: janet.cahill@uts.edu.au

Associate Professor Rob Lynch, Chair UTS Olympic Committee
E-mail: robert.lynch@uts.edu.au
University of Technology, Sydney
City Campus, Broadway, PO Box 123, Broadway
NSW 2007 Australia
Tel: 61 2 9514 7810 *Fax: 61 2 9514 1459

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