Short course/CPD
Land Engineering and Water Management
Course date: Please enquire
Course overview
Soil protection or improvement and the reclamation of degraded land must be managed for a given environment from a base understanding of fundamental properties of soil and water, including basic hydrology, hydraulics and geotechnics. This enables land managers and engineers to classify land according to capability and allows for appraising the risks posed to the landscape. Appropriate land and water management can be achieved through interventions such as drainage and irrigation. It is the basis also for management of projects involving land forming, reclamation or protection which require selection, design and engineering of appropriate structures.
Location
Course fee:
- £1400 - Standard. 20% discount for Cranfield alumni, 10% discount for colleagues of alumni
- £1340 - Professional/trade association discount
- £1280 - Multiple bookings*
*Minimum of five delegates.
Accommodation fee:
Accommodation is not included in the price.
Speakers
How to register
To request a place on this course, please complete the online Registration Form.
If you have any queries please contact:
Cranfield University
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AL, UK
T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
F: +44 (0) 1234 751206
Please be aware that short courses/CPD are subject to:
Booking ConditionsCourse description
- Managing plant and soil water status through estimates of crop water requirements; development of field water budget. Evapotranspiration, drainage, runoff, seepage, soil water storage, and capillary rise
- Crop responses to salinity and sodicity; management of saline and sodic soils; the leaching process
- Hydrology; peak and catchment yield, design of run off
- Hydraulics calculation of channel discharge capacity using Manning’s Equation (and others). The design of channels, waterways weirs, spillways, culverts and control structures
- Slope stability; mechanisms of slope failure. The stability of shallow slope failures, Taylor’s stability numbers
- Landscape design, land forming, earth moving and landscape modification. Top and sub soil management and vegetation establishment. Design of earth embankment storage dams
- Concept of land capability and land quality, criteria used for assessing land capability and its classification. USDA scheme, Canadian Land Inventory
- Drainage; drainage machinery selection and performance, types of drainage problems and their recognition. Design for water table control: use of Hooghoudt and Glover Dumm equations and the Ernst equation for sub irrigation design; the Miers approach; practical issues of drainage design: selection of materials, drainage maintenance, pipe surround, backfill and pipe sizing.
- Estimate crop water requirements and soil water deficits in different environments.
- Calculate leaching requirements for saline and sodic soil conditions.
- Calculate run off and yield for catchment.
- Design channels/ waterways and simple hydraulic structures.
- Explain the concept of land capability and carry out land capability classification.
- Calculate the stability of slopes and design of simple support.
- Design, specify, handling soil and set out earthworks for landforming, landscaping and water storage.
- Design appropriate water table control systems for drainage and sub irrigation.
- Specify appropriate machinery and mechanisation for drainage installation and maintenance.
