ÖkoTech Environmental Management Consultants Ltd

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Family name: BUZÁS

2. First name: KÁLMÁN

3. Date of birth: 03/05/1948

4. Nationality: HUNGARIAN

5. Civil status: MARRIED

6. Education:

Institution:	Faculty of Civil Engineering,Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Date: from (month/year): to (month/year)	1967-1972
Degree(s) of Diploma(s) obtained:	Hydraulic Engineer (M.Sc.)

Institution:

Faculty of Civil Engineering,Budapest University of Technology andEconomics,Hungary

Date: from (month/year):

to (month/year)

1983

Degree(s) of Diploma(s) obtained:

Dr.Univ. Sanitary Engineering

7. Language skills:

Language	Reading	Speaking	Writing
Hungarian	excellent	excellent	excellent
English	excellent	excellent	good
German	good	fair	poor
Spanish	good	excellent	poor

8. Membership of professional bodies: - Hungarian Hydrological Society - National Committee of IAHCR - IWA

9. Present position: - Associate professor, deputy head of department

10. Years within the firm: 27

11. Key qualification:

Dr. Buzás, over and above his teaching activity, has about 20 years of professional experience in the fields of water management of urban areas; planning, operation and flow control of combined and sanitary sewer systems and urban drainage systems; contamination of surface runoff in urban areas and impacts of contaminated runoff on the water quality; waste water treatment technology; environmental assessment.

Dr. Buzás has extended project management experience. He was the leader of several projects in the fields of urban water management and water quality management.

12. Employment

Date:from (month/year) to (month/year)	1972 1974
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Company	Water Resources Research Center (VITUKI)
Position	Assistant Research Fellow
(month/year) to (month/year)	1974 -
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Company	Budapest University of Technology and Economics Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (Formerly Dep. of Water and Waste Water Engineering)
Position	Associate Professor

13. Specific Eastern Countries experience:

Country

Date: 1978-1982, one month a year consulting

lovakia (formerly Czecho-Slovakia)

Planning of water supply systems and survey and reconstruction of municipal and regional sewer systems of Slovakian cities (joint venture with Bratislava Water Works Hydroconsult Plc. Bratislava).

14.Selected practical experience

Description

Leader of several projects:

Planning of storm water drainage and surface runoff treatment of the highway M7 at the section of K�röshegyi viaduct (2002)

Nutrient management in the Danube Basin and its impact on the Black Sea (2000-2004, European Union 5^th Research Framework)

National strategy of urban water management in Hungary, 1999-2000. Client: Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Strategies for meeting requirements of EU legalization in the water sector (Hungary) (1997, client The World Bank)

Nutrient Balances for Danube Countries (1994-1996, Danube Applied Research Programme, PHARE)

Impact of climate change on the operation of Paks Nuclear Power Plant Operation /1994, client IIASA, Laxemburg, Austria/;

Environmental Assessment of Wholesale Market Budapest (Hungary) and Minsk (Belarus) /1993, client EBRD, London/;

Hydraulic Analysis and Operation of Sewer Network of South-Budapest and North-Buda /1992-93, client Budapest Wastewater Works/;

Information System for the Evaluation of the State of the Environment /1990-91, client Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Policy/;

Computer Simulation of Flood Wave and its control in Central Sewer Network of Budapest /1987-88, client Budapest Wastewater Works/;

Computer Simulation of Regional Sewer System and Waste Water Treatment Plant Operation in the Area of Lake Balaton /1986-87, client Transdanubian water Works/;

Water quality Management of Small Water Courses in the Area of Budapest /1985-86, client National water Authority/;

Survey of Technology of Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plants in Hungary /1985-86, client Transdanubian Water Works/;

Dispersion of Contamination in the Lower Course of the Hungarian Danube /1984-85, client National Water Authority/.

Teaching activity:

Urban environmental protection, Urban drainage, Sanitary Engineering, Urban water management, Sustainability and engineering (B.Sc, M.Sc and postgraduate courses)

15. Selected publications:

Somlyódy L., Buzás K., Clement A.,Licskó I. (2000): National strategy of urban water management inHungary In: Strategic Issues of the Hungarian Water Resources Management (in Hungarian) ed: László Somlyódy. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, p.370.

Buzás, K. (2000): Use of

Fuzzy Method toEstimate River Nutrient Loads from Scarce Observations. Proceedings of the International Conference: WATERMATEX 2000,Ghent,Belgium, September 18-20, 2000. (submitted to Water Science and Technology)

K. Buzás (1999): Nutrient Balance of theDanube basin: the role of uncertainties. Water Science and Technology, Vol. 40. Iss.10. pp. 51-58.

Clement, A L. - Buzás, K. (1999): Use of ambient water quality data to refine emission estimates in theDanube Basin. Water Science and Technology, Vol. 40. Iss.10. pp 35-42.

Buzás, K.: (1998) Nutrient balances ofDanube countries: the role of uncertainties. Proceedings of the 8^th River Basin Conference on Management of Large River Basins, Budapest, pp.125-132.

Somlyódy, L. - Buzás, K. - Clement, A. - Melicz, Z.(1999): Strategies for Approximating EU Legislation inHungary: The Sajó Catchment. Water Science and Technology, Vol. 40. No.10. pp 87-94.

Clement, A. - Buzás, K.: Use of ambient water quality data to refine emission estimates in theDanube Basin. Proceedings of the 8^th River Basin Conference on Management of Large River Basins,Budapest, pp.53-60.

Buzás, K. - Clement, A. - Melicz, Z.: Cost-effective wastewater treatment (in Hungarian) MHT XVI. Országos Vándorgy�lés, Kecskemét, pp. 323-338.

Szolnoky, Cs. - Buzás, K. - Clement, A.: Impacts of cClimate Change on the Operation of a Freshwater Cooled Electric Power Plant, Periodica Polytechnica, Civil Engineering, 1998, Budapest, p.71-94. (with co-outhors)

K. Buzás - L. Somlyódy: Impacts of Road Traffic on Water Quality, Periodica Polytechnica, Civil Engineering, 1998,Budapest, p.95-107. (with co-outhor)

K. Buzás: Water Quality Control in the EC Countries andHungary (Research Report, TU Delft, The Netherlands, 1992)

K. Buzás: Sustainable Development (Research Report, TU Delft, The Netherlands, 1991)

K. Buzás - K. Koris: A Model for Regional Environmental Qualifying; ICEP Int. Conf. Lisbon, Portugal, 1991 (manuscript)

K. Buzás: Groundwater Quality Control along the Hungarian Danube Focusing on the Bank Filtering Water Resources (Academy of Sciences, 1991 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (special edition))

K. Buzás: Danube River inHungary (Rhine-Danube Workshop, Delft, 1990, The Netherlands, workshop paper)

K. Buzás - I. A. Rosero: Connection between Waste Water Treatment Plants Operation and Quality of Receiving Water body (Periodica Polytechnica, Vol. 29. No. 4. p. 135 - 145.)

K. Buzás: Cost Optimal Regional Sewerage System for Small Settlements (Csat. Inf. Vol. 12. No. 5. p. 18-27., in Hungarian)

Furthermore: about 45 technical reports, 2 Hungarian standards and 5 lecture notes for graduate and post-graduate students.