National Committee
His hands-on construction experience includes design and construction supervision for geotechnical aspects of underground works, temporary support design assessment, ground investigation and mapping in tunnels, shafts and caverns in hard rock and soft ground, site investigation coordination and interpretation, managing instrumentation & monitoring, technical report preparation, contract administration, claims preparation, QA/QC reporting, workforce supervision and production drilling and ground support installation.
His precontracts experience on numerous tunnelling tenders includes management of competitive bids, team management, development of technical methods and solutions, management and coordination of design consultants, preparation of submission documents, technical writing, pricing estimates, development of cycle times and preparation of tunnel construction programs.
Richard is a Technical Executive at WSP, based in Melbourne, where he provides technical and constructability support to tunnelling feasibility studies, tenders and active projects, as well as management of personnel and engagement with partners and clients.
Harry is Aurecon’s Design Director – Tunnels and he has provided technical leadership for many of Aurecon’s tunnels in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Tunnels that he has worked on include the Channel Tunnel (UK), the Brisbane Rail Tunnels, New Southern Railway, Northside Storage Tunnel, both in Sydney, and S1 sewer and South-East Busway in Brisbane. Harry then worked on tunnels including the Cross City Tunnel in Sydney, EastLink in Melbourne and the three TransApex Tunnels (Clem7, Airport Link and Legacy Way) in Brisbane. In New Zealand, Harry worked on Project Hobson, Rosedale and the Waterview Connection in Auckland. Recently Harry has worked on Melbourne Metro, NorthConnex, WestConnex 2 and Central Kowloon Route in HK.
Harry is the author of more than 30 conference and published papers on tunnelling.
Geoff has more than 25 years’ experience in the Tunnelling industry, the majority of which has been with construction contractors.
He is currently John Holland’s Business Development Manager for Tunnelling, a role which covers John Holland’s tunnelling activities across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
In 2021 Brodie was elected as the national ATSym representative and is responsible for supporting the next generation of tunnellers locally in Australia.
Brodie is the Lead Engineer (Tunnelling) at Aurecon operating out of Brisbane and is involved with the delivery of tunnelling projects across Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
In that time she has gained extensive experience in a range of technical aspects within the industry including the planning, design and construction of various major tunnel projects throughout Australia, including Legacy Way road tunnel in Brisbane, the Westgate Tunnel Project and the Melbourne Metro rail tunnel.
Currently Nadine is a Technical Director–Tunnels at Aurecon and a committee member of the Australasian Tunnel Society–Victorian Branch
David became a member of ATS soon after coming to Australia in 1995. He has been a member of the National Committee since 1997 and took on the responsibility as Editor of the journal which he has carried out ever since.
He is a founding member of Grouting and Foundation Works Australia and in recent years David has been providing Site Supervision on major international tunnelling projects in South East Asia.
Recently relocated to WA, he’s been promoted as chair of the ATS WA chapter, actively promoting tunnelling and trenchless technology in the not-so-busy WA market.
Aziz has obtained extensive technical knowledge, engineering, finance and management skills in the industry by supporting multiple complex projects from planning phase through to delivery. This includes optioneering, constructability analysis, concept design, tender analysis, design assessments, site/project engineering, forecasting and problem solving.
He has been involved and contributed to successful delivery of trenchless projects involving diverse trenchless techniques including microtunnelling; pipe jacking; auger boring; pilot boring and horizontal directional drilling.
With his strong profile on the utility field, he’s working as Service Manager at NEWest Alliance leading some of the largest service relocation projects in Perth.
Morteza specialises in hard and soft rock and soil behaviour studies, geotechnical modelling for slopes and underground and deep excavations, incorporating these aspects into the mega-scale geotechnical projects, and provides leadership and technical advice on designs and engineering processes based on innovative and cost-effective approaches. Morteza has experience in the implementation of integrity assessments, QAQC management, inspections and risk assessments to conventional tunnels and dams, hydroelectric dams, and water resource projects in association with carrying out slope stability analysis based on standard methods and numerical assessments.
Morteza is the Chair of the Queensland Tunnelling Society and has been an ATS member since 2017.
Whilst working as a consultant with PSM, Phil worked on many of Sydney’s major tunnelling projects, including the Eastern Distributor, Cross City Tunnel, Epping to Chatswood Rail Link and Lane Cove Tunnel. Now working with Transport for New South Wales, he is the Director of Tunnel Structures and working in some capacity on all of Transport for New South Wales tunnel projects and operations.
Elena has worked on several high-profile projects including Crossrail (Elizabeth Line), High Speed 2 and the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project. Throughout her career Elena has led large multi-disciplinary teams, she is passionate about creating successful teams to achieved the desired outcomes. During her career Elena has developed excellent technical and engineering knowledge, including critical interface and integration requirements for multi-disciplinary projects where she focuses on project delivery and project management. Elena has experience across all aspects of major infrastructure projects from planning to detailed design and construction.
Elena is a Group Leader within the Arup Victorian practice as well as leading the Arup tunnelling team in Victoria.
Local Commitees
Queensland
- Morteza Ghamgosar Chair
- Annalena Baier Vice-Chair
- Scott Keniston Secretary
- Brendan Henry Treasurer
- Anthony Harding CPD Coordinator
- Geoff Archer National Treasurer
- Tony Peglas ATS National Austroads Representative
- Jiwoo Ahn Webmaster
- Brodie Aitcheson Young members National Representative
- Mathieson Stosic Young Member
- Jurij Karlovsek – Vice President & AuSS Representative
- Harry Asche Immediate Past President
- Andrew Ridout National Project Officer
- Chris Baker
- Craig Wright
- Dallas Adams
- Senthilnath G T
- Tim Brown
New South Wales
- Phil Clark Chair
- Nigel Casey Immediate Past Chair
- Keith Bannerman Vice-Chair
- Sam Mirlatifi Treasurer
- Todd Clarke Secretary
- Alex Gomes CPD Coordinator
- Aaron Lippet ATSym Representative
- David Clague Social Coordinator
- Hashim Mohammed
- Rob Nievergelt
- Sabrina Kost
- Sam Jones
- Tom Roper
- Helen Baxter-Crawford
- Harvinder Rana
Victoria
- Elena Gavazzi – Chair – ARUP
- Stephen Barrett Secretary – Golder/WSP
- Mahdi Zoorabadi Deputy Chair – SMEC
- Joshua Barry – Assistant Treasurer – Aurecon
- Jay Lee Events Coordinator – GS E&C
- Richard Buckingham ATS President – Golder/WSP
- David Grist– T&CCC
- Nadine Makin – Aurecon
- Rachael McCarrison – WSP
- Justin Arifin
- Mason Duyker
- Antonia Theodoulou
Western Australia
- Jiang Aizezi Chair and ATSym Representative – Downer
- Jayson Bebek Immediate Past Chair – Austunnel
- Eric Hudson-Smith – PTA
- Des Vilestra – BarChip
- Barry Moore – WSP
- Wayne Leslie – Georgiou
- Drew Coulhard – Land Surveys
- Harun Meer – Australian Geotechnical Society
- Dian Wang – AECOM