The ATS young members invites students and young engineers on a site visit to the Brisbane Metro Adelaide Street Tunnel, Wednesday November 29th. The Adelaide Street tunnel is a critical piece of the Brisbane Metro project that provides additional capacity to Brisbane’s public transport system but requires the construction of a new road only 3.5m below the existing roadway.

The Adelaide Street Tunnel has many interesting aspects such as complex geology, buried services, traffic loading, adjacent heritage structures, and a demanding construction program with very little support site area. On the site visit you will get to see how these challenging constraints have been met, including the design and construction of a relatively large span soft ground tunnel, which involves over 20km of canopy tubes and 19kms of fiberglass face nails installed in a complex construction sequence to minimise surface movements and provide sufficient space for the final bidirectional tunnel.

The site visit will include a tour of the Brisbane Metro Information Centre, overview of the project and a guided tour of the tunnel.

Please note that this is a registration to enter the draw for the site visit due to the limited number of attendees permitted, it does not guarantee a place on the site visit itself. Once registered for the draw you will receive a calendar invitation for the site visit, this is a Teams default and should be treated as pending until the draw has taken place. A separate confirmation email will be sent to successful applicants after the draw has taken place.

This event is proudly supported by Brisbane City Council and Acciona.

Minimum requirements for site visit:

• Attendees must be 35 years old and under
• Pants, long sleeve shirts and safety boots
• Hard hats and safety glasses if you have them, otherwise these will be provided.
• Clean shaven. Dust masks must be worn underground and everyone will need to be clean shaven to enter the tunnel (non-negotiable).