Join us for a one-day seminar in April 2023 on the impacts that building construction has on tunnels. There is an increasing demand for the assessment of the potential impact of new building construction, including new tunnels, on existing tunnels and other underground infrastructure.

There are limited resources both on the approvals side and for developers to carry out these assessments and particularly in a timely manner.

The purpose of this seminar is for presentations, papers and a panel discussion to provide useful information for the broad range of participants involved. Particularly referring standards and guidelines including applicability of structural and geotechnical assessment criteria.

The tunnels involved could be road, rail, sewer, or water supply. Topics could also include analysis case studies, monitoring methods and data, dilapidation surveys, the approval process, predictions of impacts verses actual impacts and any economic, property or legal issues.

Call for abstracts

Abstracts are requested for the One-day Seminar by 31 October 2022. Final papers are to be submitted by the 30 January 2023 and notification of acceptance of papers will be given by the end of February 2023.

Abstracts should be no more than 400 words. Preferably they should be based on actual case studies that the author(s) or their organisation has had direct experience with. They can be about projects from anywhere in Australia or from overseas. Authors can submit more than one paper.

The lodgement of this abstract does not indicate automatic inclusion in the one-day seminar program. Please note that the main presenting author must be the one to submit the abstract. The format of the paper will be provided to the authors. There is a maximum of 10 pages for each paper.

Abstracts must be submitted by completing our online form.

Authors will be notified of abstract status by mid-November 2022