ATS WEBINAR – The Kitanomine Tunnel: A SEM Case Study
Join the Australian Tunnelling Society Victoria Division for a presentation by Kensuke Date on the challenges faced in using the Water-tight Sequential Excavation Method (SEM) for Tunnel Construction with Difficult Ground Conditions in the construction of the Kitanomine Tunnel. The Kitanomine Tunnel is a 2928 m long tunnel in Furano City, as part of the [...]
ATS VIC – Rock mass parameters estimation for numerical modelling of tunnels
WebinarPresentation Summary In order to conduct rigorous geotechnical design of underground space, it is recognized that the impact of scale on the response of the excavated system needs to be well understood. In this regard, one of the major challenges is to translate the small measured (laboratory) geomechanical properties and those of the joints observed [...]
ATS Tunnel Design Guideline Presentation Series – Part 4
ATS Tunnel Design Guideline Presentation Series – Part 4: Segmental Lining Design, Ground Movements and Impact Assessment (chapters 7 & 8) This session will begin at 5.30 pm AEST (6.30 pm AEDT). The ATS Tunnel Design Guideline Presentation Series will bring together the authors of the guideline to discuss in detail the chapter contents. The ATS Tunnel Design [...]
The Main Range Railway — ATS 50 Year Celebration Series
Webinar, 1-2 pm AEST Overview This webinar will provide the history of the Southern and Western Railway of Queensland which runs from the town of Ipswich to Toowoomba, a distance of 78 miles, and divided into two branches, one running to Dalby, a distance of 52 miles, and the other to Warwick, a distance of [...]
Tunnel systems: three decades of Australian tunnel systems operation stall and axial fan parallel operation
This event will be held online and in-person (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane). Presentation outline This is the first technical session of the ATS Tunnel Systems Group. This technical session will be in three parts. PART 1 Three Decades of Australian Tunnel Systems Operation Bob Allen, General Manager Sydney Harbour Tunnel. Bob’s 30 years operating then managing [...]
Impact of building construction on existing tunnels: one-day seminar
OnlineJoin 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 [...]
Thames Tideway Tunnel
Presentation outline This presentation will give an overview of the different soft ground tunnelling techniques used on the Thames Tideway Project. The main focus will be on the west section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel in London, where an earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine and sprayed concrete lining methods were employed. The talk will [...]
ATS 50th celebrations – legends panel discussion
There's never been a better time to be a tunneller in Australia. With billions worth of upcoming tunnelling projects in the next decade, we've assembled a panel of three legends of the industry to help us navigate the challenges and opportunities we face during this exciting time in the industry. The event will be [...]
Tunnel lighting functionality
Mott MacDonald L17, Tower One, Collins Square 727 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3008 Mott MacDonald L17, Tower One, Collins Square 727 Collins Street, Melbourne, VICIn the majority of tunnels artificial lighting is installed this is an important element of tunnel systems.
Design and construction of immersed tube tunnels
Engineers Australia, Sydney officeLearn about underwater tunnels which are towed to the tunnel alignment and then sunk into place.
Brisbane Metro Adelaide Street tunnel
Hybrid - online and in person at Little Shoe, 1st Floor, Yagan Square, PerthOverview 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. This presentation will describe the need for the tunnel and the constraints of complex geology, buried services, [...]
Occupational health in tunnelling – ITA Lecture Series
OnlineThe episode will feature one lecture and finish with a Q&A session with all speakers. Occupational Health and Welfare in Tunnelling - Donald Lamont & Eric Ball. The Lunchtime lecture series remains free and open to all. For all those that cannot join ‘live’, please register and you will receive a link to view [...]
Geomechanics of pressure tunnels and shafts – a critical review of existing knowledge
SMEC Tower 4, 727 Collins St, Melbourne, VictoriaOverview Hydropower and pumped storage projects are becoming increasingly appealing as environmentally friendly energy sources and large-scale energy storage solutions. Pressure tunnels/shafts are among the primary components of such projects. Although the design of these pressure tunnels and shafts has been well-established for decades, during the peak of hydropower project development, particularly prior to [...]
ATS VIC – North East Link Tunnel Project Industry Updates by Paul, Ken and Hayley
Sky Park One Melbourne Quarter, 699 Collins Street, Docklands, VICType: hybrid event Online link - Webinar Link Venue - Sky Park, One Melbourne Quarter, 699 Collins Street, Docklands, VIC, 3008, Australia. Time and date: 6th September 2023, Wednesday 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Networking over refreshments 5:30 PM – 6:20 PM: Presentation 6:20 PM – 6:30 PM: Q&As and Closing Comments Outline The [...]
Tunnel systems: planning assets today for the future
Online and in person at: Level 9, 340 Adelaide Street, BrisbaneOverview In this session, we will explore examples of tunnels that have undergone significant refurbishment, upgrade, or change to their systems, both locally and internationally. We will examine some of the lessons learned and challenges overcome. Our objective is to look at how these lessons might be applied to tunnel systems today to better [...]
Sprayed concrete use
OnlineThis instalment of the Lunchtime lecture series will focus on 'Sprayed concrete use.' The episode will feature four lectures and will finish with a Q&A with all speakers. Introduction - Karl Gunnar Holter An overview of sprayed concrete methodology - Catherine Larive Sustainability & Application - Ross Dimmock Material properties and design - Karl [...]
Conventional tunnelling in an urban setting: design and construction considerations
OnlineThis instalment of the Lunchtime lecture series will focus on 'Conventional tunnelling in an urban setting : design and construction considerations'. It will begin at 13:00 CET. The episode will feature three lectures and will finish with a Q&A with all speakers. Challenges of tunnelling in urban Areas - Nasri Munfah Conventional tunnelling in [...]
New developments in BIM
Webinar Register via the link to join!ONLINE EVENT This instalment of the lecture series will focus on 'New developments in BIM.' It will begin at 13:00 CET. The episode will feature five lectures and will finish with a Q&A with all speakers. Introduction - ITA-AITES WG22 activities - Florent Robert Digital Engineering – applications and approaches - Alessandro Menozzi Sustainable tunnelling projects [...]
ATSym Industry Night – Welcome Future Tunnellers
Monash University Clayton Campus Green Chemical Futures Building - Level 4 Auditorium, Clayton, VictoriaThe ATSym invites all members, non-members, and students to join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring firsthand experiences from three tunnelling professionals at different stages of their careers. They will provide insights into working in Australia's tunnelling industry. This is your chance to hear from and gain valuable guidance on career paths, industry [...]
BP KWOL Pipeline Relocation – Largest Brownfield Trenchless Relocation in Australia
ATS/AGS/ICE/ASTT jointly presents this in person and online Hybrid Technical Event. Overview Thornlie Cockburn Link (TCL) project consists of a new railway line between the Armadale and Mandurah lines via the Thornlie and Cockburn Stations. The track extension from Thornlie to Cockburn is approximately 14.50 km. To make way for the major construction works, [...]
Tunnel Systems Education at the Victorian Tunnelling Centre – Online Presentation
OnlineAbout the VTC The Victorian Tunnelling Centre (VTC) at Holmesglen Institute's Drummond Street campus trains and upskills thousands of workers in underground construction and tunnelling. Training up to 5,000 learners annually, the Australian-first tunnelling facility ensures that Victorians are leaders in underground construction, operations and workplace health and safety. Who should attend this presentation? Anyone [...]
Logistics in long and deep tunnels
WebinarITA Lecture Series #35 This episode will feature three lectures: Logistical aspects of deep tunnelling - Magali Schivre, Animator of ITA WG17 - INCAS Partners - France General presentation highlighting the main specificities and challenges relating to the logistics to be implemented in a long, deep tunnel, with a presentation of the latest guideline published [...]
Bridging the Gap: Addressing Gender Pay Disparities in Engineering – REGISTER NOW!
Online and in person at: Level 9, 340 Adelaide Street, BrisbaneREGISTER NOW! Panellists consisting of industry leaders, academia experts, and engineering professionals will have an open discussion on the current state of the gender pay gap, the policies driving change, and the initiatives aimed at closing the gap in the engineering sector. The forum aims to foster dialogues on multiple perspectives from existing policies [...]
Rozelle Interchange Project – Presentation and Q&A
EA Sydney Office Mezzanine Level, 44 Market Street, Sydney, New South WalesOvercoming the complex geometry and geology during design and construction of the Rozelle Interchange tunnel network THURSDAY 1 AUGUST - REGISTRATION LINK NOW AVAILABLE! Rozelle Interchange was the final stage (Stage 3b) of the WestConnex project. As stated in the project title, ‘Interchange’, this project linked the M4 East and M4-M8 Link projects with [...]
Road tunnel ventilation optimisation using 1D modelling
OnlineOverview This event offers invaluable insights into improving road tunnel ventilation systems. Hear first-hand from experts who collaborated with Australian road tunnel operators to enhance their ventilation using advanced simulation tools. Learn how Ventsim DESIGN, a 1D network flow simulation tool with a 3D graphical user interface, was adapted for tunnel-specific challenges like jet [...]
DAARWIN-GEMINI A novel tool to predict advance rate of a TBM in real-time
Online and in person at: Level 9, 340 Adelaide Street, BrisbaneOverview SAALG Geomechanics, in collaboration with ACCIONA, has developed DAARWIN-GEMINI, a software system designed to optimize the performance of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) using machine learning-based techniques. The system key features include an advanced architecture for querying and processing data from the TBM database, big data analysis and visualization in a web browser, a [...]
Geocomposite Tunnel Invert Drainage – Online technical presentation
WebinarPresentation abstract: Cavidrain Invert geocomposite systems are used to form a drainage layer beneath the road pavement of tunnel floors. The use of Cavidrain Invert offers a number of advantages over more traditional methods (which use crushed stone and pipes) such as: (i) reduced excavation (as they form a much thinner layer compared to [...]
ITA Lecture – EPB tunnelling: environmental aspects and re-use opportunities of the conditioned muck
OnlineThe rapid development of mechanised tunnelling in the last decades has increased the tunnelling community’s focus on the environmental aspects of tunnel construction. The excavation carried out by using EPB (Earth Pressure Balance) machines often requires the use of foaming agents, specific products that are added to the medium intended to be excavated, in order [...]
Hobsons Bay main Yarra crossing duplication project
Melbourne Engineers Australia officeThe Hobsons Bay Main Sewer (HBMS), constructed in the 1960s, transfers approximately 30 per cent of Melbourne’s wastewater to the Western Treatment Plan at Werribee. The sewer alignment has a single sewer crossing under the Yarra River, which has deteriorated to a point where it requires rehabilitation and/or replacement. The Hobson Bay main Yarra [...]
ITA Lecture – Practical Aspects of Segmental Tunnel Lining Design
Webinar - Online onlyTopic: Practical Aspects of Segmental Tunnel Lining Design After several decades of continuous progress, mechanized tunnelling has now become the main method applied in almost all types of geology, all sizes, and in increasingly shorter lengths. The predominant excavation support system for TBM tunnels consists of a one-pass precast concrete segmental liner which in [...]
North East Link SEM Ventilation Tunnel and Adit Construction
Delve Underground Level 15 / 385 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VictoriaOverview The construction of the North East Link (NEL) tunnels is well underway! The largest transport infrastructure project in Victorian history consists of 6.5 km tunnels from Watsonia to Bulleen, and it will complete Melbourne’s orbital freeway network. The presentation will provide an overview of the recently constructed ventilation tunnel and adits using Sequential [...]
ATS technical session: Design of large underground caverns for pumped hydro projects
Online and in person at: Level 9, 340 Adelaide Street, BrisbaneOverview This webinar will be focused on the design of large underground caverns, a crucial topic with the current development of multiple Pumped Hydro schemes. The main speaker will be Mousa Hazrati Aghchai, who has a PhD in rock mechanics and a solid background in geotechnics/rock mechanics in Tunnelling, Hydropower, and Dam engineering with [...]
ITA Lecture Series – Face Stability Issues
Webinar - Online onlyThis instalment of the Lunchtime lecture series will focus on practical Face Stability Issues. This episode will feature three lectures: • Examples of tunnel face instability on site - Elena Chiriotti • Overview of mechanisms and methods to evaluate tunnel face stability - Nicolas Berthoz • Case of deep tunnels in a clay medium [...]
North East Link Project update and Australian Tunnelling Society annual meeting
Online and in person at Arup Melbourne Sky Park 1, Melbourne Quarter, 699 Collins Street, VictoriaPLEASE NOTE: Contrary to what it says on the Engineers Australia registration page, this event is completely free to ATS members. Please make sure you register using your ATS email address and the discount will be applied as you move through the registration process. Event summary Explore this year's key tunnelling developments at the [...]
Ground freezing below a river estuary
EA Brisbane Office Level 9, 340 Adelaide St (EA Office), Brisbane, QueenslandOverview A new 1.48km road tunnel has been excavated beneath the Świna straits in northwest Poland using a 13.46m slurry TBM. To overcome the challenges posed by low overburden and complex geology, artificial ground freezing was implemented to enable safe excavation for the emergency egress structures required for motorway operations. This presentation will focus [...]