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 [...]