8 December 2021 The Victorian Tunnelling Centre has produced its first round of graduates, with 26 current and former trainees now working on the city-shaping Metro Tunnel Project. Recently, Minister for Transport Infrastructure Jacinta Allan visited the world-class centre, which includes life-sized replicas of mined and bored tunnels and a massive tunnel boring machine cutterhead. [...]
6 December, 2021 The ATS is encouraging the ATS Tunnel Systems Group to connect and share information, reflecting the groups goal of highlighting the importance of tunnel systems. Key initiatives next year will include a quarterly online ATS presentation on tunnel systems, starting from March 2022 and an ATS seminar on tunnel systems in the [...]
Diane Mather was awarded the Women In Tunnelling Award Outstanding Achievement Award by the Australian Tunnelling Society, recognising extensive contributions to tunnelling and mining in Australia and internationally. The award acknowledged Diane for her technical knowledge covering tunnelling and geotechnical issues, through to a management of tunnel designs and construction. Diane said she was thrilled [...]
16 November, 2021 The Thames Tideway Tunnel is upgrading London’s Victorian-era sewer system. Engineers behind the project have discovered skeletons, the challenges of moving masses of water under iconic sites and the remarkable skills of the 18th century designers of the sewer. London is upgrading its sewer system to cope with its growing population, intercepting, [...]
14 October 2021 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 Guideline was released in September 2020 and this webinar series has been established to provide readers with further context to the material included. The first in [...]
13 October, 2021 The World Forum On Underground Urban Transportation is being held tonight, Wednesday 13 October Australian time. ITA's webinar will be hosted in Paris with a 2 pm start in France's capital equivalent to 11 pm AEDT. ITA states the webinar will discuss 'urban road congestion, especially in large cities, which has become [...]
October 12, 2021 ITA's October Lunchtime Lecture series instalment is taking place tonight, October 12, and will feature David Oliveira flying the flag for the Australian tunnelling industry on the subject of 'structural use of permanent fibre sprayed concrete linings.' The session will include an overview on the permanent sprayed concrete linings guidelines written by [...]
October 5 2021 On Saturday 25 September the ATS young members held a site visit to the Cross River Rail in Brisbane. The event drew great interest and you had to be fast to secure a spot as one of the 35 attendees. There was a great mix [...]
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The Observational Method in Tunnelling Diane Mather, Design Manager, Inland Rail, ARTC Alex Gomes, Chief Technical Principal - Tunnels, SMEC Background The design of tunnels and underground structures often involves a myriad of technical disciplines, which can range from geosciences up to architectonics and electro-mechanics, depending on the tunnel purpose. However, because tunnels are invariably [...]
