6 August 2021 The Australian Tunnelling Society is committed to a tunnelling profession that is as diverse as the community it works in. Today we're launching our Diversity and Inclusion Protocol as a model so that all members feel valued, respected, and have access to equal opportunity. Read the full Protocol and watch [...]
3 August 2021 With this year's scheduled World Tunnel Congress pushed to 2022, the ITA is has launched a digital week dedicated to tunnels and underground space. The ITA Tunnelling Week will be held from 20–24 September this year, with five days dedicated to conferences and debates surrounding the industry. Leaders of the profession will [...]
23 July 2021 An ATS presentation on construction of cross passages by artificial ground freezing organised by the Western Australian division was very well received on Wednesday night. More than 110 people viewed the talk online, with a further 20 attending in-person at the Public Transport Centre in East Perth. Manuel Ramirez, Project Manager at [...]
16 July 2021 The hunt is on for the name of the Thornlie-Cockburn Link Micro TBM. The MBTM will drill twin 100m tunnels as part of the Western Australian project to provide Perth with an east-west cross rail line connection. The community is being asked to send through suggestions, with any ideas due by Monday [...]
This month’s ITA Lunchtime Lecture Series will be held on Tuesday 13 July and will be on the subject of ‘Into the future’. The session will include an overview on ‘Resilient underground’ by Wout Broere (WG20 animateur), a presentation on ‘Climate change and pandemic resilience of the underground space’ by Giuseppe Gaspari (WG20 vice-animateur), and [...]
For the next front cover of the A&NZ Journal we want to showcase the people and projects of the tunnelling community. Here's your chance to send in a picture that could be on the front cover of the Journal. A prize is on offer for the winning photo selected. Any photos submitted for [...]
June 2021 The seventh edition of the International Tunnelling Association Tunnelling Awards will be an all-online affair to allow maximum participation from around the globe. 2020 award winners included John Holland, CPB and Ghella whose joint venture for tunnelling and station excavation works for the Sydney Metro City and Southwest Project claimed the Major Project [...]
The world's first full-scale ship tunnel will be built in Norway to help ships navigate the notoriously dangerous Stadhavet Sea. The job involves boring through a 300-metre-high mountain as part of the 1.7 km tunnel which will accommodate ships up to 16,000 tonne. Read the full story via Engineers Australia's create magazine.
Grand plans contrived two years ago were realised at the Australasian Tunnelling Conference 2020+1 in Melbourne last week. Australian Tunnelling Society vice-president Richard Buckingham also served on the event organising committee and said the event was exactly as he'd imagined. "This is the vision that we had almost two years ago when we had the [...]
Conferences serving around 500 people require plenty of prior planning, innovative ideas and improvisation during the event. The Australasian Tunnelling Conference 2020+1 was no exception, and provided the added complication of being rescheduled due to COVID-19. But withstanding any challenges a successful event was hosted in Melbourne, with the New Zealand Tunelling Society joining in [...]
