The dates are set, and the countdown is on for the 18th Australasian Tunnelling Conference which will take place 5 – 8 November, 2023 in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand. It’s been nearly 15 years since the bi-annual conference was last held in New Zealand in 2011 and we are delighted to welcome national [...]
Fifty people gathered at Stacey Agnew’s eVENT Space in early August to hear Dr Ricky Carvel deliver his short course on Tunnel Fire Safety. Discussion during the sessions benefitted from the wide diversity of participants who covered all aspects of tunnel fire safety from design through construction, operation, emergency response and investigation. Delivering nearly [...]
Tunnelling Asia 2023 Conference Brochure
The ATS would like to extend a huge thanks to all attendees, presenters and sponsors of our hugely successful Careers in Tunnelling event on the 20 July! Nearly 100 attendees joined in total, with almost 50 attending the live component in Sydney - a great turnout for the annual ATS Young Members (ATSym) national [...]
Expressions of interest are now open to participate in the upcoming WTC2024, which is scheduled to be held from April 19th to April 25th, 2024 in Shenzhen, China. As one of the most highly anticipated events in the tunnel and underground space industry, WTC2024 will be a platform for knowledge exchanging, networking, and collaboration among industry [...]
Since 2015, the ATS has ensured the voice of the next generation of tunnellers is heard at the national level through the appointment of an ATS Young Members’ (ATSym) Representative who sits on the National Executive Committee. Brodie Aitchison was appointed as the third ATSym representative in 2021. Brodie is a chartered civil engineer specialising in [...]
In this wonderful article by create magazine from Engineers Australia, learn more about how Australia is both leading the world and utilising world-best practice in tunnelling. ATS leaders and members including Harry Asche, Rob Bertuzzi, Elena Gavazzi and Jurij Karlovšek, PhD describe how the Australian tunnelling boom looks set to continue indefinitely and why the focus is squarely set on [...]
The ATS is pleased to launch our 2023 Photography Competition Theme THE BEST OF AUSTRALASIAN TUNNELLING Please share your elegant, innovative and iconic images of tunnelling projects from Australia and New Zealand and be in with a chance to win a fantastic prize. Entry details Email your entry to: ATS@engineersaustralia.org.au Subject line: ATS Photo [...]
Wayne Bradford (Scout), a respected and well-known member of our tunnelling and mining community sadly passed away on 17th June 2023 at the age of 63 after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Wayne started his career in 1981 after he completed his Associate Diploma of Surveying and joined Mount Isa Mines as a Surveyor. [...]
The much anticipated "Building Around Existing Tunnels" seminar last week in Sydney was a great success judging by some of the feedback from the 70+ people who attended. In the words of event organiser Ted Nye: "Thirteen papers were submitted, so a big thank you goes out to the authors who took the time [...]
