Queensland
Discover new developments and implementations of segmental linings in this informed presentation by Jacobs’ Technical Director for Tunnels, Anthony Harding. Thousands of kilometres of precast concrete segmental linings are erected behind TBMs every year. The industry is full of suppliers, designers, and contractors looking to use them in new ways, to reduce costs, and improve [...]
Entries are now officially open for the 2019 edition of the David Sugden Award. The award was originally established in 2004 to encourage young engineers to develop the art of technical writing, and is named in honour of David Sugden who was a driving force behind the successful design of mechanical full-face rock excavation over [...]
Australasian Tunnel Society Vice Chair and Queensland Member Harry Asche has been awarded the Queensland Professional Engineer of the Year at the Queensland 2018 Engineering Excellence Awards. Queensland ATS committee members were in attendance on the night and were thrilled to share the occasion with Harry. Harry is Aurecon’s Design Director – Tunnels and he [...]
The Queensland Branch of the Australasian Tunnelling Society invites members and guests to join us for a one-day Tunnel Systems workshop, on the 15th of November, 2018. The speakers will present industry experience in the areas of Safety, Design, Construction and operations and maintenance for tunnel systems from recent projects in Australia and New Zealand. ATS [...]
ATS Queensland held the St Barbara’s day breakfast on Friday the 1st of December. The successful event was well attended with the revitalised ATS banner on show. Special thanks to the sponsors for the breakfast EPC, Bamser and PSM. Also thanks to Adrian Smith of PSM who gave a fun tunnel lecture in difficult circumstances.
On the 24th August 2017 the Queensland branch of the ATS was pleased to host, Mr Marko Zibert (Head of Tunnelling and Geotechnics at Elea iC) and Mr Martin Lah (Head of BIM implementation at iC consulenten) at the University of Queensland. Marko and Martin provided a summary of the challenges and benefits of implementing [...]
