AUSTRALASIAN TUNNELLING SOCIETY

Time:               Commencing at 6:00 pm (with refreshments at 5.30pm)

Where:                  Engineers Australia, John Connell Auditorium, 21 Bedford Street, North Melbourne

Cost:                Free, refreshments provided (Please register at EA Victorian Division's events page)

This talk presents the construction aspects of the TBM drives as part of the 6.7 km twin tube tunnels of the $4.96Bn Airport Link Project in Brisbane, Australia’s largest infrastructure project.

David was Construction Manager for Thiess John Holland during the construction of the two 12.48 m diameter TBM drives and also the M&E installation on the Eastern section of the project.

David Hake is a civil engineer with over 22 years of experience in underground construction in Australia, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.  David’s recent previous experience on TBM projects also includes the Kowloon Southern Link and Kai Tak Transfer Scheme in Hong Kong, the Northside Storage Tunnel Alliance for Sydney Water and the North Western Sewer Project in Melbourne.

David is currently John Holland Tunnelling’s Operations Manager responsible for the project works in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Time:               Commencing at 6:00 pm (with refreshments at 5.30pm)

Where:         Engineers Australia, John Connell Auditorium 21 Bedford Street, North Melbourne

Cost:                Free, refreshments provided

 Dr Bill Bamford – Senior Principal, Coffey Information

·         Videoclips of presentations on The Mine of the Future ™ program by key Rio Tinto staff will be shown.

·         The Northparkes Mine will be briefly described.

·         The block caving system of mass underground mining, which was pioneered in Australia at Northparkes in 1997, will be briefly explained and illustrated.

·         The historical development of the “Undercutting” principle patented by Josef Wohlmeyer in 1960, and the “Mobile Miner” first suggested by David Sugden in 1970 will be briefly outlined, as will the operation of some of the machines which were later built using these principles.

·         The TBS systems now being trialled by Rio Tinto represent the latest incarnations of these principles, with the Aker-Wirth TBS (Tunnel Boring System) machine using the Undercutting principle, and the Atlas-Copco MMM (Modular Mobile Mining) machine using the Mobile Miner principle.

·         The recent commissioning of the Aker-Wirth TBS machine at Northparkes will be illustrated, by photos and a videoclip.

More information and registration available here:

https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/events/rio-tintos-mine-future-tm

Joint AGS / ATS Evening Technical Meeting

Geotechnical Engineering and the Law

Nicholas Gallina, Senior Associate, Allens

Nick will follow up the presentation he delivered last year. He will discuss new topics such as negligence claims and the use of dispute resolution boards to resolve large engineering disputes, as well as revisiting, in light of recent case law, some of the topics he covered last year, such as expert evidence and proportionate liability. He will also present some examples of without prejudice communications to help you better understand when this privilege applies and when it doesn't.

Topics will include:

·         Expert Witness – When might courts refuse to admit an expert's report? Dura (Aust) Constructions v Hue Boutique Living [2012] VSC 99

·         Latent conditions – Who should take the risk for ground related risk?

·         Proportionate liability – Who can be a 'concurrent wrongdoer'? Utility Services Corporation v SPI Electricity [2012] VSCA 158

·         Dispute Resolution – Advantages and disadvantages of court litigation, arbitration, mediation, negotiation.

·         Dispute Resolution Boards

·         Negligence claims

·         Without prejudice communications - how can they help you?

Speaker: Nicolas Gallina is a construction lawyer with litigation and dispute resolution experience. Before joining Allens in 2007, he was a principal engineer, project manager and project director with AECOM. He has acted for private and government clients in the mining, energy generation, heavy rail and large retail sectors on a range of disputes and advises on strategies to minimise disputes in complex construction engineering projects, expert evidence, calls on securities, contract administration and the mediation and negotiation of construction disputes.

Time: Commencing at 6:00 pm (with refreshments at 5:30pm) and finishing at 7:30 pm

Where: Engineers Australia Vic Division Building, 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne

Cost: Free, refreshments provided

Registrations: http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/events/ground-engineering-and-law

Event Organiser: Chris Lyons 9668 5623

Ben Clarke – Design Manager, Tunnelling - John Holland

Time:               Commencing at 6:00 pm (with refreshments at 5.30pm)

Where:              Engineers Australia, John Connell Auditorium, 21 Bedford Street, North Melbourne

Cost:                Free, refreshments provided (Please register at EA Victorian Division's events page)

The Sydney Opera House Vehicle Access and Pedestrian Safety (SOH VAPS) project is a $110 million project being completed by the Sydney Opera House Trust. The main goal of the project is to remove service vehicles from the forecourt of the entertainment precinct which receives close to 10 million visitors each year. It involves the construction of an underground loading facility connecting the operational areas of the building directly to the entry of the precinct at the end of Macquarie St.  The project is using a number of tunnelling methods to excavate the required space to construct the loading dock facilities.

Work includes:

• Total 100m mined tunnel excavation using road headers,
• Bulk excavation of 28,000 BCM using road headers,
• Construction of egress passages, and
• Demolition & temporary support under building loads.

The majority of the project is constructed within Hawkesbury Sandstone, with distinct areas of localised features requiring ground treatment to control inflow of water from the adjoining harbour.

Ben Clarke is the John Holland Design Manager on the Sydney Opera House Vehicle Access and Pedestrian Safety project. He has responsibility for planning and design of all temporary works and coordination of significant design issues that interface with the existing structure and the permanent works. Before transferring to VAPS he worked on Northern Sewerage Project and the Eastlink tunnels in Melbourne.

Session Sponsor - John Holland

Session Contact - Ed Taylor   M  0412 333 212   e‑mail:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.