Australia's longest road tunnel, the Clem7 (starting life as the North South Bypass Tunnel) is made up of twin 4.8km 2-lane tunnels in a 6.8km overall length tollway which connects Bowen Hills to Woolongabba.  A lot has been written about the tunnels themselves, the rock that was removed, the concrete that was poured, Matilda and Florence the two $50 Million boring machines that completed these tunnels 60m under the Brisbane River, but little publicity has been given to the Mechanical and Electrical engineering components of this $3.2 Billion project (apart from criticisms of the red and purple exhaust buildings).

This presentation by someone who was there is set to rectify this omission.

In December 2007, Bryan Cheetham was employed as Senior Electrical Engineer for the M&E Design and Construction of the North South Bypass tunnel.  Bryan brought with him almost 5 years experience as a Project Engineer with United Group Infrastructure (ALSTOM Australia) Brisbane, plus 30 years experience in electrical power and instrumentation design construction and maintenance on projects as diverse as sugar mills and powerstation upgrades.  Bryan will discuss the Company's background in tunnelling projects, an overview of the electrical system, design, the peculiarities of tunnelling projects, together with construction and commissioning aspects of the project

DATE                            :         Wednesday ,28^th July 2010, 5.30pm for 6pm start

LOCATION                  :         Hawken Auditorium, Engineers Australia,

                                               447 Upper Edward Street, Brisbane

REGISTRATION FEE  :         No charge