Overview

In this webinar, four papers will be presented from the 19th International Symposium on Aerodynamics, Ventilation & Fire in Tunnels conference.

Sustainability on the design of large infrastructure to house MEI equipment is currently under a lot of scrutiny and these presentations will tackle the problem from different perspectives. This session will also lay out innovative and state of the art sustainable solutions in an Australian project which have been recognised by international peers.

Key takeaways

• how sustainability can be considered in design and accounted for in risk analysis
• how to improve efficiency in longitudinal ventilation with point extraction
• how to use artificial neural networks to predict critical velocity for tunnel fires
• how to create, test and validate a ventilation model for a large rail network

About the speakers

Kerem Oguz

Principal Mechanical Engineer, Mott MacDonald, Australia

Kerem is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over eight years of experience designing tunnel ventilation systems. He has worked on a range of road and rail tunnel projects worldwide. Before moving to Australia from the UK, Kerem was part of the project team working on the detailed tunnel ventilation design of the Northern Line Extension and the testing and commissioning of Crossrail’s tunnel ventilation system. More recently, he has been involved in the design of new metros across Australia, including Sydney Metro and Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop.

Gencer Koc

Associate Fire Safety and Tunnel Ventilation Engineer, WSP Australia

Gencer is a mechanical engineer with 18 years’ experience in solving thermo-fluid-related industrial problems. He obtained his PhD on modelling train aerodynamics inside tunnels using machine learning and artificial neural networks in 2012. Gencer has completed the tunnel ventilation system design of more than 180 railway stations and more than 200 km track tunnels. He has participated in the tunnel ventilation system design of more than 20 road tunnels. He is currently working on the fire and life safety systems design of road tunnels in Australia.

Andrea Paradiso

Lead Tunnel System Engineer, Aurecon

Andrea is a Lead Engineer in Aurecon’s Tunnel Systems Team in Melbourne with over 15 years of experience worldwide in fire safety engineering, tunnel ventilation and computational fluid dynamics. He is a critical thinker passionate about bringing innovative solutions into design by mastering advanced scientifical and mathematical models.

Eden Altura

Engineer/Consultant, ARUP UK

Eden is an Engineer/Consultant in Arup’s Building Engineering London Group. Eden has worked on metro tunnel ventilation designs for clients in UK, Toronto and Denmark. She is passionate about mitigating the impacts of design and construction on climate change. She currently supports design teams to achieve ambitious sustainability objectives in various sectors.

Nikhil Dawda, Graduate Mechanical Engineer

ARUP UK

A motivated and inquisitive engineer with a background in Aeronautics, having achieved first-class honours from Imperial College London. Nikhil has worked on metro tunnel ventilation designs for clients in Toronto and Copenhagen. Nikhil also worked on the design of construction ventilation systems for HS2 and aided in the design and development of data centres for companies such as AWS.