Key Speaker: Trevor O’Shannessy, Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Golder Associates Date: Tuesday 5 March 2019 Time: Commencing at 6: pm (with refreshments at 5.30pm) Where: Engineers Australia, Level 31, 600 Bourke St, Melbourne Cost: Free, refreshments provided (Please register at EA Victorian Division’s events page) The West Gate Tunnel Project will provide an alternative river crossing to the West Gate [...]

Join the Australasian Tunneling Society (ATS) for a presentation on opportunities for rail tunnels to improve Sydney's rail connectivity. A rail tunnel under Sydney Heads would connect the Sydney CBD through to Gosford via a 60 km long tunnel extension from Bondi Junction Station on the Eastern Suburbs/Illawarra Line, positioning Brookvale as a new satellite CBD, [...]

Overview Snowy 2.0 is a proposed pumped-hydro expansion of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, operated by dynamic energy company Snowy Hydro. The expansion will significantly add to the Scheme's existing energy generation and large-scale storage capabilities, securing system stability at times of peak demand. The Snowy 2.0 Geotechnical Investigation has to date delivered over 21 km of [...]

Join Australian Tunnelling Society for this presentation where Eric Audigé will speak about radar satellite interferometry (InSAR) . In urban tunnelling projects, ground TICKETS deformation control and monitoring are important to guarantee that the different infrastructure assets crossing or adjacent to the tunnel alignment and other new build elements are not affected by the construction [...]

Join the Australian Tunnelling Society for a presentation on microtunnelling, featuring some challenging trenchless projects across Australia such as Gold Coast Seaway project with a 1400m pipe jack bore in difficult ground conditions under the Broadwater and an 878m long HDD under the Nerang River.

The Australian Tunnelling Society in conjunction with the Australian Geomechanics Society will co-host a presentation on groundwater ingress, it’s broad-ranging implications and control, featuring the Uma Oya project in Sri Lanka and how the lessons learnt can be applied to other long hard rock TBM tunnel projects.

Groundwater and Tunnelling in Melbourne: considerations, complexities and a recent project example Registrations: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/event/2019/10/groundwater-and-tunnelling-melbourne-considerations-complexities-and-recent-project   The hydrogeology of Melbourne is highly variable. The intersected and surrounding ground conditions of tunnelling projects will strongly influence the groundwater response and consideration for required groundwater control. This presentation will provide an overview of Melbourne’s hydrogeology as well as [...]

Note this event is on Monday. Networking starts at 6pm, talk at 6.30pm. Overview: The presentation highlights the challenges and global trends in mechanized tunneling with some case studies. There are many challenges and each project faces its own obstacles like higher face pressure, bigger diameter, long tunnel routes, ground conditions, lower overburdens and in [...]

North East Link will finally fix the missing link in Melbourne’s freeway network. The project will deliver a massive upgrade to the Eastern Freeway, Melbourne’s first dedicated busway and more than 25 km of new and upgraded walking and cycling paths. Victoria’s biggest road infrastructure project includes that state’s longest road tunnels, travelling for six [...]

Andrew Banks is the Caverns Director, CBD Stations working on Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel Project. He will detail construction of the project’s CBD-based station caverns, discussing strategies for the design and construction of the caverns and underground spaces below significant existing infrastructure. Andrew will outline cavern support practices, including staging for excavation and cavern support, [...]

Schedule Networking - 5:30 to 6:00 pm Annual Special Meeting -  6:00 to 6:30 pm Technical Presentation on West Gate Tunnel Project - 6:30 and 7:30 pm   Annual Special Meeting Notice is hereby given that the Annual Special Meeting (ASM) of the Australian Tunnelling Society Victorian Chapter will be held at Engineers Australia, [...]

The Victorian Chapter of the Australian Tunnelling Society invites members to attend an in-person celebration for the Feast Day of St. Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers and miners, as an end of year social gathering on Friday 2nd December 2022. This networking-focused event is to be held in the excellent event space at [...]

This presentation provides a detailed summary of the structural fire testing requirements for concrete used in tunnel infrastructures. Contrasting with building fires, tunnel fires are more significant within a few minutes due to the confined space, which can cause concrete spalling and jeopardise the tunnel supporting capacity. This fire-induced damage should be a substantial [...]

Overview This presentation provides an overview of the tunnel design for the iconic North East Link Program. This is the largest tunnel project Melbourne has ever seen. North East Link (NEL) is the largest investment in a road project in Victoria’s history. It is the missing link in Melbourne’s orbital freeway between an upgraded [...]

Overview Please join us for the first in the new season of ICE technical presentations at Arup’s office in Melbourne and online. This fascinating talk, presented in collaboration between the ICE and the Australian Tunnel Society (ATS), will explore the ground challenges on the Metro Tunnel Project. The event will also be live streamed, [...]

Ground support design for underground rock engineering projects often adopts empirical methods, which were mostly developed in 1960s and 1970s. While these methods have provided a useful tool to aid design, they have typically been based on a limited database of project experience and so their results need to be interpreted in the context of [...]

ATS Victoria invites all Victorian-based members to their Annual Special Meeting (ASM) to hear how the Chapter performed over the last year and what is planned for the following year. Timings 5:30 - 6:00 - Networking 6:00 - 6:15 - Annual Special Meeting 6:15 - 7:00 - Technical Presentation 7:00 onwards - Networking Agenda [...]

St Barbara’s Day Celebration - 7 December The Victorian Chapter of the ATS invites members to attend an in-person celebration for the Feast Day of St. Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers and miners, at an end of year social gathering on Thursday, 7th December. This networking-focused event is being held in the wonderful [...]

Join the ATS and Transurban in an immersive exploration into the nerve centre of tunnel systems with a site visit to a road tunnel control room in Melbourne. Overview Transurban control rooms are the pulsating brain behind the seamless operation of tunnels. These control rooms stand as the guardians of safety, efficiency, and operations [...]