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SUMMARY:ATS VIC - North East Link Tunnel Project Industry Updates by Paul\, Ken and Hayley
DESCRIPTION:Type: hybrid event  \n\nOnline link – Webinar Link\nVenue – Sky Park\, One Melbourne Quarter\, 699 Collins Street\, Docklands\, VIC\, 3008\, Australia.\n\nTime and date:  \n\n6th September 2023\, Wednesday\n5:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Networking over refreshments\n5:30 PM – 6:20 PM: Presentation\n6:20 PM – 6:30 PM: Q&As and Closing Comments\n\nOutline  \nThe North East Link (NEL) is the largest road project in Victoria\, Australia\, and represents the ‘missing link’ in Melbourne’s transport network. The project aims to connect the M80 with the Eastern Freeway linking key growth areas in the north and south-east of Melbourne metropolitan. This massive program of works is carefully planned with the primary and secondary packages in an engineered timeframe so the whole project can open in 2028. The North East Link Primary Package is the largest component of the NEL project\, Victoria’s biggest road project\, and Australia’s largest Public Private Partnership (PPP). The Primary Package includes 15.1 m wide three-lane twin TBM tunnels\, four-lane SEM twin tunnels with 260 m2 in cross-section area\, and cut and cover tunnels connecting to split interchanges. North East Link Program (NELP) awarded this package to the Spark consortium comprising WeBuild\, GS E&C\, CPB\, and CCO\, in June 2021. \nNow two years after the contract award\, the team has made significant advances in constructing this urban reshaping project. Paul Thomas\, Ken Muir and Hayley Bester will provide an update on the progress of the works and the vast underground spaces already created to replace one of the most congested roads in Melbourne metropolitan. \nSpeakers \n \nPaul Thomas \nPaul Thomas is the Construction Director for NELP’s North East Link Primary Package. Paul is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Professional Manager with more than 30 years of experience in the Civil Engineering industry\, with more than 25 years spent in the tunneling and underground construction discipline\, primarily in the design and construction of mass transit\, hydro-power\, and deep sewer projects\, in Hong Kong\, Singapore\, India\, and Australia. \nPaul has extensive experience in TBM tunnels\, drill and blast tunnels\, diaphragm walls\, deep piling\, and design/construction of major underground structures and design development/planning and delivery of major underground infrastructure.\nPaul is NELP’s lead in the project’s Engineering and Construction Delivery aspects\, working closely with Spark JV and Project Co. \nKen Muir                           \nKen Muir is the Technical Director for North East Link Project Co (Project Co)\, having over 30 years of experience in mining and heavy underground civil work in both developed and developing countries. His specialties include Subterranean excavation and lining of shafts\, tunnels\, and caverns\, Drill and Blast with mechanised or hand-held equipment\, TBMs (Slurry\, EPB\, and Gripper)\, Road header\, Shaft sinking using explosive and non-explosive techniques\, and pipejacking. \nKen is NEL Project Co’s lead in the project’s Engineering and Construction Delivery aspects\, working closely with NELP and Spark JV. \nHayley Bester                   \nHayley is a communications and engagement professional with almost 15 years  experience working across State and Federal Governments and private industry on a wide rage of communications and media strategies. She currently leads the Communications and Community Engagement team for the major infrastructure project – the North East Link Tunnels. Hayley’s team support construction by working with the community for tunnelling to commence in 2024. During the time Hayley has been with Spark\, the team has developed a range of tools and incentives to ensure they are working alongside the construction team to get the job done. Prior to Spark\, Hayley worked within the Victorian Premier’s office for seven years. During this time she was responsible for communications and media in the infrastructure space. \nThese experiences have given her extensive experience working with highly influential stakeholders in the business and community sectors\, as well as working within government at the most senior level – liaising with politicians\, industry and advisers from all political backgrounds. \nSponsor \nATS acknowledge the sponsorship provided by ARUP
URL:https://australiantunnellingsociety.com.au/ats-event/ats-vic-north-east-link-tunnel-project-industry-updates-by-paul-ken-and-hayley/
LOCATION:Sky Park\, One Melbourne Quarter\, 699 Collins Street\, Docklands\, VIC\, 3008\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Online,Victoria
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SUMMARY:Inclusion\, Everybody Matters
DESCRIPTION:Join the Diversity in Tunnelling Sub Group for our National event “Inclusion\, everybody matters’.  An enlightening event where members of our community with differing abilities share their personal experiences and perspectives from working within the Australian civil engineering industry. \nThis hybrid gathering will explore the transformative power of engagement and inclusion\, with a focus on how diverse talents can drive positive change in our profession and society and how we can all support each other more inclusively. The session will delve into the challenges and triumphs faced by our speakers\, and discover practical strategies for fostering an inclusive environment. As we celebrate resilience and diverse voices\, we are also excited to potentially welcome a guest speaker. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with a diverse community and learn how we can all make a difference in the engineering industry and beyond. \n  \nLearning outcomes\nIn this presentation you will learn: \n\nAbout inclusion and diversity in our industry.\nCelebration of diversity and areas where inclusion can be improved including: Personal experiences of engineers with disabilities.\nImportance of an inclusive environment for innovation and resilience.\nPositive impacts of diversity in the industry.\nStrategies for overcoming barriers to inclusion.\n\nEvent program\nIn-person:  \n\n5:30pm AEST: Registration open\n6:00pm AEST: Presentation commences and Q&A session\n7:00pm AEST: Presentation concludes and further networking\n7:30pmAEST: Event concludes\n\n  \nOnline:  \n\n6:00pm AEST: Presentation commences and Q&A session\n7:00pm AEST: Presentation concludes\n\n  \nAbout the speakers\n \nJanice Lovelock MIEAust CPEng \nSenior Engineer at AECOM \nJanice is a Senior Engineer at AECOM. She is passionate about the engineering profession and privileged to have been involved in many major roads and rail projects in NSW. She enables clients to manage their risk through expertise knowledge and skills\, and works to manage multidisciplinary projects in an efficient and profitable manner. Janice enjoys coordinating project teams\, finding solutions for complex technical problems and thrives on using my experience to inspire young people into what she has found to be a very rewarding career. Janice has a keen interest in engineering from a technical perspective\, but an even keener interest in the social benefits engineers can bring to our communities – very much driven by my new perspective as a wheelchair user after sustaining a permanent spinal cord injury in 2019. Being an engineer\, a mother\, and a wheelchair user\, Janice finds these separate aspects of herself make for an individual and unique experience of the world. She believes we have an obligation to consider the experience of diverse members of our community to create better outcomes for all. \n \nCraig Wright \nCivil & Industrial Sales at BarChip Australia Pty\, Ltd \nCraig is a seasoned professional currently serving as the Civil Manager for sales and business development at Barchip Aust\, overseeing operations in Australia and the Pacific Region for over 16 years. During this time\, he successfully introduced the company to the tunnelling community\, establishing partnerships and supplying materials for various domestic tunnel projects. In addition to his impressive career\, Craig is actively involved in promoting diversity and inclusion as a member of the Diversity in Tunnelling subcommittee\, and he is holding elected positions on both the Concrete Institute of Australia’s Queensland committee since 2017 and the Queensland chapter of the Australian Tunnelling Society since 2022. Despite facing the challenges of Retinitis Pigmentosa\, which led to visual impairment\, Craig is determined\, resilient\, and dedicated to making a positive impact in his field and encouraging acceptance among his peers. \n \nDr. Jason Le Masurier \nCivil Engineer \nJason is a chartered Civil Engineer who assists businesses and organisations increase their resilience using his TIC TOC CLOC process to manage uncertainty\, maximize opportunity and minimize risk in this uncertain world. He began his geotechnical career with Hyder Consulting in 1990 and early on gained experience in the design of tunnels. In 1997 he embarked on his PhD at the University of Bristol collaborating with 12 industrial partners to develop process models to support the Observational Method in geotechnical engineering\, including a yearlong Technology Transfer Secondment to Arup where he worked as part of a design-build team on a complex deep basement construction in London\, employing the Observational Method to make continuous improvements to the design and construction sequence. \nIn 2007 he suffered a devastating brain injury in a kite surfing accident and spent the next two years in hospital rehabilitation. His son was born in the same hospital that year. He recovered from paralysis and being told he’d never walk again to completing a triathlon 7 years after the accident. He will talk about the mindset of seeing a crisis as an opportunity / catalyst- based on the concept of post-traumatic growth (TIC). He links this with his PhD on the Observational Method allowing the uncertainty created by a crisis to be managed – taking opportunities consciously (TOC) \, to avoid the default outcome of becoming the victim of a crisis by using contingencies to let opportunities commence (CLOC). \n 
URL:https://australiantunnellingsociety.com.au/ats-event/inclusion-everybody-matters/
LOCATION:Hybrid – webinar and in person at AECOM’s office in Sydney\, Level 21 420 George Street\, Sydney\, NSW\, 2000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:National
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR - Lessons learned from design and construction of Nant-de-Drance Powerhouse
DESCRIPTION:WEBINAR Registration Link\nDate:             27 September 2023 \nTime:            6:00 pm — 7.00 pm AEST \nLocation:       Online only \nOverview\nThe Nant-de-Drance pumped hydropower scheme (900 MW)\, awarded “International Major Tunneling Project of the Year” ITA-NCE prize in 2014\, connects the two existing artificial reservoirs at Emosson and Vieux Emosson in Switzerland. \nExcept for raising the upper dam\, all works were undertaken underground. They include 16 km of tunnels\, two vertical shafts of height 440m and 6 large caverns. The exceptional size of the powerhouse cavern (194m x 32m x 52m)\, located at 600m depth in a metamorphic rock formation of sedimentary origin\, required the definition of an appropriate excavation\, support and lining concept. \nAn advanced rock behaviour model\, based on an important investigation campaign\, 3D finite element modeling\, and analysis of unstable blocks allowed the optimization of the support and the lining. \nMonitoring during construction and back-analysis allowed the successive reduction of support measures and the streamlining of the excavation phasing. The resulting savings largely exceeded the incurred expenses for additional investigation and calculations. \nThe cavern excavation schedule was accelerated by reorganizing the phasing of the different stages\, creating a margin to make up delays elsewhere. \nStructural design was also particularly challenging due to the unusual load cases to which the structure is subjected during construction and operation\, as well as the large volumes of concrete being poured. \nAfter 14 years of work\, Nant de Drance was officially commissioned on 9 September 2022. At the height of construction\, up to 650 labourers were present on site without any serious accidents. By its ability to absorb or inject up to 900 MW of power\, Nant de Drance is going to be a key instrument for stabilisation and regulation on the Swiss and European grid. \nSpeakers\n \nPatrick Heck\, CEng MICE graduated with a degree in civil\, structural and environmental engineering in 2007 from Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland. Patrick started his career in geotechnical engineering\, first with Buro Happold in the UK\, and from 2010 with WSP-BG in Lausanne\, Switzerland. He has been involved in the design and construction of several hydroelectric schemes in Switzerland. He was the BG project manager for the civil & structural engineering of the powerhouse and switchgear caverns at Nant de Drance. \n \nEtienne Garin\, Civil Engineer\, M.Sc.: graduated in Civil Engineering from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1996. He benefits from vast experience in the field of underground construction and hydroelectric scheme. Since he joined WSP-BG he has actively participated in the design and construction of major tunnels in Switzerland and abroad\, as well as hydroelectric power schemes. During his career\, he has carried out calculations at detailed and final design stage\, been responsible for site supervision\, and has managed projects from preliminary design to client delivery. He was in charge of the design of the caverns for the Nant-de-Drance project. Since 2023\, Etienne Garin is animator of the ITA WG 19 “Conventionnal Tunnelling” \n \nGérard Seingre\, Civil Engineer\, M.Sc.: graduated in Civil Engineering from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Gérard is an expert in deep tunnelling and site survey for construction of energy infrastructures. He has planned and played a leading role in the construction of over 40 km of deep tunnels\, 3 vertical shafts over 400 m high\, more than 10 big caverns and 2 descending access galleries (main projects Loetschberg-base Tunnel and Pump storage power plant Nant de Drance). He was for 12 years animator of the working 17 “Long tunnels at great depth” for the ITA. He is currently the treasurer of ITA. Gérard is also lecturer for tunnelling construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne.
URL:https://australiantunnellingsociety.com.au/ats-event/webinar-lessons-learned-from-design-and-construction-of-nant-de-drance-powerhouse/
LOCATION:Webinar – Online only
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Tunnel systems: planning assets today for the future
DESCRIPTION:Overview \nIn this session\, we will explore examples of tunnels that have undergone significant refurbishment\, upgrade\, or change to their systems\, both locally and internationally. \nWe will examine some of the lessons learned and challenges overcome. Our objective is to look at how these lessons might be applied to tunnel systems today to better support our changing needs. Additionally\, we will examine the trends that might inform how we best plan for the future state\, including human factors\, developments in technology\, and how we can better shape the reliability and serviceability of these systems as they go through these changes. \nFurther information \nAustralia has experienced a revolution in underground transport infrastructure over the past three decades as the population of our cities has grown. Some of our major transport tunnels are now approaching lifecycle milestones\, and in particular\, some tunnel systems are approaching the end of their economic life. Many tunnels have already undergone retrofits of new system technologies and repurposing to different transport functions\, such as the conversion of rail to metro. These changes require significant modifications to the existing tunnel systems\, which might not have been foreseen at the time of construction. The need to make significant changes to tunnel systems for upgrades or repurposing is not a new concept. \nIn countries with more established underground infrastructure\, this reality has been experienced multiple times. There are also notable examples of tunnels for more specialized purposes that have undergone radical changes to support new functions. Looking back\, we can see that there are needs for these tunnel systems today that would have been hard to imagine at the time of their construction. Changes to the climate\, resources\, the way we work and how we use and transmit information are all factors that have contributed to this. Considering the current rate of change\, it may be even more difficult to imagine what we will expect of these systems in 30 years’ time. \nEvent program \nIn person: \n\n5:30 pm AEST: Registration and arrival\n6:00 pm AEST: Event commences\n7:00 pm AEST: Presentation concludes and Networking\n8:00 pm AEST: Event concludes\n\nOnline: \n\n6:00 pm AEST: Event commences\n8:00 pm AEST: Event concludes\n\nAbout the speaker \n \nTom Starling\nPrincipal Mechanical Engineer\, Worley \nTom is a mechanical engineer with 17 years’ of experience\, half of that in major transport infrastructure projects\, working in a variety of roles\, from technical advice in financing and partnerships\, through to testing and commissioning. Being involved at the earliest and latest stages of tunnel system design and construction\, Tom has experience in blue sky planning for possible future usage scenarios\, and has also developed solutions to enable and execute the upgrade\, retrofit and repurpose of existing tunnel systems. The balance of his experience is in a range of sectors; buildings\, water\, defence and resources\, both surface and underground\, which face similar and different challenges to transport tunnel infrastructure. \n  \nMC \n \nTeresa Sandum\nSenior Fire Safety Engineer \nTeresa is a Senior Fire Safety Engineer with 7 years of experience on a range of infrastructure and building projects in Victoria\, New South Wales\, Queensland and New Zealand. Teresa is currently part of the Tunnel System Fire and Life Safety team at WSP and currently working Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project\, North-East Link (NEL) and Southern Program Alliance (SPA) for Level Crossing Removal. \nTeresa have extensive experiences in CFD simulations using Fire Dynamics Simulation for station building\, airports\, and shopping centres. She also specialises in dynamic egress modelling using advanced crowd-based simulation software\, MassMotion for Melbourne Metro and the new Adelaide Street Tunnel for Brisbane Metro. She also provided fire and life safety strategy and evacuation strategy on the existing MURL works as part of the breakthrough interface between the new State Library Station (Melbourne Metro) and Melbourne Central Station (MURL).
URL:https://australiantunnellingsociety.com.au/ats-event/tunnel-systems-planning-assets-today-for-the-future/
LOCATION:Online and in person at: Level 9\, 340 Adelaide Street\, Brisbane
CATEGORIES:Online,Queensland
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