Peter Watson 2019 Golf Day
On a smoky and hot afternoon 106 keen golfers made their way to the Ryde Parramtta Golf Club for the 2019 edition of the Peter Watson Memorial Charity Golf Day. The day included a four ball ambrose competition across the 18 ...
ATS QLD – National Tunnelling Day Celebratory Dinner
To celebrate St Barbara Day and World Tunnel Day the ATS Queensland chapter hosted a celebratory dinner at The Charming Squire in South Bank, Brisbane. The event is one of the most highly regarded events in the tunnellin...
ATS Tunnel Design Guideline Draft
The initial draft of the ATS' Design Guide is nearing completion with a power of work from the ATSym nominees. The development of this draft has been in line with the Terms of Reference established and approved by the ATS Exe...
AQWG win Safety Initiative of the Year at ITA Awards
The ATS’s Air Quality Working Group (AQWG) has been successful in winning the “Safety Initiative of the Year” award as part of the ITA Awards held in Miami in mid-November. Since the first edition of the ITA Awards in 2015 th...
ATS QLD – RBWH Annual Golf Day 2019
On Friday 18th October 2019 ATS members and sponsors attended the Annual Charity golf day in support of The Royal Brisbane Woman’s Hospital Foundation. It was a successful, sunny day and with 80 registered players,...
ATS 2019 David Sugden Winner
The 2019 edition of the David Sugden Award winner is Senthilnath G.T. Senthilnath's paper Design & Construction of Pedestrian Access Tunnels below an Existing Operational Metro Tunnels & Station was sighted by the jud...
Perth ATS Short Course Wrap Up
The Perth chapter of the Australian Tunnelling Society hosted a two-and-a-half-day short course to leverage of the current experience and knowledge residing in Perth with the Forrestfield Airport Link project. The 78 course d...
WTC2019 Wrap Up
The International Tunnelling Association (ITA-AITES) is the peak body for tunnelling and tunnellers the world over. From the 3rd to the 9th of May the whole ITA family including a large Australian contingent visited Napoli fo...
Snowy 2.0
The evening of Wednesday 29th May 2019 saw a presentation on the Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro power scheme in the Snowy Mountains. The scheme will add significant additional generating and storage capacity to the network, securing ...
ATS Tunnel Design Working Group
Due to many developments in tunnel design in Australia over a period of many years, the Australian Tunnelling Society (ATS) has recognised the requirement to establish a guideline of tunnel design practice in Australia. Duri...
STEM Professionals in Schools
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2019 David Sugden Open and 2018 Roadshow
Entries are now officially open for the 2019 edition of the David Sugden Award. The award was originally established in 2004 to encourage young engineers to develop the art of technical writing, and is named in honour of Davi...
Initial Document Release from NSW AQWG
The Australian Tunnelling Society recognises the importance of health and safety in our industry in addition to valuing the strong experience and contribution of our members to support key stakeholders in our ever-growing sec...
ATS NSW Golf Day – Proceeds Donated to Garvan Institute
ATS NSW, led by committee member Brad Boardman, organised a very successful NSW ATS Charity Golf Day at the Ryde Parramatta Gold Course on the 8th November. Following the event, ATS NSW were able to donate over $14,000 to th...
WTC2020 Call for Abstracts
The World Tunnel Congress will return to Asia-Pacific in 2020 with The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) to host the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2020 and 46th General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from ...
2018 ATS Design and Construction Short Course
The Australasian Tunnelling Society recently hosted a three day short-course in Melbourne, featuring a variance of tunnelling design and construction sessions. The schedule included two and half days of technical presentatio...
Australian Tunnelling Society Revised Name
The Tunnelling Society has developed over the 38 years of operations as the focus of the group has shifted to keep pace with developments in industry and activity. Initially the group started as part of the Australian Geomec...
Sydney Workshop Success
On the 24th of October the Sydney Chapter of the ATS held a workshop titled Emerging Trends in Tunnels. The workshop was sold out weeks in advance with 85 participants engaging with detailed presentations regarding trends and...
ATS 2018 David Sugden Winner
This year the David Sugden competition has been particularly close, with judging of the top three papers separated by a single point. The winner of the 2018 David Sugden Award is Matthew Bennett's paper Vulnerable Road User I...
ATS Design and Construction Short Course Registration Open
Register Now Visit ATS Short Course Website The Australasian Tunnelling Society (ATS) is pleased to announce that the Tunnel Design & Construction Short Course is to be held in Melbourne November 19 to 21. The ATS Short...
Harry Asche – QLD Professional Engineer of the Year
Australasian Tunnel Society Vice Chair and Queensland Member Harry Asche has been awarded the Queensland Professional Engineer of the Year at the Queensland 2018 Engineering Excellence Awards. Queensland ATS committee members...
Peter Watson
The ATS NSW Committee are saddened to report that our colleague Peter Watson passed away earlier this year after a battle with illness. Many of our ATS community will have met Peter through our various ATS event such as the ...
Safe Work Australia’s focus of Dust in Infrastructure
Safe Work Australia’s Virtual Seminar Series on silica dust, known as the “#silicaseries” was published in July 2018. As many members would be aware, the tunnelling industry presents many inherent work health and safety risk...
Progress of the NSW AQWG
The Air Quality Working Group (AQWG) was established at the Silica in Tunnelling workshop held at ATS2017. Its stakeholders include SafeWork NSW, project delivery directors, construction managers, and health and safety leade...