WTC2017 Wrap up
The 43rd ITA-AITES World Tunnelling Congress was held in Bergen Norway from 9-15 June. The Congress provides a platform for a high quality technical conference with diverse topics and projects from across the globe (from the ...
Registrations Open for ATS2017
Registrations are now open for the 16th Australasian Tunnelling Conference. Australia and New Zealand are in the middle of a genuine infrastructure and more specifically a tunnelling boom. Tunnelling Mega Projects (over $1 b...
More than $10k raised at QLD Golf Day
On the 29th of April more than 60 players took to the greens of St Lucia Golf Links for the annual QLD ATS Charity Golf Day. I trust that all that took part enjoyed themselves and managed to acquire new or fine-tune existing ...
David Sugden Award Submission Date Extended
The ATS have extended the closing date for papers for the the David Sugden Award to 30 June 2017. The David Sugden Award was established in 2004 to encourage young engineers to develop the art of technical writing. The compe...
New ATS Website!
Welcome to the revised ATS website. The redevelopment of this website is due to the feedback received from a number of members who wanted more online content, historical papers and a clean user interface, hopefully this lates...
ATS2017 Call for Abstracts Extended
The abstract submission deadline for the 16th Australasian Tunnelling Conference has been extended to Monday 10 April 2017 - there will be no more extensions. We encourage professionals, institutes, universities and organis...
ATSym at USyd
On Wednesday evening the ATSym headed to the University of Sydney to give undergraduate engineering students an idea of the what tunnelling is and where it can take you. Our presenter, Scott Connor of CPB Contractors graduate...
Calling All ATS Attendees to WTC2017 Bergen
The ITA have requested that the ATS make a presentation to the General Assembly in Bergen on June 11th and a social presentation on the evening of June 13th as part of the selection process for the right to host the WTC 2020....
ITA Awards 2017
After two successful editions in Switzerland and in Singapore, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association is getting prepared for the third edition of the ITA Tunnelling Awards, that will take place on the...
ATS NSW Golf Day Donations
On the 9th of February the NSW ATS Committee presented Garvan Medical Research Foundation with the donation raised from the ATS Golf Day held on October 13 2016. The presentation was made to A/Prof Maija Kohonen-Corish,  Lab ...
Entries Open for 2017 David Sugden Award
The competition is open to all Australasian Tunnelling Society Members and University students under 35 (as at 31 August 2017). The best paper will be judged by the ATS Executive Committee. The prize includes complimentary co...
ATS2017 Conference Website Live
The ATS2017 Conference Organising Committee are proud to launch the conference website including the call for papers and sponsorship prospectus. Dear Colleagues in Tunnelling, The 16th Australasian Tunnelling Society (ATS) Co...
Happy #TunnelDayOz
The ATS Young Members (ATSym) are looking to pick up on an initiative started by the British Tunnelling Society Young Members (BTSym) in 2015, namely a National Tunnel Day. The day is proposed to be in line with the current U...
NSW 3rd Charity Golf Day
he New South Wales ATS hosted the third Charity Golf day at Ryde Parramatta Golf Course on October 13 with 65+ players on course. The day was a great success with 67 players from the tunnelling community enjoying the opportun...
Melbourne to Bid for WTC2020
The executive committee of ATS is pleased to advise that we will be bidding to hold the ITA World Tunnelling Congress in Melbourne in 2020. This is the most prestigious event in the tunnelling industry calendar and is the out...
The 2016 ITA Tunnelling Awards
After a one-day technical conference, held in Singapore, dealing with innovation and productivity in tunnelling, followed by a one-day awards conference, the ITA Tunnelling Awards’ judges revealed their choices and awarded 8 ...
ATSym Sydney Social
The ATSym held the first Sydney Young Member social evenings on the 23rd of August to help foster the professional network between these projects and in the greater Sydney area. This first social meeting forms part of the wid...