Seasons greetings and end of year round-up from new ATS President – Richard Buckingham
Dear ATS members and friends, As the year draws to a close, I’d like to take the opportunity to thank you all, members, committee volunteers and sponsors, for your continuing support, as with your support comes the diverse a...
Latest issue of the Young Members Tunnelling Magazine – Breakthrough – is out now!
Latest issue of the Young Members Tunnelling Magazine - Breakthrough is out now Breakthrough 2023 (zmags.com) ...
ATC2023 Conference Papers – available now!
Conference proceedings from the ATC2023 The highly successful Australasian Tunnelling Conference was held on 5-8 November 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand. The event was hosted by the NZTS (New Zealand Tunnelling Society) in p...
From the tunnels of the Snowy to ITA President to international tunnel rescue hero – who is Arnold Dix?
With ATS member and Allen Neyland Tunnelling Achievement Award winner Professor Arnold Dix in the news for all the best reasons, we thought we would republish the story we commissioned in 2021:"From the tunnels of the Snowy ...
Celebrating tunnelling and tunnellers at fully booked end of year ATS Queensland St Barbara’s Day dinner
A highly successful St Barbara’s day dinner was held on Friday 1st December in Queensland. The fully booked event was appreciated by the organising committee and provided a valuable networking event for QLD ATS members to cl...
NSW Chapter Golf Day success
NSW Chapter Golf Day By Dave Clague The somewhat cool and wet day for the annual ATS golf day on 23 November in Parramatta didn’t dishearten the attendees in having a great time for a great cause with even better company. Ba...
Dr Charles MacDonald wins prestigious Allen Neyland Tunnelling Achievement Award
The ATS is thrilled to announce that Dr Charles MacDonald is the latest recipient of our prestigious Allen Neyland Tunnelling Achievement Award. Charles is widely recognised as a leading figure in the Australian tunnelling i...
Access the RIC2023 Proceedings now!
The Rocscience International Conference 2023 proceedings are now published and can be accessed by all. Rocscience hosted RIC2023 to celebrate the industry's evolution, emphasizing the integration of various technologies and ...
Helen Baxter-Crawford wins Women in Tunnelling Achievement Award 2023
On behalf of the whole tunnelling community in Australasia, the ATS would like to extend our huge congratulations to Helen Baxter-Crawford, our 2023 Women in Tunnelling Achievement Award winner. The award was presented to H...
Aussie finalists shine in ITA Young Tunneller of the Year Award
The Australian Tunnelling Society (ATS) is thrilled to throw our support behind the two ATS members - Arjun Raja Shivasami and Russell Connors - who have been named finalists in this year’s ITA Young Tunneller of the Year Aw...
Light up the underground for World Tunnel Day 2023 – 4 December
World Tunnel Day 2023 On Monday December 4th the ITA celebrate the incredible engineering marvels that lie beneath our feet, connecting communities, improving transportation, and enabling access to resources. As we mark Worl...
Learning and innovation at Mt Coot-tha Quarry in Brisbane
A remarkable gathering of seasoned and young engineers at the Mt Coot-tha Quarry, kindly supported by the ATS, brought together over 60 engineers from diverse backgrounds for learning and innovation in late August 2023. The ...
Women in Tunnelling Outstanding Achievement Award Winner Hosts Networking Event
Diane Mather hosted "Collaboration Junction" on 24 August in Brisbane’s Waterloo Hotel, generously reinvesting her Women in Tunnelling Outstanding Achievement Award prize money in the tunnelling community. Forty five senior ...
Call for nominations: ATS Young Members sub-Committee
The Australian Tunnelling Society (ATS) is calling for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for the ATS Young Members sub-Committee for the 2024/25 term (1 January 2024 to 31 December 2025). Please note: successful committee membe...
ATC Conference – early bird registrations close on Friday 15 September
The dates are set, and the countdown is on for the 18th Australasian Tunnelling Conference which will take place 5 – 8 November, 2023 in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand. It’s been nearly 15 years since the bi-annual co...
Tunnel fire safety in the spotlight
Fifty people gathered at Stacey Agnew’s eVENT Space in early August to hear Dr Ricky Carvel deliver his short course on Tunnel Fire Safety. Discussion during the sessions benefitted from the wide diversity of participants w...
Tunnelling Asia Conference 2023 – Brochure out now!
Tunnelling Asia 2023 Conference Brochure ...
National ATSym event a major success
The ATS would like to extend a huge thanks to all attendees, presenters and sponsors of our hugely successful Careers in Tunnelling event on the 20 July! Nearly 100 attendees joined in total, with almost 50 attending the liv...
World Tunnel Congree 2024 – Brochure now released!
Expressions of interest are now open to participate in the upcoming WTC2024, which is scheduled to be held from April 19th to April 25th, 2024 in Shenzhen, China. As one of the most highly anticipated events in the tunnel an...
Q&A with ATS Young Members Chair – Brodie Aitchison
Since 2015, the ATS has ensured the voice of the next generation of tunnellers is heard at the national level through the appointment of an ATS Young Members’ (ATSym) Representative who sits on the National Executive Committ...
An excellent article – Going Down – Australia’s tunnel projects – by Create magazine
In this wonderful article by create magazine from Engineers Australia, learn more about how Australia is both leading the world and utilising world-best practice in tunnelling. ATS leaders and members including Harry Asche, ...
ATS Photography Competition – submissions open until Aug 11
The ATS is pleased to launch our 2023 Photography Competition Theme THE BEST OF AUSTRALASIAN TUNNELLING Please share your elegant, innovative and iconic images of tunnelling projects from Australia and New Zealand and be in ...
In memory of Wayne Bradford 1959 – 2023
Wayne Bradford (Scout), a respected and well-known member of our tunnelling and mining community sadly passed away on 17th June 2023 at the age of 63 after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Wayne started his caree...
Building around existing tunnels seminar – a great success
The much anticipated "Building Around Existing Tunnels" seminar last week in Sydney was a great success judging by some of the feedback from the 70+ people who attended. In the words of event organiser Ted Nye: "Thirteen pap...