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Issue No 11 April 2024
Read the 2023 David Sugden
Award winning paper
Meet the new ATS President
Richard Buckingham
ATS & NZTS awards season
winners revealed
Journal of the Australian & New Zealand
Tunnelling Societies
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Contents April ISSUE11
07 PRESIDENT AND EDITOR’S
COMMENTS
08 OUT-GOING ATS PRESIDENT
HARRY ASCHE
10 15 MINUTES WITH RICHARD
BUCKINGHAM
12 ITA PRESIDENT’S UPDATE
14 AUSTRALIA TUNNEL NEWS
25 NEW ZEALAND TUNNEL NEWS
29 ASIA TUNNEL NEWS
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31 MINING NEWS AND
INNOVATIONS
32 DAVID SUGDEN AWARD 2023 -
EUNICE LIM PAPER
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39 DAVID SUGDEN AWARD 2023 -
RUNNER-UP
40 AWARDS SEASON FOR THE ATS
Issue No 11 April 2024 Read t
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Contents April ISSUE11 07 PRESID
PLATINUM SPONSORS John Holland Pty Ltd Contact: D
GOLD SUPPORTING MEMBERS Gamuda Engineering (Austr
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Cover photo: An assembly of self-supporting prefa
Parting words from outgoing ATS President, Harry
this is not how we feel. While we use EA faciliti
15 minutes with new ATS President Richard Bucking
Tg I he ATS is a Technical Society of Engineer
ITA President’s update One ITA – Update Global r
efficient, effective and higher quality. This isn
Australian Tunnelling Updates and News Victoria M
Steel fibre concrete reinforcement Dramix® T
the Sunbury Line through the tunnel to Westall St
West Gate Tunnel Project John Holland/CPB Contrac
section of WHT Stage 1, involving the excavation
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Snowy 2.0 Salini/Clough/Lane TBM Florence started
Brisbane Metro Acciona Brisbane City Council is m
Double Corrosion Protected (DCP) bolts with 50mm
WA Alkimos Main Sewer Section 1 The Alkimos Main
Austroads Update As part of the Transport Infras
New Zealand Tunnelling Updates and News Central I
Stanmore to Fife Stormwater Upgrade March Cato ha
Constructing our future together CPB Contractor
required for the project inside both tunnels has
Asian Tunnelling Updates and News Singapore Deep
Sunkoshi Marin Diversion Multipurpose Project (SM
Innovations in electric power and automation Cate
David Sugden Award Winner 2023 Kinetic energy ana
2 Materials and Samples Preparation 2.1 Concrete
test samples; the time-history of incident radian
4. Test Results Precisely controlled and repeatab
Fig. 7. High-speed camera showing the moment of s
Fig. 9. In-depth temperature for each spalled sam
by the time-to-spalling, which is 12.5% thickness
David Sugden Award Runner up Numerical analysis o
Awards season for the ATS and NZTS Allen Neyland
A big win for geologists (and women) in tunnellin
ATS chapter and subgroup reports August 2023 – Fe
• Andrew Ridout - National Project Officer -
Celebrate 50 years of British tunnelling From B
ANZ Photography Competition WINNER
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Historical tunnel news Multimillion-dollar upgra
Australian and New Zealand Tunnel Projects Region
Scope of work
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