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Issue No 15 April 2026<br />
Melbourne Metro Tunnel<br />
Project Opens<br />
David Sugden Award<br />
Winning Paper<br />
Women in Tunnelling<br />
Award - Kaylah Macintosh -<br />
in Profile<br />
Journal of the Australian & New Zealand<br />
Tunnelling Societies<br />
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Contents April ISSUE15<br />
04 SPONSORS<br />
08 MELBOURNE’S METRO TUNNEL<br />
10 AUSTRALIAN TUNNELLING<br />
PROJECT NEWS<br />
17 NEW ZEALAND TUNNELLING<br />
PROJECT NEWS<br />
20 ASIA TUNNELLING PROJECT<br />
NEWS<br />
22 MINING NEWS<br />
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24 DAVID SUGDEN AWARD WINNER<br />
2025<br />
32 INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AND<br />
SERVICES<br />
33 INSPIRING AND EDUCATING<br />
THE NEXT GENERATION OF<br />
TUNNELLING SPECIALISTS<br />
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35 ATS CHAPTER AND SUBGROUP<br />
REPORTS<br />
38<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=1"> Issue No 15 April 2026 Melbour</a>
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<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=3"> Contents April ISSUE15 04 SPONSO</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=4"> PLATINUM SPONSORS John Holland Pty Ltd Contact: D</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=5"> GOLD SUPPORTING MEMBERS Ghella Pty Ltd Tel: (02) </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=6"> We keep your project rolling. Locomotives · R</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=7"> Description: Stage 1 Vent Caverns - These caverns</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=8"> Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel opens a new chapter for </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=9"> Library precinct and the Queen Victoria Market. I</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=10"> Two TBMs will launch from Burwood towards Glen Wa</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=11"> ELEVATED THINKING, UNDERGROUND For 26 years Gall</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=12"> Melbourne’s future engineers Melbourne’s future e</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=13"> Plain Fault Zone. A T c t j t Ad</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=14"> </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=15"> Looking ahead </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=16"> well as train e^iciency. The project was upgraded</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=17"> </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=18"> Khyber Pass Stormwater Upgrade March Cato has bee</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=19"> The signature team DESIGN DELIVER INTEGRATE </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=20"> Waitematā Harbour Connections New Zealand Transpo</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=21"> World’s first in-situ diameter- adjustable tunnel </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=22"> Bangkok MRT Purple Line TERRATEC’</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=23"> Safe re-entry strategies at Grosvenor Mine: A com</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=24"> David Sugden Award Winner 2025 What Lies Beneath</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=25"> (2015), the formation of these vein stockworks is</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=26"> depth are often massive to moderately jointed, th</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=27"> CPB Contractors, Australia's specialist tunnellin</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=28"> 4.2. Calibration and Validation – Lab Scale Labor</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=29"> failure mode classification used to inform shear </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=30"> instability, and exaggerated dilation. The result</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=31"> please visit https://tinyurl.com/367x93fk Howeve</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=32"> SUBMIT TODAY! In this section, we share stories</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=33"> Promat – Tunnel Lining Fire Protection: Why it Ma</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=34"> deliver content while ensuring consistency and qu</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=35"> ATC2025 brings the tunnelling community together </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=36"> ATS Chapter and Subgroup Reports September 2025 –</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=37"> • Temporary Works Forum Event – TBC • Fremantle P</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=38"> IN PROFILE Kaylah Macintosh In this interview we </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=39"> Steel fibre concrete reinforcement Dramix® </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=40"> ATS News Introducing Wayne Leslie as the new Chai</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=41"> Leading in real time Advancing sustainability in</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=42"> In memorandum The ATS would like to deeply honour</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=43"> Andrew “Lordy” Lord (1956 – 2025) Andrew was a ma</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=44"> ITA World Tunnel Congress 2027 Antwerp UNDERGROUN</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=45"> THE ANZ PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION Huge thanks to al</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=46"> Historical Tunnelling Tunnel Boring at Australian</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=47"> Concrete mould frame. Note the railway wheels sup</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=48"> Australian and New Zealand Tunnel Projects Region</a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 49" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=49"> Scope of work </a>
<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 50" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=50"> Contacts V7. ATS_1018_Contacts_050.qxd:Layout 1 </a>
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<a title="A&NZ Journal April 2026 page 52" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/200c3166?page=52"> Getting the job done. John Holland has been invol</a>