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Day One: Wednesday 28 October 2009
| Day One | Day Two |

This event will focus on the latest designs and construction of some of Australia’s key tunnelling projects. Industry leaders will review projects and highlight how their teams are tackling issues such as project design, management, fire life safety, waterproofing, financing, risk management and tunnelling techniques. If you have any technical questions you wish to have addressed at the event by members of the speaker faculty, email the conference manager Michelle.Whitfeld@informa.com.au

8.30
Registration and coffee
9.00
Opening remarks from the chair
Simon Knight, Chairman, Australasian Tunnelling Society, Managing Director, Cutabolt
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MAJOR PROJECTS IN BRISBANE
9.10
The Airport Link, Northern Busway (Windsor to Kedron) and Airport Roundabout Upgrade: Project overview of Australia’s largest road infrastructure project
  • A focus on the tunnelling techniques – roadheaders, tunnel boring machines and cut and cover tunnelling techniques
  • Managing the difficulties with financing in hard economic times
  • Managing impacts to surface traffic network during construction
  • Reducing impacts to the local community and environment
  • Fire life safety issues
Charles MacDonald, General Manager Construction, BrisConnections
9.50
Building a successful PPP: Brisbane’s Clem Jones Tunnel – Tunnelling issues and solutions
  • Focusing on key elements of project management
  • Tunnelling methodology
  • Project tunnelling risk management
  • Relationship management
  • Fire life safety issues
Graham Olsson, Project Director, CLEM7
10.30

Morning tea

11.00
The Boggo Road Busways Alliance: Analysing tunnel design and construction
  • Techniques and successes with the complex cut and cover tunnelling under motorway and active railway lines
  • Managing the difficult wide shallow cover driven tunnel under the Heritage listed Boggo Road Gaol
Ted Nye, Tunnel Engineering Manager, Sinclair Knight Merz
11.40
Cross River Rail (Brisbane)
  • Identifying the problem: Findings of the Inner City Rail Capacity Study
  • Cross River Rail's role in the public transport solution for south east Queensland
  • Exploring tunnelling options and key considerations for the project
  • Where are we now and the way forward
Luke Franzmann, Project Director, Cross River Rail
12.20

Lunch

Lunch Sponsor

1.40
INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY
Case study of The SMART road/water tunnel in Kuala Lumpur
  • Technology requirements for this unique tunnelling project
  • Fire/life safety issues
Arthur Darby, Project Director SMART, Mott MacDonald, UK
2.20
Insurance for new construction projects: Examples of previous major losses
  • Importance of managing risk – code of practice for tunnelling construction
Hans Moll, Business Development Manager, Munich Reinsurance Group
2.50

Afternoon tea

3.20
PANEL DISCUSSION - FIRE LIFE SAFETY
Tunnel ventilation and fire safety – addressing the unique challenge posed by tunnels and underground spaces
  • Analysis of ventilation and cooling, smoke modelling, prediction and removal
  • Fire safety and evacuation procedures
  • Managing the safety of occupants and fire-fighters during an emergency
  • Clearly defining the role of the QFRS
  • Preventing potential problems through smart tunnel design – the Qld Fire and Rescue perspective
Panel participants include:
Bruce Dandie, Senior Design Manager, M&E, Thiess
John Munro, Tunnels System Executive, PB
Steven Messenger, Senior Engineer, Ventilation and Fire Safety, RTA
Lindsay Hackett, Executive Manager, Community Safety Brisbane Region, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
4.40
Close of day one and networking drinks
 
Day Two: Thursday 29th October 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
7.30
Morning coffee
8.00
Opening remarks from the chair David Lees, Director, Grouting and Foundation Works; Editor, Australasian Tunnelling Society’s Journal
NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES
8.10
Mechanised tunnelling for new, highly efficient infrastructure for traffic and supply systems
Dr Karin Bappler, Head of Geotechnics and Consulting, Business Unit Traffic Tunnelling, Herrenknecht AG
8.30
Meyco Robotic Shotcrete equipment used on current tunnelling projects and future technology
Warren Mahoney, Regional Manager, Eastern Australia, Underground Construction, BASF
8.50
Blasting in urban development
Martin Adam, Manager - Technical Services, Orica Quarry and Construction
9.10
Discussion and Q & A on technology and techniques
9.20

Morning coffee break

9.40
INTERNATIONAL RAIL CASE STUDIES The Delhi Metro Rail - Tunnelling work on the airport express line

The airport express line is a high speed link between the city centre and the airport. It is 25km long with 18km underground.

Pramit Garg, Deputy Chief Project Manager, Delhi Metro Rail
10.20
Road tunnel challenges at high altitude - Detail design for the Rohtang Tunnel, Himalayan India
Robert Nievergelt, Senior Associate, Tunnelling, SMEC Australia Pty Ltd
11.00

Morning tea

DESALINATION AND SEWERAGE PROJECTS
11.20
Sydney Desalination – Case study of the tunnelling techniques and technology involved with this project
Russell Cuttler, Executive General Manager, John Holland Specialist Businesses & General Manager, John Holland Tunnelling
12.00
Hobson Bay Sewer: Tunnelling techniques in the combined firm rock and soft substrata conditions
Rory Bishop, Project Manager Tunnels, McConnell Dowell, New Zealand
12.40

Lunch at the hotel for those not wishing to join the site tour
For those on the site tour, lunch will be provided on the tour

AFTERNOON SITE TOUR – KEY BRISBANE TUNNELS

Numbers are limited to 30, so please let us know if you would like to attend. Please tick the box in the registration options on back page.

1.00
Depart for afternoon site tour
The Clem Jones tunnel

The $2 billion CLEM7 project includes two parallel twin-lane tunnels, approximately 4.8 kilometres long, dedicated smoke duct and a fully electronic tolling system.

Two tunnel boring machines (TBM) and ten roadheaders were used to excavate the twin tunnels. The two $50 million TBMs were 12.4 metres in diameter, 261 metres long and moved at a rate of 20 metres per day cutting through the hard Brisbane ‘Tuff’ and Neranleigh Fernvale rock. The TBMs operated like a virtual factory excavating the rock, installing the concrete lining and laying the roadbase.

The Airport Link Project's main site
www.brisconnections.com.au
5.00
Approximate drop off at the airport
5.30
Approximate arrival time back at hotel

Please note you will need steel capped boots for the site tour

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