The World Tunnel Congress will return to Asia-Pacific in 2020 with The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) to host the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2020 and 46th General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 15th to 21st May 2020. The theme of the WTC 2020 is Innovation and Sustainable Underground Serving Global Connectivity. The organising committee of the WTC 2020 cordially invites you to [...]
The Australasian Tunnelling Society recently hosted a three day short-course in Melbourne, featuring a variance of tunnelling design and construction sessions. The schedule included two and half days of technical presentations and interactive workshops, relating to past projects, design issues, site safety and innovations being introduced today. Attendees covered an array of experience, from [...]
The Tunnelling Society has developed over the 38 years of operations as the focus of the group has shifted to keep pace with developments in industry and activity. Initially the group started as part of the Australian Geomechanics Society in 1970 with the Symposium on Raise and Tunnel Boring and has continue to evolve [...]
On the 24th of October the Sydney Chapter of the ATS held a workshop titled Emerging Trends in Tunnels. The workshop was sold out weeks in advance with 85 participants engaging with detailed presentations regarding trends and the state of the art including Digital Tunnelling (including BIM), 3D laser mapping and innovations in numerical modelling. [...]
This year the David Sugden competition has been particularly close, with judging of the top three papers separated by a single point. The winner of the 2018 David Sugden Award is Matthew Bennett's paper Vulnerable Road User Inclusion in Spoil Removal Route Planning. Congratulations Matthew! Download Winning Paper Special mention should go to [...]
Register Now Visit ATS Short Course Website The Australasian Tunnelling Society (ATS) is pleased to announce that the Tunnel Design & Construction Short Course is to be held in Melbourne November 19 to 21. The ATS Short Course has an established history of providing high quality content to new entrants and delegates looking to [...]
Australasian Tunnel Society Vice Chair and Queensland Member Harry Asche has been awarded the Queensland Professional Engineer of the Year at the Queensland 2018 Engineering Excellence Awards. Queensland ATS committee members were in attendance on the night and were thrilled to share the occasion with Harry. Harry is Aurecon’s Design Director – Tunnels and he [...]
The ATS NSW Committee are saddened to report that our colleague Peter Watson passed away earlier this year after a battle with illness. Many of our ATS community will have met Peter through our various ATS event such as the bi-monthly technical sessions, the triennial conference or indeed the annual NSW ATS Charity Golf Day. [...]
Safe Work Australia’s Virtual Seminar Series on silica dust, known as the “#silicaseries” was published in July 2018. As many members would be aware, the tunnelling industry presents many inherent work health and safety risks, with silica dust being one hazard of current focus by the ATS. The #silicaseries featured six leaders representing different key stakeholders [...]
The Air Quality Working Group (AQWG) was established at the Silica in Tunnelling workshop held at ATS2017. Its stakeholders include SafeWork NSW, project delivery directors, construction managers, and health and safety leaders from the highest levels of management from both clients and contractors across all active tunnel construction projects in NSW. To date, four [...]
