Welcome to the revised ATS website. The redevelopment of this website is due to the feedback received from a number of members who wanted more online content, historical papers and a clean user interface, hopefully this latest revision goes some way to achieving these goals. We are continuing to progressively upload content from the ATS [...]
The abstract submission deadline for the 16th Australasian Tunnelling Conference has been extended to Monday 10 April 2017 - there will be no more extensions. We encourage professionals, institutes, universities and organisations to submit papers and share their experience under the technical streams listed below: Urban Planning, Project Development and Project Delivery Construction Methodologies [...]
On Wednesday evening the ATSym headed to the University of Sydney to give undergraduate engineering students an idea of the what tunnelling is and where it can take you. Our presenter, Scott Connor of CPB Contractors graduated from USyd in 2003. His presentation "When I grow up I want to build a tunnel" covered his [...]
The ITA have requested that the ATS make a presentation to the General Assembly in Bergen on June 11th and a social presentation on the evening of June 13th as part of the selection process for the right to host the WTC 2020. Currently, planning is underway for the presentations at Bergen in June this [...]
After two successful editions in Switzerland and in Singapore, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association is getting prepared for the third edition of the ITA Tunnelling Awards, that will take place on the 15th of November, 2017, in Paris. Indeed, two months after the reward of the 2016 nominees, ITA is now calling new [...]
On the 9th of February the NSW ATS Committee presented Garvan Medical Research Foundation with the donation raised from the ATS Golf Day held on October 13 2016. The presentation was made to A/Prof Maija Kohonen-Corish, Lab Head of Colon and Lung Cancer Research division. The cheque value from the 2016 golf day was $7590.27, goes [...]
The competition is open to all Australasian Tunnelling Society Members and University students under 35 (as at 31 August 2017). The best paper will be judged by the ATS Executive Committee. The prize includes complimentary conference registration fees and $2,000 towards personal travel and accommodation costs at the ITA World Tunnel Congress to be held [...]
The ATS2017 Conference Organising Committee are proud to launch the conference website including the call for papers and sponsorship prospectus. Dear Colleagues in Tunnelling, The 16th Australasian Tunnelling Society (ATS) Conference, the triennial industry event, will be held in Sydney in late 2017. The conference is a great opportunity for individuals to take time out [...]
The ATS Young Members (ATSym) are looking to pick up on an initiative started by the British Tunnelling Society Young Members (BTSym) in 2015, namely a National Tunnel Day. The day is proposed to be in line with the current UK date (the 1st Thursday in December) which is closely aligns with the official date [...]
he New South Wales ATS hosted the third Charity Golf day at Ryde Parramatta Golf Course on October 13 with 65+ players on course. The day was a great success with 67 players from the tunnelling community enjoying the opportunity to meet in a relaxing atmosphere. The previous two ATS Golf Days have raised in [...]
