Tunnelling leaders, engineers and industry experts will gather at the 14th Australian Tunnelling Conference on 14th and 15th October, at the SMC Conference & Functions Centre in Sydney. Supported by the Australasian Tunnelling Society, the two-day conference will bring delegates the best opportunity to hear from Australasia’s current and future tunnelling projects.
This year’s program will offer project updates from Sydney Metro, City & South West – Transport NSW, Sydney Motorway Corporation, Melbourne Metro, Westconnex 1b, Waterview Tunnel (NZ), Amaroo Main Sewer project, the Central Interceptor project (NZ), the O-Bahn City Access project & Forrestfield Airport Link.
Plus three international best practice case studies and a special focus on technology and innovation for the industry.
Key speakers include:
- Ed Taylor, President, Australasian Tunnelling Society (ATS)
- Tim Parker, Project Director – Sydney Metro, City & Southwest, Transport for NSW
- Adrian Bull, Technical Director, Sydney Motorway Corporation
- Paul Thomas, Senior Project Manager, Melbourne Metro Rail Authority
- Darryl Wong, Engineering Design Manager, City Rail Link (NZ)
- David Ward, Manager – Design Management, Infrastructure Delivery, Watercare Services Ltd (NZ)
- Seved Robin, Project Director, Dragages Hong Kong (HK)
- Brian Garrod, Executive Vice President, Hatch (Canada)
- Matthew Lennon, Tunnel Construction Director, CPB Samsung John Holland JV
- Richard Graham, Project Director, Salini-Impregilo
- Andreas Lehr, Engineering Manager, CPB Contractors
- Haris Chandrasiri, Tunnel Engineer, CPB Contractors
- David Hake, International Operations Manager, John Holland
- Will Curlewis, Project Manager, Amaroo Main Sewer, John Holland
- Mario Russo, Project Manager, McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust.) Pty Ltd
- Iain Simmons, Construction Director, Well Connected Alliance
- David Taylor, M & E Construction Manager, Well Connected Alliance
- Barry Murphy, Workplace Health Safety and People Director, Lendlease Bouygues Joint Venture
- Lok Home, CEO, Robbins
- Douglas Carter, Power Electronics Engineer, Nautitech
- Dr. Karin Bäppler, Herrenknecht AG
“This is a great opportunity to hear about the industry’s future project pipeline, latest developments and understand the lessons learnt from those at the forefront of the most recent Australasian and global tunnelling projects,” said Kim Aldridge, the conference’s director from Informa Australia.
For more details about the conference program and how to register, please visit the conference website www.informa.com.au/tunnelling.