Sessions

Waihorotiu Room — 7.30 – 8:45

7.30	8.45	Diversity in Tunnelling Breakfast Frances Badelow, Mott MacDonal's Genearal Manager, is a leader in diversity and inclusion and a senior leader with a prominent role within the Australian civil infrastructure industry. Frances will be sharing her personal perspectives on diversity in the tunnelling and civil infrastructure industry. This will be followed by a panel disussion. Irene Chan from event sponsor, PSM, will close the session.	Keynote speaker: Frances Badelow Panelists: Frances Badelow, Charlotte Downs, Craig Wright, Derek Pennington

9:00	9:45	Early Involvement, Procurement and Collaboration: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Value Creation	Tommy Parker, Francois Dudouit, Charles Howarth
9:45	10:30	Safety Deep Dive – City Rail Link and Melbourne Metro	Donald Lamont, Rob Mair, David Hake

10:30	11:30	Morning Tea

Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre — 11.30 – 13:00

11:30	13:00	TBM's and Segmental Linings	Chair: Yew-Jin Lee, Co-Chair: Irene Chan
11:30	11:50	The West Gate Tunnel Project: In tunnel civil fit out / back end works	John Deady and Sanduni Hewa
11:50	12:10	Comparative assessment of analytical and numerical methods to assess the cracking pressure of semi-pervious linings in pressure tunnels	Mahdi Zoorabadi
12:10	12:30	The challenging and fast launch of two EPB TBMs on the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension	Dimitri Goudelis
12:30	12:50	Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project - from TBMs to first trains: Building a world-class underground tunnel from concept to completion	Andreas Mindt
12:50	13:00	Q&A

Hunua Room — 11.30 – 13:00

11:30	13:00	Excavation and Temporary Support	Chair: Priscilla Page, Co-Chair: Tara Taylor
11:30	11:50	Innovative precast permanent lining for a mined roadheader tunnel	Caroline Beirne
11:50	12:10	Cross river rail: Blasting AA2 tunnel under cavern	Ben Swinn and Rauf Osterman
12:10	12:30	The permit to tunnel process adopted on Australian Infrastructure Projects	Michael Salcher
12:30	12:50	Design of artificial ground freezing for emergency egress niche construction from a large diameter TBM tunnel below a river estuary	Anastasios Konstantinou
12:50	13:00	Q&A

Waitākere Room — 11.30 – 13:00

11:30	13:00	Sustainability	Chair: Doug Boddy, Co-Chair: Annalena Chapman
11:30	11:50	Sustainable tools for tunneling roadheaders	Björn Claesson and Warren Roach
11:50	12:10	Road tunnel design in the context of the climate action imperative	Ben Tuckwell
12:10	12:30	Solid waste utilisation in shotcrete production	Xuanyu Zhu
12:30	12:50	City Rail Link case history comparison of embedded carbon of four tunnels	Kevin Anderson
12:50	13:00	Q&A

13:00	14:00	Lunch

Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre — 14.00 – 15:30

14:00	15:30	International Projects & Case Histories	Chair: Andreas Raedle, Co-Chair: Hannes Lagger
14:00	14:20	City Rail Link – a pioneer underground metro project in New Zealand	Francois Dudouit
14:20	14:40	Short launch of TBM to overcome economic and logistic difficulties in Sri Lanka	David Lees
14:40	15:00	Tunnelling Watercare's Central Interceptor	Dimitri Goudelis and Andrew Sorrie
15:00	15:20	Ground Behaviour and Convergence in Tunnelling Projects in Sydney: Lessons Learnt	Phil Clark
15:20	15:30	Q&A

Hunua Room — 14.00 – 15:30

14:00	15:30	Geotechnics & Ground Characterisation	Chair: David Clague, Co-Chair: Andy O’Sullivan
14:00	14:20	Stability analysis and rock support design for underground elements of the Kidston Pumped HydroelectricSstorage Project, Queensland	Mousa Hazrati Aghchai
14:20	14:40	The use of laser scanning and photogrammetry in remote mapping of rock tunnels	Brendan Henry
14:40	15:00	Impact of swelling bedrock on tunnel lining design in Sydney, Australia	Justin Arifin
15:00	15:20	Geotechnical conceptual model for Dykes in the Sydney Basin: A proposed classification system for tunnel design	Stefano Casartelli
15:20	15:30	Q&A

Waitākere Room — 14.00 – 15:30

14:00	15:30	Digital Engineering	Chair: Keith Bannerman, Co-Chair: Hannah Farrant
14:00	14:20	Parametric analysis of road tunnels in Australia: Effect on support system development and tunnel cross-section area	Jurij Karlovsek/I Made Aryatirta Predana
14:20	14:40	Computational modelling in developing digital models of large-scale underground infrastructure projects with a focus on the North East Link Tunnel works packages	Elnaz Saninfar
14:40	15:00	Digital engineering delivery - tunnelling projects	Mitch Erickson and Kyle Forlong
15:00	15:20	Speedbot and pararanger: Digital tools for parametric analyses	Jonathan Baber
15:20	15:30	Q&A

15:30	16:00	Afternoon Tea

Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre — 16.00 – 17:30

16:00	17:30	Caverns	Chair: Geoff Archer, Co-Chair: Rory Bishop
16:00	16:20	Design and construction of a motorway cavern in Faulted Hawkesbury Sandstone	Andrew De Ambrosis
16:20	16:40	Real-time monitoring of Melbourne Metro caverns	Carl Olsen
16:40	17:00	World War II secrets; Cracroft Caverns risk assessment	Jordan Craig
17:00	17:20	Victoria Cross Station cavern rock pillar stability	Bernard Shen
17:20	17:30	Q&A

Hunua Room — 16.00 – 17:30

16:00	17:30	Shafts and Pipejacking	Chair: Matt Mules, Co-Chair: Hannah Farrant
16:00	16:20	Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel Project, CBD Station shafts	Duncan Swift
16:20	16:40	Shaft selection and construction for Watercare’s Central Interceptor	Andy Dodds
16:40	17:00	BP KWOL pipeline relocation - largest brownfield trenchless relocation in Australia	Jiang Aizezi
17:00	17:20	Observation and back-analysis for large diameter circular shaft excavation for Snowy 2.0 Project	Ivan Ching and Zecheng (Albert) Chen
17:20	17:30	Q&A

Waitākere Room — 16.00 – 17:30

16:00	17:30	Special Session	Chair: Andrew Ridout, Co-Chair: Kaylah Macintosh
16:00	16:20	Managing fire risk for construction of Watercare’s Central Interceptor tunnels	Nick Agnew
16:20	16:40	Deep reinforcement learning - tunnel design/construction – is it possible	Ted Nye
16:40	17:00	Ferrules for support of tunnel services	John Brookes
17:00	17:20	Q&A

18:30	Gala Dinner

Sessions – Tuesday 7th