Publications

Over recent years there have been a number of incidents of structural failures of sign and high mast lighting structures across Australia and New Zealand, primarily due to poor design and construction practices. In addition to the obvious…

State Highway 2 Wairoa River Bridge near Tauranga, constructed in 1966, is a 177m long post-tensioned concrete structure with mono pier columns supported on pile foundations. Adding a lightweight downstream cycleway extension in September 2020 has…

Outputs from bridge assessment to AS 5100.7 are deterministic, expressing safety as a subjective and conservative binary (yes/no) measure. With Australia and New Zealand seeing increases of road freight demand under finite bridge infrastructure…

Evidence gathered on some Queensland bridges has raised questions about what heavy vehicles are really doing to bridges. Visual evidence includes the deterioration of concrete bridge decks, headstock cracking, fatigue cracking, settlement of bridge…

The new concourse at Redfern Station spans over ten platforms at the southern end of the station. It was constructed using super tees with a cast in-situ deck supported by piers founded at the platform level. The superstructure supports a…

Steel trough girders are an efficient form of structure for long-span curved bridges. Analysis and design of these structures need to incorporate the proposed construction sequence to ensure that the girders have sufficient capacity not only for the…

Transport for New South Wales, (TfNSW) receives thousands of requests every year to allow Higher Productivity Vehicles (HPV), high risk mobile cranes and heavy load platforms to access NSW aging road and bridge network. The HPV's access requests in…

The West Gate Tunnel Project provides a second freeway link between the western suburbs of Melbourne and the city, including a much-needed alternative to the West Gate Bridge. 14km of new walking and cycling paths are being constructed to improve…

The new Southern concourse bridge in Redfern Station will provide accessible access to all above ground platforms within the station. Redfern is one of the busiest passenger stations on the Sydney Trains network and contains more active above ground…

Since 2018, the Victorian Department of Transport (DoT) has been on a journey to improve the asset management practices of Structures under their control by developing the Structures Service Framework (SSF). The SSF defines governance, roles and…