Publications

The Bridge over Cooks River at Tempe was built in 1960 and designed to carry HS-20 loading. The bridge is on the Princes Highway, a major heavy vehicle route in Sydney. The bridge is currently carrying six marked traffic lanes and with high traffic…

Sydney Gateway Stage 3 contains a 550m long Viaduct connecting the upgraded Qantas Drive with Sydney Airport domestic arrival and departure terminals. This paper will give an overview of some of the interesting and less conventional aspects of its…

The West Gate Tunnel Project is one of Australia's largest infrastructure projects currently under construction and will give Melbourne an alternative to the West Gate Bridge. The scope includes: Two three-lane road tunnels, Widening of the West…

The $761 million Monash Freeway Upgrade Stage 2 involves the addition of 36 kilometres of new lanes to one of Melbourneís busiest freeways. As part of the project, eight of the existing bridges required widening. While each of the bridges had its…

The Dynon Road Bridge over Moonee Ponds Creek is a 12-span, 61 metre long cast in-situ concrete flat-slab bridge constructed in 1941. This art-deco style bridge is heavily trafficked and an important link between Melbourneís western suburbs and the…

The paper presents a whole life cycle analysis of bridges and civil structures with due consideration of environment and economic aspects. The study is presented considering variables of constituent materials components so as to reduce the…

The Standards Management Framework provides a consistent, whole of life cycle approach to the way standards are developed, applied, managed, and governed in Transport for NSW (Transport). This framework aims to deliver the appropriate balance of…

Bridges in seismically active regions must be designed and constructed with special considera- tion of how the structure will respond/perform during an earthquake and immediately afterwards. A key element in such considerations is the expansion…

Asset owners are interested in the use of durable concrete to maximize design life of their structures and minimize Whole of Life Cost (WOLC) throughout. Similarly, most assets owners nowadays also require their assets to be sustainable and…

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…