Publications

The Manukau Memorial Gardens Arch is a new road bridge over a small creek to allow expansion of the cities cemetery. The project required careful attention to detail to provide a solution which considered environmental, cultural and technical issues…

This paper considers how several recent pedestrian-oriented bridges, all on Auckland’s Western Ring Route, provide new connections or re-establish severed connections between communities. As the architect involved in these bridges, I will also…

The New Zealand Transport Agency recently carried out a nation-wide screening of state highway bridges for scour and other bridge waterway risks. This paper outlines lessons learned from the implementation of the screening programme and reviews the…

The impressive AUD20 million Werribee Aqueduct project has provided a critical upgrade to Melbourne’s sewerage infrastructure and ensured that Melbourne Water can continue to transfer up to 60 percent of Melbourne’s sewerage to the Western Treatment…

The summer of 2010 / 2011 represents an extreme event. The majority of Queensland was declared a natural disaster zone as a result of the damage caused by non-typical flooding and cyclones throughout the State. It is estimated $4.5 billion dollars…

Alkali aggregate reaction, or AAR, is one of the major causes of degradation in older concrete structures. AAR occurs when the hydroxide ions that exist in the cement react with aggregate, often with water acting as a catalyst to speed up this…

In January 2011, Queensland experienced a rain event, unlike any other in recent history. Unprecedented damage occurred to the infrastructure in many parts of Queensland. After the flood event, Aurecon was commissioned to assist in flood damage…

This paper proposes a risk and criticality strategy that can be used in the development of bridge specific data collection and monitoring strategies. New Zealand has on average one bridge every 5.2km. The functionality of the road network is…

This report presents and reviews common linear and spatial location referencing systems used by road authorities and discusses the various benefits and limitations of each. Road authorities have traditionally used linear location referencing to…

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the Pavement Maintenance database creation, including documenting the cleaning and filtering of the results. The analysis was performed on SA, VIC, NSW and QLD datasets to identify…