Publications

The Southern Expressway Duplication project is a 19 km duplication of the current reversible flow single carriageway road to a duplicated two carriageway road allowing improved traffic flow for future urban growth to the south of metropolitan…

This paper outlines the National War Memorial Park underpass and park project in Wellington, New Zealand. The 15,000+ m2 park is being separated from traffic by a 300 m long cut and cover trench and tunnel of which 138 m is a rectangular box section…

The Twin Composite Steel Box Girder Bridges Over Minmi Creek are part of the Hunter Expressway Alliance Project – F3 to Kurri Kurri Section, a road infrastructure project consisting of 13 kilometres of new freeway construction and local road…

The M80 Ring Road Upgrade is a $2.25 billion project, jointly funded by the Federal and State Governments. The section between Furlong Road and Sunshine Avenue was awarded to BMD Constructions, with GHD as the lead design consultant. BMD’s Design…

The Kaituna River Bridge is a 187 m long, 27 m wide, four-span continuous composite steel-concrete bridge constructed as part of the Tauranga Eastern Link project in New Zealand. This paper discusses the design development of the bridge through to…

The developed design of the 112-metre long twin superstructures included five fabricated steel I girders composite with a cast-in-place deck slab. These two decks were constructed on the southern roadway approach ramp and launched over the rail…

Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge, first opened to traffic in 1978, is around 2.5 km long and comprises an 848 m long five-span steel box girder portion over the Yarra River and two continuous concrete box girder approach viaducts 871 m and 670 m long.…

The Sino Iron Project is located approximately 100 km south-west of Karratha at Cape Preston, WA. The access route from the mine site to the port has to provide for the delivery of heavy over-sized loads of up to 2000 tonne GVM. A key infrastructure…

In February 2011, the Queensland Government announced that the TrackStar Alliance would construct the $475 million Stage 2 Richlands to Springfield project as part of the broader Darra to Springfield Transport Corridor. The alliance consisted of…

Extensions of existing RE (reinforced earth) bridge abutment walls to allow for bridge widening or bridge duplication are difficult because of the need to maintain uninterrupted traffic flow whilst sections of the existing bridge abutment walls and…