Publications

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 $761 million stage 2 of Monash Freeway Upgrade project involves the addition of 36 kilometres of new lanes to one of Melbourne's busiest freeways, as well as other upgrades at Beaconsfield interchange and O'Shea Road. As part of the project, the…

The Princes Highway outbound ramp is a 170 m long, five span bridge over the West Gate Freeway in Altona, Melbourne. As part of the West Gate Tunnel Project, at-grade realignment of the interchange configuration required replacement of two of the…

The potential benefits of using structural health monitoring systems in measuring and recording bridge data have been established in many applications around the world, but the efficiency and effectiveness of such systems depends on how they are…

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…

The Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project (PBRP) involves building a new bridge to replace the existing Pattullo bridge over Fraser River in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). The new bridge will consist of a cable stayed Main Bridge over the river,…

Vehicle induced dynamic effects on bridges are one of the most complex phenomena in bridge engineering. Most of the international bridge design standards and codes of practice provide limited guidance or none for design against dynamic effects. It…

Sydney Gateway is an NSW Government initiative to improve road and freight rail transport to and from Sydney Airportís Domestic and International Terminals and Port Botany. Sydney Gateway completes the missing links in the motorway network and will…

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of bridges has many short- and long-term benefits including increasing reliability, safety and cost-effective maintenance and operation of road networks. The Technical Services branch of Transport for NSW (TfNSW)…

Assessment of heavy vehicle access is a key challenge for local government in Australia which is only becoming more critical as structure assets age and the demands associated with the freight task increase. Bridge assessment in Australia has been…