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 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…

This report presents a review of the available structural design methods for foamed bitumen pavements, as a first step in the development of thickness design procedures. Six design procedures were found in the literature, most of them based on well…

This report presents the test results of bitumens used across different states in Australia. This database will be useful in identifying possible trends in properties associated with recent changes in the manufacture of Australian bitumens and…

This report is the second in a series which examines the properties of Australian bitumens from around Australia. Thirty-one bitumens from around Australia were subjected to a range of test procedures. These included viscosity measurement at a range…

A significant factor contributing to the establishment of Australia’s large network of surfaced roads has been the successful application of sprayed sealing technology, including the selection of treatments, design of the treatments and application…

Austroads Project No: TT1358: Review of Structural Design Procedures for Foamed Bitumen Pavements proposed a method for the thickness design of foamed bitumen to be adopted in principle by Austroads. Foamed bitumen is a mixture of hot bitumen, water…