paul croke - transport nsw - northwest metro – implementation and delivery of australia’s...
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Australian Tunnelling ConferenceSydney Metro Northwest
Tunnels and Stations Civils Contract Director - Paul Croke
13 October 2015
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Project Overview
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Sydney Metro
66km, two stages
30 metro railway stations
Two optional stations
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Sydney Metro
Open first half of 2019
8 new stations; 5 upgraded
4,000 car spaces
Stage 1 – 36km
• Tunnelling & Stations Civils (TSC)
• Surface Viaducts and Civils (SVC)
• Operations Trains and Systems (OTS)
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Geology
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Bella Vista 2013
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Bella Vista 2015
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Norwest 2013
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Norwest 2015
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Showground 2013
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Showground 2015
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Castle Hill 2013
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Castle Hill 2015
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Cherrybrook 2013
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Cherrybrook 2015
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Segment precast facility at Bella Vista
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Acoustic shed; 24 hour operation
Segment production commenced June 2014
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Segment manufacture
Batch plant managed by Holcim
Storage yards including gantry cranes
Gas steam curing chamber
Two carousels and central batch plant
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Segments per ring - 6
Segment length 1.7 m
Weight per segment ~ 3.7 Tonne
Weight per ring~ 22 Tonne
Total segments ~ 99,000
Total rings ~ 16,500
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Segment carriers and Menriders
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Tunnelling (TSC)
91,000 of the 100,000 concrete segments
have been produced
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Station boxes
Cherrybrook
Castle Hill
Showground
Norwest
Bella Vista
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Castle Hill Station Box
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NFM (designed in France, assembled in China)
Double gripper shield
TBM weight: 980 tonnes
Cutting diameter ~ 7.0m
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First Launch 8th September 2014
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TBM twin running tunnels
Approximate 15km each
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TBM1 breakthrough into Showground Station, May 2015
23km of the 30km of tunnels excavated
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Cross passage excavation ramps
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Cross passage excavation
54 standard cross passages
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Invert preparation
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Cross passage opening
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Completed cross passage
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Cheltenham Services Facility shaft
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Cheltenham Breakthrough
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Mined tunnels - 3% of tunnelling
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Permanent formwork- Periform system
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TBM traverse
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Epping Service Facility shaft
• Two running tunnels 298m and 334m
• One cross passage 55m long
• Breakthrough into ECRL Stub tunnels
(live rail environment)
• Two running tunnels 298m and 334m
• One cross passage 55m long
• Breakthrough into ECRL Stub tunnels
(live rail environment)
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Epping mined tunnels lining form
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Two running tunnels 298m and 334m
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Lining form
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One cross passage 55m long
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Environmental Management
• 1.5 million tonnes of crushed rock removed
• Transported for reuse in various residential/commercial
developments
• Design Rating score of 83 awarded by Infrastructure
Sustainability Council of Australia
• Reused 29 beams from Sydney Monorail for temporary bridge
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Safety & Workforce Development
• (TAFE certified) 5 day Tunnel Induction = 423
• One Day Tunnel Induction = 993
• Tunnel PPE/RPE Personal Fitting Inductions
• Tunnel Clean Shaven Policy for total workforce
• Behavioural safety “see the difference” programme
• TJHD live streaming TV into man riders and sites
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Stakeholder and community engagement Stakeholder engagement through a variety of touchpoints using a number of
communications channels, both by the contractor and TfNSW:
– Door knocking residents along alignment (Contractor)
– Quarterly newsletters, regular updates and subscriptions to email updates
(weekly and monthly) (Contractor)
– Community and business forums (Contractor)
– Community Information Centre – permanent and pop up – and 1800
Community phone line (TfNSW)
– Community presentations – schools and community groups (TfNSW and
Contractor)
– Ongoing stakeholder engagement (TfNSW)
– Mobile booths at community events in the area (TfNSW)
– Social Media - Website and Facebook
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Stakeholder and community engagement
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Epping Breakthrough
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Surface Viaducts & Civils (SVC)
4km skytrain between Bella Vista and Rouse
Hill
Landmark cable-stayed bridge
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121 piers required for construction
1,200 concrete segments required to form
skytrain deck
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State-of-the-art launch gantries from Dubai
Gantries to lift segments into place - enabling main
arterial roads to remain open during construction
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Operations, Trains and Systems - OTS
$3.7 Billion Public Private Partnership – largest ever in NSW
Delivers Australia’s first ever fully automated metro network
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First stage in the construction – earthworks at Cudgegong Road
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Concept image of the rail services facility at Cudgegong Road
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What’s next?
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59
Expected to open 2024
5 new stations; plus 3 optional
Bankstown Line conversion
Stage 2 – 30km
Sydney Metro City & Southwest
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Community consultation started
Start major construction 2017
Geotech drilling complete
Sydney Metro City & Southwest
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Key milestones
No Description Planned Date
2015
01 Early Works (Site Survey and Investigation) - Commence Q1-2015
02 Community Consultation - Commence Q2-2015
03 Exhibition Northern Corridor Works EIS - Commence Q3-2015
04 Exhibition Sydney Harbour Crossing EIS - Commence Q4-2015
2016
05 Final Business Case to Government Q1-2016
06 Exhibition Western Extension REF - Commence Q2-2016
07 Expression of Interests (EOI) Release - TSC Q2-2016
08 Enabling Works (Major Demo on Site) - Commence Q4-2016
2017
09 Contract Award - TSC Q2-2017
2018
10 TBM Excavation - Commence Q4-2018
2024
11 Operations Commence Q4-2024