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largest engineering project
ever under taken in Australia.
Seen by many as a def ining
moment in the histor y Austra-
lia, the scheme was designed
to collect the water that comes
from the Snowy Mountains and
store i t in dams. The project in-
cluded 225 kilometres of, pipe -
lines, tunnels and aqueducts
and the scheme now provides
up ten percent of the electrici t y
supply to New South Wales as
providing vi tal water supplies
to inland farms and industr y.
The Nor th Strathield
Rai l Underpass
The Nor th Strathf ield Rail un-
derpass, par t of the Nor th-
ern Sydney Freight Corridor
project , is an example of how
engineering ingenui t y over-
came the growing demands
on a busy transpor t network.
Consul t ing engineers devised a
means to construct a 148m long
freight rail tunnel, underneath
an exist ing busy suburban rail
line. Their innovat ive design, cut
the construct ion t ime from an
est imated three to f ive years to
just 8 months and, wi th no dis-
rupt ion to normal rail ser vices.
ASA Hot Fire Training
Faci l i ty, Melbourne
A great example of the
mul t i - disciplined nature of the
work of a modern consul t ing
engineering f irm is the state
of the ar t hot f ire training fa-
cili t y at Melbourne Airpor t .
The only facili t y of i ts kind in
Australia, the project called on
the skills of mechanical, struc -
tural, electrical, hydraulic and
civil engineers as well as envi -
ronmental exper ts too. Not only
does the design cater for the
training needs of Australia’s civil
aviat ion f ire f ighters, i t also en-
sures that waste water from the
facili t y is treated and re - cycled.
Green Square Urban
Renewal water man-
agement , Sydney
From the grand, large scale
projects such as The Snowy
Mountains Hydro -Electric
Scheme, which catch the pub -
lic’s imaginat ion, to one of the
slight ly less glamorous neces-
si t ies of modern li fe, storm wa-
ter and sewage management .
Consul t ing engineers developed
a strategy for storm water man-
agement in the Green Square
Urban Renewal area, which is lo -
cated between the busy Sydney