Australian Tunnelling ConferenceSydney Metro Northwest

Tunnels and Stations Civils Contract Director - Paul Croke

13 October 2015

Project Overview

Sydney Metro

66km, two stages

30 metro railway stations

Two optional stations

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)

Geology

Bella Vista 2013

Bella Vista 2015

Norwest 2013

Norwest 2015

Showground 2013

Showground 2015

Castle Hill 2013

Castle Hill 2015

Cherrybrook 2013

Cherrybrook 2015

Segment precast facility at Bella Vista

Acoustic shed; 24 hour operation

Segment production commenced June 2014

Segment manufacture

Batch plant managed by Holcim

Storage yards including gantry cranes

Gas steam curing chamber

Two carousels and central batch plant

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

Segment carriers and Menriders

Tunnelling (TSC)

91,000 of the 100,000 concrete segments

have been produced

Station boxes

Cherrybrook

Castle Hill

Showground

Norwest

Bella Vista

Castle Hill Station Box

NFM (designed in France, assembled in China)

Double gripper shield

TBM weight: 980 tonnes

Cutting diameter ~ 7.0m

First Launch 8th September 2014

TBM twin running tunnels

Approximate 15km each

TBM1 breakthrough into Showground Station, May 2015

23km of the 30km of tunnels excavated

Cross passage excavation ramps

Cross passage excavation

54 standard cross passages

Invert preparation

Cross passage opening

Completed cross passage

Cheltenham Services Facility shaft

Cheltenham Breakthrough

Mined tunnels - 3% of tunnelling

Permanent formwork- Periform system

TBM traverse

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)

Epping mined tunnels lining form

Two running tunnels 298m and 334m

Lining form

One cross passage 55m long

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

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

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

Stakeholder and community engagement

Epping Breakthrough

Surface Viaducts & Civils (SVC)

4km skytrain between Bella Vista and Rouse

Hill

Landmark cable-stayed bridge

121 piers required for construction

1,200 concrete segments required to form

skytrain deck

State-of-the-art launch gantries from Dubai

Gantries to lift segments into place - enabling main

arterial roads to remain open during construction

Operations, Trains and Systems - OTS

$3.7 Billion Public Private Partnership – largest ever in NSW

Delivers Australia’s first ever fully automated metro network

First stage in the construction – earthworks at Cudgegong Road

Concept image of the rail services facility at Cudgegong Road

What’s next?

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Expected to open 2024

5 new stations; plus 3 optional

Bankstown Line conversion

Stage 2 – 30km

Sydney Metro City & Southwest

Community consultation started

Start major construction 2017

Geotech drilling complete

Sydney Metro City & Southwest

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