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In this case study Jon Varndell, Director of Civil Infrastructure & Transportation at AECOM (NZ), shares insight into the vision for New Zealand’s first ever PPP road project, the stakeholder engagement strategies being used to ensure effective asset maintenance and major lessons learned from the journey to date.

Lendlease Engineering is currently involved in the Brunswick Heads to Yelgun shortly (B2Y) project that\ consists of a dual carriageway highway with semi-integral bridges about 8.6km long. The Small Movement Joints (SMJ) are cheap, easy to build and supposedly low maintenance, however they proved to be extremely difficult to maintain and repair.

In this presentation from Road and Rail 2017, Laszlo Tamas, Maintenance Contracts Manager at Lendlease will reflect on Lendlease’s journey to find a repair method that will achieve its design life, will be financially affordable and will provide good ride quality for the road users.

A consortium has been shortlisted to design and build the Rozelle Interchange and Iron Cove Link as part of WestConnex, the biggest road development in Australia at AUD$16.8 billion (US$12.6 billion).

In this article,  WestConnex CEO, Dennis Cliche shares the project management strategies used for the massive transport infrastructure project, and further delves into how it will help ease congestion; more effectively connecting Sydney’s suburbs with the CBD and industrial hubs.

Wayne Harvey, Manager of Smart Journey Systems at VicRoads, explores how VicRoads is using smart technology and ITS infrastructure to monitor road network performance and increase the long-term productivity of Victoria’s road infrastructure.