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National Prequalification System - Industry Consultation
Austroads has developed a proposed National Prequalification System for Civil (Road and Bridge) Construction Contracts ('National Prequalification System'), which consolidates the various jurisdiction-specific prequalification systems into a seamless, harmonised framework of applications, assessments and reviews.
The draft report 'Development of a National Prequalification System for Civil (Road and Bridge) Construction Contracts' describing the proposed national system in detail is currently released for comment and can be found here.
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Guide to Road Tunnels
The Guide to Road Tunnels provides high level guidance to those making decisions in the planning, design, operation and maintenance of new road tunnels in Australia and New Zealand. Principles and standards identified are based on experience both in Australasia and in other countries where tunnels have been constructed over a long period of time. Practices referred to in other countries have been considered in the light of Australasian experience and adopted (where appropriate), cognisant of Australasian conditions and legislation.
This Guide will be used by engineers and technical specialists in tunnel technology working on the planning, design and operation of road tunnels, proponents of road tunnel solutions, senior decision makers and regulators in the various jurisdictions associated with the construction of tunnels. It will provide guidance to these users on the acceptable standards for planning, design, implementation, operation and maintenance of road tunnels in Australia and New Zealand.
XXIV World Road Congress and Essay Competitions
The World Road Association (WRA) is holding its XXIV congress in Mexico City in 2011. Both the WRA and Austroads are running essay competitions in parallel. The prizes are all expenses paid trips to the WRC in Mexico City. The deadline for submissions has now been moved to 30 September 2010. Click here for more information.
REAAA Essay Competition
The Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (REAAA) is running a Road Safety essay competition. Authors are invited to submit their essays for consideration on or before 15 October 2010. More information can be found here.
Mapping old Austroads publications to new
Now that the new guides are all out, there is a number of our older guides and publications which have been superseded, particularly in the Guide to Traffic Engineering Practice series. To keep track of these changes and to know which parts/guides replace the previous guides, please click here.
Top Five Publications for July (Hardcopy):
Feedback:
Feedback on all our guides and publications can be directed here. If you have any specific questions about our publications please contact us via austroads@austroads.com.au or call us on +61 2 9264 7088.
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