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The New Zealand Tunnelling Society (NZTS) will hold a short course on 5 October in Auckland focused on the topic of ‘Managing Uncertainty: Aspects of underground infrastructure delivery in New Zealand’.

PelicanCorp has entered into a strategic partnership with the Civil Contractors Federation Australia (CCFA) to mutually support the promotion of safer civil construction worksites across Australia.

Registration for Australasia’s only dedicated Trenchless Technology conference, No-Dig Down Under (NDDU), closes on Friday 8 September 2017.

NULCA has confirmed that its Annual General Meeting and Committee Election will be held on the final day of its inaugural Damage Prevention Conference.

PelicanCorp has entered into a strategic partnership with the Civil Contractors Federation Australia (CCFA) to mutually support the promotion of safer civil construction worksites across Australia.

Registrations are still available for NULCA’s inaugural Damage Prevention Conference, taking place on the Gold Coast next month.

Trenchless Australasia is now offering online and print advertising opportunities to utility location contractors and NULCA members.

The US’ utility location association, Common Ground Alliance (CGA), has released its annual report on the damage to underground infrastructure, finding that in 2016 the damage cost the US at least US$1.5 billion (AU$1.89 billion).

There are less than two weeks until Australasia’s only dedicated Trenchless Technology conference, No-Dig Down Under (NDDU), takes place on the Gold Coast.

The Forrestfield-Airport Link’s first tunnel boring machine (TBM) has begun operations on the project in Perth, Western Australia.

The ASTT has successfully hosted a Technical Forums in Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand during July.

No-Dig Down Under 2017 has added free contractor-focused Toolbox Sessions to the conference and exhibition taking place on the Gold Coast, Queensland on 12-15 September.

Dial Before You Dig (DBYD) has appointed Stuart Burdack as its new CEO.

Exhibition space for Australasia’s only dedicated Trenchless Technology conference and exhibition, the ASTT’s No-Dig Down Under (NDDU), has sold out.

Trenchless Australasia is now offering online and print advertising opportunities to utility location contractors and NULCA members.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory reached an agreement with Geophysical Survey Systems (GSSI) to produce commercial prototypes of technology that assists autonomous vehicles to navigate using subsurface geology known as localising ground penetrating radar (LGPR).

NULCA has confirmed that its Annual General Meeting and Committee Election will be held on the final day of its inaugural Damage Prevention Conference.

Registrations are still available for NULCA’s inaugural Damage Prevention Conference.

Exhibition space for Australasia’s only dedicated Trenchless Technology conference and exhibition, the ASTT’s No-Dig Down Under (NDDU), has sold out.

The Victorian Government has revealed the joint venture (JV) that has been selected to build the AU$6 billion Metro Tunnel and announced that nearly 7,000 new jobs will be created by the project.

NULCA has released the conference program for its inaugural Damage Prevention Conference, taking place later this year.

The conference program has been released for Australasia’s only dedicated Trenchless Technology conference and exhibition, No-Dig Down Under 2017 (NDDU).

GSSI has updated its BridgeScan™ assessment system for concrete inspection and utility mapping.

One of NULCA’s most valued members and a past president, Elizabeth Boesen, has passed away late last month.

A NULCA member has highlighted the grey area surrounding confined space issues that seem to be commonly encountered in every work area in the locating environment.

This photo was taken by NULCA member Mick McGoldrick of Cavan Constructions during an NBN install in Warrnambool, Victoria.