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Quarterly Meetings for 2010

Quarterly Meetings in 2010

  • The Second Quarterly Meeting is on 27 May 2010, this will be a joint IRSE & RTSA meeting. The meeting sponsor is proudly sponsored by Interfleet Technology. See more details below.
  • The Third Quarterly Meeting and AGM is on 26 August 2010. The meeting sponsor is the Transport Construction Authority (TCA), formerly known as TIDC. TCA will be providing presentations in regard to TCA's role within Transport NSW.
  • The Fourth Quarterly Meeting is on 25 November 2010. The sponsor is Parsons Brinkerhoff. Presentation details will be advised once confirmed.

Our Next Quarterly Meeting

imageThe PWI Annual General Meeting and Third Quarterly meeting will be held on the 26th August 2010.

The Transport Construction Authority will be sponsoring the meeting. Scott Lyall, Executive Program Director Epping to Chatswood Rail Link (ECRL) will provide a short update on TCA's role within Transport NSW and an overview of progress on its portfolio of works including the Rail Clearways Program, South West Rail Link, Commuter Car Park and Interchange Program and the Northern Sydney Freight Corridor Program. Scott will then be followed by a presentation by Graham Watson covering how TCA and RailCorp worked together to reduce in-train noise on the Epping to Chatswood Rail Link. As TCA's Project Manager for the ECRL tunnels, Graham will discuss the innovative use of rail web dampers and track bed absorption blocks to achieve the reduction. Please come along and support the PWI.

Previous Quarterly Meetings (Wrap)

2nd Quarterly Meeting

imageThe Second Quarterly Meeting held on Thursday 27 May 2010, featured a presentation from Kevin Karaloff of Interfleet Technology on the much debated topic of PPP's and Alliancing. The presentation was delivered from an Engineers Perspective and highlighted how these modern contracting arrangements do not reduce the need for engineering, they in fact increase it. The PWI would like to thank Interfleet Technology for sponsoring this meeting.

This Quarterly meeting was a joint PWI meeting with our colleagues from the IRSE and RTSA. Larry Matters (an RTSA member and Senior Transport Safety Investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)) provided an informative presentation on "Consequences of Distraction in the Rail Environment".

1st Quarterly Meeting

imageThe PWI would like to thank Benson Machines (Linsinger Maschinenbau GmbH's Australasian representatives) for sponsoring our 1st Quarterly. Paul Philips from Benson Machines provided an informative presentation and information on Linsinger Maschinenbau GmbH's milling equipment for maintenance of the rolling contact profile.

Quarterly Meeting sponsorship

PWI are looking for Sponsors for our Quarterly meetings in 2011, if you wish to sponsor one of our Quarterly meetings and provide a speaker and technical paper please contact our sectary, Peter Boonstra on Mob. 0412 424 438.

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