"Design of Different Forms of Viaduct in South Island Line (East)" - FULL

Date, time & venue 
2016-01-22;6:30pm – 8:00pm;Chan Yat Mei Sophie Room, at HKIE HQ, Causeway Bay

 Programme Highlight

The C903 South Island Line(East) contract is a critical piece of the MTRC rail puzzle that will connect one of the most densely populated islands in the world, Ap Lei Chau, with Admiralty station. The new rail line will serve several stations along the route and act as a catalyst for redevelopment in Southern District.

The presentation will describe the design of the elevated section of the rail alignment from the Nam Fung Tunnel Portal near the Aberdeen Toll Plaza, to the Lei Tung Portal on Ap Lei Chau and the associated challenges of designing rail viaducts in the urban environment. It will cover a variety of different forms of viaduct including precast segmental construction, insitu construction, precast beams and culminate in the new 230m long parallel crossing of the Aberdeen Channel, which was constructed using the insitu balanced cantilever method.

Speaker

Ir. Douglas Simmons, BEng(Hons), MHKIE, RPE, CEng, MICE  
Director – Highways and Transportation Infrastructure

Ir. Simmons graduated from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1988. After a few formative years working in his home country in Scotland, Douglas came to Hong Kong to work on the Airport Core projects in 1993. Douglas joined Atkins in 2001 and has since then been fortunate to be engaged in some of the most challenging infrastructure projects in Hong Kong including CRIII, San Tin Interchange, SCL, SIL and the Eurocode Study for HyD. Douglas and his HK team have also been privileged to be involved in iconic international projects such as the Dubai Metro Viaducts, KAIA viaducts in Jeddah, Denmark High Speed rail and the Riyadh Metro in Saudi Arabia.

Fee

Free of charge

Registration & Enquiries

The number of participants is limited to 80 and priority will be given to members of Civil Division. For details please click here. For registration please complete the on-line registration at the relevant event page of http://cv.hkie.org.hk; registration via email will not be accepted. Only successful applicants will be informed by email. For enquiries, please contact Ir Vincent Tam at E-mail: vincent@wingsconsulting.com.hk

CPD Certificate

CPD certificate will be issued to those who attend the seminar.

Remarks: The seminar will be conducted in English.

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