Tender Advertisement #1180279

PURPOSE:
The purpose of this project is to investigate the issues associated with managing the construction, operation and maintenance of road tunnels in a sustainable manner and to make subsequent updates to the relevant parts of the Austroads Guide to Road Tunnels.
The update to the Guide will provide guidance to owners, operators, designers, and those constructing tunnels of how to consider and address sustainability during the lifecycle of road tunnels.
The sustainability of road tunnels has become an increasingly important topic to be covered in the Austroads Guide to Road Tunnels. This information will assist practitioners to ensure that existing and new road tunnels are designed, built, maintained and operated in a sustainable manner.
The four parts of the Guide to Road Tunnels provide high level guidance to practitioners involved in the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of road tunnels in Australia and New Zealand. Principles and standards identified are to be based on Australasian and international experience. International practices have been considered in the light of Australasian experience and adopted (where appropriate), cognisant of Australasian conditions and legislation.
The Guide to Road Tunnels comprises:
• Part 1: Introduction to Road Tunnels
• Part 2: Planning, Design and Commissioning
• Part 3: Operation and Maintenance
• Part 4: Retrofitting Tunnels.
DELIVERABLES:
This project will produce the following deliverables:
• Technical Report that identifies the factors and considerations associated with delivering sustainable road tunnels. The report will inform the update of the Austroads Guide to Road Tunnels.
• An update to the Austroads Guide to Road Tunnels to incorporate best practice addressing the sustainability of road tunnels.
• A webinar.

Also included as part of this tender are the following documents:
• Instructions for Authors of Austroads Publications which sets out the writing and formatting standards for research, technical and internal reports.
• Master Services Agreement outlining our Terms and Conditions. Please note that our Terms and Conditions are not negotiable.

All submissions are to be submitted as a PDF at a maximum size of 10MB.

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The naming convention for submissions is: [your Company name] – [Project No.] – [any internal reference numbers].

All submissions are to include a statement as to how the respondent proposes to undertake the work, and keep to the agreed deadlines, given the current and proposed requirements and restrictions due to COVID-19.