Tech tours
All Tech Tours take place on Wednesday 8th October from 2pm. Please note that there is limited availability on each tour.
Tech Tour timing
- Tech Tour Departs from Royal ICC @ 2.30pm
- Tech Tour from 3.00pm to 4:15pm
- Tech Tour concludes and return to Royal ICC @ 4.15pm
Capacity: 50
The Rochedale Metro Depot was purpose built to support the Brisbane Metro turn-up-and-go services, which launched on the M1 and M2 routes this year.
To keep our metros moving, the depot is equipped with 5 fast chargers capable of charging a metro in under 6 minutes, as well as 60 CCS2 plug-in slow chargers for overnight charging, designed to optimise battery life. In addition to the depot, to support in service vehicles, charging infrastructure has also been built at end of trip locations.
The depot is not only one of the largest and most technologically advanced facilities of its kind in Australia, but also one of the most sustainable, achieving a 5 Star Green Star rating for its sustainable design solutions.
The depot also features:
- Metro Operator amenities, administration offices and on-site parking to support the day-to-day running of the depot and metro fleet operations.
- Extensive workshop facilities to accommodate both routine maintenance and body repairs on the metro fleet.
- Capacity to accommodate growth of the fleet in line with future service requirements.
Learning Outcomes/Key Features:
The tour will start on a Brisbane Metro as it ends its M2 service at Eight Mile Plains.
The technical tour will:
- Provide an overview of the Brisbane Metro Project
- Depot construction
- Firsthand look at depot features.
PPE Requirements: Hi-vis vests and enclosed toe shoes are required to be worn on all Brisbane City Council sites – these will not be provided by the tour facilitators. Delegates to BYO PPE.
Tech Tour timing
- Tech Tour Departs from Royal ICC @ 2.30pm
- Tech Tour from 2.50pm to 4:00pm
- Tech Tour concludes and return to Royal ICC @ 4.30pm
Capacity: 50
The Virginia Branch Sewer Augmentation (Cannery Creek) Project is located in northern Brisbane just north of the Brisbane River and runs through a mixed residential and industrial land use area, emptying into Kedron Brook. The Virginia Branch Sewer (VBS) is a 900mm diameter trunk sewer serving the suburbs of Banyo, Northgate, Virginia, Chermside, Geebung, Aspley, Stafford Heights and McDowall. Current wet weather performance of the network does not meet Urban Utilities (UU) Design Criteria reflected in network overflows. Historically, the sewer network experiences eight spills per year into Cannery Creek and a further fourteen spills per year to customer properties resulting from limited sewer capacity and wet weather induced overflows.
The Cannery Creek Project has been designed to achieve the primary objective of reducing the occurrence of wet weather sewer overflows by lowering the existing sewer overflow level within the trunk network and screening and pumping this additional volume of wastewater to the downstream wetland and bioretention basins before discharging the treated wastewater into Kedron Brook downstream of Cannery Creek. Prior to the project wet weather sewer overflows would flow into local properties and into Cannery Creek untreated.
The primary benefit of the project is the reduction of wet weather sewer overflows from the Virginia Branch Sewer to both residential properties and the environment.
The secondary benefit of the project is an improvement in water quality and associated environmental and public amenity along Cannery Creek.
Key Features:
- Net benefit in water quality via offset of additional loads and reduction in other pollutants including gross pollutants
- Reduction in 900l/s of wet weather flows to Brisbane’s largest resource recovery centre, Luggage Point
- The nature based solution and wet weather sewer diversion creates network capacity in the downstream section of the trunk sewer and pump station SP010.
- Enhanced aquatic ecosystem habitat (freshwater and estuarine)
- Reduced overflows, increased public health
- Fish protection, passage and habitat enhancement
- Rehabilitation of pre-urbanised conditions for local waterway and whole of system benefit
- Enhanced liveability and connectivity by providing better public amenity
PPE Requirement:
- High-vis long sleeve shirt or High-vis vest worn with a long-sleeve shirt
- Long Trousers
- Steel-toe boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses
Tech Tour timing
Tech Tour timing: Bus departure from Royal ICC – Gregory Terrace from 2:30pm
(We allocate 1hr to 1.5hr)
Capacity: 50
Beams Road is a key east-west corridor in Brisbane’s northern suburbs, connecting Bridgeman Downs to Boondall and linking to major arterial roads such as Gympie Road and Sandgate Road. It supports more than 20,000 vehicles daily and plays a vital role in commuter movement across the city.
Previous planning studies identified Beams Road as a priority for upgrade due to strong population growth forecasts in suburbs like Carseldine, Fitzgibbon, Taigum, and Zillmere, alongside major developments in the surrounding area. These include the Carseldine Urban Village, a new secondary school east of Carseldine Avenue, and expanded Park ‘n’ Ride facilities at Carseldine train station.
Jointly funded by the Australian Government ($50 million) and Brisbane City Council under the Better Roads for Brisbane Program, the project aims to help ensure Beams Road remains a safe and reliable corridor for residents and commuters.
PPE Requirements:
The project site is now open to the public so high visibility vests, enclosed footwear, and hat are recommended.
Tech Tour timing
- Tech Tour Departs from Royal ICC @ 2.30pm
- Tech Tour from 3.00pm to 4:30pm
- Tech Tour concludes and return to Royal ICC @ 5.00pm
Capacity: 20
Cross River Rail is a second river crossing at the core of the rail network with capacity to run as many as 24 trains in each direction.
The new Boggo Road Station will not only link passengers to the South East Busway, Park Road station and Brisbane Metro services, it will transport staff to and from the health, science and education precinct, provide students with access to the new Inner City South State Secondary College, and local residents will benefit from high-frequency connections to the new CBD stations.
The Boggo Road Station will integrate with pedestrian connections walkways, cycle paths, Park Road train station, and bus services providing improved access to both UQ and the CBD.
PPE Requirements:
Must wear PPE - long sleeved shirt high visibility or high visibility vest, long pants, Hard Hats, gloves and steel caps boots.
ADDRESS:
Level 1, 6 Eagleview Place
Eagle Farm QLD 4009
events@ipweaq.com
07 3632 6800
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