North East Link

We’ve achieved an Australian first by using rubber T-Lok road safety barriers on North East Link. ♻️ To date over 1600 car tyres, or 10 tonnes of rubber has been saved from landfill and reused for worker safety. So far nearly 230 crash barriers have rolled out at work sites in Yallambie and Bulleen, with another 59 on the way. Trent from Saferoads talks about the significance of this initiative. Learn more https://bit.ly/3W2g4TW

1 month on! 🛣️ Major Road Projects Victoria recently diverted Bulleen Road between Thompsons Road and the Eastern Freeway, making space for new ramps and connecting the freeway to North East Link. Here’s how the road came together!

Mornings at Manningham 🎴 Our tunnel boring Machine (TBM) retrieval box in Bulleen has seen a huge transformation the past month as critical works ramp up to prepare for mined tunnelling to start.

Our 2023 Annual Sustainability Report is now available ♻️ Learn about our sustainability objectives and targets, plus the great initiatives NEL achieved in 2023 https://bit.ly/4cdnjPD #sustainability #future #infrastructure #constuction #engineering

Lowering in a milestone. 🏗️ Take a pic-by-pic look at how the first tunnel boring machine cutterhead was lowered into place.

Cutting through your feed ⚙️ Both cutterheads for our tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have been lowered into place! Each cutterhead weighs over 400 tonnes and required a 550-tonne gantry crane to be used for the task. The finishing touches are now being put on TBM 1 so it can start the 6.5km journey from Watsonia to Bulleen soon.

’A dream starts with a step’. And that first step was Alaa landing his dream opportunity with the help of Spark Inclusive Jobs at The Link. After finishing his studies in Cyprus, Alaa took a chance and moved to Melbourne and is now playing an important role as a junior engineer at LS Precast in Benalla - the regional company manufacturing more than 44,000 precast concrete segments that will make the North East Link Tunnels. Spark Inclusive Jobs is a service provided by Spark North East Link Tunnels D&C providing career pathways to North East Link for priority job seekers. Learn more https://bit.ly/3TAlqEV

Sunday 23 June marked International Women in Engineering Day, a day where the achievements of female engineers are celebrated, and women are inspired and encouraged to pursue a career in engineering. This #IWED24 we’ve asked our cohort of women engineers working on North East Link about their roles and what today means to them.

Skylapse Noun A series of vision captured over time to show the evolution of something...from the sky! 🌆 Here’s how sites across North East Link have evolved over time. Starting in Watsonia, moving across to the Lower Plenty Road interchange, then down to Manningham Road and finishing in Bulleen.

The Major Road Projects Victoria environmental team has been working with CERES Urban Forestry to use as many trees as we can from the M80 Ring Road Completion for community projects. The timber logs will be stored for around 1 year at CERES for milling and drying, and what doesn’t get reused will go into the CERES social enterprise supply chain - supporting the valuable work that CERES does in the field of environmental education and its sustainable timber business CERES Fair Wood. “These types of trees have typically fallen under the waste stream and present some challenges to get people to re-use them. We are pleased that some of these beauties will be salvaged and turned into a higher value timber resource”. "Our ultimate aim in working with the M80 Ring Road and other major projects is to be able to demonstrate and share a model that will save thousands of urban trees from the mulcher, create circular economy jobs and supply a new source of sustainable timber for the building industry,” says Kate Sutton, CERES Urban Forestry Service Manager.