Date:
17 Mar 2026,
5.30PM – 7.00PM
duration:
1 hr 30 mins
Venue:
The Birdcage Tavern
Address:
133 Franklin Rd
Auckland
Cost:
Free event
Register Add to Calendar 2026-03-17 17:30:00 2026-03-17 19:00:00 Pacific/Auckland Sustainable Sprayed Concrete Tunnel Linings

Seminar and presentations, followed by refreshments

Ross Dimmock is a geotechnical tunnel engineer with over 37 years experience in the design, contracting, technical solutions supplier and government advisor on new tunnel tech initiatives.

Currently VP Strategic Projects in Tunnelling, Ross’s current role in Normet is to drive the global tunnelling approach and motivate and support the Normet team and clients towards a new, lower carbon and more efficient tunnelling future. As a chartered professional, he focuses on providing practical solutions at every stage of a project - design, construction, operation, and maintenance.

Ross’s technical competency and passion on low carbon and cost sprayed concrete for tunnelling and its use as a permanent building material will deliver insights on below topics:

• Where there is carbon to be saved, there is money to be saved
• Holistic approach to sustainable sprayed concrete
• Sprayed concrete requirements in line with carbon savings
• Replacing cement in sprayed concrete tunnelling
• Low carbon lining materials
• Zero emission construction equipment
• Implementing digitalisation
• New design approached

Presenter: Ross Dimmock, Strategic Projects, Tunnelling - NORMET

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Join us for a presentation from Ross Dimmock of Normet on the current global state of the art in sprayed concrete linings with a focus on sustainability.

Seminar and presentations, followed by refreshments

Ross Dimmock is a geotechnical tunnel engineer with over 37 years experience in the design, contracting, technical solutions supplier and government advisor on new tunnel tech initiatives.

Currently VP Strategic Projects in Tunnelling, Ross’s current role in Normet is to drive the global tunnelling approach and motivate and support the Normet team and clients towards a new, lower carbon and more efficient tunnelling future. As a chartered professional, he focuses on providing practical solutions at every stage of a project - design, construction, operation, and maintenance.

Ross’s technical competency and passion on low carbon and cost sprayed concrete for tunnelling and its use as a permanent building material will deliver insights on below topics:

• Where there is carbon to be saved, there is money to be saved
• Holistic approach to sustainable sprayed concrete
• Sprayed concrete requirements in line with carbon savings
• Replacing cement in sprayed concrete tunnelling
• Low carbon lining materials
• Zero emission construction equipment
• Implementing digitalisation
• New design approached

Presenter: Ross Dimmock, Strategic Projects, Tunnelling - NORMET