GATEWAY WA SITE VISIT Hosted by: Young Engineers WA

MEETING POINT The $1 billion dollar Gateway WA Perth Airport and AND DEPARTURE Freight Access Project is the largest infrastructure LOCATION project ever undertaken by Main Roads WA. Engineers Australia Western Australia Division Jointly funded by the State and 712 Murray Street Federal governments, the project West Perth WA 6005 incorporates road and bridge improvements, local road DATE & TIME modifications, facilities and Wednesday 20 May 2015 connections for pedestrians and 8:30am for 8:45am departure cyclists, noise walls, Tour: 9:30am - 12:00pm landscaping, urban design and the use of intelligent transport system technology. TICKETS (incl. GST) Gateway WA includes improvements around Perth Airport as Members & Students $25 well as the Kewdale and Forrestfield industrial estates, and Non-members $55 focuses primarily on , between and , also , (Please note No funds from this tour between Orrong Road and Perth Airport. will be given to Gateway WA or any Alliance Partners. This is a Young The need for this project has been driven by the expected Engineers cost only. Ticket price is doubling of passenger air travel and road freight task over to cover the bus transfer to and the next decade, coupled with proposed consolidation of the from the Engineers Australia office Perth airport terminals. only.) Preliminary work began in 2013, with work on the project’s REGISTRATIONS CLOSE major construction packages commencing in the third Monday 18 May 2015 quarter of 2013. The full scope of works is expected to be Registrations essential as numbers completed by mid 2016. are strictly limited to 18 attendees The tour will include a half hour presentation of the project, followed by a bus tour with commentary on the project, stopping at observation towers around the Gateway WA site. http://goo.gl/1nE9lB For further information contact:

Marketing & Communications Coordinator – Jennifer Mayor

Phone: 08 6214 6304 Email: [email protected]