NTRO, the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads(TMR) and Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA) have teamed up to win a prestigious International Road Federation award at the annual IRF Awards in Athens.
MRWA, TMR and NTRO’s joint project The impact of bushfire on infrastructure and a framework to incorporate bushfire resilience in road design won the IRF’s Emergency and Disaster Response Management Award.
NTRO Sustainability and Materials Performance national leader and IRF Board Member Dr Clarissa Han accepted the award at the presentation in Athens on the entire team’s behalf.
This framework was developed through NTRO’s collaborative research programs with MRWA (the Western Australian Road Research and Innovation Program – WARRIP) and TMR (the National Asset Centre of Excellence –NACOE).
