The following questions were posed by schools and answered by an engineer and an environmental manager:

1. Yesterday we met a Lead engineer. You are a Graduate engineer. What is the difference?

2. Why and how did you become an engineer? Was there an event or a person who influenced you?

3. What do you think is the cleverest part or the best engineering part of the Central Interceptor project?

4. What is the best part of your job, working on Central Interceptor?

5. Please tell us about a day when you did a whole lot of different things, as part of your role on this project.

6. Central Interceptor will cost over a billion dollars. Why do you think this is good value?

7. When will your work on this project finish? What do you think you might do next?

8. Central Interceptor will help urban streams and other waterways to be better. Tell us more about that.

9. Are you on track to complete the CI on time?

10. What is the gradient of the tunnel? Is it quite steep?

11. What happens if you drill and make a mistake?

12. Do you find anything unexpected in the ground you tunnels through? Obstructions?

13. What is the most interesting thing you’ve found in the spoil?

14. Has the bore drilled through impenetrable layers?

15. What is the coolest fossil you’ve found? The oyster shell looks cool by the way.

More at https://www.learnz.org.nz/centralinterceptor221/connect-with-experts