Roads Are Personal

Somewhere on a Queensland highway tonight, a paving crew is working. It is past midnight. The asphalt paver is moving slowly, steadily, laying down a new surface in the dark Walking alongside it is one of Simon Chamberlain’s team, a surveyor and a machine control operator, checking every metre as it goes down, making sure the thickness is right, the height is right, the tolerances are met. Most people will never know they were there. They will just drive on the road. Simon Chamberlain, General Manager of Aptella’s Infrastructure and Paving Services division, has spent his career in moments like that one. He started as a surveyor, learning the job from the ground up, and worked his way up to