Robbins readies shield for Baku bore
1 June, 2009
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News
1 June, 2009
1 June, 2009
Excavation of a new baggage tunnel at Heathrow airport is half way through using a
29 May, 2009
The first of two TBMs on the North-South bypass in Brisbane, Australia, holed through last month to complete its 4.3km long drive, and its sister shield is due to finish the twin tunnel by early next month.
29 May, 2009
With the completion of excavation last month, the main works on the 85.3km long Dahuofang water transfer tunnel in Liaoning province, China, are over and only some final inner lining work remains to be finished.
29 May, 2009
29 May, 2009
29 May, 2009
29 May, 2009
Business and Finance
2 June, 2009
The oral hearing for Dublin Metro North was adjourned last month for evidence to be reviewed, and the procurement process still has bids from four shortlisted groups under consideration.
2 June, 2009
A JV led by Impregilo has won a contract near Milan calling for tunnelling work along almost a quarter of the approximately 33km long toll route.
2 June, 2009
2 June, 2009
Features
May 2009
Claire A Verani, Design Interface Manager, Meyco Global Underground Construction, BASF Construction Chemicals describes a fully bonded waterproofing membrane
May 2009
Paul Steen, Mohsen Vaziri, and Tim Hartlib of consultants Ramboll UK, describe the protection works undertaken to protect LUL assets close to the construction of a large-scale basement
May 2009
Michele Mangione, Senior Tunnel Engineer, Arup describes here in his BTS?Harding Prize winning paper how the flat arch theory was used to create openings in cast iron tunnels with minimal disruption
BTS
May 2009
At January’s British Tunnelling Society meeting, Jeff Hewitt SVP of Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc, Professor Dan Eisenstein of the University of Alberta, and Marco Moccichino of SELI contractors presented the challenges of EPBM tunnelling...
April 2009