Search Results: 'J Murphy '

John Stack steps down as a CEO of Murphy
20 August, 2014
GREAT BRITAIN - Following a board restructure at J. Murphy & Sons earlier this year, John Stack has decided step down as CEO of the company at the end of September. Matthew Behan will take over as interim CEO from 1 October.

Maida vale
29 July, 2014
Pipejacking is a key part of a flood alleviation project which is set to protect hundreds of properties in northwest London

Cable guy
10 October, 2013
A new cable tunnel has gone seemingly without a hitch in the Willesden/harlesden neighbourhoods of North London. Alex Conacher tours the site with Murphy’s tunnelling project manager Keith Pollard.

TBM Betty breaks through at Preston
26 March, 2013
The GBP 114M (USD 173M) sewer improvement scheme is being undertaken by KMI+, a joint venture partnership between Kier Infrastructure and Overseas Limited, J. Murphy & Sons Limited and Interserve Construction Limited, as part of United Utilities capital programme in west Lancashire and north Manchester, Murphy Group announced earlier this month.

Power cables TBM breaks through at Willesden in London
23 January, 2013
J Murphy & Sons has completed breaking through on the Willesden to Taylors Lane Deep Cable Tunnel Project in north London for UK Power Networks, it was announced last week. The 2.59km tunnel where the 56t TBM arrived will house four new 132,000-volt cable circuits, linking between two substations upgrading electrical supplies in the area.

TBM delivered to London cable site
01 August, 2012
The 56t TBM, 'Bernice', has been delivered to Brentfield Park in North West London and lowered into the Wilesden reception shaft, it was announced late last week.

Murphy bags London cable contract
27 October, 2011

Herrenknecht supplies last Crossrail TBMs
22 September, 2011

Connaught phoenix for Crossrail
15 June, 2011
Crossrail has been revealing the Connaught Tunnel in London’s Docklands to representatives of the media and stakeholders prior to work beginning on its modification. The project design involves some unusual refurbishment methods to enlarge the existing tunnel and preserve some Victorian features as Maurice Jones reports

Final Crossrail tunnelling contracts awarded
07 April, 2011

Murphy in box-jack pilot drives
04 April, 2011

Contractors announced for Thames Water work
08 April, 2010

KMI gets Preston contract
09 February, 2010

More in store for Crossrail
01 June, 2009

From woe to go
30 January, 2009
Barbara Stack, author of the Encyclopaedia of Tunnelling, Mining & Drilling Equipment, describes the birth of recessed and back loading cutters

High-tech conveyor solutions
06 May, 2008
Hi-tech tunnel conveying systems can offer unique solutions to complex site and transport logistics. Deputy editor, Amanda Foley, looks at some recent projects case histories

Olympic high voltage provider
21 April, 2008
Michael Francis, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Arup’s Alan Winter, and Kevin McManus of Murphy presented a review of the UK’s Lower Lea Valley Cable Tunnels project at the January meeting of the British Tunnelling Society

Lower Lea final drive begins
26 June, 2007

Olympic effort in London...
13 April, 2007

Cleaning up Limerick
15 March, 2007
Russell Naylor, engineers representative for Limerick City Council, Ken McIntyre, of J Barry & Partners, and Peter Jacques, divisional manager tunnelling for J Murphy & Sons, gave a presentation to the British Tunnelling Society in January about the complex works for Ireland’s Main Drainage Scheme in Limerick