Search Results: 'Jacobs'

Registration open for George A Fox conference 2023
18 November, 2022
Registration is open for the Underground Construction Association’s (UCA) George A Fox Conference in January.

Design and construction of a cavern in downtown LA
31 October, 2022
Christoph Eberle reports on the BTS March evening meeting where Carlos Herranz, Tunnel Design Manager at Mott MacDonald, discussed the design and construction by sequential excavation of LA Metro’s largest underground cavern.

Multiple entries
26 September, 2022
Extensive tunnelling on HS2 also features major shaft construction works at many locations

TBM completes 25% of West Gate Tunnel journey
07 July, 2022
EPBM Bella has reached the 1km mark of her 4km journey digging the West Gate Tunnel Project’s outbound tunnel in Melbourne.

HS2 reveals new designs for Amersham vent shaft headhouse
05 July, 2022
HS2 has updated designs for the Amersham vent shaft headhouse – one of five structures that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the high-speed rail line’s 10 mile-long Chiltern tunnel.

Jacobs appointed as design consultant for CRL 1
10 June, 2022
Jacobs has been appointed as the design consultant for the design and construction of the Tavistock Station and tunnels on Singapore’s Cross Island Line Phase 1 (CRL 1).

MORE JV named as preferred bidder for Stonehenge Tunnel
26 May, 2022
The UK’s National Highways has named the preferred bidder for the £1.25bn contract for the controversial Stonehenge Tunnel.

United Utilities Water starts pipeline tender process
16 May, 2022
The tender process for the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP) will get under way with a tender launch event in Manchester on June 8.

Second TBM launched for West Gate Tunnel
28 April, 2022
The second TBM has started boring on the West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne, Australia.

UCA honours William “Bill” Edgerton with Lifetime Achievement Award
25 March, 2022
The Underground Construction Association (UCA) has awarded William “Bill” Edgerton the 2022 UCA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tunnelling among solutions for Scottish Highlands road
07 March, 2022
A tunnel is among options being considered for a notorious section of the A83 in Scotland.

Australia’s largest TBM starts on West Gate Tunnel
03 March, 2022
The largest TBM in the Southern Hemisphere has started excavating the West Gate Tunnel in Melbourne, Australia.

3D parametric structural design and documentation workflow
28 December, 2021
Jeff Fontana and Eric Westergren of McMillen Jacobs look back over the past 50 years and note that architecture, engineering and construction have gone through several advances in design development and documentation

McMillen Jacobs wins ACEC award for NY microtunnel crossing
11 November, 2021
US-based infrastructure consultancy McMillen Jacobs has won a major accolade for its work on the Randall’s Island Microtunnel Crossing undertaken for the New York City Department of Design and Construction.

CSO capture for cleaner water
29 October, 2021
Jon Sickling, Tunnel Shafts Delivery Manager, Watercare Services, and Stefano Vittor, Construction Manager, Ghella-Abergeldie JV, outline details of New Zealand’s largest wastewater project – Auckland’s new Central Interceptor

HS2 announces shortlisted bidders for Phase 2a
21 October, 2021
HS2 has announced a shortlist of three bidders from which the Phase 2a Design and Delivery Partner will be chosen to build the new section of Britain’s high-speed rail network connecting the West Midlands and Crewe.

Digging the deal on infrastructure
11 October, 2021
George Demetri takes a look at the state of US infrastructure, the possible causes of its lacklustre performance and how it may be improved, taking in along the way the views of some high-profile engineers and consultants

First Canadian mixshield TBM completes Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel
05 October, 2021
Excavation has been completed on Metro Vancouver’s tunnel under the Burrard Inlet which will convey drinking water from the North Shore to households throughout the region.

Hinkley Point C tunnels win ICE South West award
05 October, 2021
At a gala ceremony for the ICE South West Civil Engineering Awards held in Bristol, England on 30 September, Hinkley Point C Marine Works–Tunnels won the Project over £8m New Build Award.

Cool talk on Hinkley Point C
12 August, 2021
Matthew Fowler of Balfour Beatty gave June’s British Tunnelling Society online lecture on the offshore cooling water tunnels at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station and the offsite construction of some of the critical components. Report by Ana Barbosa of Jacobs