Search Results: 'Jacobs Associates'

Court rules against Glendoe client
13 January, 2017
Great Britain – A court has issued its ruling on the Glendoe collapse, finding in favour of contractor Hochtief at the expense of client Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE). The decision was given on 21 December and denied SSE a GBP 130M (USD 160M in Jan 2017) damages claim against Hochtief. The contractor will however have to pay low availability damages of GBP 1M (USD 1.24M in Jan 2017) for not completing the remedial work.

TAC Awards 2016
10 January, 2017
The Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC) presents its annual awards each fall to recognise the deserving individuals and projects in the Canadian tunnelling sectors. The 2016 awards were presented on October 17 in OTtawa. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners

Blue Plains Tunnel wins DRBF award
02 September, 2016
US – The Blue Plains Tunnel team was recently awarded the Excellence in Dispute Avoidance & Resolution Award for projects with a budget of USD 250M or greater, Traylor Bros. announced.

Hunt leads Cowi tunnel business
11 April, 2016
USA – Cowi North America announced two leadership changes on April 4 for its tunnelling business. Steven Hunt, currently president and CEO of Cowi North America will additionally occupy the role of senior vice president – tunnels on an interim basis.

WTC 2016
01 April, 2016
Registration is open for the worldwide tunnelling event of the year, with as many as 600 unique technical presentations, short courses and breakout sessions, and more than 200 exhibitors from around the world. Here’s a look at the highlights planned for this year’s conference and be sure to visit Tunnels & Tunnelling at Booth 1215 at this year’s WTC in San Francisco.

Bay Tunnel scoops award
15 February, 2016
USA – The Bay Tunnel project has been named the 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Region 9 Outstanding Water Project. The 8km-long, 4.6m id tunnel was brought into service in October 2014, well ahead of an original 2015 schedule.

Under the river
22 January, 2016
Tunnelling under the Fraser River in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, is no easy task. That is what the Port Mann Main Water Supply Tunnel project team has learned over the past three years. Stephanie Fekete and Andrew McGlenn of McMillen Jacobs Associates discuss the recent tunnel completion and summarise the demands that were required in order to make this drive successful

Tunnelling completed on Evergreen Line
01 December, 2015
CANADA – Officials announced that tunnelling has completed on the Evergreen line in Vancouver on 27 November, although previous delays will push back the opening to 2017.

Under the river
03 November, 2015
Tunnelling under the Fraser River in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, is no easy task. That is what the Port Mann Main Water Supply Tunnel project team has learned over the past three years. Stephanie Fekete and Andrew McGlenn of McMillen Jacobs Associates discuss the recent tunnel completion and summarize the demands that were required in order to make this drive successful

Rapid response
13 August, 2015
Ground freezing in Washington, D.C., will reduce the effects of construction on a quiet neighborhood prone to flooding. Nicole Robinson reports on the First Street Tunnel.

Frozen fight
24 April, 2015
Over the last four years, McMillen Jacobs Associates has designed retro_ t, replacement, or new icing shields for four railroad tunnels in the US. Joe Schrank, Heather Stewart and Gerry Millar all of McMillen Jacobs Associates, explain the installations.

Tunnel construction starts on Honolulu wastewater project
03 March, 2015
Hawaii - Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced the start of tunnel construction for the City and County of Honolulu’s Kaneohe-Kailua Gravity Sewer Project, on February 13.

Jacobs Associates and McMillen to merge
29 October, 2014
USA - Jacobs Associates and engineering and construction company McMillen have announced their intention to merge. In a joint statement last week, a spokesman for the companies said the competencies of each would benefit the other.

How the west was won
27 June, 2014
Tunnelling work is as diverse and plentiful as the geography in the West Coast.

Obstacles to the underground
27 June, 2014
William Edgerton of Jacobs Associates, and chair of the Underground Construction Association, discusses barriers to the advancement of the underground industry in North America.

Weather the winter
24 April, 2014
Construction started on the light rail tunnel going through downtown Ottawa this fall. The project as a whole is one of the biggest construction undertakings for the city and work has coincided with one of the coldest winters on record. Nicole Robinson reports on the early stages of tunnel excavation.

Bay area breakthrough
12 December, 2013
Excavation of the entire 18,660ft New Irvington Tunnel is complete in San Francisco. On October 8 two crews of miners from the Southland/Tutor Perini JV met underground with a roadheader digging away at the last final feet of rock.

Jacobs Associates expands Vancouver office
04 July, 2013
Jacobs Associates has opened a larger office with locally based staff dedicated to British Columbian (BC) projects. The expansion will help the firm better provide tunnel and underground engineering for hydroelectric, mining, water supply, wastewater, rail, highway, and other transportation projects in the BC and the Western Canadian market, the company said earlier today.

Cleaning up the capital
19 June, 2013
A TBM launch this spring in Washington DC is the first of several to come as the capital cleans up its CSOs. Nicole Robinson looks at the Blue Plains Tunnel.

Extinction
20 February, 2013
Replacing an outdated sewer will mean tunnelling through a volcano—an extinct one— with unique basalt geology. The City of Honolulu will bid the contract for its wastewater project this spring, Nicole Robinson reports