Search Results: 'HSE'

On shaky ground
15 September, 2011

Vibration deadline at 100
24 August, 2011

Overlooked hazards to occupational health
18 January, 2011
During safety campaigns, whether during planning or in-house inspection, often disproportionate attention is paid to more obvious physical hazards, overlooking those hazards that are less obvious but which call still lead to a deterioration in quality of life, and perhaps death, which can be difficult to relate to the working conditions. Drawing heavily on material supplied by Dr. Donald Lamont, formerly of the UK Health and Safety Executive, Maurice Jones examines the issues involved in tunnelling occupation health, and some other safety hazards, followed by some solutions

Managing ground risk
22 September, 2010
Nigel Legge of Nigel Legge Associates and Iain Suttie of Berwin Leighton Paisner look at the role of project management and contracts in managing ground risk

Belfast Sewers Project – part 2
10 February, 2010
The Belfast Sewers Project was presented at the November 2009 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society. In the second of two articles on the project, Paul Ronicle of the Morgan Est - Farrans JV describes the construction challenges

Forty Years of Tunnels & Tunnelling
02 June, 2009
A retrospective view by Colin Mackenzie

Slurry tunnelling in South Africa
04 September, 2007
At the June meeting of the British Tunnelling Society, a presentation was given by Andrew Officer, of Goba (Pty) Ltd, and Andrew Hindmarch, of Mott MacDonald, on the design and construction of the Durban Harbour Tunnel, in South Africa.

Guidance, not restrictions
03 September, 2007

Cutting to the core
08 August, 2007

HSE restrictions on hand tunnelling
26 July, 2007
Andrew Marshall, secretary of the UK’s Pipe Jacking Association, reviews new HSE guidelines for pipe jacking and their effect on the use of the technique

Design of the UK's Hindhead tunnel
20 June, 2007
Tom Ireland, Mott MacDonald, describes the intricacies of one of the UK’s premier upcoming tunnelling projects

Hyperbaric health & safety
10 May, 2007
Technical journalist Maurice Jones checks on current accepted compressed air procedures, and why technology transfer and development is still an important course of action

Current concerns in tunnelling transport
24 November, 2006
Technical journalist, Maurice Jones, looks at the current issues associated with mobile transport for tunnel spoil disposal

Tesco tunnel partial collapse in UK
23 August, 2005

Work on Strood halted following accident
22 March, 2004

Lessons from C320's TBM interventions
01 February, 2004
Maurice Gallagher and Bob Brown, of J Murphy & Sons, Tony Ridley, of Tony Ridley Hyperbaric Associates, and Andy Swift, of Rail Link Engineering, discuss the use of compressed air for TBM interventions on the UK's CTRL Contract 320 "Thames Tunnels" and the project's use of oxygen decompression techniques

Nishimatsu's £1M blowout
01 February, 2004

LaserShell leads the way for SCL tunnels
01 June, 2003
Colin Eddie, engineering director of Morgan Est Tunnelling Division, and Christian Neumann, senior project manager for Beton-und Monierbau, describe a new method for applying sprayed fibre-reinforced linings in soft ground. It was initially developed in response to calls for improved safety for workers at the face, but has ultimately resulted in a new automated approach to SCL tunnel construction

CTRL restart
01 May, 2003

Complex redesign for London link
01 April, 2003
A packed audience at the BTS meeting this February, saw a most interesting presentation on the tunnelling work currently in hand at King's Cross St Pancras Station, London, UK. The presenters were Mike Crabtree of London Underground Ltd, Roger Cox of Infraco SSL (Sub-Surface Ltd), Chris Dulake of Arup and Colin Eddie of Morgan Tunnelling