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Carbon saving push boosts PSCL development
24 July, 2023
Carbon saving is a new boost to further development of Permanent Sprayed Concrete Lining (PSCL), says Benoit de Rivaz, technical director for Bekaert BP Underground Solutions

ITA guide on spoil handling
24 July, 2023
Key points on working with spoil from all types of tunnelling was issued as further guidance last year from ITA’s Working Group 14 (Mechanized Tunnelling – Task Group 4), building on earlier work. A summary review is presented

Austrian National Committee of ITA
10 July, 2023
Austrian National Committee of ITA represents all Austrian associations dealing with tunnelling, which are the Austrian Society for Geomechanics (ÖGG), the Austrian Tunnelling Association (ATA), the Austrian association for Architects and engineers (ÖIAV), the Austrian research association for traffic (FSV) and the Austrian society for Construction Technology (ÖBV)

Australian Tunnelling Society
10 July, 2023
The Australian Tunnelling Society represents Australia’s vibrant tunnelling industry. ATS is a founding member of the ITA and celebrated its 50th year in 2022. ATS has branches in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and Western Australia, as well as having groups for Young Members, Tunnel Systems and Diversity in Tunnels.

Get together, again
28 June, 2023
Summer is for gatherings and celebrations – getting together to share experience and lessons learned, such as at RETC 2023, in Boston in June, and also to celebrate successes and knowledge gained to be of benefit to the future.

BIM in tunnelling - past, present & future
26 June, 2023
BIM enables unprecedented collaboration and information sharing in infrastructure development, yet better understanding of what it is, isn’t, and could be is needed, say Kurt Zeidler and Vojtech Ernst Gall, of Gall Zeidler Consultants

Antonia Cornaro – Interview
26 June, 2023
Antonia Cornaro is several things: a city planner, an expert in underground space at Amberg Engineering, a university lecturer to engineers, planners and architects, an author and also co-chair of ITACUS. Julian Champkin spoke to her

Hizray project: A focus of UYAK 2023
19 June, 2023
Hizray is a major metro project of global significance that is planned to be bored mostly by TBM below Istanbul. The project will be a key part of discussions at the rescheduled UYAK 2023 conference, in early June

ITA Tunnelling Awards deadline approaches
30 May, 2023
Entries for this year’s ITA Tunnelling Awards close on June 20.

Engineers pivotal to climate change solutions, says Dix
17 May, 2023
Engineers’ role in providing climate resilience and sustainable solutions needs to be communicated and understood better, ITA president Arnold Dix has said.

WTC2023 – Pakistan joins ITA
15 May, 2023
This year’s World Tunnelling Congress – WTC2023 – is under way in Athens this week.

Athens ready to welcome WTC2023
27 April, 2023
This year’s World Tunnelling Congress (WTC2023) will feature the second highest number of papers at a WTC – 420 from 45 countries.

Programme for WTC 2023
24 April, 2023
Tunnellers will be travelling from across the world to meet in Athens, Greece, this May at the WTC 2023 conference and exhibition

Dramix solution for sustainable concrete lining
24 April, 2023
Benoit de Rivaz, technical director for Bekaert BP Underground Solutions, discusses the group’s positioning in the international construction world and the place for fibre reinforced concrete in sustainable lining solutions for tunnels

Underground considerations
24 April, 2023
As host nation for WTC 2023, Greece recalls a long history of underground construction while looking ahead to further tunnel projects, including more metro lines. ITA President, Prof Arnold Dix, and Greek Tunnelling Society (GTS) President, Nikolaos Roussos, discuss how underground space, though, is often undervalued as an asset

WTC 2024 - Call for Abstracts
21 March, 2023
ITA-AITES and the China Civil Engineering Society are calling for abstracts for the World Tunnel Congress 2024 (WTC2024) which will be held in Shenzhen, China, 19-25 April, 2024. The theme of WTC2024 is Tunnelling for a Better Life.

TAC gears up for 2023 conference
15 March, 2023
The Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC) will hold this year’s conference – TAC 2023 – in Toronto from September 24-26.

Two tales of technology
23 January, 2023
Recent technology successes for Robbins include an award-winning conversion of a TBM diameter while underground, and continuing to see the difference the robust McNally support system delivers for excavations in difficult ground

World Tunnelling Industry Meets in Istanbul
17 January, 2023
Executive Council of ITA AITES attends UYAK2023

25 years of BTS/ICE specification for tunnelling
16 January, 2023
With all the upheavals of 2022 such as the passing of the late Queen, having the third Prime Minister in a single year at the time of writing and the deeply disturbing ongoing multi crisis it is easy to overlook that we celebrate a successful 25 years of the BTS/ICE Specification for Tunnelling in 2022.