Search Results: 'Jacobs Associates'

How low can you go?
20 February, 2013
TBMs have successfully passed beneath the Montlake Cut on Seattle’s University Link Project with only 4m of cover. Andrew Mencke and Lynn Salvati of Jacobs Associates, Seattle, Richard McLane of Traylor Brothers, Seattle, and John Sleavin of Sound Transit, Seattle, explain the design and construction process

Northern Exposure
19 February, 2013
While Seattle is known for its grey drizzly days, the climate for tunnelling is all blue skies. Sound Transit will bid another major tunnelling contract for its regional mass transit system this March, Nicole Robinson reports

Queensland tunnel design contract awarded
23 January, 2013
Jacobs Associates is providing tunnel design to Thiess Tunnelling on the Narrows Marine Crossing Project, a 4.4km long tunnel that will be constructed under a body of water known as 'The Narrows', the company stated earlier this month. The tunnel will house the Santos GLNG gas transmission pipeline and is expected to begin early this year.

BART awards retrofitting study for Berkeley Hills Tunnel
11 January, 2013
A feasibility study contract to evaluate various alternatives to retrofit the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Berkeley Hills Tunnel so that train service can be re-established quickly following an earthquake event on the Hayward fault was awarded to Jacobs Associates, the company announced last week.

University of California to receive NGLS tunnel
27 November, 2012
A tunnel engineering design service contract for the underground Next Generation Light Source (NGLS) tunnel at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been awarded to Jacobs Associates. The NGLS tunnel contract is part of the University of California¹s prime contract with the US Department for Energy.

Future Planning
23 October, 2012
The procurement process for the Ottawa Light Rail project will finish this autumn. With a 2.5km tunnel planned for the city’s core, Nicole Robinson looks at what the city envisions and what the ground may hold for the future

Companies selected for Vancouver's Evergreen Line
10 October, 2012
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure has announced its preferred proponent for the Evergreen Line Rapid Transit project in Vancouver, Canada. SNC-Lavalin has been selected by the government to design, build and finance the project.

Seattle's Brightwater Conveyance System nears completion
10 October, 2012
Almost all four tunnels of the Brightwater system have been mined, Jacobs Associates recently announced. When completed, Brightwater will connect 539km of existing sewage pipes to a new 36-million-gallons/day (136 million liters/day) treatment plant.

Clearwater alignment chosen
07 September, 2012
The alignment for the Clearwater Program, in Los Angeles, USA has been chosen. The tunnel only solution was selected in spring following the environmental impact report.

New Irvington Tunnel breakthrough
20 June, 2012
Construction crews on San Francisco’s 5.6km New Irvington tunnel, part of the city’s Water System Improvement Program, achieved breakthrough last week, revealed the lead designer for the tunnel, Jacobs Associates.

Jacobs Associates to provide design services for Philadelphia tunnel improvements
15 June, 2012
Consulting engineers Jacobs Associates will provide tunnel engineering design and construction services to improve a pedestrian tunnel for The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, the company revealed earlier this month.

Advance below the bay
24 May, 2012
The EPBM cutting below the San Francisco Bay is smashing advance rate expectations as the team battle with environmental limitations and brace for tougher ground. Rhian Owen reports

First U220 breakthrough
03 April, 2012
Breakthrough was reached on the first bore of the U220 University Link Light Rail in Washington, D.C., US.

Lakeside risk
08 February, 2012
Challenging soil combined with strict deadline requirements to spur the City of Portland in Oregon, US, to award a non-standard contract. Construction on the much needed sewer relief project completed late last year as Nicole Robinson reports from site

Out with the old and in with the NIT
06 February, 2012
Keeping the water flowing is the soul objective of the New Irvington Tunnel as the old struggles against the constant threat of a major earthquake. Nicole Robinson was on site in San Francisco to see the roadheader excavating the 3.5 mile (5.6km) of tough and changing geology drive

NSP commissioned in Melbourne
12 January, 2012

Full steam to the finish
19 December, 2011
The TBM mining the five-and-ahalf-mile South Cobb Tunnel in Georgia holed through in March of this year, despite hurricanes and unseasonal winter weather along its journey. This milestone came roughly one year ahead of schedule. Nicole Robinson reports on the success at South Cobb

Golden Beaver Award for Jacobs Associates boss
22 November, 2011

Gates latest associate appointment at Jacobs
12 October, 2011

Jacobs’ new associates
05 October, 2011