Search Results: 'Kier'

Crossrail TBM started up with call for Crossrail Two
13 March, 2012
Today Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Secretary of State for Transport Justine Greening pushed the button to fire up the first Crossrail TBM.

First Crossrail TBM assembled
29 February, 2012

First Crossrail TBM displayed in Schwanau
13 December, 2011

Crossrail awards Farringdon and Whitechapel
30 November, 2011

Crossrail running tunnels award
10 December, 2010

The 2010 Harding Lecture (Part 1)
01 December, 2010
British Tunnelling Society, Harding Lecture, 15th April 2010

Digging under The Dorchester
22 September, 2010
Excavating a 2.7m diameter tunnel 12m under busy London streets and with only a hotel basement for access posed a challenge for designers and contractors on The Dorchester Hotel service link tunnel. Petr Salak of Mott MacDonald, Matt Mules of Kier Construction and John Comins of Joseph Gallagher give this report

Catch up on Crossrail
22 September, 2010
As contractors await the award of the two main tunnelling contracts for the GBP 15.9bn (USD 24.5bn) mega project, work on the stations is gathering pace. Bernadette Redfern gives this report

XRL awards contract 824
18 August, 2010

UK’s ability to muster resources
23 March, 2010
With a heavy programme of tunnelling work ahead of it, the UK industry gathered in the ICE Telford Theatre in December to debate its ability to rise to the challenge. Hosted, appropriately, by the BTS Young Members, a packed audience of all ages and affiliations discussed an issue that has generated significant discussion among junior and senior members and is encompassed by the motion: This house believes that the UK tunnelling industry has the sufficient range of engineering expertise and resources to meet the challenges of future projects. As the meeting unfolded, nationalism, internationalism, ageism, and historic reference, all came into the discussion as Neville Harrison (Consultant) and Harnaik Mann (Arup and Vice-Chair of the BTS Young Members committee) proposed the motion and Jon Banyai (Mott MacDonald and Chair of the BTS YM Support Group) and John Edwards (Morgan Est) presented the opposition

KMI gets Preston contract
09 February, 2010

More in store for Crossrail
01 June, 2009

HK Southern Link tenders due in March
01 February, 2005

Finale for CTRL London Tunnels
01 April, 2004

Safety prize
01 July, 2003

Thameslink 2000 tunnels shape up
01 June, 2003

Dosco for CTRL
01 May, 2003

London freight tunnels threat
01 April, 2002

January 2001 - 2002 News Review
01 February, 2002

PO tunnels a radical solution
01 October, 2001