Search Results: 'McAlpine'

Drill and blast in confined spaces
29 April, 2008
At the joint meeting of the BTS and MinSouth on 21 February 2008, Richard Soloman, project manager for WECS, Damian McGirr, of Donaldson Associates, and Mark Thomas, site manager for WECS, described the drill and blast works on an urban flood alleviation tunnel in Bristol, UK

Obituary - Mike Duggan
04 September, 2007

Full speed ahead…
26 July, 2007
Rob Buchanan, a Solicitor at Pinsent Masons explains the ins and outs of contract acceleration

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

Tunnelling 50 years ago
15 February, 2007
At the December 2006 BTS meeting, speakers Oliver Bevan and Douglas Parkes discussed the view of a contractor, with his ‘low cunning and guile’, and that of the design-oriented man with the mechanical brain - 50 years ago

Tunnel profiling
01 February, 2005

Alfred's summer job
01 May, 2004

Balfour wins Hindhead
15 October, 2002

Insuring an industry
01 October, 2002
As a result of some recent high-profile incidents within the industry, insurers have been increasingly concerned that tunnelling was becoming uninsurable in the market. A joint working party, between the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI), has since produced a draft Code of Practice that would allow insurers to continue to offer cover. Presentation of the draft Joint Code of Practice to BTS members took place on 4 July 2002, followed by an in-depth discussion

Running like clockwork
01 September, 2002
In 1896 Glasgow became the third city in the world after London and Budapest to build and underground transport system. Indeed, such was the public's excitement when Glasgow District Subway Company opened its new underground cable-traction railway that several people were injured and the line had to be closed for five weeks. Jim Shipway describes the original scheme together with a brief review of subsequent modifications

Lessons from research and practice
08 July, 2001
Professor John Burland of Imperial College and Fin Jardine of CIRIA introduce the programme for the CIRIA conference, 'Response of buildings to excavation-induced ground movements', to be held at Imperial College, London, and highlight findings from the research during construction of London Underground's Jubilee Line Extension.

Group sets up online venture
01 August, 2000

CTRL station bids
30 March, 2000

McAlpine win order from France for two rock tunnellers
31 March, 1970