Search Results: 'Tamrock'

Progress for Himalayan hydro
13 June, 2002
Construction of the Teesta (Stage V) Hydroelectric Project is now well underway. M M Madan, Chief Engineer of India's National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd, describes the geology, planning and current construction progress of the project

New outlets for Lake Mathews
05 May, 2002

Shu Chon rail tunnel close to breakthrough
01 March, 2002

Sandvik division
14 January, 2002

Better safe than sorry
11 January, 2002
Bavarian passengers wanting a high speed connection north must wait a little longer than expected for the new InterCity Express line from Munich to Nuremberg reports Adrian Greeman.

Ambitious hydro scheme in India
20 November, 2001

Computer rig to start final drive
09 June, 2001

Ancient route to the East revived
02 May, 2001
The Egnatia highway in Greece is the country's biggest ever construction project and one of Europe's most important. Adrian Greeman visited the project headquarters and several key sites.

China makes new links
07 April, 2001
China is pushing ahead with an extensive railway programme and tunnels feature heavily, reports Adrian Greeman, after a visit to the newly begun work in central north China.

World's set fair
01 March, 2001
Tunnelling machinery and major symposiums on tunnelling and microtunnelling will be prime features of Bauma 2001 to be held in Munich from 2-8 April. Mike Winney and T&TI report on major points of interest for tunnel engineers

Water over gas at Ningbo
01 March, 2001
China's rapid industrialisation demands huge new energy input. On the east coast therefore it is building some of the world's largest gas storage caverns.

Giant caverns for minute particles
13 November, 2000
Some of Europe's most interesting tunnel works are under way just outside Geneva, where a major expansion is progressing for the international research centre for particle physics, CERN. Adrian Greeman visited the sites in Switzerland and France for the vast new underground chambers required.

Lötschberg – Steg and Raron
14 October, 2000

Troubled Sydney project makes final breakthrough
29 September, 2000

Manufacturers go for more used plant
10 August, 2000
Tight margins for the tunnelling industry mean that good quality used and/or refurbished plant is an attractive proposition. Major manufacturers of new plant are now taking an increased interest in this market – if there is money to be made. Maurice Jones reports on the trend.

Kalldal completes
01 August, 2000

Hong Kong Quarry Bay extension
30 April, 2000

Swedish jumbo drive
25 February, 2000

Tapping into Lake Mead
25 January, 2000
The population of the Las Vegas Valley is due to double in the next 20 years. With demand for water already outstripping supply, expansion of the delivery and treatment system is under way and is scheduled to take 15 years. Jim Morris, Rick Kimball and Anne Gothro, Lake Mead Constructors, describe work in progress on Intake No. 2

Tunnelling's flexible friend
01 December, 1999
Sometimes viewed as a poor relation to fully mechanised excavation, drill+blast still holds an important place in the tunneller's armoury. Technical Journalist Maurice Jones reports that an increasing level of sophistication in drilling and explosives use ensures a fair share of work, sometimes when other methods fail.