Search Results: 'Alpine'

AlpTransit works ask for US$71.6M
10 December, 2004

AlpTransit gets cash request
07 December, 2004

Sedrun - Gotthard's toughest challenge
01 November, 2004
Planning to drive sections of the world's long-est tunnel from its centre point, 2500m underground in variable, squeezing ground, was indeed a challenge. However, using a combi-nation of mining and civil tunnelling methods, it is a challenge that many manufacturers have been lining up to meet with innovative equipment, reports Maurice Jones

Designing Sydney's Lane Cove Tunnel
01 November, 2004
The 3.6km long twin-tube Lane Cove Tunnel in Sydney, New South Wales is scheduled to open in 2007. Here, Jim Rozek, project design director for Parsons Brinckerhoff, describes the current status of the project and details how the local geology has affected the tunnel design

Upgrading a legacy - the Frejus rail tunnel
01 November, 2004
In order to facilitate the increase in trans-Alpine freight, the historic Frejus rail tunnel is currently being upgraded to accommodate larger rolling stock. Piergiorgio Grasso, Moreno Pescara, Federico Valdemarin and Darren Page from Geodata SpA, Italy, describe the geotechnical, structural and tunnelling works currently being carried out to achieve this

Wirth gets a grip on Turkey
01 October, 2004

Wirth's Turkish delight
13 September, 2004

Nishimatsu sidelined
01 September, 2004

Back-to-back quality!
01 September, 2004

US$227M Singapore Circle Line contract
09 August, 2004

52km Alp link
01 June, 2004

In the footsteps of Peter the Great
01 May, 2004
In January 2002, T&TI reported on the ambitious plans to reconnect Line 1 of the St Petersburg Metro. Silvano Maccan and Piergiorgio Grasso, of Geodata SpA, Italy, and Nikolai Kulagin and Constantin Bezrodniy, of Lenmetroguiprotrans, Russia, report on the difficult challenges overcome on this project, which is due to see train services recommence in May 2004

Crystal reward
01 March, 2004

Gotta go
01 March, 2004

Singapore's Circle
01 March, 2004

Cross City's driven tunnel design
01 February, 2004
The US$530M Cross City Tunnel is one of the most complex and challenging infrastructure projects undertaken in Sydney, Australia, with underground railway lines, building basements and services to be negotiated. Anaiele Tarua, senior engineer (Driven Tunnels), and Alex James, design interfaces coordinator, with CW-DC Pty Ltd, describe the driven tunnel design for the project

St Petersburg's re-construction
01 January, 2004