Search Results: 'Health '

Flying ahead at Terminal 5
01 September, 2003
As part of Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 project, numerous underground works are required, including a Storm Water Outfall Tunnel, a service tunnel under the A3044, and extensions to the Piccadilly Line and Heathrow Express. Peter Clarke, planning manager, and Selby Thacker, production leader, for the Morgan Vinci JV, and Ian Williams, BAA project leader, describe the bored tunnel works currently in progress

London boom sets the scene for UC'03
01 September, 2003
Underground Construction 2003 is due to be held on the 24-25 September at the ExCeL conference and exhibition centre in London's docklands. At a time when tunnelling activity in London is at its peak, this year's event is set to outstrip the success of its predecessors

Credit where it's due
01 July, 2003

Safety upgrade for Mersey Kingsway
01 July, 2003
The Mersey Kingsway road tunnels, located in Liverpool, UK, were constructed in the late 1960s. Recently, three new cross passages have been constructed for emergency evacuation and to provide safer access for emergency services. Mark Leggett, associate, and Kevin Roberts, principal engineer, for Mott MacDonald Ltd, describe the procurement, design and construction approach adopted for these safety improvements

Safety prize
01 July, 2003

Creating a 'safety culture'
01 June, 2003

LaserShell leads the way for SCL tunnels
01 June, 2003
Colin Eddie, engineering director of Morgan Est Tunnelling Division, and Christian Neumann, senior project manager for Beton-und Monierbau, describe a new method for applying sprayed fibre-reinforced linings in soft ground. It was initially developed in response to calls for improved safety for workers at the face, but has ultimately resulted in a new automated approach to SCL tunnel construction

Safety first at the ITA, Amsterdam
01 June, 2003
Dr John Anderson, independent consultant and former vice-animateur of the ITA Working Group 'Health and safety in Works' discusses the direction of the ITA's first Keynote Lecture on safety, held at this year's congress in The Netherlands

CTRL restart
01 May, 2003

UK first on CTRL breakthrough
02 April, 2003

TBM procurement using risk analysis
01 April, 2003
Prof. Dr-Ing Dr h c B Maidl of the Institute of Construction Technology, Tunnelling & Construction Management, University of Bochum, Germany and Dr-Ing D Handke of IMM Maidl + Maidl, Bochum, Germany, present a new strategy, using risk analysis, to manage the planning and selection of TBM design and illustrate this with two recent examples where this strategy was successfully used

Guiding the way forwards
01 April, 2003
Nod Clarke-Hackston, international sales manager for VMT GmbH, examines the rise and development of guidance systems for tunnelling machines and discusses more recent advances in this field

Fire raises subway safety fears
01 March, 2003

Ground collapse above CTRL
01 March, 2003