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Impervious Infrastructure
08 December, 2016
Spray on waterproof membranes remain a niche market but when it comes to complex geometries and potential tunnel design the advantages are becoming more widely understood and accepted

New tunneling standards to be proposed
08 December, 2016
North America – The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is working on putting forth standards for the tunnelling industry. During a meeting held in October by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Pressure Vessel for Human Occupancy (ASME PVHO) Committee, ASI Marine’s (ASI) Hyperbaric Tunneling Specialist, Jerry East was nominated and awarded a position on the Diving Subcommittee. East has extensive experience in compressed air tunnelling, commercial diving and marine construction. He will serve as both a Diving Sub-committee member and an active member of the Tunneling Task Group.

Heritage brand
31 October, 2016
A buoyed tunnelling industry and a number of domestic political gestures are restoring confidence in uK manufacturing. Davy Markham is one brand looking to increase its showing in the tunnelling industry. Alex Conacher reports

Underground knuckle booms
31 October, 2016
One crane manufacturer has developed a crane it thinks would be ideal for underground applications and invites tunnellers to confirm

Efficient design of openings in SCL tunnels
31 October, 2016
This paper by Dr. Angelos Gakis and Petr Salak, both senior tunnel engineers and design managers for Dr. Sauer & Partners, presents the case for SFRC being sufficient to support an SCL tunnel opening, without the need for additional reinforcement.

Ottawa River tunnel project secures funds
14 October, 2016
Canada - Ottawa and Ontario officials announced October 11 that more than CAD 232M (USD 175.5M) in government funding will go to the Combined Sewage Storage Tunnel (CSST) project.

Explosion prevention in coal mine TBM drifts
21 September, 2016
Since the first record of a colliery explosion in Belgium, nearly 300 years ago, significant improvements have been achieved in the prevention of explosions in mines. However, gas explosion hazards are not unique to coal mines but also occur in TBM projects with 48 explosion fatalities recorded worldwide calling for continued diligence and improvements in explosion risk management. Success of TBMs in civil engineering infrastructure in poor ground conditions resulted in consideration of its application to a coal mine in Queensland

Dust Buster
20 September, 2016
A new real-time dust monitor being trialled at the new Liverpool Street Crossrail station could help to reduce the respiratory risks of working in a tunnel. Keren Fallwell reports

Getting both sides
19 September, 2016
In mid-August the construction union UCATT issued a statement saying that Laing O’Rourke’s new safety policy ‘safety differently’ could erode the foundations of health and safety culture. It further argued that the company’s new director of health and safety for construction, Andy Sneddon, wants to impose detrimental views from Professor Sidney Dekker “who advocates sweeping away a lot of the detail in health and safety provision, and just concentrating on saving lives”. This, it said, neglected the impact of more minor workplace injuries on workers’ lives.

Troubled waters
13 July, 2016
The Tideway Tunnel, a major new sewer that will help tackle the problem of overfl ows from the capital's Victorian sewers, has caused controversy since its initial proposal. Rhian Owen looks at the lengthy site selection process that was undertaken and the scope of work that lies ahead to bring this project to completion.

Culture shift
11 July, 2016
A jobsite incident led subcontractor Joseph Gallagher to the conclusion that piggy-backing on customer behavioural health and safety schemes would no longer be suffi cient. Alex Conacher speaks to managing director Steve Harvey about the process the company went through to implement its ‘Living Incident Free Everyday’ (LIFE) scheme

Hawks nest disaster
11 July, 2016
Nayab Sultan, Doctoral researcher at Silicosis Research gives this insight into the Hawks Nest Incident, considered by some to be the worst industrial disaster in US history

Setting out exclusion zones
11 July, 2016
Following a tragedy on the Crossrail project, the British tunnelling industry has come together to produce a best practice guide on SCL exclusion zone management

Information overload
11 July, 2016
Ome 40 miles from Silicon Valley, Peter Hirshberg delivered a captivating presentation on infrastructure, innovation and the Maker City to the largest gathering of the tunnelling industry in history, as one of WTC’s keynote speakers.

Exclusion zone management guide
11 July, 2016
A reproduction of the recent Crossrail best practice guide for the management of SCL exclusion zones.

Achievements and Aspirations
08 June, 2016
Last month saw a changing of the guard at the BTS, with Roger Bridge handing the Chairman’s baton over to Mark Leggett. They spoke to Sally Spencer about achievements thus far and plans for the future

Government leads on strategy
08 June, 2016
Bill Grose calls for industry to keep up with government movements towards strategic infrastructure planning

Unsafe worksites take note
26 May, 2016
Construction insurance specialist Focus expects that new sentencing guidelines for England and Wales that came into force in February will have a significant impact on the industry’s safety record, workforce, employers and insurers. John Finch, Focus commercial director, gives this assessment

step up
16 May, 2016
The November 2015 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society was treated to a presentation on Abu Dhabi’s super sewer, the Strategic Tunnel Enhancement Project (STEP). The speakers were Shahzad H Orakzai, programme manager for the Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADSSC); Mirko Martini, technical manager for Salini- Impregilo; Carola Edvardsen, technical director for Cowi

Britain launches segmental lining code of practice
20 April, 2016
GREAT BRITAIN – A specification for the design of concrete segmental linings was launched in mid-April. The document, “Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 8810:2016 – Tunnel Design: Design of concrete segmental linings: Code of practice” was produced by the British Standards Institute (BSI) and lead technical author Arup.