Opinion - Page 3
Stay up to date with the latest opinion features from the global tunnelling industryFlicking through the articles in T&TI this month, shows to a certain extent the degree to which the tunnelling industry can cope with fresh challenges in adverse situations. Installing yielding...
I think it’s high time we as an industry took a long hard look at how we tout for trade, if indeed we do. Generally speaking, projects come up via a client’s need, whether it’s a transport...
Everybody wants to know why there are so few young people working in tunnelling these days. It’s a common talking point, and there are probably several key points, but here’s one of the main...
A couple of nights ago I got genuinely irritated. Actually, I was fuming. I was making conversation with a pretentious cretin who ‘works’ in the music industry and upon telling him what I did...
It feels a bit like Christmas here in the UK at the moment, not just because of the miserable freezing weather, but because after years of will they won’t they, the government has finally given...
To most, the expression “risk assessment” is associated with the likes of TBM selection or ground conditions, etc. It is therefore interesting to see that a recent audit into last year’s...
Oh dear, tunnelling is regarded as a far higher risk category than any other form of construction by the Public Private Partnership players, according to a recent survey by international credit...
The bulk of this month’s issue of T&TI is set aside for the recently awarded Harding Prize winner, and two runner up papers (for a full description of the competition see T&TI December ‘06,...
Geologists versus Engineers, it’s an age-old joking point in the underground construction industry. A geologist will tell you an engineer goes about his calculations by thinking of a number,...
With two articles this month on the investigations into Singapore’s MRT Circle Line and Australia’s Lane Cove road tunnel collapses, as well as further news from São Paulo Metro’s Line 4, focus...
First published in 1982, T&TI's “World Profile of Tunnelling Contractors & Consulting Engineers” has provided annual insight into tunnelling activity for nearly 25 years, and this year is no...
It’s hard to get away from the thorny issue of spent nuclear fuel disposal at the moment. Not that that’s a bad thing, it’s definitely not a subject we should be running away from or burying our...
There's been a couple of bits of much needed good news for the UK market this month. Firstly we see that the UK government has finally given the Hindhead Tunnel A3 improvement scheme the go...
This month T&TI focuses it’s attention on TBMs. One particular subject that seems to stand out in this broad topic is the increasing use of TBMs for the construction of long tunnels. With vast...
Welcome to T&TI’s yearly round up of ‘Machinery, Materials & Equipment’. We’ve been running this edition for many years now, and judging by the feedback we get, it’s a service worth continuing!...
Not wanting to be the bearer of bad news, but July has so far proved a case of 'another month, another tunnel disaster'. Just looking at the 'stop press' news on page 6 makes for some pretty...
The tunnelling industry’s certainly no exception when it comes to gossip. That’s why it is such a refreshing change when T&TI is welcomed on-site to help clear up some of the more un-founded...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel is arguably the most recognisable name in civil engineering in the world today. Quite an achievement for a man who was born two hundred years ago this month! He is also...
Safety first... A number of recent tragic events in the the mining and tunnelling industries have once again highlighted the potential dangers to worker safety in the underground construction sector.
After 14...
Another year ends... Well, another year has passed, and what a year it has been; representing some extreme highs and lows for the industry.
The beginning of the year saw SembCorp celebrating the impressive...
