Next BTS Lecture not to be missed

19 January 2021


Lok Home, president of US-based TBM maker The Robbins Company will give the next British Tunnelling Society (BTS) lecture to take place online (via YouTube) on 21 January 2021 at 18.00 (UK time).

Under the title ‘Three great challenges: experiences from TBM tunnelling’, Home will discuss three of the most challenging projects in recent memory: the 43.5km-long AMR Water Tunnel and the geologically diverse Sleemanabad Carrier Canal (both in India), and China’s Yin Han Ji Wei project undertaken in challenging rock-bursting conditions.

Home will highlight the realities of boring through the earth, when even extensive geotechnical baseline reports can miss fault lines, water inflows, squeezing ground, mixed-face conditions, rock bursting and other geological challenges. That reality is compounded when tunnels are extremely long, in remote locations or under high cover.

As the lecture and Q&A will be broadcast live on YouTube, attendees will have the opportunity to pose questions during the event via the comments section of the platform.

A detailed transcript of the lecture will feature in a forthcoming issue of Tunnels and Tunnelling International.

For more information contact societyevents@ice.org.uk