Search Results: 'Arup '

Crossing the Capital
12 December, 2007
Crossrail has a very long history, with the idea for an east-west rail route across London first mooted by Brunel in 1840. After this all was quiet until 1974, when the London Rail Study took place; it was at this time that Ken Livingstone (now Mayor of London) started campaigning for a cross London railway. Many people have been involved in the project over the last 30 years.

Dragages-Nishimatsu tipped for HK job
10 December, 2007

Looking at logistics: transport techniques
10 November, 2007
As the tunnelling industry moves forward, transport logistics play an ever-increasing role in project success. Deputy editor, Amanda Foley, reports

Delivering the DLR Extension
10 November, 2007
At September’s British Tunnelling Society meeting, Harvey Pownall, general manager of concession company WARE, Andy Allder, lead designer for Halcrow, and Dalgit Dhanda project manager for Morgan Est (formerly Amec) presented the contractual, design and construction challenges on London’s Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Woolwich Arsenal Extension

HK drainage trio lined up for ‘08
03 July, 2007

Model challenges in Asia
26 June, 2007
Harding Prize runner up Nathan Wilmot, of Arup, describes recent modelling of challenging tunnelling soil-structure interaction problems in Asia

The 2nd Avenue cavern plan
26 June, 2007
Hannes Lagger, Associate, Arup was a Harding Prize runner up with this detailed description of the cavern station design on New York’s Second Avenue Subway project

Cleaning up Limerick
15 March, 2007
Russell Naylor, engineers representative for Limerick City Council, Ken McIntyre, of J Barry & Partners, and Peter Jacques, divisional manager tunnelling for J Murphy & Sons, gave a presentation to the British Tunnelling Society in January about the complex works for Ireland’s Main Drainage Scheme in Limerick

Factors in the Nicoll Highway Collapse
19 February, 2007
The Nicoll Highway collapse, in Singapore, rocked the tunnelling industry. Richard Davies, of Benaim (UK) Ltd, described the events that led to the incident

THE Tunnel moves ahead
19 February, 2007

Skanska JV for 2nd Ave Subway tunnels
19 February, 2007