Search Results: 'BTS'

UK to celebrate second National Tunnelling Day
22 November, 2016
Great Britain - The BTS is preparing for the second UK National Tunnelling Day. Spearheaded by the society’s young members group, the event aims to “generate interest in the great number of world class tunnelling projects currently being undertaken in the UK and to promote the industry (and its many professions) to students of all ages and the general public”.

New to deliver Harding Memorial Lecture
25 October, 2016
Great Britain - Barry New is to deliver the Harding Memorial Lecture at 6pm on 19 January at the ICE in London. An associate for the Geotechnical Consulting Group, New has chosen to address tunnelling impact assessments for existing utility pipelines and tunnel assets.

BTS invites members to soirée
09 September, 2016
Great Britain - The British Tunnelling Society will throw a soirée for members at the end of September. The Tunnellers’ Soirée, to be held on 30 September from 6.30pm to midnight at the picturesque Theobald’s Park in north London will include a drinks reception, three course buffet dinner and entertainment by the Odyssey Blues and Soul Band. The dress code is smart casual.

BTS Christmas debate
09 June, 2016
In December 2015 the British Tunnelling Society met to debate the assertion: "This house believes further development of SCL for complex urban tunnels is the best way forward for our industry”. The rapporteur is Paul Perry of Donaldson Associates

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

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.

Caisson and shaft construction
14 March, 2016
Andrew Smith, contracts director for Joseph Gallagher, deals with the construction of shafts and caissons using precast segmental linings together with the use of SCL in shaft sinking operations. Commentary is also given on design considerations for the construction of such structures.

Read, learn, think
14 March, 2016
After several requests from British engineers, Tunnels and Tunnelling speaks with Bob Ibell, chairman of London Bridge Associates about his career and the unusual set up of his current company, which was formed to escape the whims of corporate decision-makers, and secure work across the project life cycle.

Keep on running
14 March, 2016
The October 2015 meeting of the British Tunnelling society also saw a presentation by David Holland of Mabey and Kim West of Arup on works relating to the canning town Flyover for Crossrail’s contract c305.

It’s warmer down below
14 March, 2016
Paul Perry reviews Sir Harold Harding's autobiography: ‘It’s warmer down below’, edited by Amanda Davey.

London bids for WTC 2019
29 January, 2016
GREAT BRITAIN – The British Tunnelling Society has formally announced its candidacy to host the World Tunnel Congress and ITA General Assembly in 2019. The capital London is the city put forward by the BTS steering committee for the bid in January 2016. The vote will take place at WTC 2016 in San Francisco this April.