Search Results: 'BTS'

An art for humble men
19 October, 2012
Tunnels revisits the traditional methods. Hand mining and its health and safety related concerns are well known, while the traditional soft ground timber supports are increasingly forgotten, as the old methods get pushed aside by the march of mechanisation. Alex Conacher reports

Brenner behemoth
31 August, 2012
Professor Konrad Bergmeister, CEO of the Brenner Base Tunnel Company presented the project to the May BTS meeting

New compressed air guidelines
10 July, 2012
The March BTS meeting marked the launch of the joint ITA and BTS guidelines for good working practice in high-pressure compressed air (HPCA). BTS input had been through its Compressed Air Working Group. Donald Lamont, principal author of the document, summarised the guidelines. Werner Burger, chief design engineer for Herrenknecht spoke on the problems of HPCA for a manufacturer. Tony Ridley of Tony Ridley Hyperbaric Associates outlined UK experience with HPCA. And Claus Mayer, managing director of Nordseetaucher gave an account of his experiences with HPCA

Ingula slant
09 July, 2012
Ingula pumped storage scheme is one of Africa’s larger tunnelling projects and underground works are in their final stages, reports technical journalist Patrick Reynolds

Chile mine rescue
17 May, 2012
In 2010 the world was gripped by an unfolding drama as tense as the Apollo 13 crisis of some 40 years earlier. This time the story was much closer to home in Chile, though, as it turned out, the challenges proved at least as great to resolve and no less remote. At February’s joint meeting between the BTS and Minsouth, mine rescue expert Brian Robinson gave a presentation on the rescue operation and its implications for past, present and future underground works

Tunnelling induced settlements in London clay
20 April, 2012
Robert Mair of Cambridge University, Jamie Standing of Imperial College and Keith Bowers of London Underground presented three papers on the effects of settlement in London Clay at a joint meeting of the BTS and British Geotechnical Association in January

Present and future state of UK tunneling
16 April, 2012
Outgoing chair of the BTS Bob Ibell looks at the recent achievements of the UK tunnelling industry and the current state of works