Search Results: 'BTS'

BTS D&C course
30 December, 2015
Alex Conacher attended the BTS Tunnel Design and Construction Course in June this year for a weeklong crash course in tunnelling

Innovation & technological advances in the design of segmental lining
18 November, 2015
A report on the September 2015 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society, where engineers from CH 2M and Ozengi spoke on the future of segmental lining. For the full paper, please see Tunnels and Tunnelling September 2015, page 31. Paul Perry, newly appointed to the BTS Committee, and in charge of meetings, reports

Predicting settlements from conventional tunneling
25 February, 2015
The Üsküdar – Ümraniye – Çekmeköy (UUc) project in istanbul, turkey is an extension to the metro on the asian side of the city, running 17km underneath a dense urban area. Some 8km of tunnels needed to be excavated through weak to medium strong sedimentary rock using conventional methods. In this article based on a paper presented at WTC Brazil, Sara Bech Padrosa and Nicola Della Valle of Tunnelconsult share some of the lessons learned from the settlement prediction methods employed.

We’ve never had it so good
30 January, 2015
Bill Grose reacts to the UK’s National Infrastructure Plan 2014 and chancellor’s autumn statement.