Search Results: 'Balfour Beatty'

Rail rules for the Swiss
12 December, 2000
Felix Amberg spoke about the overall concept of the Alp base tunnels. Aspects of planning, design and construction were described. The presentation included a detailed appraisal of the 57km long Gotthard base tunnel.

BB buys Adtranz static rail
13 November, 2000

Lötschberg – Steg and Raron
14 October, 2000

AlpTransit's first major excavations
14 September, 2000
For years the AlpTransit link was being planned and discussed. Now, finally, it is happening

Balfour sale lifts profits
01 September, 2000

Underground movement
01 August, 2000
The Health and Safety Executive report on Heathrow tunnels' collapse is analysed by John Anderson, who was with HSE from 1970 to 1997. He is now a consultant civil engineer

Halcrow's MERIT
01 August, 2000

Third Alp tunnel let
01 August, 2000

Heathrow collapse was "organisational"
01 August, 2000

Learning from mistakes
01 August, 2000

JLE and the lessons from Heathrow
11 June, 2000
At the March meeting of the British Tunnelling Association, construction and redesigns of the Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) stations at London Bridge were described Taylor Woodrow's John Wallis and David Sharrocks, and at Waterloo and Westminster by Peter South of AMEC and Steve Parker of Balfour Beatty. Valuable lessons had been learnt from the Heathrow collapse.

Water through the Badlands
06 June, 2000
Seventeen million people in the 27 cities served by The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California consume a lot of water. The Riverside Badlands Tunnel is part of the MWD's Inland Feeder pipeline project, a vital water supply link to the recently completed Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir, which doubles the surface water storage capacity in the region. Daniel Tempelis, MWD's programme manager for the Inland Feeder Project, and John Townsend, Associate of Hatch Mott MacDonald , report on the $1.2bn development which will supply 1150M litre of water per day to the reservoir through a 70km of 3.65m diameter pipeline.

Lesotho trial date delayed
06 June, 2000

Jubilee Line Extension - Contract 102
30 March, 2000
Laura Smith of Balfour Beatty submitted a paper on Contract 102 of the Jubilee Line Extension in London - construction of the eastbound Westminster Station tunnel - for the 1999 British Tunnelling Society's Harding Prize for young engineers. She succeeded in becoming one of the runners up.

CTRL station bids
30 March, 2000

Lesotho trial date decided
25 February, 2000

Lötschberg contract award
25 January, 2000