Search Results: 'British Tunnelling Society'

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.

Specification for tunnelling
15 October, 2000

No expense spared on underground Harrods
29 September, 2000

Snapshots of Scotland
01 July, 2000
Scotland's tunnels were the theme of a British Tunnelling Society informal dicussion on 13 April with a four part presentation. Chairman was David Donaldson.

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.

Singapore - past, present and future
30 March, 2000
Presentations on the large amount of tunnelling work undertaken in Singapore were given by Alan Finch, Mott MacDonald, UK, and Terry Hulme, consultant to the Land Transport Authority, Singapore, at the British Tunnelling Society in November 1999.