Search Results: 'British Tunnelling Society'

Living the ambition - London's Crossrail
01 December, 2003
In November 2003 a presentation by Keith Berryman, Gordon Torp-Petersen, Mark Leggett and Simon Blanchflower of Cross London Rail Links, was given to members of the British Tunnelling Society regarding the ongoing development of London's Crossrail project

Risk management – a practical view
01 December, 2003
David Lane, director of UK firm, ESTFELD Consulting, discusses the key issues of risk management and suggests some simple ways of improving everyday management of risk without going to large expense

ABI/BTS Code published
01 October, 2003

A two way street...
01 October, 2003

ABI/BTS Joint Code of Practice published
01 October, 2003

Box jacking under the M1
01 September, 2003
Jacked box tunnelling was used for the first time under a live motorway in the UK at Junction 15A on the M1 Motorway, when a vehicular underbridge, 14m wide, 8.5m high by 45m long was installed with 1.6m of cover to the motorway. On the 19 June British Tunnelling Society members were privy to a detailed explanation of the project

London boom sets the scene for UC'03
01 September, 2003
Underground Construction 2003 is due to be held on the 24-25 September at the ExCeL conference and exhibition centre in London's docklands. At a time when tunnelling activity in London is at its peak, this year's event is set to outstrip the success of its predecessors

Easing the way - soil conditioning
01 June, 2003
On 20thMarch the British Tunnelling Society heard brief results of research on soil conditioning and lubrication for tunnelling and pipe jacking applications. These research programmes, at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, are directed by Professor Guy Houlsby and Professor Robert Mair respectively. Xavier Borghi and Andrew Merritt from Cambridge and Miguel Peña from Oxford presented summaries of their work

Tunnelling Industry Awards 2003
01 June, 2003

Second Avenue up for suggestion
01 June, 2003

2003 Tunnelling Industry Awards winners announced
16 May, 2003

Harding prize award
01 May, 2003

Fee bidding prevents 'strength in depth'
01 May, 2003

Harnessing the industry's potential
01 April, 2003
André Assis, president of the International Tunnelling Association, recently took time out of a hectic schedule to talk to T&TI editor, Tris Thomas about his views on the current state and future challenges of both the ITA and the tunnelling industry

UK EPBM collapse comparisons
01 March, 2003
The British Tunnelling Society's 'Closed Face Working Party' was set up specifically to study collapses on two recent UK TBM tunnelling projects; one at Hull and the other at Portsmouth. Here, T&TI publishes the results and recommendations that the group have put together to aid similar projects

Long-term game plan
01 March, 2003