Search Results: 'British Tunnelling Society'

The GBR in underground construction
01 November, 2004
This years joint September meeting of the British Tunnelling Society and the British Geotechnical Association was presented by Randall J Essex, executive vice president and director of tunnelling at Hatch Mott MacDonald, US. The presentation introduced the US experience in the use of a Geotechnical Baseline Report (GBR) as a prime contract document for underground works

A targeted approach to segment design
01 October, 2004
Nick Blayney, special projects director for Romtech Ltd, discusses the use of steel rebar reinforcement in pre-cast concrete tunnel segments and addresses the added benefits of its ability to target reinforcement where it is most effective

A helping hand
01 October, 2004

Safety across the Mersey
01 September, 2004
The June 2004 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society was an account of the safety upgrade of the Mersey Tunnels in Merseyside, in the UK's north west, and was presented by Peter Arch of Mersey Tunnels, Mark Leggett of Mott MacDonald and Frank Rogers of AMCO Donelon

Back-to-back quality!
01 September, 2004

And 15 years ago
01 July, 2004

Geotechnical Baseline Reports revisited
01 July, 2004
The recent Geotechnical Baseline Report workshop, held at the NAT '04 conference, in Atlanta, provided a forum for the analysis and debate of GBRs within the underground construction industry. Randall J Essex, director of tunneling for Hatch Mott MacDonald and Bart Bartholomew of S H Bartholomew Inc. re-live the discussion and present some of the conclusions reached

A Swiss tunnelling experience
01 May, 2004
The March 2004 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society provided an update on the Steg-Raron contract for the Lötschberg Tunnel in Switzerland, presented by David Darcy of Balfour Beatty and Willi Gmür of Gmür Baumanagement, Balfour Beatty's representative in Switzerland

The 'art' of tunnelling – A challenge or an excuse?
01 May, 2004

A problem shared...
01 May, 2004

Forming the French connection - A86
01 March, 2004
Arnaud Verdier, Pierre Boutigny and Bill Welburn of Vinci Construction and Dr Martin Herrenknecht of Herrenknecht AG gave a presentation to the British Tunnelling Society this January on the A86 tunnel, focusing on TBM selection, the tunnel fire in March 2002 and the TBM drive under a busy railway

Sinkholes in Singapore
01 February, 2004
The December 2003 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society, at the Institute of Civil Engineers, London, hosted an interesting discussion entitled "Settlements and Sinkholes in Singapore", presented by Nick Shirlaw, technical advisor to the Land Transport Authority of Singapore

Implications of The Code of Practice
01 February, 2004

Deadline looms for 2004 Awards
01 January, 2004