Search Results: 'British Tunnelling Society'

Natural resources
14 December, 2007

Delivering the DLR Extension
10 November, 2007
At September’s British Tunnelling Society meeting, Harvey Pownall, general manager of concession company WARE, Andy Allder, lead designer for Halcrow, and Dalgit Dhanda project manager for Morgan Est (formerly Amec) presented the contractual, design and construction challenges on London’s Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Woolwich Arsenal Extension

Slurry tunnelling in South Africa
04 September, 2007
At the June meeting of the British Tunnelling Society, a presentation was given by Andrew Officer, of Goba (Pty) Ltd, and Andrew Hindmarch, of Mott MacDonald, on the design and construction of the Durban Harbour Tunnel, in South Africa.

Cooling the Tube
26 July, 2007
At the May British Tunnelling Society meeting, David Waboso, LUL, and Mark Gilbey, Parsons Brinckerhoff, explained the serious problem London Underground has with heat on the platforms and stations. It is seen as critical that this is relieved as soon as possible and the presenters put forward some of the mitigation ideas that are on the table

HSE restrictions on hand tunnelling
26 July, 2007
Andrew Marshall, secretary of the UK’s Pipe Jacking Association, reviews new HSE guidelines for pipe jacking and their effect on the use of the technique

More effort needed...
26 June, 2007

Design of the UK's Hindhead tunnel
20 June, 2007
Tom Ireland, Mott MacDonald, describes the intricacies of one of the UK’s premier upcoming tunnelling projects

Hyperbaric health & safety
10 May, 2007
Technical journalist Maurice Jones checks on current accepted compressed air procedures, and why technology transfer and development is still an important course of action

Monster tunnelling at Glendoe
16 April, 2007
At the March British Tunnelling Society meeting, members from the client, consultant and contractor gave an exhaustive presentation on one of the UK’s largest tunnelling projects

Cleaning up Limerick
15 March, 2007
Russell Naylor, engineers representative for Limerick City Council, Ken McIntyre, of J Barry & Partners, and Peter Jacques, divisional manager tunnelling for J Murphy & Sons, gave a presentation to the British Tunnelling Society in January about the complex works for Ireland’s Main Drainage Scheme in Limerick

Leading role
19 February, 2007
T&TI editor, Tris Thomas, recently spoke to Martin Knights, current ITA vice-President, about his candidacy for the role of ITA President in 2007

Factors in the Nicoll Highway Collapse
19 February, 2007
The Nicoll Highway collapse, in Singapore, rocked the tunnelling industry. Richard Davies, of Benaim (UK) Ltd, described the events that led to the incident