Search Results: 'British Tunnelling Society'

Tunnels Awards 2013 launched!
13 December, 2012
Entries are now being accepted for the Tunnels Awards 2013. The biennial awards were re-launched in 2011 to champion the industry’s best and most impressive recoveries.

Sasago tunnel fire and failure
03 December, 2012
Nine people died following a tunnel ‘collapse’ in Japan. The Sasago road tunnel, 80km west of Tokyo suffered a fall of concrete following a fire on Sunday. The collapse occurred at 08:00 local time.

BTSYM conference a resounding success
22 November, 2012
The British Tunnelling Society Young Members (BTSYM) hosted their first conference last month. The International Conference for Young Engineers played out to a packed auditorium and audio-linked overflow room at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in London, UK. The given purpose of the conference was to educate young tunnel engineers, and to expose university students to the profession.

An art for humble men
19 October, 2012
Tunnels revisits the traditional methods. Hand mining and its health and safety related concerns are well known, while the traditional soft ground timber supports are increasingly forgotten, as the old methods get pushed aside by the march of mechanisation. Alex Conacher reports

Getting the girls
15 October, 2012
Autumn is upon us, the morning rush hour is once again full of SUVs on the school run and summer researchers are beginning to report back their ¬findings. The most outstanding of which is the revelation that nearly half of England’s state schools do not send any girls on to study physics at a higher level.

New boss for BTS
25 May, 2012
The chief tunnel engineer at Donaldson Associates has been appointed chairman of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) at the association’s annual general meeting on 17 May 2012.

Talking tunnels
16 April, 2012
In ‘his’ first appearance for some years Drifter, the old T&T favourite, returns on page 58 to urge tunnellers to be more talkative. He calls for everyone to become more vocal in his or her support of the industry and in educating others on the importance of underground infrastructure. In a similar vein, the incoming and outgoing chairs of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) argue the importance of raising tunnelling awareness with politicians and clients. Damian McGirr and Bob Ibell argue that a steady future workload can be achieved by ensuring each city planner has the use of underground space firmly on the agenda. McGirr says the BTS will be central in making this happen.