Search Results: 'ICE'

Past innovation on the historic Kilsby Tunnel
01 July, 2004
Dr M O'Reilly relives the construction of the UK's historic Kilsby Tunnel, completed in June 1838. Significant in the history of civil engineering, the tunnel represented the first major application of groundwater lowering by pumping, and helped to establish renowned UK engineer, Robert Stephenson's, reputation

Missing link study
01 June, 2004

TBM development at the Weser Tunnel
01 March, 2004
Boring the 1.6km long twin-tube Weser Tunnel in northern Germany proved an exacting task for the construction team. The alignment's geology and hydrogeology pushed Mixshield TBM technology to, and beyond, its limits. Claus Wirtz of the construction JV leader, Hochtief, explains the project's challenges and how they were overcome

Shotcrete extremes at Kárahnjúkar
01 March, 2004

Ground freeze remedy at Hull
01 February, 2004
During the construction of a 3.6m i.d. flow transfer tunnel in Hull, UK, a 100m length of completed tunnel collapsed. In her Harding Prize finalist paper, Sarah Munks, former tunnel engineer for Ove Arup and Partners, describes the incident and the artificial ground freezing employed, which permitted the reconstruction of the tunnel along its original alignment