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Mouchel appoints new director
27 November, 2015
GREAT BRITAIN – Mouchel has appointed Richard Crossley as its senior technical director for transport planning. Crossley joins from WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff where he led transportation planning services in the Middle East. Crossley brings with him over 40 years of experience within the transportation consultancy sector, including six years with the Department of Transport.

A perfect storm
30 October, 2015
The UK pipe jacking industry is in a sharp, albeit brief slump. Several factors have come together to make what was supposed to be an end to the rollercoaster of water work, into a complete halt in activity. Alex Conacher reports.

Frozen fight
24 April, 2015
Over the last four years, McMillen Jacobs Associates has designed retro_ t, replacement, or new icing shields for four railroad tunnels in the US. Joe Schrank, Heather Stewart and Gerry Millar all of McMillen Jacobs Associates, explain the installations.

Argentine Shaft Saviour
24 March, 2015
Tunnelling work for a water treatment project in northern Buenos Aires required shaft excavation in soft, sandy silt. When leaking joints hampered progress, the contractor chose to pursue groundfreezing, a possible first use in South America. Joseph Sopko and Robert Chamberland of Moretrench give this report

Predicting settlements from conventional tunneling
25 February, 2015
The Üsküdar – Ümraniye – Çekmeköy (UUc) project in istanbul, turkey is an extension to the metro on the asian side of the city, running 17km underneath a dense urban area. Some 8km of tunnels needed to be excavated through weak to medium strong sedimentary rock using conventional methods. In this article based on a paper presented at WTC Brazil, Sara Bech Padrosa and Nicola Della Valle of Tunnelconsult share some of the lessons learned from the settlement prediction methods employed.

We’ve never had it so good
30 January, 2015
Bill Grose reacts to the UK’s National Infrastructure Plan 2014 and chancellor’s autumn statement.

Are we there yet?
29 January, 2015
Moving materials to a jobsite in the centre of a major city or hauling TBM components up steep mountainous routes has its challenges, which can affect a project’s cost and timescale. Rhian Owen investigates the increasing importance of an effective logistics system from the beginning.