Search Results: 'ICE'

Divik Bandopadhyaya Interview
30 December, 2021
Aged 27, Divik Bandopadhyaya has just completed a one-year stint as chair of BTSYM. He discusses his education, interests and career to date, offering along the way some advice to newly-qualified tunnel engineers. George Demetri reports

Closed form elastic and plastic analysis methods Part 1
29 December, 2021
In the first of two articles, Stephen Doran sets out the historical development of some common closed-form analytical methods and discusses the limitations of their use

Harding prize gains momentum for 2022
28 December, 2021
Young tunnel engineers can raise their profile and make their work visible to the civil engineering community by entering the Harding Prize, named after the founder chairman of the Society, Sir Harold Harding

BTS launches Harding prize for 2022
29 November, 2021
Young tunnel engineers can raise their profile and make their work visible to the civil engineering community by entering the Harding Prize, named after the founder chairman of the Society, Sir Harold Harding

Shafts and caissons
29 October, 2021
Andrew Smith, retired estimating and technical consultant formerly with Joseph Gallagher Ltd looks at the construction of shafts and caissons using precast segmental linings, together with the use of sprayed concrete lining in shaft sinking operations

In-person BTS lectures to resume this month
14 October, 2021
Following 18 months of unprecedented living and working under a cruel pandemic, a sense of normality is gradually returning as the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) resumes its highly-acclaimed in-person lectures at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), London.

Hinkley Point C tunnels win ICE South West award
05 October, 2021
At a gala ceremony for the ICE South West Civil Engineering Awards held in Bristol, England on 30 September, Hinkley Point C Marine Works–Tunnels won the Project over £8m New Build Award.

ICE president launches follow-up film on infrastructure and climate change
30 September, 2021
With less than a month to go before her one-year term ends as the 156th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Rachael Skinner has announced the launch of her second film about acting on climate change.

NATM through challenging fault zones
07 September, 2021
Ryo Kashiwagi of Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT) discusses the challenges from tunnelling the double-track Shinkansen railway which is close to an existing highway tunnel in an extremely soft fault crush zone

ICE to create new breed of engineer
06 July, 2021
In a bid to broaden and diversify its professional membership, and to reflect the changing needs of society, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is to create a new qualification title – the Chartered Infrastructure Engineer.

Seeing the invisible
18 June, 2021
Dr Andrius Rimsa, Loxus Consulting and Mikko Simola of Loxus 3D Tunnel inspections discuss the inspection and maintenance of flooded rock tunnels using ROVs with 3D sonar

First breakthrough celebrated on Bikos Tunnel
03 June, 2021
Marti Tunnel subsidiary Tucon has broken through on the 1.1km-long west tube of the Bikos Tunnel which forms part of Slovakia’s R4 expressway currently under construction.

Band of brothers or distant cousins?
30 April, 2021
Martin Knights FREng, former ITA President, compares the functions and fortunes over the past 50-odd years of the British Tunnelling Society and the International Tunnelling Association

Collaboration, communication and competence updated
25 March, 2021
The following article by Bob Ibell, founder and director of London Bridge Associates, is based on a past Harding Lecture and has been updated by the author in celebration of the BTS 50th Anniversary

Tales of tunnelling
23 March, 2021
The British Tunnelling Society was inaugurated exactly 50 years ago. Julian Champkin talked to its members about the society and its immense contribution to tunnelling

Here’s to another 50 years
23 March, 2021
In my current capacity as chairman of the Tunnels and Tunnelling Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), I was pleased to be asked by the Editor George Demetri to write this comment on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS).

Time running out to enter ICE London Awards
25 February, 2021
London’s premier showcase for engineering excellence in the capital, the ICE London Civil Engineering Awards will soon close for entries as the deadline of 1 March fast approaches.

BTS unveils a new website
19 February, 2021
To complement its 50th anniversary celebrations, the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) has launched a new website to reflect the growing diversity of knowledge and services which it offers to BTS members and others interested in tunnelling.

Mott MacDonald appointed to Cambridgeshire metro scheme
11 January, 2021
Infrastructure provider Mott MacDonald is one of three suppliers chosen by Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority to help develop conceptual designs for the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM).

BTS urges tunnel engineers to enter Harding Prize
07 January, 2021
Entries for the 2021 Harding Prize are now being sought by The British Tunnelling Society (BTS). The competition is open to all young tunnel engineers who, at the end of 2020, were aged 33 or under. The closing date for submissions is 26 February 2021.