Search Results: 'ITA'

Crossing the Capital
12 December, 2007
Crossrail has a very long history, with the idea for an east-west rail route across London first mooted by Brunel in 1840. After this all was quiet until 1974, when the London Rail Study took place; it was at this time that Ken Livingstone (now Mayor of London) started campaigning for a cross London railway. Many people have been involved in the project over the last 30 years.

Predicting TBM excavability
03 September, 2007
Z T Bieniawski, of Bieniawski Design Enterprises, and Benjamín Celada and José Miguel Galera, both of Geocontrol SA, Spain, discuss the latest data for the newly introduced Rock Mass Excavability (RME) index for the prediction of TBM advance rates

ITA
26 June, 2007

Chasing down risk
15 June, 2007
Despite progress in risk sharing, a survey of PPP players cites tunnelling as an inherently risky asset class. Can a stronger culture of engineering leadership narrow the gap in perception? Report by Patrick Reynolds

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

Ground freezing to help heat Vienna
15 February, 2007
Ing. Norbert Hörlein, of PORR Tunnelbau, describes a new method of ground freezing developed to minimise TBM damage