Search Results: 'ITA'

ITA Tunnelling Awards 2016
23 November, 2016
International - The winners of the ITA Tunnelling Awards were announced last month. The event, held in Singapore in November, recognised eight tunnelling projects and two individuals for outstanding industry achievement. The host nation managed to win considerable recognition in several categories.

Celestino sets strategy
18 November, 2016
The ITA has released this Q&A with new president Tarcisio Celestino

FRC segment practice
17 August, 2016
At WTC 2016 in San Francisco, ITA’s Working Group 2 - Research published a document entitled Twenty Years of FRC Tunnel Segments Practice: Lessons Learnt and Proposed Design Principles.

Information overload
11 July, 2016
Ome 40 miles from Silicon Valley, Peter Hirshberg delivered a captivating presentation on infrastructure, innovation and the Maker City to the largest gathering of the tunnelling industry in history, as one of WTC’s keynote speakers.

Achievements and Aspirations
08 June, 2016
Last month saw a changing of the guard at the BTS, with Roger Bridge handing the Chairman’s baton over to Mark Leggett. They spoke to Sally Spencer about achievements thus far and plans for the future

The Turkish bullet
26 May, 2016
Less than four years old, the Turkish Tunnelling Society represents a sizeable membership, serves a burgeoning industry, and has an active programme of events. Alex Conacher speaks to its chairman, Nuh Bilgin and fellow professor at the Istanbul Technical University, Cemal Balci

Mitigation not litigation
16 May, 2016
On August 21, 2013, amidst a crowd of proud team members, "Mackenzie", the 1,500- ton (1,361 metric tons) Herrenknecht TBM completed its journey and broke into Shaft 5 of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District's Euclid Creek Tunnel. Two years later the project is now in site-restoration and the NEORSD can reflect on what has become known as one of the most successful projects in their storied 43-year history. Michael Vitale of Hatch Mott MacDonald and Doug Gabriel of NEORSD report

WTC 2016
01 April, 2016
Registration is open for the worldwide tunnelling event of the year, with as many as 600 unique technical presentations, short courses and breakout sessions, and more than 200 exhibitors from around the world. Here’s a look at the highlights planned for this year’s conference and be sure to visit Tunnels & Tunnelling at Booth 1215 at this year’s WTC in San Francisco.

Think global act local
17 February, 2016
As the magazine went to press the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) released statistics about emerging demand for tunnelling as well as the need to bring young engineers into the industry. The report says between 2009 and 2013 the global tunnelling and drilling equipment industry reached a 4.9 per cent annual growth rate, which will likely be sustained through to 2018. Much of this is due to demand in Asia, which had nearly half the market share in 2014.

London bids for WTC 2019
29 January, 2016
GREAT BRITAIN – The British Tunnelling Society has formally announced its candidacy to host the World Tunnel Congress and ITA General Assembly in 2019. The capital London is the city put forward by the BTS steering committee for the bid in January 2016. The vote will take place at WTC 2016 in San Francisco this April.

Our best chance
22 January, 2016
THE TAIL end of 2015 saw an historic agreement to combat global carbon emissions. The hope is to keep global warming below a 2oC threshold (actually aiming for 1.5 oC) and in so doing save the planet. The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference Agreement, better known as the Paris Agreement, or COP 21, has been celebrated by pundits and politicians worldwide, despite some of the legally binding phrasing being edited out.

ITACOSUF call for safety officers
07 January, 2016
EUROPE – The Fourth European Forum of Road Tunnel Safety Officers has been set for 9 to 10 of March 2016 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The ITA Committee on Operational Safety of Underground Facilities (ITACOSUF), a co-organiser with the World Road Association (PIARC) and the European Commission has called for attendees.