Search Results: 'International Tunnelling Association'

Dr Donald Lamont Interview
29 December, 2022
Highly respected and globally known, Dr Donald Lamont has for decades helped to lead the charge on health and safety in underground environments and working. He talks to Julian Champkin.

Leadership vision for a path toward sustainability
24 November, 2022
Shortly before his recent election as President of International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES), Prof Arnold Dix, a global expert in tunnel sector contractual arrangements, told T&T about his vision for how the international tunneling industry can accelerate its practical pursuit of sustainability – by being armed with new, tailored-made measurement tools and introducing a ‘non-dispute’ option in contract law

25 years of BTS/ICE specification for tunneling
21 November, 2022
The 4th Edition – Collaborating for sustainability

BIM for bored tunnels
31 October, 2022
ITA’s Working Group 22 has published a guide to talk about BIM and its use for bored tunnel projects

Spotlight on Austrian Alpine Tunnelling
31 October, 2022
The 13th Austrian Tunnel Day and 71st Geomechanics Colloquium takes place in October in Salzburg.

A Look Beyond Only Physical: Virtual Master Rings
31 October, 2022
Florian Werres of VMT describes a digital approach to achieving the assurance of segmental quality for bored tunnels without always physically erecting master rings.

Spotlight: ITA guide on shafts
26 September, 2022
ITA’s Working Group 23 produced a guide on definitions and classifications of terms in shaft design and construction

Set for WTC 2022 – and sustainability
30 August, 2022
The ITA’s World Tunnelling Congress takes place in Copenhagen, hosted by the Danish Society for Tunnels and Underground Works (DFTU). A key theme for the gathering is getting practical on sustainability

Veronika Petschen – Interview
03 August, 2022
SCAUT, the Swiss Centre of Applied Underground Technology, is pioneering new methods and uses for underground spaces. Veronika Petschen is its newly-appointed managing director. She spoke to Julian Champkin to explain her vision for SCAUT and for future uses of the ground beneath our feet

Research to reduce carbon in SCL
03 August, 2022
Research recently complete on low carbon sprayed concrete (LCSC), including work for HS2,is summarised by participants Chris Peaston of Peaston Concrete Consultancy, Chris Goodier, Sergio Cavalaro and Zhi Hu of Loughborough University, Michael Sataya of Arup, Stuart Manning of Shotcrete Services, and John Reddy of Ecocem

Jinxiu Yan – Interview
24 June, 2022
The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) is the organisation that represents the tunnelling industry to the world. Its president since 2019 has been Jinxiu Yan. Here she speaks to Julian Champkin about her background, her role and her hopes for the ITA

Notes on compressed air working – Part 2
22 April, 2022
Following on from his Part 1 article which appeared in the March 2022 issue of T&T, Stephen Doran concludes his discussion of hyperbaric interventions by looking at three major international projects on which they were deployed

Ivor Thomas Interview
21 February, 2022
Past BTS Chair Ivor Thomas has spent a lifetime in civil engineering construction. He spoke to Julian Champkin about the past and future of tunnelling, the need to enthuse the public – and the exciting challenges that the new generation of tunnellers will face

Tunnelling and General Construction Impacts on Utility Pipelines
21 February, 2022
Dr Cheong Kin Gary Choy and Dr Barry New (both of Geotechnical Consulting Group, UK) provide a broad guide and structure to assess the impacts on utility pipelines from various tunnelling and construction activities