Search Results: 'Jacobs Associates'

Blue Plains Tunnel wins DRBF award
02 September, 2016
US – The Blue Plains Tunnel team was recently awarded the Excellence in Dispute Avoidance & Resolution Award for projects with a budget of USD 250M or greater, Traylor Bros. announced.

Hunt leads Cowi tunnel business
11 April, 2016
USA – Cowi North America announced two leadership changes on April 4 for its tunnelling business. Steven Hunt, currently president and CEO of Cowi North America will additionally occupy the role of senior vice president – tunnels on an interim basis.

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.

Bay Tunnel scoops award
15 February, 2016
USA – The Bay Tunnel project has been named the 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Region 9 Outstanding Water Project. The 8km-long, 4.6m id tunnel was brought into service in October 2014, well ahead of an original 2015 schedule.

Under the river
22 January, 2016
Tunnelling under the Fraser River in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, is no easy task. That is what the Port Mann Main Water Supply Tunnel project team has learned over the past three years. Stephanie Fekete and Andrew McGlenn of McMillen Jacobs Associates discuss the recent tunnel completion and summarise the demands that were required in order to make this drive successful