Search Results: 'Jacobs Associates'

Future Planning
23 October, 2012
The procurement process for the Ottawa Light Rail project will finish this autumn. With a 2.5km tunnel planned for the city’s core, Nicole Robinson looks at what the city envisions and what the ground may hold for the future

Advance below the bay
24 May, 2012
The EPBM cutting below the San Francisco Bay is smashing advance rate expectations as the team battle with environmental limitations and brace for tougher ground. Rhian Owen reports

Lakeside risk
08 February, 2012
Challenging soil combined with strict deadline requirements to spur the City of Portland in Oregon, US, to award a non-standard contract. Construction on the much needed sewer relief project completed late last year as Nicole Robinson reports from site

Out with the old and in with the NIT
06 February, 2012
Keeping the water flowing is the soul objective of the New Irvington Tunnel as the old struggles against the constant threat of a major earthquake. Nicole Robinson was on site in San Francisco to see the roadheader excavating the 3.5 mile (5.6km) of tough and changing geology drive