Search Results: 'Kawasaki Heavy Industries'

Heritage brand
31 October, 2016
A buoyed tunnelling industry and a number of domestic political gestures are restoring confidence in uK manufacturing. Davy Markham is one brand looking to increase its showing in the tunnelling industry. Alex Conacher reports

ESP filtration use and developments
08 February, 2012
Mountainous Japan was the first country to use electrostatic precipitators to filter tunnel air. Arnold Dix of the University of Western Sydney and Atsushi Katatani of Panasonic Ecology Systems give a history of the improvements and use of ESPs in Japanese tunnels

Technical tasks for Tokyo Bay crossing
22 October, 2007
Another tunnelled crossing of Japan’s Tokyo Bay has advanced further the technical possibilities of long undersea tunnel excavation. Tomoaki Takeuchi, group managing engineer of the Construction Department of Tokyo Electric Power Company explains

Excavation Products
01 August, 2003
The latest excavation products

Winning in China
01 November, 2002
While foreign construction companies have widely been able to work in China since 1994, the country's recent membership to the World Trade Organisation coupled with a new national tendering law, is making the process far easier. Keith Wallis examines the current state of the Chinese tunnelling industry and explores recent contract awards and future opportunities for international tunnelling companies

Cutting edge
13 November, 2000
The first large scale version of the DPLEX eccentric head TBM is being proved on a major project in Japan, reports Susumu Uchiyama, of the tunnelling equipment engineering department of Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

Japanese and Dutch consolidate
01 December, 1999

Exotic TBMs
16 September, 1999
The meeting of the BTS on May 20 took place in London at the ICE and was devoted to a paper by Yasunori Kondo of Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan.