Search Results: 'Long Island Rail Road'

Determination to overcome difficulties
01 August, 2000
No stranger to meeting difficulties the tunnelling industry was presented with plenty during the past year.

Breakthrough in the Philippines - part 1
06 June, 2000
For shear tenacity, professionalism and outstanding skills in mechanised tunnelling, engineers in the industry need look no further than GLF/SELI's performance on the Umiray-Angat Transbasin Tunnel in the Philippines. Dr. Ian McFeat-Smith, of the IMS Tunnel Consultancy reviews the joint venture's performance on this challenging project.

1999 – the year reviewed
06 June, 2000
Nineteen-ninety-nine was a mixed year for underground construction in the United States. Susan Nelson, Executive Director, American Underground Construction Association, looks back

Tunnelling in the Nordic region
05 May, 2000
A large number of underground projects for varying purposes are being constructed and planned in the Nordic region. Most are related to improvements in the infrastructure and, in addition to practical requirements, are often chosen for either environmental or political reasons.

All systems go in Singapore
30 March, 2000
Traditionally, the underground construction industry in Singapore has been more concerned with the successful delivery of infrastructure projects than blowing its own trumpet. However, with the volume of investment now under way in this small island state and a rolling programme of schemes earmarked for the next three decades, there is huge interest in the tunnelling market here. Editor Steve McCormack was invited by the Land Transport Authority to visit key contracts in progress.

Singapore - past, present and future
30 March, 2000
Presentations on the large amount of tunnelling work undertaken in Singapore were given by Alan Finch, Mott MacDonald, UK, and Terry Hulme, consultant to the Land Transport Authority, Singapore, at the British Tunnelling Society in November 1999.