Search Results: 'Lovat'

Negotiating the North Eastern Line
01 December, 2002
An underground journey in Singapore opened the new season of BTS meetings in London in September 2002, with a presentation from Peter Chiappa, area manager Asia Pacific, and Wolfgang Freitzsche, managing director, of Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG, detailing the demanding requirements, troublesome ground conditions and ultimate resounding success of Contract 704 on the State's new North Eastern Line (NEL) metro

Mixed messages for microtunnelling
01 October, 2002
Opportunities to exploit microtunnelling as an efficient form of utilities' and water infrastructure construction, have often been ignored in favour of cheaper, but often more disruptive methods. Amanda Foley, assistant editor, explores the industry's attitude to current market conditions and asks what the future holds

Small Bore & Pipe Jacking Products
06 August, 2002
The latest in small bore and pipe jacking products

Powering under London
13 June, 2002
For over a year, three Lovat EPBMs have been steadily boring a 20km long cable tunnel under north London. With the end of tunnelling in-sight Tris Thomas visited the site and talked to Jim Street, project manager for the client, National Grid Company, and contractor, J. Murphy & Sons divisional manager Peter Jaques and contracts manager George Jackson.

Conditioning the key to LA's EPB operation
05 May, 2002

Logging on for TBM productivity
01 April, 2002
A TBM production logging system proved an effective tool for site-based decision-making during construction of the Portsmouth Transfer Tunnel for the Portsmouth and Havant Wastewater Treatment Works & Sludge Recycling Scheme in the UK. Simon Stroud of Halliburton KBR described the system for the British Tunnelling Society's Harding Prize competition, on which this article is based.

Using hindsight at Hull
01 March, 2002
Shortly before completing the tunnelling works for the UK's Hull wastewater scheme, a collapse occurred near one of the shafts. In their presentation to the British Tunnelling Society on 22 November 2001, Steve Tindall of Yorkshire Water, Peter Chamley and Bill Grose of Arup and Colin Eddie of Morgan Est, presented the lessons learned from the investigation

Lubricating Lisbon's Yellow Line
01 March, 2002
Extensive research into earth pressure balance techniques helped minimise surface settlements and aided early completion on the Campo Grande to Ameixoeira section of the Yellow Line metro extension in Lisbon, Portugal. Dominique Moreau of Spie Batignoles TP, construction manager for the project, describes the work undertaken

Downunder 2002 on track
01 February, 2002
As reported in the January edition of T&TI, the ITA World Tunnel Congress will be hosted by the Australian Underground Construction and Tunnelling Association (AUCTA), a founder member of the ITA, in Sydney from 2-8 March 2002. Garry Ash of Walter Construction, president of the AUCTA, explains why the timing of this event is particularly relevant

Driving forces
11 January, 2002
In the past five years there has been a strong interest in the development of tunnels and underground space in Australia and in particular in Sydney writes David Lees of the Australian Underground Construction and Tunnelling Association

Rendezvous at Folkestone
02 January, 2002
The design and construction of the Folkestone interceptor tunnels was the subject of a paper submitted for the British Tunnelling Society's Harding Prize competition by Caroline Beirne of Mott MacDonald.