Search Results: 'McAlpine'

Balfour wins Hindhead
15 October, 2002

Insuring an industry
01 October, 2002
As a result of some recent high-profile incidents within the industry, insurers have been increasingly concerned that tunnelling was becoming uninsurable in the market. A joint working party, between the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI), has since produced a draft Code of Practice that would allow insurers to continue to offer cover. Presentation of the draft Joint Code of Practice to BTS members took place on 4 July 2002, followed by an in-depth discussion

Running like clockwork
01 September, 2002
In 1896 Glasgow became the third city in the world after London and Budapest to build and underground transport system. Indeed, such was the public's excitement when Glasgow District Subway Company opened its new underground cable-traction railway that several people were injured and the line had to be closed for five weeks. Jim Shipway describes the original scheme together with a brief review of subsequent modifications