Search Results: 'Miller'

HS2 achieves first diesel-free site
13 May, 2022
HS2 has announced its first completely diesel-free site on the high-speed rail construction project.

Tunnelling the Thames
29 October, 2021
Sagar Sheth, Principal Tunnelling Engineer, and Richard Miller, Head of Tunnelling, both of Ramboll UK, describe the design checks and assurance services, risk and stakeholder management they provided during the construction of Tideway

The dirty “p” word
27 June, 2018
Cities aren’t built by engineers, they are built by those who step up and lead,” according to Sevaun Palvetzian CEO of Civic Action, a Toronto based non-profi t coalition to address the region’s social and economic future. Her sentiment, while true, is aimed at building inclusive leadership at the civic level, an effort that is laudable. However, it’s also a message the industry should take personally. More people from the engineering and construction fi elds, as well as science, medicine and other professional realms, need to be involved in politics at all levels from the local school board to the federal government.

Marathon machine
10 January, 2017
Only one TBM is excavating the whole of the 45km DigIndy tunnel system. Robbins technical writer, Desiree Willis, explains how this refurbished machine will be up to the task and what it means for future projects of this size

First sections of Custom House station arrive in east London
17 March, 2014
Crossrail has received the first sections of Custom House station from an East Midlands factory, the company announced recently.

Major works carried out to Victorian rail tunnel for Crossrail
10 May, 2013
A hole has been drilled in the exposed crown of the Connaught Tunnel, which runs beneath the Royal Victoria Dock, following work to drain 13 million litres of water from a section of the docks that lie above, Crossrail announced recently.

Crossrail planning dock breakout
16 July, 2012
When Crossrail took over the ancient Connaught Tunnel as part of its route through east London, it was envisaged that it would be brought up to standard with a fill and re-excavate procedure, but further site investigations led to concerns that will now be tackled by open excavation through the Royal Docks

Connaught cofferdams
10 February, 2012

The urban job
19 August, 2011
Andy Miller and Steve Woodrow of AECOM, and Marco Boscardin of Boscardin Consulting explain the tunnelling and engineering challenges of extending Pittsburgh’s light rail system under the Allegheny River and through the city’s North Shore area

‘Tommy’ Talbott, as he was known
29 July, 2011

Connaught phoenix for Crossrail
15 June, 2011
Crossrail has been revealing the Connaught Tunnel in London’s Docklands to representatives of the media and stakeholders prior to work beginning on its modification. The project design involves some unusual refurbishment methods to enlarge the existing tunnel and preserve some Victorian features as Maurice Jones reports

Aurecon merges with Hong Kong consultants
15 March, 2011

20 years of steel fibre concrete lined tunnels in UK
22 September, 2010
John Greenhalgh of Bekaert looks at the increasing use of steel fibre concrete in UK tunnels over the past 20 years

Meeting shotcrete specifications
23 March, 2010
In the long history of shotcrete, or sprayed concrete, linings underground, never has so much been expected of them. In the transition in scope from hard rock primary support to soft ground permanent support, shotcrete is now expected to create structures under even more demanding conditions, but still at comparatively low cost. Here technical editor Maurice Jones reviews the state of some developments designed to meet such demands

The first ever vaccum segment erector
13 August, 2008

Out of the dark... and into the light
12 December, 2007
Jeff Novak, technical manager for Bekaert Corporation in North America and Andina regions, and John Greenhalgh, sales manager for Bekaert Ltd in the UK and Ireland, discuss how steel fibre reinforced segmental linings have come of age in the US

Queensferry, no ferry, but maybe a tunnel
09 November, 2006

Ground freeze remedy at Hull
01 February, 2004
During the construction of a 3.6m i.d. flow transfer tunnel in Hull, UK, a 100m length of completed tunnel collapsed. In her Harding Prize finalist paper, Sarah Munks, former tunnel engineer for Ove Arup and Partners, describes the incident and the artificial ground freezing employed, which permitted the reconstruction of the tunnel along its original alignment

Evolution in shotcrete technology
01 October, 2003
Increasingly, emphasis within the industry is towards a 'holistic' development of sprayed concrete technology. Assistant editor, Amanda Foley, looks at some of the recent developments in shotcrete materials and talks to two of the industry's leading materials and equipment suppliers

Performance of fibres for concrete
01 September, 2003
John Greenhalgh, technical sales representative for Bekaert Building Products UK, describes various types of fibre reinforcement available for underground construction and how the various characteristics of these fibres affect concrete performance