Search Results: 'Miller'

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

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.

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

Miller strong at interim
14 January, 2002

Primary ways to save (part 2)
14 January, 2002
In the second part of his paper, submitted to the BTS Harding Prize Competition 2001, Jon Hurt of Arup describes how value engineering continued to make savings during primary and secondary lining stages on the CTRL North Downs Tunnel, UK

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.