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North Bristol relief sewer
27 November, 2023
Tunnelling challenges on the North Bristol Relief Sewer (NBRS) Project were presented and discussed at the BTS Meeting in May by Dominic Barlow, Senior Project Manager, and Adam Evenden, Project Engineer, of J Murphy and Sons Ltd. This report on the meeting was prepared by Dominic Barlow and Adam Evenden

Forecasting tunnelling progress using AI
25 August, 2023
The Harding Prize Competition is named after the founder of the British Tunnelling Society, Sir Harold Harding, and is for entrants under the age of 33. Shortlisted papers were presented to the BTS evening meeting on 13 April, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, in London. Jake Rankin, data scientist with J Murphy & Sons Ltd for this project, was voted winner of the 2023 Competition with a paper entitled ‘Artificial Intelligence for Forecasting Tunnelling Progress’. It is published here with the author’s permission

Farnworth tunnel refurbishment project
26 December, 2017
Eoin Murphy from OTB Engineering discusses the modernisation of Victorian tunnels. This paper was a runner-up for the 2016 Harding Prize

Farnworth enlarged and electrified
17 February, 2016
work to upgrade the Farnworth tunnel as part of a route electrification project called for tunnel enlargement works, and led to the procurement of a UK-manufactured TBM. Ian Clarke, writing for the manufacturer, reports

Maida vale
29 July, 2014
Pipejacking is a key part of a flood alleviation project which is set to protect hundreds of properties in northwest London

Cable guy
10 October, 2013
A new cable tunnel has gone seemingly without a hitch in the Willesden/harlesden neighbourhoods of North London. Alex Conacher tours the site with Murphy’s tunnelling project manager Keith Pollard.

High-tech conveyor solutions
06 May, 2008
Hi-tech tunnel conveying systems can offer unique solutions to complex site and transport logistics. Deputy editor, Amanda Foley, looks at some recent projects case histories

Olympic high voltage provider
21 April, 2008
Michael Francis, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Arup’s Alan Winter, and Kevin McManus of Murphy presented a review of the UK’s Lower Lea Valley Cable Tunnels project at the January meeting of the British Tunnelling Society

Cleaning up Limerick
15 March, 2007
Russell Naylor, engineers representative for Limerick City Council, Ken McIntyre, of J Barry & Partners, and Peter Jacques, divisional manager tunnelling for J Murphy & Sons, gave a presentation to the British Tunnelling Society in January about the complex works for Ireland’s Main Drainage Scheme in Limerick

Lessons from C320's TBM interventions
01 February, 2004
Maurice Gallagher and Bob Brown, of J Murphy & Sons, Tony Ridley, of Tony Ridley Hyperbaric Associates, and Andy Swift, of Rail Link Engineering, discuss the use of compressed air for TBM interventions on the UK's CTRL Contract 320 "Thames Tunnels" and the project's use of oxygen decompression techniques

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.

Monitoring settlement in London Clay
25 January, 2000
One of the major considerations when tunnelling in cities is the influence that underground works have on overlying structures. To further understanding of mechanisms involved in the development of settlement troughs, Brown & Root in the UK has embarked upon an internally funded project. A monitoring site was established along the line of an advancing tunnel to investigate the relationship between tunnel construction and the response of the surrounding ground.