Search Results: 'NCC'

West Link’s Korsvagen Challenges
29 January, 2021
Dr Klaus Rieker of Wayss & Freytag Ingenierbau discusses the various construction techniques and procurement methods used for tunnelling the Korsvägen Section of Gothenburg’s new West Link rail line

Clean water
31 October, 2019
Kristian Downs, export manager for Siltbuster explains the use of the company’s system on the Gothenburg Metro project

Northern exposure
27 September, 2019
A round-up of tunnel work in the Nordic Forum

Nordic Neighbors
03 November, 2016
The ITA’s Nordic Forum provides an opportunity for canada and other nations to exchange information. Tunnels & Tunnelling looks at projects underway in the region

Norwegian nous
19 September, 2016
The Norwegian tunnelling sector is seeing many positive trends. According to annual tunnelling statistics there is a steady increase in excavated volume over the last decade. Paola De Pascali reports

Stockholm prepares for tunnelling boom
18 June, 2014
Sweden’s capital city is going underground to improve transport connections to Stockholm meaning that a tunnelling boom is on its way in this part of Scandinavia. Bernadette Ballantyne reports.

Sweden on song
09 March, 2012
Håkan Stille professor emeritus in soil and rock mechanics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), digs into what drives the Swedish tunnelling industry

New world's largest for northern Russia
26 December, 2011
Plans were recently announced to utilise the world's largest diameter TBM to bore a highway tunnel under the Rive Neva in St Petersburg, Russia, to alleviate seasonal road and river traffic problems. Mikhail Ryzhevskiy of the project concessionaire, LLC Nevskaya Concession Company, explains the background and plans for the project soon to commence

Model challenges in Asia
26 June, 2007
Harding Prize runner up Nathan Wilmot, of Arup, describes recent modelling of challenging tunnelling soil-structure interaction problems in Asia

Solid progress on Sweden's Bothnia Line
01 September, 2004
Sweden's new 190km long high-speed freight and passenger railway, the Bothnia Line, has rapidly progressed since T&T last visited the project in 2002. Assistant editor, Patrick Hudd, caught up with progress when he met with Skanska and NCC crews on the Björnböle and Åsberget tunnels, this June

In the footsteps of Peter the Great
01 May, 2004
In January 2002, T&TI reported on the ambitious plans to reconnect Line 1 of the St Petersburg Metro. Silvano Maccan and Piergiorgio Grasso, of Geodata SpA, Italy, and Nikolai Kulagin and Constantin Bezrodniy, of Lenmetroguiprotrans, Russia, report on the difficult challenges overcome on this project, which is due to see train services recommence in May 2004

Learning from the Lærdal Tunnel
01 October, 2003
The longest road tunnel in the world, the 24.5km Lærdal tunnel in Norway, provided unique design developments for ventilation and driver safety. Tunnelling under high rock stresses offered significant challenges with respect to work safety and how to deal with these conditions contractually. In this paper Dr O T Blindheim addresses these issues

Excavation Products
01 August, 2003
The latest excavation products

Risks in adjustable fixed price contracts
01 June, 2003
Unexpected geological conditions are often blamed for the sometimes large cost overruns in tunnelling projects, not at least for subsea tunnels. Insufficient site investigations or tight budgeting are also popular excuses. Eivind Grøv and Olav T Blindheim take a fresh look at how a balanced risk allocation in contracts may improve matters

Dedication to detail in Denmark
01 September, 2002
On 16 May 2002, members of the British Tunnelling Society welcomed representatives of Copenhagen Metro's design and construction team, who gave an informative lecture on the key aspects of this complex project

Policies and projects – Swedish style
10 January, 2002
Per Nielsen, President of NCC International, the international project construction wing of the Swedish NCC Group, talks to Technical Journalist Martin Hunt about the group's policies, concentrating in particular on its specialist field of underground construction.

Happy ending in Copenhagen
08 July, 2001
The last of two dozen tunnel breakthroughs beneath the streets of Copenhagen a few months ago signalled fully justified sighs of relief for the British-led contracting team providing Denmark with its first metro system. David Hayward assesses the project's track record.

Scandinavian Smorgasbord
08 July, 2001
Martin Hunt reviews a variety of tunnelling projects currently under way in Scandinavia and assesses prospects for the area's booming underground construction sector

Water over gas at Ningbo
01 March, 2001
China's rapid industrialisation demands huge new energy input. On the east coast therefore it is building some of the world's largest gas storage caverns.

Metro takes charge
14 January, 2001
A high water table is a vital element for maintaining ancient timber piled building foundations beneath the streets of Copenhagen. A major recharge system was critical to restoring the balance during the complex dewatering operation for the city's metro.