Search Results: 'National Grid'

National Grid calls for input on undergrounding cables
15 December, 2010

Sri Lankan Hydropower project contract awarded
08 December, 2010

Drilling Rohtang
11 November, 2010
Dywidag International has started excavation at the Rohtang Pass road tunnel in Himachal Pradesh, India. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Livorno landfall
19 October, 2010
A string of micro-tunnel drives are being bored to protect the local environment as part of a project to import gas on the Italian coast near Livorno. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Costain earns National Grid tunnelling contract
18 October, 2010

Seaside rendezvous
22 September, 2010

Upper Kotmale tunnel complete
26 August, 2010

LEDs leading lighting
11 August, 2010
Following a renovation that finished in June, the Vlake Tunnel is now the first in Europe to be fully lit with LEDs and the first to use LED linear lighting, Nicole Robinson reports.

UK’s ability to muster resources
23 March, 2010
With a heavy programme of tunnelling work ahead of it, the UK industry gathered in the ICE Telford Theatre in December to debate its ability to rise to the challenge. Hosted, appropriately, by the BTS Young Members, a packed audience of all ages and affiliations discussed an issue that has generated significant discussion among junior and senior members and is encompassed by the motion: This house believes that the UK tunnelling industry has the sufficient range of engineering expertise and resources to meet the challenges of future projects. As the meeting unfolded, nationalism, internationalism, ageism, and historic reference, all came into the discussion as Neville Harrison (Consultant) and Harnaik Mann (Arup and Vice-Chair of the BTS Young Members committee) proposed the motion and Jon Banyai (Mott MacDonald and Chair of the BTS YM Support Group) and John Edwards (Morgan Est) presented the opposition