Search Results: 'Parsons Brinckerhoff'

Design development on East Side Access
01 December, 2003
In his Harding Prize finalist paper, David Smith, senior structural engineer for Parsons Brinckerhoff, discusses the construction of Long Island Rail Road's East Side Access Project in New York. In particular, he examines how the designs of tunnels and approach structures have been developed to improve functionality and minimise risk

Large diameter soft ground collapse recovery
01 October, 2003
A collapse during construction of a large-diameter, soft ground tunnel needs swift action to minimise disruption to construction programme. Colin Speers, senior tunnel engineer, and Bradford Townsend, technical director/design manager of Civil Works, both of Parsons Brinckerhoff, and John Ager, independent engineering geologist, provide guidelines and considerations on how to split the remediation process into discrete elements, that closely shadow everyday design and construction, to speed up the critical process of collapse recovery

Muni Metro
05 August, 2003

Euro-Asian link tender
02 July, 2003

Portland CSO TBMs arrive
01 July, 2003

PB merges units
02 April, 2003

Cost recovery at Big Dig
01 March, 2003

HK contracts up for grabs
20 February, 2003

130km of tunnels on US rail link
20 February, 2003