Search Results: 'Rail Link Engineering'

Under new management
12 December, 2000
The final choice is being made this month on the consortia taking over responsibility for the now to be privatised tunnel and infrastructure assets of the world's oldest and most complex metro – the London Underground. Mike Winney reports on the tunnel work that might be required.

Teuscher on track
15 October, 2000
Keeping a SFr4bn scheme on track for a 2006 opening is Peter Teuscher's main preoccupation. He leads the BLS AlpTransit client team for the Lötschberg tunnel project, and was interviewed by Adrian Greeman.

Underground movement
01 August, 2000
The Health and Safety Executive report on Heathrow tunnels' collapse is analysed by John Anderson, who was with HSE from 1970 to 1997. He is now a consultant civil engineer

Heathrow collapse was "organisational"
01 August, 2000

Learning from mistakes
01 August, 2000

Channel Tunnel's new Target
11 July, 2000

Early break for Bluebell bore
11 July, 2000

Narrow escape
01 July, 2000
Britain's longest, most inaccessible canal tunnel, abandoned over 50 years ago, is being strengthened and reopened. David Hayward travelled to Yorkshire's bleak Marsden Moor to find out how and why.

CTRL 2 invitations encourage optimism
06 June, 2000

Debate: 'This house believes that partnering has not achieved the promised benefits to date'
06 May, 2000
This year's annual debate, held at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London on February 17, was proposed by Bob Ibell, Taylor Woodrow, and seconded by Alan Myers, Rail Link Engineering. Hadyn Davies, Union Railways, opposed the motion, supported, by Mike Attridge, Rail Link Engineering.

All systems go in Singapore
30 March, 2000
Traditionally, the underground construction industry in Singapore has been more concerned with the successful delivery of infrastructure projects than blowing its own trumpet. However, with the volume of investment now under way in this small island state and a rolling programme of schemes earmarked for the next three decades, there is huge interest in the tunnelling market here. Editor Steve McCormack was invited by the Land Transport Authority to visit key contracts in progress.

Recent advances in jacked box tunnelling
25 January, 2000
On October 21 at the Institution of civil Engineers, Dr Doug Allenby, Edmund Nuttall Ltd, and John Ropkins, John Ropkins Ltd, treated the BTS to a most interesting evening on the subject of a tunnelling technique with a difference.

Progress on CTRL's North Downs Tunnel
25 January, 2000
The 3.2km long North Downs tunnel in Kent, south east England, is now well under way using NATM.

CTRL Section 2 rebid
01 January, 2000