Search Results: 'Rail Link Engineering'

Tunnelling wins BCI awards
01 December, 2002

Monitoring changes in instrumentation
01 December, 2002
Chris Rasmussen, technical director of ITM-Soil, looks at recent trends in instrumentation and monitoring and describes how these were utilised when the 9.3m diameter Heathrow Airside Tunnel TBM crossed 3.5m above the 'live' 5.8m diameter Heathrow Express Tunnel earlier this year

Winning in China
01 November, 2002
While foreign construction companies have widely been able to work in China since 1994, the country's recent membership to the World Trade Organisation coupled with a new national tendering law, is making the process far easier. Keith Wallis examines the current state of the Chinese tunnelling industry and explores recent contract awards and future opportunities for international tunnelling companies

Competence in the tunnelling industry
01 November, 2002
Prior to their forthcoming lecture, which will be presented to British Tunnelling Society members on 21 November, Douglas Allenby of Edmund Nuttall, Bob Ibell of London Bridge Associates and Peter Jewell of Halliburton KBR, explain the need for an independent assessment of competence within the British tunnelling industry, and discuss current training initiatives

A Route 9 home win?
15 October, 2002

Tunnel starts under Antwerp
15 October, 2002

Sweden's Bothnia Line
01 October, 2002
The Bothnia Line is Sweden's largest infrastructure project for 50 years, where tunnelling accounts for 20% of the US$1.2bn, 190km, route. Three out of the four tunnels let, have been completed, while the remaining 11 tunnel contracts are still in bidding stage. Editor, Tris Thomas, recently visited the Stranneberg Tunnel, which demands the use of jet grouting and ground freezing techniques

CTRL's section 2 tunnelling start
01 August, 2002

Gung Ho in Hong Kong
01 August, 2002

Winner - Large Project Award
13 June, 2002
Eurolink JV (Morgan Tunnelling, Vinci, Beton und Monierbau), Rail Link Engineering - North Downs Tunnel

2002 Tunnelling Industry Awards
13 June, 2002
On 10 May the first Tunnelling Industry Awards ceremony took place, an event jointly organised by the BTS and T&T International, to recognise and reward achievement within the underground construction industry in the UK

New York Cross Harbor Freight Tunnel
05 May, 2002

BTS debate - Certifiably argumentative
05 May, 2002
On the 21st March 2002, The British Tunnelling Society held it's annual debate. The motion proposed to the house, "Self-Certification is Dangerous for Tunnelling", produced a strongly argued discussion, which generated a very close result

Policies and projects - Swiss style
01 April, 2002
Informative presentations on two quite different tunnelling projects in Switzerland demonstrate the differences in approach between the contracting arrangements and construction of tunnels in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. The presenters were Martin Knights, director of Infrastructure, Halliburton KBR and Paul Hoyland, Technical Manager for Balfour Beatty Major Projects

Deep-well dewatering on CTRL
01 March, 2002
The huge benefits of regional dewatering experienced during construction of London Underground's Jubilee Line Extension encouraged Rail Link Engineering to develop a comprehensive deep-well dewatering scheme for the London Tunnels section of the CTRL, writes David Whitaker, RLE Project Hydrogeologist

Updating the legacy
14 January, 2002
21st Century transport engages 19th Century architecture at Antwerp Central station in Belgium. Dirk van Ooteghem of TUC Rail, Belgian Railways, illustrated the painstaking lengths taken to preserve the original structure of the station in his presentation to the British Tunnelling Society on the 18 October 2001

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.