Search Results: 'Rail Link Engineering'

Crossrail in practice
10 October, 2013
As Crossrail, Europe’s largest civil engineering project, reaches the advanced point of construction, Simon Pugh, lead engineer in the route Control Centre for Crossrail presents to the BTS and Minsouth audience about how it is built and how it will be run

Funding Gap
25 September, 2013
Highlights such as the Jubilee Line Extension stand out from the economic mire of the past 50 years. The second half of the 20th century was not kind to a Britain newly stripped of superpower status, or the capital’s metro, which following WW2 entered a half century of neglect and underinvestment

HK tunnel contract awarded
04 September, 2013
Sweett Group has secured a commission to provide cost management services for a 2km submerged cross harbour rail tunnel in Hong Kong, the company announced earlier this week.

Qatari coup
23 August, 2013
Qatar is preparing to set new records in tunnelling with 26 tBms simultaneously boring 59km of twin bore tunnels creating the first phase of the vital doha metro. technical journalist Bernadette Ballantyne reports

Northgate tunnel bids opened
11 June, 2013
A Jay Dee-led joint venture submitted the lowest bid out of six teams for the Northgate Link light rail extension project in Seattle. Sound Transit opened the bids on May 30.

Brazil's first immersed tunnel to be built
07 May, 2013
Royal HaskoningDHV has been contracted for an immersed tunnel of more than 500m for Brazil's largest seaport in Santos. The contract is worth EUR 5M (USD 6.5M) and will directly link the cities of Santos and Guarujá.

How low can you go?
20 February, 2013
TBMs have successfully passed beneath the Montlake Cut on Seattle’s University Link Project with only 4m of cover. Andrew Mencke and Lynn Salvati of Jacobs Associates, Seattle, Richard McLane of Traylor Brothers, Seattle, and John Sleavin of Sound Transit, Seattle, explain the design and construction process