Search Results: 'Rail Link Engineering'

Under the river
03 November, 2015
Tunnelling under the Fraser River in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, is no easy task. That is what the Port Mann Main Water Supply Tunnel project team has learned over the past three years. Stephanie Fekete and Andrew McGlenn of McMillen Jacobs Associates discuss the recent tunnel completion and summarize the demands that were required in order to make this drive successful

Eastern expanse
29 October, 2015
Construction for metro projects, with events such as the World Cup on the horizon, is driving the demand for tunnelling Qatar. Other cities in the Middle East are also investing in infrastructure development, growing the market for tunnelling across the region. Keren Falwell reports.

Greek resurrection
25 August, 2015
Greece’s financial woes have undoubtedly had an impact on the country’s tunnelling activity, but the sector is resilient and has faced trials before. With many stalled projects under way again, and a few losses incurred to work still in the early phases of planning, things are far from perfect, but there is hope. Sally Spencer speaks with local companies and representatives of the Greek Tunnelling Society to get a handle on a tunnelling industry that in recent decades has been marked by extremes

Jacobs awarded early design work for Heathrow link
01 May, 2015
GREAT BRITAIN – Jacobs Engineering has been tasked with design and studies work for a proposed Network Rail link to Heathrow. The ‘Western Rail Access to Heathrow’ project will apply for a Development Consent Order in early 2016. Jacobs will produce the design for the proposal documentation. The scope of work includes topographical surveys and geotechnical investigations, tunneling design for the new 3.1-mile (5km) route, and railway systems designs for track and overhead line equipment.

Mobilising Latin America
24 March, 2015
Major infrastructure projects across Latin America will mobilise both people and freight and provide much needed energy and utilities and the tunnelling sector is set to benefit. Technical journalist Sally Spencer reports

Wuhan can
25 February, 2015
A boom in investment over the last half decade has seen meteoric changes for Central China’s unofficial capital, Wuhan. One of the fruits of the investment is the Sanyan (or Sanyang) Road tunnel project. A combined road-rail crossing of the Yangtze River that is the first multifunction tunnel in China.