Search Results: 'Rail Link Engineering'

HNTB announces new hires in tunnelling group
24 December, 2018
US – HNTB announced December 20 two new hires, Kenneth Xu and Raghu Bhargava, joined its national tunnel group.

TAC Awards 2018
20 December, 2018
From rising stars to nationally acclaimed projects, the Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC) presents its annual awards each fall to recognize the deserving individuals and engineering accomplishments in the Canadian tunnelling sector. The 2018 awards were presented on November 8 in Edmonton.

One big bore
22 November, 2018
Rail projects across North America are considering single tunnel drives, Nicole Robinson reports

TAC Directors’ Annual Reports
26 October, 2018
Each regional director for the TAC writes a report in October sharing the status of work and forthcoming projects in the five chapters across Canada

One big bore
05 September, 2018
Rail projects across North America are considering single tunnel drives, Nicole Robinson reports

Kia Ora, new Zealand
24 August, 2018
Alex Conacher speaks with Bill Newns, chair of the New Zealand Tunnelling Society (NZTS), as the antipodean nation breaks away from the Australasian Tunnelling Society

An Austrian Method
25 May, 2018
A joint venture led by Porr has been awarded a major contract on the largest tunnelling project in Austrian history, the Brenner Base Tunnel. The design-build consortium, which includes Porr, Hinteregger & Söhne Baugesellschaft, Società Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua, and Itinera will construct Lot BBT H51 Pfons-Brenner for around EUR 966M (USD 1.2bn).

Montreal’s major project
09 May, 2018
Construction is expected to start this year for the REM, which will become one of the largest, fully automated LRT systems in the world, Jean Habimana of Hatch, reports

Artery bypass
25 April, 2018
In the summer of 2017, Alex Conacher spoke with Aurecon’s Jack Muir who was engaged in finalising the tender design of the Second Overvaal Tunnel

Preserving health
22 January, 2018
Australia-based Kate Cole was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2016 with the goal of investigating best practice in health internationally, through travelling to tunnels in Norway, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. She is now back home and working to share the findings of her fellowship to improve conditions for Australian tunnellers