Search Results: 'Robbins'

Squaring the circle
29 December, 2021
Lok Home, owner of Robbins, once sold his company to the Chinese then bought it back because he disliked what they were doing to it. He makes TBMs that cut the hardest of hard rock. Now he has made a TBM that breaks all the rules. Report by Julian Champkin

Tunnels facilitate water flow
29 November, 2021
Water system upgrades are keeping the North American tunnelling industry busy. Keren Fallwell reports

Digging the deal on infrastructure
11 October, 2021
George Demetri takes a look at the state of US infrastructure, the possible causes of its lacklustre performance and how it may be improved, taking in along the way the views of some high-profile engineers and consultants

Learning from three great challenges
07 May, 2021
Mehdi Hosseini of London Bridge Associates reports on the recent BTS talk – ‘Three Great Challenges: Experience from TBM Tunnelling in Difficult Ground’ – given in January by Robbins president Lok Home

AI and Machine Learning
30 April, 2021
Best use of artificial intelligence in tunnels will need data strategies plus experienced oversight, writes Patrick Reynolds

RETC RAISES THE CONFERENCE BANNER
30 April, 2021
Following the interruption to the tunnel conference scene caused by the pandemic, the RETC Conference is back and – Covid allowing – looks set to take place in Las Vegas on 13-16 June 2021

Robbins reborn
30 April, 2021
After a brief period involving Chinese part-ownership, veteran TBM pioneer Lok Home has bought back his company to set the revived Robbins on a new course of growth. Julian Champkin spoke to him