Search Results: 'Skanska'

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

Under pressure at Tyin
01 October, 2002
Øystein Lilleland, deputy site manager for Norsk Hydro ASA, Jon R. Myhre, senior engineer for Selmer Skanska AS and Morten Lund, engineering geologist for Norconsult discuss the largest ever water power plant upgrade in Norway currently underway at the Tyin Hydropower Plant Project

Skanska's CEO steps down
01 July, 2002

Ultra-deep shaft construction
13 June, 2002
On 21st February the British Tunnelling Society and the Southern Counties Branch of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy held a joint meeting. Mark Kirkbride and Nigel Stringer of Cementation Skanska presented a paper about the factors governing design and construction of shafts for mine development over 3000m deep.

Winner - Achievement through Innovation
13 June, 2002
Skanska Construction UK - Dartford Tunnel Refurbishment

Winner - Safety Award
13 June, 2002
Cementation Skanska – Advances in HAVS Reporting on the Harrods 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

Skanska fined
01 March, 2002

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

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.