Search Results: 'Symonds'

Predicted and encountered deformations
25 August, 2011
Andreas Feiersinger of Dr. Sauer Company was the runner up in the British Tunnelling Society 2011 Harding Prize for this paper comparing deformations predicted using 3D Finite Element Analysis with those encountered on the Green Park station upgrade in London

Keeping London Underground dry
25 July, 2011
In the complex and sometimes ancient world of the London Underground, or ‘Tube’ as it is known colloquially, maintenance and refurbishment are major priorities within a capacity improvements programme. Water control is only one, but an important, part of this. Maurice Jones spoke to Dr Keith Bowers, Engineer in charge of London Underground tunnels for Transport for London

The Arrowhead Tunnels project
13 August, 2008
Following the British Tunnelling Society’s Annual General Meeting, Brian Fulcher, project director for Shea-Kenny Joint Venture, and Mike Bell, resident engineer for Hatch Mott MacDonald, described overcoming difficult ground conditions and water pressures with two hybrid hard rock TBMs for the Arrowhead Tunnels in Southern California, US

Crossing the Bosphorus and beyond
05 June, 2008
Daniel Horgan and Douglas Madsen of Parsons Brinckerhoff presented a review of the Bosphorus Crossing project at the March meeting of the British Tunnelling Society

Modernisation on the M25
26 June, 2007
The current operational refurbishment of Europe’s busiest urban road tunnel, the Holmsdale Tunnel on London’s M25 motorway, involves reconfiguration of the ventilation, capacity expansion and complete modernisation of the tunnel fit-out. Report and photographs by technical journalist Adrian Greeman