Search Results: 'Tamrock'

The evil staircase – Kakia Skala
01 October, 2003
Karstic voids, fractures, limited access and steep slopes have posed serious construction challenges on an 8km set of tunnels for a new railway line and the new Athens-Corinth motorway. Technical journalist, Adrian Greeman, recently visited the project

Back on track at Vietnam's Hai Van Tunnel
01 October, 2003
After early problems getting the tunnel works underway, progress on the Hai Van tunnel in central Vietnam is now on schedule for breakthrough in October and opening at the start of 2005. Resident engineer for the South Tunnel Section Nigel Butterfield, of the Louis Berger Group, reports on the current status on site

Final design for Helsinki tunnels
01 July, 2003

Blasting into the 21st century
01 July, 2003
The tunnelling environment is continually evolving towards higher demands for quality, environmental responsibility and economy in operation. Pekka Nieminen of Sandvik Tamrock Corp discusses how some of the latest technologies and methods have provided tools that develop the drill and blast method

Tall machines for a tall order
01 May, 2003

Large scale NATM in São Paulo
01 March, 2003
Gerson Rodrigues de Castro and Lia Marina Knapp, engineers for client, DERSA (Desenvolvimento Rodoviário S.A.) - Highway Development Company, Government of the State of São Paulo, describe the construction of the largest NATM tunnels built in Brazil to date

Norway's urban drill and blast
20 February, 2003