Search Results: 'VMT'

A Look Beyond Only Physical: Virtual Master Rings
31 October, 2022
Florian Werres of VMT describes a digital approach to achieving the assurance of segmental quality for bored tunnels without always physically erecting master rings.

The third way
16 December, 2020
Genoa has a magnificent sea port but desperately poor communications inland. A third route is being developed under the mountains that surround the city. Julian Champkin reports

Canadian distance record
20 November, 2020
Microtunnelling can save costs, surface disruption and inconvenience to the public, while the distances that can be covered are increasing. Julian Champkin looks at a 5km project in Canada and asks whether the technique can stretch even further

A Kit of Parts
25 August, 2020
Precast concrete segments are made to exacting tolerances and demand streamlined manufacture and transportation. Julian Champkin investigates the challenges

Trans Euro Express
17 July, 2020
The Magistrale is a 1,500km high-speed rail project that will link France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Julian Champkin reports on the tunnelling through Germany’s Swabian Alps.

City & Southwest
20 January, 2020
Alex Conacher visits the Sydney Metro’s second phase to speak with Terry Sleiman, project director for the contractor John Holland CPB Ghella, Hugh Lawson, project director for the client, and Kate Cole, occupational health and hygiene manager for Transport for NSW

Better than ever
20 January, 2020
Planners are capitalising on modern improvements to tunnelling technology in a boost to the Australian industry. Alex Conacher reports

Manila Aqueduct
31 October, 2019
At the June 2019 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society, GHD’s practice leader for tunnels, Brendan Henry spoke about the NBAQ 4 project to deliver water to seven million residents in the Manila metropolitan area. Alex Conacher reports

To the next century
08 March, 2019
Alex Conacher visits the Elan Valley Aqueduct project in Wales, where tunnellers are constructing three bypass sections adjacent to the existing Victorian asset

Segment documentation
22 June, 2018
Alex Conacher and Florian Werres discuss current practices and future developments for segment tagging in tunnelling

Karlsruhe cuts
28 June, 2017
Creating the first underground metro line for Karlsruhe in Germany has required a trilogy oftunnelling methods and extensive monitoring to protect the busy city

Shaping up
29 March, 2017
Tunnel navigation specialist VMT has partnered with US geo-positioning expert Topcon to create what they claim is the best solution yet for deformation monitoring

Growth spurt
28 April, 2016
The Bowness offload sanitary Trunk project will be operable this summer, well ahead of schedule. choosing trenchless technology instead of open cut construction has made this award-winning project a major success, Nicole Robinson reports

WTC 2016
01 April, 2016
Registration is open for the worldwide tunnelling event of the year, with as many as 600 unique technical presentations, short courses and breakout sessions, and more than 200 exhibitors from around the world. Here’s a look at the highlights planned for this year’s conference and be sure to visit Tunnels & Tunnelling at Booth 1215 at this year’s WTC in San Francisco.

East meets West
31 December, 2015
Eight Herrenknecht TBMs turned in exemplary performances during tunnel excavation on the Crossrail project. Sally Spencer reports.

Strait Talking
31 December, 2015
When the TBM on Turkey’s Eurasia Tunnel broke through on 22 August there was double cause for celebration.

Breaking boundaries
03 November, 2015
Prior to 2012, the integration of designed vertical or horizontal curves into microtunnel alignments was unheard of in Ontario. Following the release of a large number of infrastructure projects in suburban Toronto, clients and consultants encouraged contractors to present value engineered alternatives to pr oposed project alignments and construction methods. Seamus Tynan and John Grennan of Ward and Burke discuss three recent projects successfully constructing long-distance, curved microtunnels

East meets West
26 June, 2015
This article on guiding and monitoring work on the Avrasya Tunnel project under the Bosphorus Strait was written by Robert Lensing and Manfred Messing of VMT, and Abraham Corriols, Patrick Hartkorn, and Giuseppe Pezone of ITC Engineering.

Gdansk Double
18 November, 2014
Recent slurry TBM bores in Gdansk were the key challenge to build a new road link. Report by Patrick Reynolds.

Shake and bake – Seismic and Geoelectric Prediction
26 March, 2014
Tucked in a corner of Bauma 2013, Geo Exploration Technologies set up their stand to showcase Bore Tunnelling Electrical Ahead Monitoring (Beam). The geoelectric system, developed a decade on from the introduction of geo-seismic predictive technology to the tunnelling industry, has a few key advantages claimed, while Amberg’s offering of Tunnel Seismic Prediction gets a revamp. Alex Conacher reports