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Crossrail learning legacy – ongoing impact
29 December, 2023
The knowledge pool from Crossrail will live on for education on project development and execution, including tunnel excavation and underground station construction works, after Transport for London this year decided to keep the online library of the project (now the Elizabeth line) free and available

Back and forth
29 December, 2023
Let’s look back and then, considering lessons, information and data available, take some view on stepping forward, onward into further developments of underground space.

Bts Announce Release Of 4th Edition Of Bts Specification For Tunnelling
13 December, 2023
The British Tunnelling Society is very pleased to announce the release of the 4th edition of the BTS Specification for Tunnelling this Wednesday, December 13th 2023.

ITA Tunnelling Awards winners revealed
27 November, 2023
The winners of this year’s ITA Tunnelling Awards were revealed on Friday.

Bob Ibell – Interview
27 November, 2023
Bob Ibell is a known and respected name is tunnelling. He has had major roles on the Tyne and Wear Metro, Piccadilly Line Extension to Heathrow T4, the Channel Tunnel, the Jubilee Line Extension and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link’s (CTRL, or High Speed 1 (HS1)) London Tunnels. He is a Past Chair of the BTS, winner of the James Clark Medal, delivered the Sir Harold Harding Memorial lecture, taught construction management on the MSc course at the University of Warwick, and a founder member of the tunnelling consultancy London Bridge Associates (LBA). He spoke to Julian Champkin

Bachy Soletanche completes Silvertown piling
05 October, 2023
Bachy Soletanche has completed its piling programme for London’s new Silvertown Tunnel.

BTS James Clark Medal Award: Andy Alder
21 August, 2023
Andy Alder has been awarded the James Clark Medal by the British Tunnelling Society for his service and leadership in the industry.

Small bores, big impacts
28 June, 2023
Views shared with TTNA on the trends and advances in the trenchless and microtunneling markets

BIM in tunnelling - past, present & future
26 June, 2023
BIM enables unprecedented collaboration and information sharing in infrastructure development, yet better understanding of what it is, isn’t, and could be is needed, say Kurt Zeidler and Vojtech Ernst Gall, of Gall Zeidler Consultants

Antonia Cornaro – Interview
26 June, 2023
Antonia Cornaro is several things: a city planner, an expert in underground space at Amberg Engineering, a university lecturer to engineers, planners and architects, an author and also co-chair of ITACUS. Julian Champkin spoke to her

Andy Alder awarded James Clark Medal
21 June, 2023
Andy Alder, Thames Tideway programme director and Jacobs vice-president and head of major programmes, UK and Europe, has been awarded this year’s James Clark Medal.

Rod Young – Interview
13 June, 2023
Rod Young is the Chair of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS). Unlike many of his predecessors, his speciality is in microtunnelling. He talks to Julian Champkin about the importance of small-bore, and his hopes for the post-Covid BTS

HS2 launches third TBM in London
13 April, 2023
HS2’s contractor, Skanksa Costain Strabag joint venture (SCS JV), has launched the third TBM in London – this time to build a 6.2m i.d. logistics tunnel.

Alison Norrish Interview
27 March, 2023
It is fun to go deep – but don’t do it. We can make our tunnels watertight – but should we? And what’s wrong with a few cracks in a tunnel wall anyway? Julian Champkin talked to Alison Norrish, urban tunneller extraordinaire, who challenges views on what makes good underground engineering

25 years of BTS/ICE specification for tunnelling
16 January, 2023
With all the upheavals of 2022 such as the passing of the late Queen, having the third Prime Minister in a single year at the time of writing and the deeply disturbing ongoing multi crisis it is easy to overlook that we celebrate a successful 25 years of the BTS/ICE Specification for Tunnelling in 2022.