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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.

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

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.

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.

BTSYM gears up for year ahead
30 November, 2022
George Doulkas, package manager for HS2 at Strabag, has been appointed chair of the British Tunnelling Society Young Members (BTSYM).

HS2 announces winners of competition to drive best practice
14 November, 2022
HS2 Ltd has announced this year’s winners of a competition to share insight from the UK’s largest construction project with the wider infrastructure industry.

BTS UNDERGROUND HEALTH & SAFETY COURSE
28 October, 2022
The tunnelling industry is continuing its buoyant period. Thames Tideway tunnelling completed, and secondary lining, connection and testing works will be complete in 2025. HS2 tunnelling well progressing, Hinkley Point C, York Potash in the UK are also progressing, and numerous smaller TBM tunnels around the country for Road & Rail crossings. The Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) has opened.

Update on BTS/ICE specification 4th edition
11 October, 2022
At the end of the first day of the BTS Conference today there will be a BTS evening meeting at 6pm with a presentation entitled “The BTS/ICE specification 4th edition. Collaborating for sustainability”, by Christoph Eberle, Chair of the BTS Technical Committee, and Technical Principal at Mott MacDonald.

WINNER OF BTS HARDING PRIZE 2022 ANNOUNCED
11 May, 2022
Chris Barrett, a 32-year-old civil engineer working with BAM Nuttall in London, has won the British Tunnelling Society’s Harding Prize 2022. The announcement was made at the BTS Annual Dinner on 6 May where Barrett received his award.

Components for largest-ever UK TBM arrive at Silvertown
16 December, 2021
Having passed factory acceptance tests on 2 December at the Herrenknecht works in Schwanau, Germany, parts of the giant TBM that will bore London’s Silvertown Tunnel have started to arrive in London.

BTS conference opens its doors to the tunnelling fraternity
29 September, 2021
Having opened on Thursday 30 September, the two-day BTS 2020+1 British Tunnelling Society annual conference and exhibition held at the QE2 Conference Centre, London has started to welcome visitors from around the world.

Tunnelling begins on London Power Tunnels Phase 2
06 July, 2021
Tunnelling has started on the second phase (LPT2) of National Grid’s £1bn (US$1.38bn) London Power Tunnels project as TBM Edith installs the first segment rings at the New Cross site, south of the River Thames.

BTS unveils a new website
19 February, 2021
To complement its 50th anniversary celebrations, the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) has launched a new website to reflect the growing diversity of knowledge and services which it offers to BTS members and others interested in tunnelling.

Australia’s first tunnel training centre inaugurated
22 December, 2020
Australia’s first tunnel training centre has been set up in Melbourne to enable trainees to work on the Victorian government's planned rail projects.

Crossrail’s Farringdon station reaches key milestone
07 December, 2020
Crossrail has announced that Farringdon station on the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) is the first of the Central London stations to mark the completion of construction activity.

Arup appoints US-based underground infrastructure leader
12 November, 2020
Engineering and professional services provider Arup has named Andreas Raedle as its new underground infrastructure leader for the Americas region. He will be based in San Francisco, US.

Contract signed for first HS2 TBMs
09 October, 2020
HS2 Ltd has announced that main works civils contractor Skanska Costain Strabag JV has signed the contract for the first two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) for London’s HS2 tunnels. The tunnels will be twin bore, each 13 miles long and roughly the same length as the Crossrail tunnels.

Crossrail handover to TfL underway
01 October, 2020
Crossrail has announced that the Elizabeth Line, now in its final stages, is about to be transferred to Transport for London (TfL). When the handover process is completed, TfL will become the operator and maintainer of the railway.

Crossrail and TfL worksites to close
24 March, 2020
Great Britain – Crossrail and Transport for London (TfL) project sites are to halt works where possible to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The announcement comes shortly after work was paused at Crossrail’s Bond Street site, where a worker tested positive for the disease.