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Keeping hold of the natural balance
Careful groundwater management was vital to build Copenhagen’s metro and, elsewhere, dewatering is taking on more tunnelling challenges. Report by Patrick Reynolds.
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Strategies for dewatering
Dr Toby Roberts of WJ Group outlines the various dewatering strategies that are possible for cross passages, connection tunnels, caverns and adits.
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A new approach to tunneling
The complexity, cost and risk of tunnelling can be reduced by introducing radical new methods, writes Patrick Lane-Nott, Director of Engineering at hyperTunnel.
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The 8th edition of the ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards returns this December in digital. Since 2015, the international competition seeks and rewards remarkable achievements in tunnelling and the underground industry. Organized by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, the event both showcases the most ambitious underground projects all over the world as well as the latest innovations, techniques, and methods in tunnelling...
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More JV signs Stonehenge main works contract
More joint venture has signed the contract to deliver the £1.25bn tunnel and main construction work at Stonehenge in the UK.
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LTA awards contract for design and construction of underground station
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded the civil contract for the design and construction of Riviera station under the Cross Island Line-Punggol Extension (CPe).
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Tunnelling starts on Kanpur Metro
Two Terratec EPBMs have started boring the first underground tunnelling package for Corridor-1 of the Kanpur MRTS Project in India.
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Fire at Silvertown Tunnel site
A fire broke out at the Silvertown Tunnel site in London last night.
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Prof Arnold Dix has just been elected as new ITA President. Shortly beforehand, in T&T’s preview of WTC 2022, he described his proposed plans to accelerate a practical mission on sustainability in tunnelling – to include moves on procurement, contract conditions and metrics.
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Kate Cooksey Interview
Kate Cooksey has completed one of the most unusual and challenges periods for any chair of the BTS. With much success achieved despite the trying times, she talks about the journey with Julian Champkin
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‘Mrs Vera’ ventures forth
Robbins’ TBM ‘Mrs Vera’ was launched earlier this year to complete a tunnelling challenge in karstic limestone below St Louis, Missouri
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Refurb rules in NY
Safety upgrade work has been completed on the Hugh L Carey and Queens Midtown tunnels in New York
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Sound signals improve road tunnel evacuation
Norwegian researchers undertook sound signal studies to improve evacuation safety in road tunnels. Abridged report of paper by Tronstad, T.V., Jenssen, G.D., Moscoco, C., Södersten, C, of SINTEF, and Zaikonnikov, E. of Norphonic AS
