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Tony Ridley Hyperbaric Associates Ltd
25 July, 2023
Specialist Tunnelling & TBM Support & Management Services to include Hyperbaric Services: TBM Intervention and Tunnel Compressed Air Works – Air Lock & System Design / Specification Input – Occupational Health / Medical Surveillances – Primary Trauma Care / Rescue & Extrication - Worker Training – Tender Assistance & Legislative Advice. Procurement of site safety equipment and hyperbaric hardware Non-Hyperbaric Services: Health Safety & Environmental Control – Level 3 Accredited Training ( Tunnel / TBM Rescue & Trauma Care) - Bespoke Safety Training – Refuge Chamber Support, Management & Training – Safety Support Equipment Supply – Free Air Intervention - Tender Assistance & Legislative Advice

Packed schedule in Boston
28 June, 2023
TTNA previews the packed program for RETC 2023, in Boston, MA, in June

How to develop your tunnelers
28 June, 2023
The BTS Design and Construction course has special flagship standing in tunneling education and the 1-week course runs this July again. Mike King, of MK Tunnelling, gives an insight and recommends ambitious tunnelers to attend

Toronto spotlights
28 June, 2023
TTNA spotlights a recent few milestones and interesting project developments in Toronto that have among them presented a variety of engineering challenges

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.

TfL proposes DLR extension under the Thames
20 June, 2023
Transport for London (TfL) and its partners have submitted a Strategic Outline Case (SOC) to the government to extend the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), with a potential new branch under the River Thames.

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

WTC2024 abstract deadline extended
05 June, 2023
The deadline for submitting abstracts for next year’s World Tunnel Congress has been extended to June 30.

How to develop your tunnellers
24 April, 2023
The BTS Design and Construction course has special flagship standing in tunnelling education and the 1-week course runs this July again. Mike King, of MK Tunnelling, gives an insight and recommends ambitious tunnellers to attend

Challenges and successes
27 March, 2023
A brief snapshot sample of large and small utility tunnelling challenges and successes across the globe over recent months

Tunnelling in the high Himalayas
27 March, 2023
A joint meeting of BTSYM/TAIym in April 2022 heard a description of the challenges and wonder of activities to prepare for road tunnelling in the Himalayas above 5000m altitude, in India. Presentation was by Lt Colonel Sunny of Border Roads Organisation (BRO), and Ahmed Shaz and Sandeep Nirmal of RITES. Ahmed Shaz provides a summary of the webinar

Muon sight in tunnels
27 March, 2023
Cosmic ray R&D is bringing muon-based systems to highlight density differences that can reveal voids or marked variations in ground conditions, and also permit non-destructive testing behind tunnel lining, explains Prof Lee Thompson, Technical Director of Geoptic

Consultation launched for tunnelling machines standards
27 March, 2023
Consultation is underway on revisions to two CEN standards that are vital for the safety of tunnelling machines used in Europe and across the world. Dr Donald Lamont – a UK participant in the work – urges the tunnelling industry to respond by the deadline of mid-May

WTC 2024 - Call for Abstracts
21 March, 2023
ITA-AITES and the China Civil Engineering Society are calling for abstracts for the World Tunnel Congress 2024 (WTC2024) which will be held in Shenzhen, China, 19-25 April, 2024. The theme of WTC2024 is Tunnelling for a Better Life.

Rescue under way for micro TBM in Toronto
07 March, 2023
The City of Toronto has issued an emergency contract for retrieval of a micro TBM that has been stuck underground for nine months after it became tangled in steel wires.

Why did that happen – failures below ground
23 January, 2023
Mike King of MK Tunnelling Limited provided the Harding Memorial Lecture to the British Tunnelling Society in November 2022. This meeting report was prepared by Mike King and a longer version of the paper will soon be made available on the British Tunnelling Society web site

Dr Donald Lamont Interview
29 December, 2022
Highly respected and globally known, Dr Donald Lamont has for decades helped to lead the charge on health and safety in underground environments and working. He talks to Julian Champkin.

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.

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.