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British Tunnelling Society
01 June, 2023
Thursday 15th June 2023 at 18:00 hrs, In-Person at Institution of Civil Engineers, 1 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA

BTS May 2023 Meeting and AGM - North Bristol Relief Sewer Project
02 May, 2023
Event Date: Thu May 25 2023 23:00. Event Date: Thu May 25 2023 23:00

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

Design of gaskets for segmentally lined tunnels
23 February, 2023
In September 2021, Mike King of MK Tunnelling Ltd provided an online talk on gasket design for bored tunnels to BTS Young Members. This meeting report on the presentation has been prepared by Mike King

Gold mine conversion focus of BTS February lecture
24 January, 2023
The Kidston pumped storage project – the world's first conversion of a gold mine into a hydroelectric pumped storage facility – is the subject of a joint BTS/Min South meeting in London on February 9.

Tunneling under operating highways and railways: Part 2
16 January, 2023
Keivan Rafie and Gary Kramer of Hatch present the second of their two-part look at lessons in planning and constructing tunnel crossings with shallow cover under live transport corridors

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.

Tunnelling Under Operating Highways and Railways: Part 2
28 December, 2022
Keivan Rafie and Gary Kramer of Hatch present the second of their two-part look at lessons in planning and constructing tunnel crossings with shallow cover under live transport corridors.

Key points in artificial ground freezing techniques
28 December, 2022
Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF) was the focus of a key presentation earlier this year to ISSMGE’s TC204 symposium, in Cambridge, UK. Geotechnical consultant Vittorio Manassero reviewed and discussed the method in the presentation to delegates.

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).

25 years of BTS/ICE specification for tunneling
21 November, 2022
The 4th Edition – Collaborating for sustainability

Long sight, deep dive
21 November, 2022
With so much up the air, it seems, as costs and economics bust out of their cages and politicians take to deciding what to do, for the best, recently some noises came to be made about cutting construction projects.

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.

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.

Sustainability key theme for BTS Conference 2022
10 October, 2022
Sustainability will be a key theme at this year’s BTS Conference in London on October 11-12.

ITA president to give keynote at BTS Conference
27 September, 2022
Newly-elected ITA president Arnold Dix will be a keynote speaker at the BTS Conference and Exhibition in London on October 11-12.

Kate Cooksey Interview
30 August, 2022
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

Steps forward in SCL sustainable tunnels
30 August, 2022
Ross Dimmock, vice president for tunnelling at Normet, gave an online talk for the BTS lecture in January to discuss the advancing performance of sprayed concrete lining (SCL) technology in underground construction, including progress to support sustainability

Tunnelling completed at Hinkley Point C
11 August, 2022
Balfour Beatty has completed the third and final offshore tunnel for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station’s cooling system under the Bristol Channel in the UK.

Sightline on sustainability
03 August, 2022
Alun Thomas, of All2plan Consulting, looks at ways sustainability could be achieved in tunnelling through innovation, such as permanent sprayed concrete linings (PSCL) and composite shell linings (CSL)