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BTS 2023 lecture series gets under way
05 January, 2023
The British Tunnelling Society’s (BTS) 2023 evening lectures kick off with a presentation on HS2 on January 19.

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.

King to deliver Harding Memorial Lecture
26 October, 2022
This year’s British Tunnelling Society Harding Memorial Lecture 2022 will be given by Mike King from MK Tunnelling Ltd.

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

Research to reduce carbon in SCL
03 August, 2022
Research recently complete on low carbon sprayed concrete (LCSC), including work for HS2,is summarised by participants Chris Peaston of Peaston Concrete Consultancy, Chris Goodier, Sergio Cavalaro and Zhi Hu of Loughborough University, Michael Sataya of Arup, Stuart Manning of Shotcrete Services, and John Reddy of Ecocem

Ferrovial Tideway team to present BTS June lecture
31 May, 2022
Thames Tideway will be the focus of the British Tunnelling Society’s June meeting.

Tunneller, lawyer and inventor
17 March, 2022
John Bartlett was a founder member/chairman of the British Tunnelling Society. He invented the bentonite tunnelling machine, designed the UK stretch of the Channel Tunnel and provided critical input into many other projects. Julian Champkin offers this appreciation of his life

James Clark Medal recipients honoured at ICE lunch
02 March, 2022
Two recent recipients of the British Tunnelling Society’s (BTS) James Clark Medal were celebrated at a winners’ lunch hosted by the BTS in London in February.

Ivor Thomas Interview
21 February, 2022
Past BTS Chair Ivor Thomas has spent a lifetime in civil engineering construction. He spoke to Julian Champkin about the past and future of tunnelling, the need to enthuse the public – and the exciting challenges that the new generation of tunnellers will face

Uncontrolled groundwater inflows the subject of BGA webinar
11 January, 2022
‘Thinking conceptually about groundwater problems’ is the British Geotechnical Association’s (BGA) next annual John Mitchell Lecture to be presented online on 18 January by T&T contributing author Dr Martin Preene.

BTSYM invites presentations for March conference
05 January, 2022
BTSYM – the group for the British Tunnelling Society’s Young Members – has announced a call for presentations for its 2022 conference that is scheduled to take place on 18 March at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London, UK.

Harding prize gains momentum for 2022
28 December, 2021
Young tunnel engineers can raise their profile and make their work visible to the civil engineering community by entering the Harding Prize, named after the founder chairman of the Society, Sir Harold Harding

BTS launches Harding prize for 2022
29 November, 2021
Young tunnel engineers can raise their profile and make their work visible to the civil engineering community by entering the Harding Prize, named after the founder chairman of the Society, Sir Harold Harding

BTS health and safety course start approaches
15 November, 2021
Following the success of its Underground Health and Safety Course over past years, the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) is repeating the two-day event which will run on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 November 2021.

New resource aims to inspire young people into engineering
25 October, 2021
Not-for-profit organisation Engineering UK has launched an attractive and informative PowerPoint presentation on the Tomorrow’s Engineers website that is designed to encourage 14-19-year-olds to consider a career in one of the many subject areas of the engineering sector.

In-person BTS lectures to resume this month
14 October, 2021
Following 18 months of unprecedented living and working under a cruel pandemic, a sense of normality is gradually returning as the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) resumes its highly-acclaimed in-person lectures at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), London.

ICE president launches follow-up film on infrastructure and climate change
30 September, 2021
With less than a month to go before her one-year term ends as the 156th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Rachael Skinner has announced the launch of her second film about acting on climate change.