Search Results: 'Rail Link Engineering'

SRL East tunnelling shortlist announced
06 September, 2022
Three consortia have been shortlisted for the tunnelling contracts on Melbourne’s SRL East rail transport project.

Keeping hold of the natural balance
24 June, 2022
Careful groundwater management was vital to build Copenhagen’s metro and, elsewhere, dewatering is taking on more tunnelling challenges. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Update on Metro Projects in Europe and Asia
22 June, 2022
R Pandita and M Rehbock-Sander (both of Amberg Engineering) presented this paper at WTC2020 Malaysia and describe selected aspects of European and Asian metro projects, including geotechnics, construction, safety, ventilation and risk

Positive moves for tunnelling sustainability
22 April, 2022
Moves to deliver sustainability in tunnelling are underway on multiple fronts, including a focus on carbon reduction. Report by Patrick Reynolds

EOI open for Melbourne tunnelling package
06 April, 2022
Expressions of Interest have opened for the eastern section of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL), the longest tunnelling package in Victoria’s history.

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

Divik Bandopadhyaya Interview
30 December, 2021
Aged 27, Divik Bandopadhyaya has just completed a one-year stint as chair of BTSYM. He discusses his education, interests and career to date, offering along the way some advice to newly-qualified tunnel engineers. George Demetri reports

Digital drive
29 October, 2021
Digital technology promises multiple benefits and is making huge inroads in many sectors but its take-up in tunnelling and other infrastructure projects is still at relatively early stages. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Factory for Fehmarn
27 July, 2021
Main construction has started at Fehmarn for the world’s longest immersed tube tunnel. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Past present and future
23 March, 2021
This article, from September 1999 by Eric Snowdon and Myles O’Reilly examines the progress of UK tunnelling from the mid-19th century onwards, recounting innovations and achievements, examining present activity and assessing the prospects for UK tunnellers

Bob Ibell awarded BTS James Clark Medal
23 March, 2021
Robert Ibell, co-founder and director of London Bridge Associates, has been awarded the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) James Clark Medal for 2021.

Brenner BT research may improve tunnel sustainability
23 February, 2021
Drainage water from the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) could be used to supply sustainable energy to residential districts.

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.

Heriot-Watt team plan ‘floating’ Irish Sea tunnel
17 December, 2020
A team from Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University has proposed a floating underwater tunnel in place of a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Connecting HS2 at Euston
22 September, 2020
Work on the UK’s new HS2 high-speed rail line is on track. Emma Hale and Christoph Eberle of Mott MacDonald describe one of the line’s first underground structures to be built in London

Manila accepts first two of 25 TBM army
09 September, 2020
Officials from the Philippine’s Department of Transportation have accepted the first two of 25 TBMs that will be used to bore the US$7bn Metro Manila Subway Project.

Trans Euro Express
17 July, 2020
The Magistrale is a 1,500km high-speed rail project that will link France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Julian Champkin reports on the tunnelling through Germany’s Swabian Alps.

A new type of Indian Jumbo
11 June, 2020
An advanced automated tunnelling jumbo is excavating a 15.1km tunnel on a flagship railway project in northern India. Beatrice Rispal of Sandvik reports

Finally back on track
11 June, 2020
HS2 has at last been given the green light, following the notice to proceed which is enabling four joint ventures to finalise their designs. Julian Champkin reports

First Forrestfield TBM makes final breakthrough
25 February, 2020
Australia – The first TBM mining the Forrestfield-Airport Link in Perth has broken through. ‘Grace’ broke through into the Bayswater dive structure in February and will be followed by ‘Sandy’ in May, which is tunnelling the typical three-months behind the lead machine. The contractor is the Salini Impregilo-NRW JV.