Search Results: 'Systra'

Tunnel construction is complete on Copenhagen’s Cityringen
23 February, 2017
Denmark - The four TBMs excavating Copenhagen's Cityringen have completed their drives, twin tunnels comprising 15.5km in long, client Metroselskabet announced February 20.

Mouchel appoints new director
27 November, 2015
GREAT BRITAIN – Mouchel has appointed Richard Crossley as its senior technical director for transport planning. Crossley joins from WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff where he led transportation planning services in the Middle East. Crossley brings with him over 40 years of experience within the transportation consultancy sector, including six years with the Department of Transport.

Tunnel dreams
25 November, 2015
IT'S A HOT Sunday evening in late June. I've got an assignment overdue for work; lectures starting early the following morning, and instead of thinking about either I'm heading to the Warwick University Campus Bar. It's good to be back in further education.

Breakthrough at Copenhagen
10 February, 2015
DENMARK – The two Copenhagen Cityringen TBMs broke through last month. The site, located some 30m below an existing historical train station, hosted a visit by Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

Greek Young Members emerge with Athens Career Day
01 December, 2014
GREECE - The first activity of the Young Members Group of the Greek Tunnelling Society (YMG-GTS) enjoyed an enthusiastic industry reception. The ‘Career Day for Tunnel and Geotechnical Professionals’ was held on 28 September during the 2nd Eastern European Tunnelling Conference in Athens, Greece and its attendance of 80 professionals exceeded expectations.

Eastern promise
26 August, 2014
Previously driven by the oil and gas sector, tunnelling in the Middle East is enjoying a new boom as metro systems and new sewer networks are developed throughout the region. Bernadette Ballantyne reports

French firm wins contract to design Jeddah Metro
21 July, 2014
The Saudi government has signed a SAR 276 million project with a French firm to provide preliminary engineering designs for its public transport metro project in Jeddah.

Valley Girl
26 March, 2014
The Lyon Turin high speed rail connection calls for a base tunnel under Mount Ambin. Personnel from site manager Systra, and client Lyon Turin Ferroviaire discuss plans for La Maddalena exploratory tunnel, the organisational structure of the stretches of line, and problems that have dogged the project since before site handover

Makkah Metro plans afoot
28 November, 2013
Two metro systems will be established in the holy city of Makkah in the first phase of a SR62 billion integrated public transport project.

Copenhagen copes
28 February, 2013
Alex Conacher speaks to Guy Taylor, project director of client Metroselskabet, and Soren Eskesen, head of Cityringen tunnelling for the client, and chair of the Danish Tunnel and Underground Works Association for this update from site, and a new project offshoot, as the first machine arrives in port and site preparations draw to a close

Cairo metro awards Line 1 renovation contract
08 February, 2013
The Egyptian National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) has awarded acontract for a renovation study of Line 1 of the Cairo metro.France-based company, Systra, which originally designed Line 1 andalso worked on Lines 2 and 3, has been awarded the contract.

Copenhagen cut
13 April, 2011
Detailed planning is underway for major excavations and tunnelling works on the Cityringen metro line in Copenhagen. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Planning ahead in Cairo
18 January, 2011
Construction on Line 3 of Cairo metro is seeing Phase One handover to Phase Two works while detailed planning is underway for the next two phases, reports Patrick Reynolds

Excavating Cairo’s Metro Line 3
08 July, 2010
Cairo's rapidly growing population will have its transport problems eased by a new line for its metro system, reports Adrian Greeman

Danish dash
18 May, 2010
More metro for Copenhagen and a possible undersea link to Germany are the new major plans involving tunnels in Denmark. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Bid docs out for Cityringen
18 November, 2009

Bechtel gets Crossrail
20 April, 2009

The Dubai Metro tunnels
30 January, 2009
Dubai’s metro scheme was presented to the October BTS meeting by Paul Groves, Atkins, Junichiro Nakayama, project manager bored tunnels JTM JV and Vijay Singh, tunnels resident engineer for Systra/Parsons JV and covered the Red and Green Lines construction.

Shaft, station changes for Copenhagen
24 November, 2008

Copenhagen plans Cityringen
11 August, 2008
Cityringen is the next, entirely underground, phase of Copenhagen’s metro. With tenders due to be called next year, contributing editor, Patrick Reynolds, recently caught up with the project team