Search Results: 'Mott MacDonald'

Tunnelling wins BCI awards
01 December, 2002

Monitoring changes in instrumentation
01 December, 2002
Chris Rasmussen, technical director of ITM-Soil, looks at recent trends in instrumentation and monitoring and describes how these were utilised when the 9.3m diameter Heathrow Airside Tunnel TBM crossed 3.5m above the 'live' 5.8m diameter Heathrow Express Tunnel earlier this year

Tunnel rethink at Stonehenge
01 November, 2002

San Diego NATM breakthrough
15 October, 2002

Balfour wins Hindhead
15 October, 2002

Scottish sewer
15 October, 2002

30km Lesotho breakthrough
10 September, 2002

Delhi tunnel underway
01 August, 2002

Taiwan's 22 TBM tunnel
01 August, 2002

Heathrow's ART takes off
01 July, 2002
In the sensitive confines of an airside tunnel construction site, planning ahead to minimise settlement near a busy runway is vital. Tris Thomas reports from the ART project at the UK's Heathrow airport where extensive measures have been undertaken to aid the smooth construction of the project's 1.3km long, 8.1m i.d. twin tunnels

Computer technology in tunnel design
13 June, 2002
Computers feature in every facet of our lives. While the remote-control, that doubles as mobile phone, reads your email and makes the tea is still a long way off, engineers are increasingly using computer technology to design tunnels. AH Thomas and EC Bennett of Mott MacDonald and CR Clayton of University of Southampton discuss the use of computers in tunnel design

Powering under London
13 June, 2002
For over a year, three Lovat EPBMs have been steadily boring a 20km long cable tunnel under north London. With the end of tunnelling in-sight Tris Thomas visited the site and talked to Jim Street, project manager for the client, National Grid Company, and contractor, J. Murphy & Sons divisional manager Peter Jaques and contracts manager George Jackson.

Crossrail up a gear
13 June, 2002

San Diego starts NATM excavation
05 May, 2002

Arrowhead in award process
05 May, 2002

People and Places
01 April, 2002

Using hindsight at Hull
01 March, 2002
Shortly before completing the tunnelling works for the UK's Hull wastewater scheme, a collapse occurred near one of the shafts. In their presentation to the British Tunnelling Society on 22 November 2001, Steve Tindall of Yorkshire Water, Peter Chamley and Bill Grose of Arup and Colin Eddie of Morgan Est, presented the lessons learned from the investigation

Consultant JV to Portugal
01 March, 2002

Mott's gone to Iceland
11 January, 2002

Singapore services
11 January, 2002