Search Results: 'BTS'

Negotiating the North Eastern Line
01 December, 2002
An underground journey in Singapore opened the new season of BTS meetings in London in September 2002, with a presentation from Peter Chiappa, area manager Asia Pacific, and Wolfgang Freitzsche, managing director, of Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG, detailing the demanding requirements, troublesome ground conditions and ultimate resounding success of Contract 704 on the State's new North Eastern Line (NEL) metro

A parliamentary forum for underground space
01 November, 2002

Competence in the tunnelling industry
01 November, 2002
Prior to their forthcoming lecture, which will be presented to British Tunnelling Society members on 21 November, Douglas Allenby of Edmund Nuttall, Bob Ibell of London Bridge Associates and Peter Jewell of Halliburton KBR, explain the need for an independent assessment of competence within the British tunnelling industry, and discuss current training initiatives

Insuring an industry
01 October, 2002
As a result of some recent high-profile incidents within the industry, insurers have been increasingly concerned that tunnelling was becoming uninsurable in the market. A joint working party, between the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI), has since produced a draft Code of Practice that would allow insurers to continue to offer cover. Presentation of the draft Joint Code of Practice to BTS members took place on 4 July 2002, followed by an in-depth discussion

Box Jacking - the road to Histadrut
01 July, 2002
Danny Sherban and Rania Gideon of Yodfat Engineers were joined by Jack Knight of Charles Haswell and John Belton of British Drilling and Freezing to give a presentation on a recent box-jacking project in Israel to the British Tunnelling Society on 18 April 2002. Ground freezing was an important element of the temporary works

2002 Tunnelling Industry Awards
13 June, 2002
On 10 May the first Tunnelling Industry Awards ceremony took place, an event jointly organised by the BTS and T&T International, to recognise and reward achievement within the underground construction industry in the UK

BTS debate - Certifiably argumentative
05 May, 2002
On the 21st March 2002, The British Tunnelling Society held it's annual debate. The motion proposed to the house, "Self-Certification is Dangerous for Tunnelling", produced a strongly argued discussion, which generated a very close result

Predicting tool wear in drill and blast
01 April, 2002
Unexpected drill bit wear during drill and blast tunnelling can prove surprisingly costly. In this article Dipl. Geol. Ralf J Plinninger, Prof. Dr. Georg Spaun and Dr. Kurosch Thuro present their latest methodology for predicting and classifying tool wear

Fine lining in Bangkok
01 March, 2002
A close working relationship between designer and contractor ensured the successful first use of sprayed concrete for tunnel support under Bangkok, writes Stephen Woodrow of Maunsell, in his entry for the British Tunnelling Society's, Harding Prize award. He describes the design approach adopted in the construction of temporary lining for intervention shaft adits for the city's metro

Primary ways to save (part 2)
14 January, 2002
In the second part of his paper, submitted to the BTS Harding Prize Competition 2001, Jon Hurt of Arup describes how value engineering continued to make savings during primary and secondary lining stages on the CTRL North Downs Tunnel, UK