Search Results: 'Barhale'

UK Power Networks and Barhale build tunnel to power HS2 construction to Euston
25 March, 2024
UK Power Networks has partnered with Barhale to build a micro-tunnel under the Grand Union Canal in West London to deliver power for HS2.

Small bores, big impacts
28 June, 2023
Views shared with TTNA on the trends and advances in the trenchless and microtunneling markets

Rod Young – Interview
13 June, 2023
Rod Young is the Chair of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS). Unlike many of his predecessors, his speciality is in microtunnelling. He talks to Julian Champkin about the importance of small-bore, and his hopes for the post-Covid BTS

Barhale appoints new director
01 February, 2023
Civil engineering and infrastructure specialist Barhale has appointed a new regional director for Yorkshire and north-east England.

Barhale to clear mussels from London tunnels
13 January, 2023
Barhale has secured a £9m package of schemes under Thames Water’s Raw Water Tunnel Inspection & Refurbishment programme.

Barhale to protect sewer from HS2 tunnelling
20 December, 2022
Barhale has been awarded a £4.5m contract by Thames Water to reinforce a sewer to minimise the impact from HS2 tunnelling.

National grids
25 March, 2021
Utility grid projects bring a variety of tunnelling challenges. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Laser scanning covers the points
25 February, 2021
Laser scanning and 3D virtual modelling were critical tools in the refurbishment of a deep shaft on London’s Thames Water Ring Main, resulting in a better foundation for future repair and maintenance. Julian Champkin reports

Tideway central section reaches shaft-lining milestone
05 February, 2021
Work on Tideway, London’s ‘super sewer’, continues to make excellent progress as the first shaft, secondary lining in the central section of the tunnel is completed.

Barhale tunnel shield overcomes pipe-jack issues
20 October, 2020
UK-based infrastructure specialist Barhale designed an innovative tunnel shield for a 215m pipe jack which has connected to the main Tideway Tunnel beneath London’s River Thames.

Barhale in £22m Thames Water tunnels and aqueducts win
11 September, 2020
UK-based civil and infrastructure services provider Barhale has secured a key Thames Water AMP7 contract. The four-year, £22m (US$28m) programme involves inspections and works on the Thames Water Ring Main (TWRM) and raw water tunnels.

Beneath Oslo and the deep fjords
17 July, 2020
Dr Benoît Jones reports on the British Tunnelling Society’s evening meeting which discussed the technical challenges posed by future tunnels in Norway

Chelsea to Battersea tunnel surface settlements
16 August, 2019
Monitoring of ground surface movements induced by the construction of the Chelsea to Battersea Pipeline Tunnel project is presented as part of this case study. The surface settlements induced by the shaft construction have been analysed and compared with current methodologies and information from recent projects. Movements from excavation and construction of the tunnel are also analysed, and back-analysis of volume losses is presented. The authors are Veriuska Ortiz Lovera, geotechnical engineer, Mott MacDonald; Andrew Hejdner, project manager, Cadent Gas; James McCaffrey, construction manager, Skanska UK Construction; and Mohammad Arasteh, senior tunnel engineer, Mott MacDonald

To the next century
08 March, 2019
Alex Conacher visits the Elan Valley Aqueduct project in Wales, where tunnellers are constructing three bypass sections adjacent to the existing Victorian asset

Chelsea-Battersea tunnel nears completion
10 December, 2018
Great Britain – Work on a new tunnel under the River Thames project in Battersea Park is nearing completion. Costing GBP 18M (22.9M USD), the 330m-long tunnel will transport gas under the Thames between Chelsea and Battersea in West London. Owned by gas distribution company Cadent, the tunnel forms part of a GBP 1bn programme to replace ageing infrastructure in the UK’s capital.

Thames Tideway connection contract awarded to Barhale
04 October, 2018
Great Britain – Barhale has been awarded a contract to intercept the West Putney Storm Relief CSO and connect it to the main Thames Tideway Tunnel. The GBP 9M (USD 11.7M) contract, which was awarded by Bam Nuttall, Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty, will see the construction of a series of underground structures to link the two systems.

Breakthrough on West London gas tunnel
04 January, 2018
Great Britain - A 330m-long tunnel from London’s Chelsea to Battersea Park has broken through. Owned by gas distribution company Cadent, the tunnel forms part of a GBP 1bn programme to replace ageing infrastructure.

Pipe Jacking Association appoint new chairman and vice-chairman
09 January, 2017
Great Britain - Graeme Monteith, Tunnelling Engineering Manager at Barhale Construction, has been appointed chairman of the Pipe Jacking Association and Jim Kirby, an Associate at consulting engineer Donaldson Associates, vice-chairman.

A perfect storm
30 October, 2015
The UK pipe jacking industry is in a sharp, albeit brief slump. Several factors have come together to make what was supposed to be an end to the rollercoaster of water work, into a complete halt in activity. Alex Conacher reports.

Barhale awarded Elan Valley contract
21 August, 2015
GREAT BRITAIN – Barhale has recently been awarded a multi-million pound contract by Severn Trent Water to deliver three tunnelling projects and one pipeline project on the Elan Valley Aqueduct.