Search Results: 'Chun Wo'

Manila Water celebrates fourth aqueduct milestone
16 August, 2021
At a ceremony on August 14, Manila Water celebrated an excavation milestone on the US$108m NBAQ4 project, one of the Philippines' largest water-supply infrastructure schemes.

Manila Aqueduct
31 October, 2019
At the June 2019 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society, GHD’s practice leader for tunnels, Brendan Henry spoke about the NBAQ 4 project to deliver water to seven million residents in the Manila metropolitan area. Alex Conacher reports

Meeting challenges under pressure
14 November, 2011
Traditional compressed air work in tunnelling, also referred to in some quarters as caisson work and diving, has all but disappeared in modern tunnelling, but new challenges have been thrown up by deeper tunnels and those of larger section. These are being taken up by sophisticated procedures to ensure the safety of those involved in necessary work. Maurice Jones reviews some leading practitioners and their tunnelling work and equipment. Additional material from Nicole Robinson

Dynamism of the East
22 August, 2011
Running along the fiery Asia Pacific coast are some of the most explosive tunneling markets in the world. Hong Kong is booming, Japan is storming ahead in innovation, Malaysia is clamping down on corruption and Singapore is a hot bed of activity. Alex Conacher tries to keep up

Kwun Tong Line Extension kicks off
27 July, 2011

Third bypass contract for Chun Wo
12 January, 2011

Construction starts on Tuen Mun sewer
03 December, 2010

Dragages scoops KCRC contract
01 December, 2002

Refining design on the Black Hill tunnels
01 November, 2002
A constructive partnering environment on Contract 603, Black Hill Tunnels, part of the Tseung Kwan O Entension Project in Hong Kong, enabled optimisation of several aspects of the design. The design-build contract involved complex setting-out and closely spaced excavations. N G Swannell, associate director of Halcrow Group, R Harris, principal engineer for Halcrow Pacific and C Burgess, design engineer for Halcrow China, explain

Dragages wins KCRC tunnel contract
01 November, 2002

KCRC split over bids
15 October, 2002

Gung Ho in Hong Kong
01 August, 2002

KCRC drops d+b contract
01 April, 2002

Forming a new route for drainage
21 September, 2001
High-density polyethylene void formers have proved effective in providing drainage and pressure relief at the Black Hill Tunnels for Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway Corporation. N G Swannell, associate director, Halcrow Group; T R M Greig, tunnel design team leader, Halcrow Group; F Belhomme, technical manager, Dumez GTM-Chun Wo JV; and A Bamforth, managing director, ABG, explain how the project was carried out.

Scope and planning of the TKE extension
15 October, 1999

Tunnelling on the Tseu ng Kwan O extension
15 October, 1999
The Tseung Kwan O Extension (TKE) to Hong Kong's MTR network is the latest in a long line of metro projects to be undertaken in the SAR, which continues to be one of the world's tunnelling hot spots. Technical Journalist Adrian Greeman speaks to client the MTRC about the justification and planning for the extension, while Editor Steve McCormack reports from the TKE's two main tunnel contracts.