Search Results: 'Costain'

Manufacturers go for more used plant
10 August, 2000
Tight margins for the tunnelling industry mean that good quality used and/or refurbished plant is an attractive proposition. Major manufacturers of new plant are now taking an increased interest in this market – if there is money to be made. Maurice Jones reports on the trend.

No holiday at Great Yarmouth
01 August, 2000
The opening up of the UK power market has led to a number of private initiatives, among which is Great Yarmouth Power's project on the sea front at the east England seaside resort of Great Yarmouth. This report is on the project's tunnelling and shaft sinking for cable ducts and cooling water.

JLE and the lessons from Heathrow
11 June, 2000
At the March meeting of the British Tunnelling Association, construction and redesigns of the Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) stations at London Bridge were described Taylor Woodrow's John Wallis and David Sharrocks, and at Waterloo and Westminster by Peter South of AMEC and Steve Parker of Balfour Beatty. Valuable lessons had been learnt from the Heathrow collapse.

Funds agreed for Malaysian link
30 April, 2000