Search Results: 'Donaldson Associates'

Springs Tunnel Refurbishment
27 March, 2018
Alun Thomas from supplier Minova and Dave Thomas from main contractor AMCO look at some of the products and systems used for the Springs Tunnel refurbishment project

Upgrading bond Street
29 June, 2017
London Underground Bond Street Station Upgrade Project (BSSU) is due for completion and open to public in April. In December’s British Tunnelling Society Meeting, the project was told from the perspective of the SCL designer and the contractor working in a one team environment. Through innovation and utilising the latest technology they pushed the SCL design boundaries and developed a safe system of work by minimising the impact on infrastructure while optimising the excavation times to create necessary additional underground space. The speakers were Richard Watts, project manager, London Underground; Steve Nuttall, project director, Color; Andreas Spiegl, principal tunnel engineer, Dr Sauer & Partners and senior SCL engineer on site

Court rules against Glendoe client
13 January, 2017
Great Britain – A court has issued its ruling on the Glendoe collapse, finding in favour of contractor Hochtief at the expense of client Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE). The decision was given on 21 December and denied SSE a GBP 130M (USD 160M in Jan 2017) damages claim against Hochtief. The contractor will however have to pay low availability damages of GBP 1M (USD 1.24M in Jan 2017) for not completing the remedial work.

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.

Cowi UK Comes Together
05 December, 2016
As Cowi acquisitions Donaldson Associates and Flint & Neill prepare to form Cowi UK in the New Year, Tunnels & Tunnelling speaks to Andy Sloan, managing director of Donaldson Associates about the new changes and the journey from “Donaldson’s” as it is known in the UK, to Cowi

Cowi’s UK businesses unite under parent brand
10 October, 2016
Great Britain - Flint & Neil and Donaldson Associates will rebrand as Cowi, the Danish company announced. The change will come into effect on 1 January 2017.

BTS Christmas debate
09 June, 2016
In December 2015 the British Tunnelling Society met to debate the assertion: "This house believes further development of SCL for complex urban tunnels is the best way forward for our industry”. The rapporteur is Paul Perry of Donaldson Associates

Britain launches segmental lining code of practice
20 April, 2016
GREAT BRITAIN – A specification for the design of concrete segmental linings was launched in mid-April. The document, “Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 8810:2016 – Tunnel Design: Design of concrete segmental linings: Code of practice” was produced by the British Standards Institute (BSI) and lead technical author Arup.

Wojtasik succeeds O’Murchu as BTSYM chair
16 November, 2015
GREAT BRITAIN – Mateusz Wojtasik has succeeded Eoin O’Murchu as chair of the British Tunnelling Society Young Members (BTSYM). The handover took place at the group’s AGM on 10 November at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

Cable guy
10 October, 2013
A new cable tunnel has gone seemingly without a hitch in the Willesden/harlesden neighbourhoods of North London. Alex Conacher tours the site with Murphy’s tunnelling project manager Keith Pollard.

New boss for BTS
25 May, 2012
The chief tunnel engineer at Donaldson Associates has been appointed chairman of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) at the association’s annual general meeting on 17 May 2012.

Urban CSO jack in Jersey
18 January, 2012

Network Rail unveils cut-price plan for UK rail tunnels
29 September, 2010
Network Rail and structural engineer specialist Donaldson Associates have unveiled detailed design ideas of how tunnels in the UK should be renewed and repaired over the next decade.

Metro North challenges for Dublin
24 November, 2008

London cable tunnel fiesta
19 August, 2008

Drill and blast in confined spaces
29 April, 2008
At the joint meeting of the BTS and MinSouth on 21 February 2008, Richard Soloman, project manager for WECS, Damian McGirr, of Donaldson Associates, and Mark Thomas, site manager for WECS, described the drill and blast works on an urban flood alleviation tunnel in Bristol, UK

Global Claims
08 April, 2008
A standard defence to any claim submitted by a contractor is, “it is a global claim and so it should fail completely”. T&TI’s contracts and disputes correspondent, Paul Cullinan of Plus 3 Consultants, examines what is meant by the phrase global claim and some common law developments which could show that the tide is receding from the high water mark where a defendant’s assertion that a claim was global was sufficient to send a contractor packing

Scottish tunnels to link two reservoirs
01 August, 2005

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

Logging on for TBM productivity
01 April, 2002
A TBM production logging system proved an effective tool for site-based decision-making during construction of the Portsmouth Transfer Tunnel for the Portsmouth and Havant Wastewater Treatment Works & Sludge Recycling Scheme in the UK. Simon Stroud of Halliburton KBR described the system for the British Tunnelling Society's Harding Prize competition, on which this article is based.