Search Results: 'ITA'

Arnold Dix – Interview
28 March, 2024
A tunneller with 100 million website hits? Unlikely, surely, but Arnold Dix is an unlikely tunneller. A tunneller is not supposed to be a successful barrister, a national icon, or be world famous. Dix has, accidentally, become the exception. He is, as well as all that, the current President of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES); this April he is to chair ITA’s annual Member Nations General Assembly meeting at the World Tunnel Congress (WTC 2024) in Shenzhen, China. Julian Champkin spoke to him

ITA on immersed & floating tunnels
26 March, 2024
Two of the many reports from ITA in the last two years have focused on immersed tunnels and floating tunnels, respectively, through the efforts of the expert team in the area, Working Group 11 (WG11)

Bringing all together
25 March, 2024
With so much tunnelling work in China, recent issues of T&TI have carried major articles ahead of the country hosting the World Tunnel Congress (WTC 2024), in April. The articles have given a sense of the scale and variety of major project activity across the nation – and an idea of the strategic vision for rail/metro transport and use of tunnelling technology in rapidly expanding Shenzhen, the host city of WTC 2024.

International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association turns 50 this year !
13 March, 2024
Unprecedented Gathering of Distinguished ITA Past Presidents at WTC2024, Shenzhen, China

Resilient underground design and systems
27 February, 2024
The need for subsurface spaces to be more sustainable and resilient was the focus of an ITA report published last year which, in considering ‘Urban Underground Space for Resilient Cities’, looked at need, strategies, design concepts to address the challenges

Delving Deep: Rethinking Underground Use
27 February, 2024
Rethinking Our Cities using the Underground Space’ was the important theme of a dedicated collaborative event hosted in Porto, Portugal, by the Portuguese tunnelling society (CPT), in Nov 2023, and moderated by ITACUS Co-chair Antonia Cornaro, Expert Underground Space with Amberg Engineering as well as lecturer on Planning of Underground Space at ETH Zurich. In this article, she describes and summarises the key points of the interesting discussion.

Technological Innovation Drives The High-Quality Development Of The Shenzhen Metro
27 February, 2024
Under the guidance of the innovation-driven development strategy, Shenzhen Metro is undergoing a transformation in its development model, transitioning from rapid expansion to a focus on highquality development.

All that is below
26 February, 2024
Underground space can be discussed in many ways – broadly, on the possibilities for and uses of the below surface asset; and, specifically, looking at precisely and measurably what can be done. Both are discussed in this issue of T&TI.

BTS February 2024 Meeting – TMCLK Challenges, Innovations, and Lessons Learned
25 January, 2024
When: Thursday 8th February 2024 at 18:00 hrs

China at successes and WTC 2024 preparations
22 January, 2024
The latest ITA Awards held many plaudits for tunnel projects in China, which is shortly to host the next World Tunnel Congress (WTC 2024), in Shenzhen, in mid-April, and will feature many large projects from across the country in addition to presentations by international tunnellers

Pushing on ahead
22 January, 2024
A new year brings a sense of revitalised or even new energy. So much to get moving on, to refresh or renew, to drive ahead with, hopefully.

STUVA Prize 2023 goes to Heinz Ehrbar
09 January, 2024
At the STUVA Conference 2023 in Munich, Heinz Ehrbar was awarded the prestigious STUVA Prize.

Great tasks beckon
29 December, 2023
Scale brings judgment. Bigger is better, more challenging. Difficult undertakings, possibly. Exciting, most likely. Such as with singular, eye-catching, large-scale infrastructure projects in the midst of society.

Tunnelling progress over the last three decades in China
29 December, 2023
While international tunnellers are aware of China’s many tunnel projects there is so much more to know. China can point to numerous project developments both built and under construction as well as technological innovations.

Information modelling in tunnelling
29 December, 2023
The matrix of procedures, processes and responsibilities in how to manage information in tunnelling projects in the era of BIM was the focus of guidance published last year by ITA’s Working Group 22. T&T looks at key points and recommendations

ITACET LUNCTIME LECTURE SERIES: JANUARY 2024
14 December, 2023
January 9th - 13:00 CET

ITA Tunnelling Awards winners revealed
27 November, 2023
The winners of this year’s ITA Tunnelling Awards were revealed on Friday.

Metal snag halts tunnel rescue
24 November, 2023
The rescue of the 41 men trapped in a part collapsed tunnel in India has halted after the auger hit metal objects.

Tunnel rescue operation continues on three fronts
23 November, 2023
Drilling is continuing on three fronts to reach the 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel after a part collapse on November 12.

Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: video released of trapped workers
22 November, 2023
A video of the 21 men trapped in a tunnel in India's Uttarakhand state was released yesterday.