Search Results: 'Institution of Civil Engineers'

Robert Mair – Interview
28 February, 2024
Few in the tunnelling world are known to the general public, fewer still are profiled in a broadcast programme such as on BBC’s prestigious ‘The Life Scientific’ on Radio Four. In fact, only one has been accorded that mark of public recognition and interest – Robert Mair, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at Cambridge University, and recent Master of Jesus College there, and is past-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

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.

Harding Prize lecture in March
22 February, 2024
The three finalists for this year’s Harding Prize will present their papers at the British Tunnelling Society’s (BTS) March meeting.

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

BTS January 2024 Meeting – Artificial Ground Freezing
04 January, 2024
The first British Tunnelling Society meeting of 2024 will focus on Artificial Ground Freezing; a versatile solution for water tightness and temporary soil structure.

North Bristol relief sewer
27 November, 2023
Tunnelling challenges on the North Bristol Relief Sewer (NBRS) Project were presented and discussed at the BTS Meeting in May by Dominic Barlow, Senior Project Manager, and Adam Evenden, Project Engineer, of J Murphy and Sons Ltd. This report on the meeting was prepared by Dominic Barlow and Adam Evenden

Bts december 2023 meeting – silvertown tunnel: a christmas jamboree of tunnelling
20 November, 2023
Thursday 14th December 2023 at 18:00 hrs

UK infrastructure planning needs long-term approach, says ICE
05 October, 2023
The UK must change its approach to planning and delivering infrastructure, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has said following prime minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement yesterday that he was scrapping the Manchester leg of HS2.

BTS October 2023 Meeting - Highway 401 & 409 Rail Tunnel Project, Toronto
28 September, 2023
Event Date: Thursday 19th October 2023 at 18:00 hrs

From Gold Mine to Hydroelectricity – Kidston Pumped Storage Project
26 September, 2023
At the annual joint BTS and MinSouth meeting, held on 9 February at the Institution of Civil Engineers, in London, Clare Önal – a Principal Engineer with the tunnels team of Mott MacDonald – gave a presentation on the conversion of an abandoned gold mine at Kidston in Queensland, Australia, to a pumped storage hydroelectric (PSH) scheme. Andrew Hindmarch, Senior Principal Tunnel Engineer of Mott MacDonald was the rapporteur

Bookings open for BTS health and safety course
19 September, 2023
Bookings are now open for this year’s BTS Underground Health & Safety Course.

Forecasting tunnelling progress using AI
25 August, 2023
The Harding Prize Competition is named after the founder of the British Tunnelling Society, Sir Harold Harding, and is for entrants under the age of 33. Shortlisted papers were presented to the BTS evening meeting on 13 April, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, in London. Jake Rankin, data scientist with J Murphy & Sons Ltd for this project, was voted winner of the 2023 Competition with a paper entitled ‘Artificial Intelligence for Forecasting Tunnelling Progress’. It is published here with the author’s permission

HS2 fire focus of BTS September lecture
24 August, 2023
The fire on an HS2 personnel service vehicle (PSV) last year will be the focus of the BTS’s September lecture.

Grey cast iron linings – new structural insights
24 July, 2023
The Harding Prize Competition is named after the founder of the British Tunnelling Society, Sir Harold Harding, and is for entrants under the age of 33. Shortlisted papers were presented to the BTS evening meeting on 13 April, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, in London. Agustín Ruiz López, postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, was a runner-up in this year’s Competition with a paper entitled ‘New insights into the structural behaviour of grey cast iron tunnel linings’. It is published here with the author’s permission

Geopolymer concrete in tunnelling
24 July, 2023
At the monthly BTS meeting at the Institution of Civil Engineers, in London, in March 2023, John Day, Chief Technical Officer of Wagners EFC Pty Ltd, Charles Allen, Director of OTB Concrete, and Richard Sutherden, Engineering Director with Murphy for the HMJV (Hochtief- Murphy Joint Venture) provided perspectives on the use and future potential of geopolymer concretes, and the Earth Friendly Concrete in particular, in underground applications

Pressure ring launch system at Silvertown
26 June, 2023
The Harding Prize Competition is named after the founder of the British Tunnelling Society, Sir Harold Harding, and is for entrants under the age of 33. Shortlisted papers were presented to the BTS evening meeting on 13 April, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, in London. Ricardo Manias García, senior mechanical engineer with Riverlinx CJV, was a runner-up in this year’s Competition with a paper entitled ‘The Pressure Ring Launch System at the Silvertown Tunnel Project’. It is published here with the author’s permission.

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

British Tunnelling Society
01 June, 2023
Thursday 15th June 2023 at 18:00 hrs, In-Person at Institution of Civil Engineers, 1 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA

Harding Prize lecture set for April
28 March, 2023
The three finalists for this year’s Harding Prize will present their papers at the British Tunnelling Society’s (BTS) April meeting.

BTS lecture to explore low-carbon concrete
28 February, 2023
Ultra low-carbon concrete is the focus of the British Tunnelling Society’s (BTS) March lecture.