Search Results: 'International Tunnelling Association'

Risk management – a practical view
01 December, 2003
David Lane, director of UK firm, ESTFELD Consulting, discusses the key issues of risk management and suggests some simple ways of improving everyday management of risk without going to large expense

Contract suitability – unit or fixed price
01 December, 2003
Subsea tunnelling offers significant risk, testing both the suitability of the contract and the co-operation of parties involved. In a continuation of their article in the June edition of T&TI, Olav T Blindheim and Eivind Grøv discuss experiences gained on three Norwegian subsea tunnels

Evolution in shotcrete technology
01 October, 2003
Increasingly, emphasis within the industry is towards a 'holistic' development of sprayed concrete technology. Assistant editor, Amanda Foley, looks at some of the recent developments in shotcrete materials and talks to two of the industry's leading materials and equipment suppliers

Back on track at Vietnam's Hai Van Tunnel
01 October, 2003
After early problems getting the tunnel works underway, progress on the Hai Van tunnel in central Vietnam is now on schedule for breakthrough in October and opening at the start of 2005. Resident engineer for the South Tunnel Section Nigel Butterfield, of the Louis Berger Group, reports on the current status on site

A two way street...
01 October, 2003

London boom sets the scene for UC'03
01 September, 2003
Underground Construction 2003 is due to be held on the 24-25 September at the ExCeL conference and exhibition centre in London's docklands. At a time when tunnelling activity in London is at its peak, this year's event is set to outstrip the success of its predecessors

Creating a 'safety culture'
01 June, 2003

Tunnelling Industry Awards 2003
01 June, 2003

2003 Tunnelling Industry Awards winners announced
16 May, 2003

The case for immersed tubes
01 May, 2003
Immersed tubes can offer an economic alternative to the bored option under shallow water crossings. Professor W Baltzer, director of Bung consulting engineers, and P Hehenberger, design and planning manager on Germany's Warnowquerung immersed tunnel describe the benefits

Harnessing the industry's potential
01 April, 2003
André Assis, president of the International Tunnelling Association, recently took time out of a hectic schedule to talk to T&TI editor, Tris Thomas about his views on the current state and future challenges of both the ITA and the tunnelling industry

ITA - Going Dutch
01 March, 2003
This year's ITA World Tunnelling Congress "(Re)claiming the underground space" is due to be held on 12-17 April at the RAI Congress Centre in Amsterdam. Precisely 10 years after the last Dutch ITA World Congress, this event is shaping up to be even more successful than the last

Not to be missed
01 January, 2003

ITA's new headquarters
01 January, 2003